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 To paint your body there is no any better
option but to take beautiful art element, tattoo. Being the ancient form of
body art, tattoos have multiplied their attractiveness among the young generation.
And even tattoos have snatched a strong place in the today's fashion world
while at the same time they become the latest craze.
Having different stunning look, there are
lots of popular designs in the line of tattoos like star, cross, butterfly,
flower, religious, ladybug. Though stars are called as universal symbols, they hold
lots of signs and images. Taking star tattoos one would be a star. These
designs could be tattooed on your ankles, wrist, upper-back or lower-back area,
shoulders, chest and anywhere on your body.
According to historians, tattoos came into
sight during Neolithic time (between about 8000 bc and 5000 bc). Currently,
there are a good number of trends in tattoos like naturalistic, abstraction,
complex structures, and so forth. Simultaneously, different countries,
societies, ethnic groups and tradition bear their own tattoos. Once upon a time
tattoos were seen only among bikers, sailors or freaks while some taboos were also
attached with tattoos. However, over the years, they attained much popularity
around the world bringing all taboos and prohibitions.
People often like stat tattoos as they are
not very complicated. A normal black star tattoo would be very striking. Nevertheless,
there are some other reasons to choose stars like:
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Stars are flexible, small, less painful and
easy to cover up
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Relatively cheap
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The stars are undying, have been running
over the centuries
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It is gender neutral, can be worn by both
male and female
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Found in a wide range of styles, shapes,
sizes and colors and
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Represent many ideas and believes etc.
The star holds a lot of diversity in its
designs including shooting, octogram, nanogram, pentagram etc. But this is not
the end of its outstanding feature description. Climax remains. You may
surprise hearing that each of the star design contains its distinct meaning,
particular belief. Bearing significant meaning star tattoos sometimes stand for
sign of hope and goal that you set in your life. They sometimes go with high
ambitions, positive or negative things and sometimes with religion, culture,
dreams, ideals and so on. Meaning would vary in accordance with the points that
a single star tattoo holds.
Many claims that star images have
metaphysical as well as powerful symbolic meaning. However, star tattoos are sometimes
used only for body art and fashion surpassing all believes and signs. Let's see
what signals the star tattoos carry.
Shooting star is perfect for representing a
noteworthy moment in your life. To mark your exceptional relationship,
enlightenment, promotion that brought a rapid change in your life, shooting
star tattoos would be ideal ones. They are frequently seen among the Hollywood
actors and musicians.
Nautical Star holds five points in its
design. But there are some debates regarding its true meaning. However, it
bears the sign of direction or guidance feelings of a person. It was believed
in the early period that Nautical Star would be helpful to guide and save
people from any sort of danger during their journey.
In recent time, the design of nautical star
tattoos are connected with punk rockers, military, (symbol of security and
protection) anti-racism movement and the lesbian community (fight against
repression). Besides, Irish people take nautical star as a symbol of good health.
Pentagram star consists of two-dimensional
geometric figure in the shape of a star. It keeps five points and very popular
one. Its meaning varies with its points' angel position. If the star points go
upward it speaks for magical or occult symbol along with a sign of balance and
protection (against evil). And if the Pentagram faces downward, it speaks for
the satanic symbol.
Similarly, Pentagram held the symbol of
celestial sky to Ancient Egypt, while as mathematical perfection to
Pythagoreans and symbol of health to Christians.
The Star of David is a form of six-pointed
star that is very familiar as religious view. It comprises the sign of Judaism
and hold Jewish faith symbolizing the divine's dealings with human being. This
form of star tattoo design has been using over the centuries. But the
interesting thing is that Star of David tattoo is very common among Jews despite
Jewish faith forbids tattooing.
The Septagram comprising seven stars in its
design stands for luck as well as fortune. It goes with many Hindu symbols
especially when they teamed up seven planets. It is assumed that seven star
tattoo designs represent the male perfectly.
The eight pointed star called Octogram
symbolizes the impression of fullness. To present the symbol of American
firefighters sometimes Octogram tattoos are used.
For indicating stability and solidity that
attained in a person's life 9 pointed star tattoos named Nanogram are used.
And whatever the symbols or designs of star
tattoos bear, there is no restriction to choose any one from the above
mentioned tattoos for your fashion decoration. These could be suitable in any
season around the year.
Color, imagination, creativity merged with
star tattoos. Reflecting customers' tastes and personalities, some world
renowned artists namely Corey Smith, Richard Pis, Mercedez, Rob G present numerous
mind blowing freehand artworks on star tattoos.
Many world celebrities are seen to go with
star tattoos. While Victoria Beckham takes five star tattoo on her lower back for
portraying her family members, Rihanna, left ear and neck, Ashlee Simpson, left
wrist, Britney Spears, right hand, Norah Jones, lower back and Joss Stone takes
a shooting star tattoo used under her right ankle.
Md. Asraful Alam
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