Ah, a beautiful flower. Who doesn’t smile when you see a flower? With tattoos becoming more popular every day, many women are getting flower tattoo designs. Before you go out and get that flower tattoo design for yourself, let’s explore the meanings of some popular flowers. Oh, you didn’t know that flowers represent certain emotions and attributes?

Then you best read on!

When choosing a flower tattoo design, you need to know what you are inking onto your skin for the rest of your life.

Roses

Roses traditionally represent love, but each rose color represents a unique kind of love.

Red Rose
Red roses symbolize the most evident of them all. It means ‘I love you’ in a amorous way. A flower tattoo design of a red rose is often a meaning of love growing, or in remembrance of a loved one who has passed.

White Rose
A white rose tattoo design signifies innocence and purity of mind and soul. A white and red rose paired together reflects unity.

Yellow Rose
A yellow rose means friendship.

Lavender Rose
A lavender rose signifies that you are falling in love.

Pink Rose
A pink rose symbolizes happiness.

You just thought flowers were just pretty and didn’t really mean anything! Flower tattoo designs carry very strong, compelling meanings. If you looking for a flower design tattoo, but not looking to get a rose, here are the meanings of some other popular flowers:

Daisy

Daisies are a sign of innocence and are often associated with joy, so they are often connected to a child’s birth.

Lily

Lilies are a symbol of remembrance. They are often entwined with the name of a loved one who has passed.

Sunflower

Sunflowers represent the sun and its life giving powers. It can also be worn as a sign of a love of God.

Jasmine

Jasmine flowers also denote love, especially in the Indian culture. But apposed to roses, jasmine flowers are smelled from a great distance, representing the fact that even if you are far away from your lover, the love still runs very deep and true.

Lotus

Lotus flowers are a very strong sign of a person’s spirituality and growth. A lotus starts as a small tuber in the mud at the bottom of a river. As they grow, they have to struggle to reach the surface as they seek out the sun. In the Buddhist and Hindu religions, the locus represents the souls’ journey towards enlightenment.

A flower tattoo design can be as simple as a single flower, which is what most woman start with. But keep in mind that you can always embellish that flower with more, or add birds, vines, and butterflies.

Flowers are timeless. What more wonderful means to express yourself than with a flower tattoo design!