Ladybug Tattoo Designs – Extremely Popular Tattoos

Ladybugs are actually beetles.  They are, in fact, cute, adorable beetles with just the perfect colors and flash to be a great piece of jewelry or tattoo.  Finding a great ladybug tattoo design is not hard. Everywhere you look there are examples and ideas for these designs, from the charming to the bold and daring.

When you have one of these exciting designs you will never find yourself singing “Ladybug, ladybug, please fly away home.  Your house is on fire and your children are gone.” This tattoo you will want to keep forever, and show off as much as possible.

Ladybugs are known in many cultures as symbols of good luck, which is no doubt why there are so many ladybug tattoo designs.  Legend has it in some circles if you count the number of spots on a ladybug in a short amount of time you will either get a wish fulfilled, or you will have money coming to you equal to the number of spots.

Supposedly, if a ladybug lands on a young married woman the number of dots indicates how many children she will have. They are also supposed to bring you luck in love, improve the weather, understand human language and have healing powers. Perhaps the bug’s reputation of being a symbol of good fortune is in part due to the little beetle’s role in nature.  Having them in the garden means fewer destructive insects as the ladybug considers these intruders a good meal. So important is the ladybug to farmers that the little beetle is the Official State Bug of Delaware, New Hampshire, Tennessee and Ohio.

Ladybug tattoos designs are easy to find because it is hard to make one of these adorable bugs look less than totally cute.  For example, you might consider thinking of different colors for your new pet tattoo ladybug.  While you might only call to mind the red and black of the true life little beetle you are not locked into this classic formula.  You can have psychedelic blue or yellow polka dotted ladybugs. You can play with the number and shade of spots all you want.  You can have a tartan bug with lady-like bagpipes or a red mushroom with white spots being visited by a purple ladybug with red dots.  The colors are up to you and the artist, guided only by what goes well with your own skin tones and the color palette the tattooist has available.

Ladybug tattoo designs are not limited. Besides mushrooms as background, the little red bugs go great with flowers, hearts, stars, shooting stars, flower pots, ivy, trees, blades of grass, a single leaf, leaves, sun symbols or a moon.  For a darker contrast, placing the ladybug next to spiders, snakes, daggers, swords, flames or skulls can make for a dramatic effect. Ladybugs can go anywhere from your shoulder blade to your little toe, making them a great addition to any collection of body art.

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