Many Types Of Flame Tattoos

There are hundreds of flame tattoo designs available from every tattoo style. Tribal tattoos are some of the coolest tattoos that use the flame style. Flames are more than just fire, but show the burning of something. Flames can be coming from your arms, cars or just about anything on your body.

Most flame tattoos are colored with red and yellow to give the flame its natural look, but there is also another flame design that is just black and white. Most people opt to get the flame tattoo in color, which will cost much more than a black tattoo, but this will give them the option of using multiple colors to really make the flames stand out. Most flames are the normal red, orange and yellow colors, but some people like to add blue flames. Usually a blue flame means that the fire is burning extra hot and is only visible when a fire gets to a certain temperature. Some people like to get their tattoos all in dark ink or black ink. This will help keep your tattoo looking good for years to come as colors tend to fade over time.

When you choose your flame tattoo design, you can either have just the flames or you can add it to another type of art or style, such as the heart. Some people who love cars, usually get flames on the hood of the car. Flames are a traditional type of tattoo, but there are hundreds of things you can do with a flame to make it more modern in appearance.

A flame tattoo design is fairly easy to create and most tattoo artist should be able to create a unique design based on what you want your flame to engulf. Look at pictures of flames to get ideas of what you want.

Flame Tattoos Explain Your Need For Speed

Flame tattoo designs cater to your need for freedom of spirit, and your need for speed in your life.  Flames erupt around the fast moving tire because of the friction, and you leave a trail of smoke and ash in your wake, as you race along life’s highway.  This is a tattoo that symbolizes much about how you live your life and what is important to you.  You can put these flames anywhere, and they often go well with other body art depending on the level of expertise of the artist who creates them.

Flame tattoo designs can represent destruction, movement, transformation and passion.  They can also mean light, hope, knowledge and a warning.  Fire has always been important to faith and religion.  The act of gathering around a fire seems to bring a certain peace to thought and action.  Of course it was also used for consuming what needs to be sacrificed or destroyed.

The power of fire is to destroy so the world can rebuild.  Fire is one of the four primary elements, which also include earth, water and wind.  In Christianity, flames represent the symbol of the Holy Spirit, but can also be seen as once again consuming in images of Hell where sinners spend eternity in flames and torment.  The burning bush is a reference to the first encounter Moses had with God.

To the Greeks, Prometheus was a Titan, who made the sacrifice of bringing mankind fire when he stole it from the gods.  He was condemned to have his liver ripped out by giant birds every day for all eternity until he was rescued by Hercules.  If flames are your desire, the symbol of a hand holding out a flame relates to Prometheus and his gift.  Judaism has fiery symbols that work well with flame tattoos designs such as candles being lit for celebrations and as a way to honor the dead.  For them the Eternal Flame which is kept in a temple should never be allowed to go out.

One great symbol for flame tattoos designs is the mythical Phoenix, who is again and again consumed by flames only to be reincarnated out of the ashes. In this case, the flames are a symbol of rebirth rather than death.  The Phoenix represents the cycle of life, but can also be seen as optimism meaning that no matter what happens…life goes on.

You can take any symbol and add flames to give it a meaning special to you.  For instance, a skull can be a dark symbol, but covered in flames it means something completely different and is oddly less dark than it is without the other symbol.  Flames in the form of a heart can mean you are quick to love and flames in the shape of eyes means you are quick to see the truth.