Scary Pictures of Skull Tattoos

Some people, when they decide on a design for a tattoo may choose to have a picture of skull tattoo applied to their body. Many tattoo shop customers choose this sort of design especially if they like designs that are a little macabre or odd. Skulls, crossed bones and other scary tattoos have been popular with tattoo shop customers for as long as tattoos have been around. 

Many skull designs have other elements added to them to create new and unique tattoo designs. Many tattoo shop customers want to have a skull tattoo to show that they like to live life on the edge a bit maybe. Skull tattoos aren't just for male customers though. Many women have skull tattoos on their bodies, perhaps with flowers around the design or the skull might be smiling or a little more light-hearted than the male customer's version of the design.

Once the customer finds an image that might look nice as a tattoo design, they take that image to the tattoo artist and have a sketch made of a unique design that has the skull image in it.

Skull Tattoos

The Symbolic Meanings Behind Skull Tattoos

Executive Summary By Christine Crotts 

When a person wants to choose a tattoo in order to look and make him feel tough, it is common for them to choose skull tattoos. There are several varieties of these tattoos available in the tattooing world. It is interesting to see as to how by the change of its colours and design skull tattoos can break through its envisioned darkness and gloomy forms and extend its symbolic structure even for a delightful meaning.

A few notable symbolic meanings of the skull tattoos are as follows:

In the past skull tattoos were singularly designed for men, but with the advent of the recent unisex world, skull tattoos are worn both by men and women. In Christendom, the skull has always represented human vanity, repentance and eternity of the soul. It not only did display power and superiority but the sight of a beheaded skull brought fear in minds of the enemies. During the dark ages the Celtic lords symbolized the skull as a form of greater changes rather than danger or death which gives skull tattoos a more positive spin in the recent times. In the modern times skull is seen as a symbol for power, protection and strength. As above all the skull tattoos makes you look tough.