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Wednesday Feb 08, 2006
Top Ten Tattoos
What are the Top Ten most popular tattoos in America? The list changes from week to week, but www.vanishingtattoo.com updates this list regularly.
The results are in:
10. Butterfly - For the past few years the butterfly has been by far the most popular specific tattoo design request. Butterfly designs are an overwhelmingly feminine tattoo choice.
9. Tiger - The Tiger is a potent symbol across Asia in many cultures and has long been a fixture in indigenous tattooing in India, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, China and Japan. Tigers are associated with power, ferocity, passion and sensuality, beauty and speed, cruelty and wrath.
9. Moon - The Moon is said to represent the feeling nature of the individual. It is used to characterize the inner child within us, as well as the past and how we have been as individuals rather than how we are now. (A tie for #9 with tiger)
8. Flames - Flame tattoo designs are a popular design element in many tattoo genres and they make their first appearance this year in the Top Ten. Flames can be found in Old and New School tattooing and fire and flames are important design motifs in Japanese tattooing.
7. Cross - Cross tattoo designs encompass many different styles, from simple crosses, to much more elaborate Celtic crosses and Maltese crosses.
6. Sun - As a tattoo design and symbol, a Sun represents fertility, vitality, passion, courage and eternally renewed youth, light and knowledge.
6. Fairy/Fairies - As a tattoo design they can be symbols of youthful innocence and a desire to retain a child-like imagination, wonder and awe. As a tattoo design, they are a potent symbol of our youth. (In a tie for #6 with Sun)
5. Wings - Wings as a tattoo design can often have inspirational or spiritual symbolism. They also have an element of the magical about them.
4. Angel/Angels - A tattoo design with strong religious connotations that speaks of faith and a design often used in Memorial tattoos.
3. Phoenix - The Phoenix is a traditional design in Japanese and Chinese myth, symbolic of rebirth and metamorphosis, popular with both men and women.
2. Star/Stars - Stars are often symbols of guidance, a reference to their use in navigation. The Nautical Star is a star design that has taken off in popularity on it's own, heavily featured in Old School and Nautical Tattooing. The Nautical Star is popular with both men and women and interestingly, several widely diverse sub-culture groups have seized upon the Nautical Star as a symbol of inclusion, from sailors and marines to lesbians.
1. Tribal - Tribal tattoo design searches were by far the most popular this week. A perennial favorite, tribal tattoos are a widely popular tattoo genre with many influences and sub-genres. Bold graphic designs done predominately in blacks and grays, heavily influenced by traditional tattooing in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific.
| Comments
interesting....the top ten tattoos in America, considering the vanishingtattoo.com is a Canadian site shouldn't it be the top ten in Canada? ;-)
Posted by: Marc at February 9, 2006 12:24 PM
An excellent observation, Marc. The Top Ten Tattoo Designs of the Week is based on all the searches we get from approximately 200,000 visitors per week to www.vanishingtattoo.com searching for tattoo designs and symbols. Not too bad a statistical sampling we think... About 60% of that traffic comes from the United States, 5% from Canada and the remainder from some 170 countries around the world.
Posted by: Vince Hemingson at February 11, 2006 3:01 PM
Nice, I expected dragon to be up there, I'm sure it would be at least in the top 20.
Posted by: Cyrus at February 13, 2006 2:52 PM
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