Cool Butterfly Tattoo Designs

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If you are looking for a tattoo that can add a little bit of bright color and graceful curves to your body, then its time for you to start looking for great butterfly tattoo designs!  Butterfly tattoo designs come in a wide variety of styles, and though they are more commonly seen on women than on men, you’ll find that there is a great deal of variety to choose from.  These small, colorful insects are quite popular features of tattoos, and there are many choices for you to make.

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Fairy Design Tattoos

Fairy Tattoo

The fairy tattoo design is becoming more common in modern culture and pop culture. When most people think of a fairy, or of a fairy tattoo design, the first words that come to mind are almost always cute, cutesy, adorable, precious and many more along the same lines. However, a fairy tattoo design does not have to designate those traits and can actually portray characteristics from mischievousness all the way to darkness and evil.

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Japanese Tattoo Designs

THE JAPANESE TATTOO

Japanese tattoos have a long history stretching back to 10,000 BCE. From the very beginning, Japanese tattoo designs have been large and elaborate. Women of the Ainu tribe would tattoo themselves to resemble their goddess so disease-causing demons would be frightened away, thinking they were the goddess herself.

Between 300 BC and 300 AD, tattoos in Japan were used to express spiritual and social status. Beginning in 300 AD, tattoos were used to mark criminals. This process was called bokkei.  In 1870, Japan was the last country to stop the practice of tattooing criminals.

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Tattoo Questions Answered

When deciding whether or not to get a tattoo there are many tattooing questions that people want answered. From safety concerns, costs, healing processes, and everything else associated with getting tattoos, this tattoo FAQ aims at answering some of the most common questions on your mind.

Is getting a tattoo safe?

Yes, getting a tattoo is perfectly safe, provided it is done in a legitimate tattoo parlor with trained tattoo artists that follow standard procedures for cleanliness, sterilization and the like. If you are unsure about a certain shop, simply ask the workers what their procedures are for preventing infections, cleaning up and sterilizing. Needles should never be used on different people and other tattoo equipment should be sterilized in between uses.

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Religious Christian Tattoos

Praying Hands

There are a wide variety of religious Christian tattoos that people seek out today. So many people are interested in Christian tattoos that they represent almost one quarter of all the tattoos done each year. That’s a whole lot of people trying to honor and show their faith; and that also provides a whole lot of variations from the theme.

Here are some of the most common religious and Christian tattoos.

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