Butterfly tattoos traditionally depict beauty, transformation, and resilience. These take shape in popular and versatile designs executed in a variety of styles and technical applications. Butterflies in nature come in a vast variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. The images of these delicate and fragile creatures can be combined with other elements of nature, such as your favorite flower or flowers, birds, or other...
Blue butterflies are a popular color choice for tattoo lovers. In addition to symbolizing freedom and transformation, blue butterflies are also associated with love and good luck. Using vibrant, natural, realistic colors and shades on your blue tattoo will bring your butterfly to life and give it a personality of its own. Both the rarest (the Palos Verdes Blue) and the largest butterfly...
A butterfly tattoo symbolizes freedom, change, and transformation. The versatility and allure of butterflies is multiplied by the fact they can feature in any color palette or tattoo style, including black ink design styles. Whether simple small linework or complex shaded sleeve pieces, black butterfly ink is a popular aesthetic and economic decision. Tattoos are highly personal symbolic tattoos, and for...
Butterfly tattoos represent life and the freedom to live your life with independence and flair. Each tattoo has its a persona of its own. Purple butterfly tattoos display a uniquely beautiful insect within a range of tattoo styles and applications. The depth and range of designs and placements breath a sense of individualism and character only seen in live butterflies,...
The simple semicolon tattoo is a bright neon sign for those who battle suicidal thoughts, depression, and other serious mental health problems. The symbol is often etched into wider symbolic tattoo, such as the butterfly designs in this gallery. Combining a powerful semicolon symbol with a butterfly can show that the collector has ‘freed’ themselves from many of the issues...
Monarch butterflies are arguably the most popular insect tattoos for men and women, whether inked in color, black and gray, or simple lines. They echo other butterfly designs in meaning freedom, beauty, and transformation; they also suit frequent travellers and those with an affinity for realistic design. The Monarch, as the name suggests, is often associated with royalty, and is symbolic of souls returning during Dia de los Muertos, the Mexican Day of the Dead. The following collection of top 73...
3D butterfly tattoos add an intriguing element to your design. Butterfly tattoos are most often a symbol of freedom and change. Shadows and realistic colors will bring your butterfly to life and give it a character of its own, capturing the beauty of the butterflies with grace and style. The shadows lift the butterfly off the skin and make it...
Small butterfly tattoos are some of the most enduring, popular forms of body art. Every artist’s portfolio contains at least a few exciting butterfly designs. The butterfly is a tremendously versatile subject, often able to be etched in stunning detail or quiet simplicity to represent beauty, freedom and transformation. While traditionally a design popular with women for the creature’s allure and beauty, the size and style of butterfly tattoos have opened designs...
If you are considering adding a tattoo anyplace on your body, consider a butterfly tattoo. Butterflies are a fun symbol of freedom, change, and femininity. Having a butterfly tattoo strategically placed on your body will accentuate your already beautiful features and draw any eye directly to that body part. Any form of tattoo art adds an intriguing feature that will...
