One of the most popular tattoo choices among women are butterfly tattoo designs. The light, free creative spirit of the butterfly makes it ideal for small to medium sized tattoos. Women like a butterfly design for the same reason they like flowers, angels, cherubs and crosses. They have meaning, contain colors women enjoy and look great when placed on an ankle or shoulder.

A butterfly tattoo lends itself well to a wide variety of color options. There is a huge variety of sizes, shapes, styles and designs. They look as fantastic in rich, bright colors as they do in a scaled back monochromatic color palette. That is one of the best things about a butterfly tattoo as your tattoo option. It’s easy to make unique and create a design that expresses your personality and style.

The butterfly symbolizes rebirth. From the green, pulpy chrysalis emerges the exquisite, delicate butterfly, as light as a feather and as perfect as a rose. It is easy to see why women, in particular, love the butterfly. They see them as symbolic of a particularly difficult change and growth period that they have gone through from which they were able to emerge stronger and more graceful than before. Butterfly tattoo designs represent the emergence from struggle and pain.

And of course what woman does not want to be thought of as being beautiful, graceful and free. A butterfly tattoo is also something that will age appropriately on the person that it is inked on. Unlike many of the other tattoo designs that we see, it is pretty much age appropriate for women of all ages.

Butterfly tattoos are highly customizable as far as size, shape and colors are concerned as we pointed out earlier but they are also ideal for just about every woman in that they can be placed just about anywhere on the body and still look great. You certainly can’t say that about most other tattoo designs. They look great on the hip, upper back, lower back, arm, stomach, chest or just about any other part of the body you can think of.

Another very clever way to customize your butterfly tattoo design is by incorporating text in the tattoo. Some clever tattoo artists can even create the body of the butterfly by spelling out a name, usually the name of the person that the tattoo is inked on or a loved one such as a child. Names can also be incorporated anywhere within the design. Perhaps in the wing for example.

Butterfly tattoo designs are easy to personalize. There are so many choices for the basic design that if you are considering a butterfly tattoo you would do well to take your time and look at all the options. Once you have found a basic style, and then be as inventive as you like in make it your own with the choice of colors and any added components. If you find a tattoo artist that is really clever they will put their creative mark on it and bring the butterfly to life.

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