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Mermaid Tattoo Designs and Meaning
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Mermaids are popular tattoo designs today, and not just for Disney fans. The mythological figure from the sea has always fascinated people and cast a spell over them. When worn on the skin, it can have different and even quite opposite meanings.
How the mermaid became a tattoo
The mermaid has been anchored in mythology for centuries. It is a mythical creature that is half human and half fish, and represents the counterpart to the figure of Aquarius.
The mermaid has been anchored in mythology for centuries. It is a mythical creature that is half human and half fish, and represents the counterpart to the figure of Aquarius.
When it comes to vintage maritime symbols, the mermaid comes in the first ranks as one of the best tattoos that suits it. The Old-School Tattoo Design was first popular for the first time in sailors in the early 1900s.
Mermaids tattoos were considered men tattoo, but over time, it also represents the femininity. In the modern time you can see the mermaid tattoo rather in women but they can be seen the tattoo in men.
You can combine mermaids tattoo designs with many symbols, such as a ship, anchor nautical stars, and starfish. There are many different options.
The mermaid has a mythical figure for thousands of years. There are a variety of old cultures and civilizations, the associations to the mythical mermaid. From legends and folklore, the mermaid is often mentioned in connection with sailors and the open waters.
Most of these old stories tell such as mermaids the seafarers lured with their beautiful songs have their beautiful looks and their seductive beings. It is assumed that the mermaids have logged the sailors to steal their treasures.
In other stories is told that the mermaids have lured the seafarers in death.
That symbolizes the mermaid tattoo
Mermaids as mythical beings
Mermaids accompanied the seafarers again and again on their way and, according to legend, showed the drowned people the way home. For these reasons, they are mostly associated with positive things:
Mermaids accompanied the seafarers again and again on their way and, according to legend, showed the drowned people the way home. For these reasons, they are mostly associated with positive things:
- Femininity
- Beauty
- Intuition
- Attraction
- Protection
- Beauty
- Intuition
- Attraction
- Protection
The little mermaid
However, there is also the innocent version of the little mermaid, as we know her from the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen or Disney's Ariel. Rather, it symbolizes a lost soul that can be saved through a person's love and live on land.
While Arielle succeeds in conquering her prince in the end, the little mermaid in the Danish fairy tale is not granted a happy ending: in the end she becomes sea foam. Such an Arielle tattoo can also stand for these things:
- longing for freedom
- Desire for independence
- Need for protection
- Search for love
- Desire for independence
- Need for protection
- Search for love
Mermaids & Sirens
Mermaids and sirens are now often equated with mermaids, but originally had a different, very negative meaning. In Greek mythology, sirens were considered death demons, who wanted to lure the seafarers astray and so into ruin with their singing and their erotic charms.
Mermaids also stood for danger and death and had the goal of drawing people to the sea floor. In this context, the mermaid tattoo can also mean the following:
- Danger
- Threat
- Death
- Calamity
- Insidiousness
- lying
- Seduction
- Influencing
- Danger
- Threat
- Death
- Calamity
- Insidiousness
- lying
- Seduction
- Influencing
Styles of mermaid tattoo
Instead of legs, a mermaid usually has a fish fin, the scales of which can shimmer in bright colors. Her young and slim torso is either bare, while her breasts are exposed or hidden by her long and full hair. Often, however, she also wears a kind of clam bra.
The formerly very classic and quite simple depiction of the mermaid in the old-school design has now given way to a variety of tattoo styles.
The motif can be incredibly colourful and detailed, show jewellery and flowers in the hair and the face of the friend or wife of the wearer. Often, however, you can also see black and white or very schematic representations with only the outlines of the mermaid.
Whether you prefer to carry a mermaid with an evil eye, a strong and seductive woman or a cute and innocent creature out of the sea is entirely up to you.
Mermaid Tattoo Meanings
There are several different meanings that can be assigned to mermaid tattoo. Overall, the mermaid tattoo is all about the female. Below you will find other meanings associated with mermaid tattoos.
There are several different meanings that can be assigned to mermaid tattoo. Overall, the mermaid tattoo is all about the female. Below you will find other meanings associated with mermaid tattoos.
- Seduction
- Sexuality
- Persuasion
- Emotion
- Untamed
- Ghostly
- Intuition
- Emotion
- Freedom
- Independence
- Private
- To love oneself
- Sexuality
- Persuasion
- Emotion
- Untamed
- Ghostly
- Intuition
- Emotion
- Freedom
- Independence
- Private
- To love oneself
Mermaid Tattoo Designs
Mermaid tattoos can also portray with a variety of different articles, jewellery and clothing. You can see mermaids with fish bone combs, which is an old symbol of power and female strength symbolized. Mermaids can also be presented with a mirror.
Mermaid tattoos with mirror presents self-value. It can represent how you see yourself. Mermaids are often portrayed with shells, such as a shell bra, for example, mirrors, bracelet, or earrings.
Some people believe that the mermaid, can only be seen in light of the moon. Mermaids can also be seen at dusk and dawn. Morning and dusk are the times when you feel the feeling of peace as if magic is in the air. Think of the evening as you feel happy and peaceful.
Mermaid tattoos can portray where a mermaid watches the moon or sit on a rock in the moonlight. Mermaid tattoos can also be portrayed in the dark, whether it is the darkness of dusk or the darkness of the deep water, that is all available.
Mermaid Tattoo designs can also be presented as a bad mermaid. These mermaids usually have fire red hair or clothes. It can be displayed with your hair for blasting or your body. The mermaids can probably be displayed, with a bad expression on face.
Some tattoos can be shown the mermaids with powers as the water moves with the wind or where they do bad deeds.
The mermaid can be perfectly combined with other seafaring motifs such as anchor, steering wheel, ship or wave.
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