Flower Tattoos Are a Big Hit Among Most Women

The art of tattooing, it seems, is more popular than ever. With many American women now sporting flower tattoos and other designs boasting other exquisite, feminine patterns. Indeed, it's almost a right of passage now for young women to get something that expresses their personalities, outlooks and interests. With so many quality studios all across the country, females in every region can find unique and beautiful ink representations to accentuate their own natural beauty of face and form.

Currently, one of the most popular types for young women is the lower back tattoo, which usually consists of some kind of floral design such as twining rose vines or midnight heart vines or some other variety of gorgeous flowers such as violets, daisies, orchids, tulips, or anything else that the artist's imagination can envision and then etch into living flesh with his whirring needles and brightly colored inks. It truly is an art what they do.

In past generations, tattooing was looked down upon as a lower class artistic endeavor. But today, the high level of artistry coupled with advances in its technology, new drawings and new, more vibrantly colored inks, have lifted it into the mainstream. In the 21st Century, parlors spread out from the back alleys and outskirts of military bases, where they rested by pawn shops, biker bars, motorcycle parts stores and check-cashing outlets to suburban strip malls, where they are nestled between hair salons and high-end retail clothing outlets.

Of course, the popularity of shows like L.A. Ink and Miami Ink, featuring celebrity artists like Kat Von D hasn't hurt the art at all. In fact, it has made it seem more glamorous than ever. It's hard to find a gorgeous female Hollywood celebrity or high fashion model now that doesn't sport some ink. Look at Angelina Jolie or Pamela Anderson, both of whom wear them proudly as they stride down the red carpet in their expensive designer gowns. Even the more conservative female celebrities probably have a tiny, discrete one of a butterfly or a flower somewhere on their tanned, toned, well-groomed forms. Placing them on the ankle is so common now among members of the fairer sex that they're almost a cliché.

The pervasive popularity of feminine ink art just shows how much tastes in popular culture have shifted, with some artists now getting their work featured in books intended not just to share with other tattooists, but also with the general, tattoo-loving public, and even art lovers. In fact, many of the best contemporary tattoo artists have had their work featured in art galleries or museum showcases such as the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Art Museum in Washington D.C. or the South Street Seaport Museum in New York City. Granted, there are still the sleazy self-styled "outlaw" parlors that cater mostly to bikers, servicemen and drunken, slumming college kids, who pick their flaming death's heads and babe designs from the array on the parlor walls.

It has also, ironically, branched off into upscale art studios located in nice areas that have the atmosphere of a high-class hair salon and advertising that targets the desires and pocketbooks of middle-class and upper-middle class professionals. It's amazing to think of just how far the art of tattooing has penetrated polite society. So the next time you're in a shopping mall or department store in an affluent area, you can guess, with a reasonable degree of certainty that all of the women below the age of 50 probably have flower tattoos of some kind somewhere on their stylish bodies. That's to be expected in trendy, 21st Century America.