Star tattoo designs are extremely popular with both men and women around the world. The image of a star has significance in almost all cultures, though the meaning can vary a lot from country to country. Stories in all cultures give stars special meaning, as people throughout history have been enchanted by the lights in the night sky. While individual people who wear star tattoos often give their own stars a very personal meaning.

Throughout history the significance given to stars has varied a lot. European cultures have often said in their stories that the gods live in the stars, or the gods are the stars thmselves. the ancient Egyptians said guides were sent from the stars to guide the human race. Star signs and astrology is based in teh stars and images of stars. Because of this star tattoos can easily be very expressive in talking about the wearer’s own characteristics or personality traits.

And stars have come over more recent history to have much more practical significance, beginning when travellers and sailors usedthestars to navigate. If you decide to get a star tattoo you really can make the image represent anything you wish, as they are so versatile.

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People often combine many stars in a tattoo design to creat a unique pattern or meaning. It is easy and attractive to use other designs and pictures in combination with a star to create a story within your tattoo design, or even to create a unique design that holds strong personal meaning to the tattoo wearer. Not all star tattoo designs are selected to have a special meaning of course, and many people just choose them because they can make very pretty images, but if you are going to choose a star tattoo design you have a lot of scope to experiament with meaning and symbology. A good quality tattooist will be able to give you good advice on where to begin when choosing the star for you.

A good place to begin would be online – try searching through the bigger and better online tattoo galleries, then selecting a few of your favourte designs and taking them along to your tattooist.

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