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

Tattoo-First Tattoo

Tattoo-First Tattoo


I think that nowadays the most widespread disease is lack of identity and the consequent search for meaning and itself. Partly because it is actually no solid signs and signals the social environment message to us: This is you. Now you are grown up. You are a man. You are a woman.
Sometimes they did not have these problems. In many traditional societies today are familiar with such as rites of initiation. Watershed, where the girl 'official' (read: socially recognized) to become a woman. The boy becomes a man, a warrior, an adult. The child becomes a member of community.
Such turning points today, and although we believe that them we do not need and that we live in modern society, this archetypal and deeply rooted in the particularities of a man much impact on our lives and thinking, although this fact may not be aware, all this leads to a loss of cohesion with itself, with native nature and the nature around us, and with our real identity.
No, not that I got too ... Here's; the first tattoo is like a loss of innocence, there is no turning back. I say 'first', as often happens, that a man thing 'pulls' and addictive, and the first tattoo followed by the second, third, fourth, etc...

Tattoo-First Tattoo

New Tattoo Pictures-Chinese Motif Tattoo

New Tattoo Pictures-Chinese Motif Tattoo


Quite often Chinese motif is for example dragon (called the 'Long'). Those in the Chinese mythology are not threatening like monsters, but embody the vise and good creatures, some of them have a particularly high 'status', the so-called royal or 'Emperor' Dragons. Common are also other motives, such as such in everyday life and those that are related to beliefs, demons, astrologers, etc.

New Tattoo Pictures-Chinese Motif Tattoo

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

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

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

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

New Tattoo Pictures-Celtic Designs

Celtic Rose Tattoo





Ancient Celtic symbolic was full of cutting patterns, complex knots, spiral and whorl, animal and zoomorphic forms and vibrant colors. Early Celts have their art reflected mainly in the metal jewelry, ornaments on the arms (they were fearless warriors), figures and pottery.

Tradition interlaced knots has spread from Ireland to Britain and Scotland, Wales and all of continental Europe. Later on, the Viking and other Nordic peoples, which are then win the coast, over some of these symbols, they have adapted, and connect with the more chaotic and animal forms, and by default on their own.

Celtic knots are complete, they converging forms without beginning and end. Animal ornamental is similar, but the ends of flows in the animal heads, feet, tail etc.. Pure knots are still endless, and stylized, clean forms. Their importance goes beyond normal and conductive meaning, but the deeper symbolism in them the combination of spiritual and physical shape without end represents infinity pure life, love and fate.

When on the Celtic Land comes Christianity, the monks then simply adjust and take a lot of Celtic traditional forms. The result is the Celtic Cross, or such as tree of life. Then format the most important records of the Celtic tradition, for example Book of Kells (kept by Trinity College in Dublin).

Modern people, descendants of Celts, have developed some unique forms; in North America many people bear these symbols, to express their belonging to Celtic great ancestors. The most common symbol of Ireland as the three-leaf clover much is also a harp. This has been a traditional and popular Celtic music instrument of all peoples throughout history. Welsh flag represent red dragon on a green-white background, they have the most significant symbol of Wales.



Celtic Style Tattoo

New Tattoo Pictures-Tribal Signs

New Tattoo Pictures-Tribal Signs


Tribal (breeding) signs have a simple meaning: we enjoy how they appear on the skin. Increasing our self and a positive stance and we connect with the natural elements of the mysterious ancient.
Skin decoration was extended and it is old as mankind itself. Can it be among the first informed actions, which included the use of various tools and write, and are separated humans from animals? Perhaps then, the (already quite naked, without a body hair) prehistorically man discovered, that with the piece of wood, burned in the fire, can decorate (tattooing) parts of his body, so as to be more obscured, altered, and therefore more successful in hunting. In short, he imitated the animal camouflage.

New Tattoo Pictures-Tribal Signs

Tattoo-Unforgettable Experience

Tattoo-Unforgettable Experience


Now, it looks like I want to distract you from tattoo. Not at all! I want to say, that the decision for having tattoo is the first step in a truly free and independent thinking, is a proof of your free-mind and autonomy, and that’s way it should be done in the right way.
Indeed; tattoo is a unique and unforgettable experience. It can open your eyes. It can show you a completely new world. It can liberate all the lacing, prejudices, oppressive patterns of thinking and obstacles. Can tell you, who you are.
It can also be, that tattoo is not for you.
I have heard, for example, arguments: what about when you’ll be old? How will the tattoo look like then? Hmm ... If you think, that the age is only degeneration of body and spirit, that then is nothing more beautiful in human life, then I would say as follows: when you are old, anyway, it is all bad. Maybe then tattoo it will be only beautiful thing on me...

Tattoo-Unforgettable Experience

Why do you want tattoo?-Tattoo is Ageless

Tattoo is Ageless



Why do you want tattoo?
People gets tattoo from a wide variety of reasons. Therefore, in order to felt better (with partner, friends, audience); to be identified and felt a certain social, religious or any other community or subculture; to express rebellious, independent spirit, in order to demonstrate their individuality, uniqueness, because they want to have a picture of their beloved puppy; in order to feel connected with their wild, untamed, basic nature, because they like listening to heavy metal music, which is characterized by tattoos, because it is' in ', trendy, modern ...
All these are valid and justified principles, why not. But there is something else, which I will on this website repeatedly stressed - tattoo is ageless. Which means: what today has become a beautiful, modern, and you like it, maybe in 10 or 20 years will be no more.
Try, therefore, seen yourself in 10 or 20 years. What will you doing at the time, how will you think about, in what environment you will live? Will you have family, children, friends, perhaps rather formal job, where they will watch what kind of tattoos you have? Will someday be that, now so beautiful and desirable tattoo, hidden under long sleeves and you’ll be ashamed of?

Tattoo is Ageless