Saturday, April 12, 2014

Skull And Sugar Skull Tattoo Designs

By Adrienne Hartsook


Skull tattoo designs arise from the skull tattooing traditions of many religions. They symbolize eternal life or the human remains left behind after its soul leaves for the Christian religion.

Artists seem to be having a lot of fun portraying this symbol from cartoon skulls to terrifying Grim Reaper to realistic skull drawings. Of course, don't forget the poison sign and the pirate symbol. It can also be noticed that this tat them is not only for the male population. The female tat enthusiasts are seem to be giving it a lot of attention and thoughts too through the portrayal of colourful sugar skulls or corpse bride tattoo.

When a couple wants to wear matching tattoos with a skull preference, the men normally don tattoos with skull tattoo designs or sugar skull tattoos while the women opt for girly skull tattoo designs.

The vibrancy of sugar skull tattoos mimics the upbeat and lively commemoration of the festival. Often tributes to loved ones, sugar skull tattoos are very popular and fashionable tattoos for both men and women.

Sugar skull tattoos have their origin from skulls made out of clay moulded sugar that were used to decorate the gravestones of the dead. These skulls were then decorated with feathers, coloured beads, foils and icing.

Sugar skull tattoos are not scary at all, being very colourful and whimsical. The name of the deceased love one may be written on the forehead of the skull. The traditional sugar skull was placed on the altar accompanied with marigolds, considered the flower of the dead.

When you are looking for the best skull tattoo design, take a look at the designs that are in skull tattoo flash, you can print a copy of the design that you selected here and have your tattooist imitate it. The symbol of the skull is one of the most popular symbols because of its unique design and meaning.




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