Heart Tattoos

Heart tattoo designs are often simple, straight-forward designs that symbolise warmth and love towards loved ones. Because this kind of symbolism is quite feminine, you would think that heart tattoos are generally more popular with women than men, but they are very popular with men as well with many of them having them done to show their love for their mother, wife and children.

While heart tattoos are primarily used to symbolise straight-forward love and romance, they can also be used to symbolise other kinds of things as well. For instance, many people, particularly servicemen, like to get heart tattoos done that are filled in with the flag of the country they represent to show true patriotism.

They can also be used to symbolise soulfulness and contentment with the world in general. They don't necessarily have to be connected to any particular person, but could just be used to display warmth and happiness.

They don't necessarily have to be red hearts either. A golden heart tattoo design, for example, is often chosen for religious purposes to represent an awareness of God and spirituality. I've also seen blue, yellow, orange and black heart tattoos on other people which will have a specific meaning to each individual.

There are no set rules with heart tattoo designs. The great thing about heart tattoos is that they are very flexible and you can customise them to suit your needs by adding words or symbols to them to give them added significance to you.

Heart tattoos have always been very popular and will remain popular in years to come because of their overwhelming symbolism of love and happiness. If you are looking for some great heart tattoo designs I can strongly recommend getting a one-off membership to either Chopper Tattoo or Tattoo Me Now. Both sites have many fantastic designs (far better than most of the free tattoo sites) and you are sure to find a great heart tattoo design that you like, or at least get some inspiration for a heart tattoo that you can create yourself if you want to be creative.