Flamingo Tattoo Ideas

Flamingo Tattoo Designs Can Have Many Meanings

Flamingos are highly symbolic animals and in certain contexts represent the power of illusion, shape-shifting, and clear sightedness, as reported by MysticFamiliar.com, a website dedicated to shamanism. In modern American culture, flamingos often relate to tropical locations such as Florida and trailer park lawn ornaments. Depending on how you get the tattoo designed, it can exemplify whatever meaning you wish.

Natural Setting

Getting a tattoo of a flamingo with a backdrop of its natural setting can help portray a more natural look. It helps distinguish your tattoo from the corny trailer park plastic yard ornaments. Natural backdrops for flamingos can include water with tall grass and sunsets. You can also have the flamingo in flight in front of a sun or flying over the water. Also, you can incorporate multiple flamingos in a larger scenic setting depending on the size of the tattoo.

Color

Flamingos are most commonly a pink color with lighter and darker variations, but with tattoos you can go with different styles if you want a more original design. Getting a flamingo tattooed in black or grayscale can give a more classic and elegant look to your tattoo. Black and white flamingos that are curvy and less detailed can complement the natural contours of the body. Colored flamingo tattoos can use a variation of pinks, blues and purples to give a fantasy feel to the tattoo.

Postures

You can display your flamingo tattoo in a number of different classical postures found in nature. Some flamingo posture ideas include swimming, drinking with the head down, resting with a curled neck, flaring its wings before taking flight or standing on one leg. Also, the thought that flamingos sleep on one leg is true according to VanishingTattoo.com, a website dedicated to tattoo design and information.

Creative Ideas

Flamingos, like any other tattoo idea, work well in creative combination with other tattoo designs or patterns. Popular tattoo symbols, such as nautical stars and tribal shapes, can complement your flamingo tattoo and make it more stylish or trendy. More extravagant designs such as Celtic knot-work can bring your tattoo to much higher levels of detail. You can also use separate elements to create the shape of the flamingo; for example using a music bass clef as the curve of the body and a treble clef as the legs of the flamingo.

References

• Vanishing Tattoo: Tattoo Designs and Symbols
• Mystic Familiar: Animal Totems