Tattoo Motives-Modern and Mixed Motives

Tattoo Motives-Modern and Mixed Motives

Modern and mixed motives


About contemporary styles of tattooing is actually not a lot of talking. You see them on countless web pages (search engine, Yahoo or Google, type the keyword "tattoo" and certainly it will appear more than one page).
Today probably is not the design, symbol, image, fantasy or realistic images that would not have been tattooed. It is possible everything what can imagine a human (such or other) fantasy.
Common is a combination of traditional or derivation symbols of modern or modified designs, especially in recent times, however, people often
opt for an ancient motifs and returning to Tribal and Celtic (or Germanic or Nordic) design and symbolism. During the current prevailing fantasy motives, scenes from the literary or - more frequently - the film world and the animated cartoon films, and pop-art icon from modern world, new technology and the urban symbolic, figures of famous personalities, singers, actors, in short - anything just you can imagine, thinking or desire.
Among the most modern designs include the 'classic' designs (ships, heart, female characters), then a realistic image (images or photographs; people, animals, landscape), motifs from the heavy metal world (various demons, skulls, etc.) and such other and fantasy or comic-book drawings.

Modern and mixed motives

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Japanese tradition of tattooing

Japanese tradition of tattooing

Japanese Koi Tattoo


For the Japanese tradition of tattooing, which is otherwise one of the most famous and most beautiful, characterized by live, strong colors, and tattoos, which cover (almost) the whole body, both men and women. Even today, some of the ancient techniques to preserve, either in terms of color, or method of tattooing, and some the most famous artists still do not use needles or electrical tattoo equipment, but depicting by hand. In recent times there has been the integration of Japanese techniques with modern western, and also to imitate the styles.

Tattooed Japanese Girl

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Beckham New Roses Tattoo

Beckham New Roses Tattoo

David Beckham new ten roses tattoo


David Beckham is for the tenth anniversary with Victoria give her an unusual gift for marriage. In a sign of love is on the left hand gave tattoo ring of ten roses.
After fleeing to the romantic island David thinks another way to mark their love feast. His left arm is now adorned the new tattoo, ring with ten roses. As he said, any one means one year together with Victoria. The idea that to his wife does not give live flowers but tattoos, was born when he thought about gift that would be for life. The question is only one of the roses; which one represents the year of the law, when he cheated his Victoria with Rebecca Loos? Although from his infidelity and the scandal that broke at the time, passed for several years, must apparently still show, that Victoria is the only woman of his life.

Beckham Tattoo

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Tattoo Tradition

Tattoo Tradition

Chinese Dragon Tattoo


The most famous tattoo tradition is probably the Chinese, even more Japanese, the latter has developed a virtually separate and isolated from the rest, it has developed a strong and significant, inherent and identifiable elements. In Japan, for example, Samurai was tattooed in the sign of belonging to his lord, or members of the high priesthood, as a sign of susceptibility, and service to the emperor. In recent times, some elements have taken marginalized communities, including some criminal (notorious yakuza).

Japanese Tattoos

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Tattoo Worship

Tattoo Worship

Tattoo Worship


Asia is the cradle of the rich traditions of tattooing, which extend far into the past. Tattoos are aware of and worship in all major countries of the then world (India, China, Japan), often tattoo had a religious or sacral importance.
In India, where it is still present today and is known decoration and painting the body, the expression of faith and belonging to different castes, for example, were often tattooed women, often have the image of letters, religious texts and symbols.

Tattoo Worship

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