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Don’t think for a second that there isn’t a mysterious aspect to this tattoo, however.
The depth of the butterfly goes deeper than the amount of times that it flaps it’s wings. Thinks about yourself in this world full of people. Some look similar, but everyone has a unique feature that separates them from anyone else in this world. Butterflies are the same way, but our eyes are focused on the magnificent colors that they display.
From the brightest oranges to the deepest greens, these colors can be sorted and mixed in ways that will captivate your mind. Thinking about a new design for your next butterfly tattoo? Think big. Yes, you can actually get a large butterfly tattoo across your body and it will look perfect.
These ideas can go from simple to grand in a matter of seconds. One thing about the butterfly tattoo is that it looks good no matter where you get it placed. If you choose to be naughty, there are some ways you can discreetly show it beneath the waist. No matter you fancy, this tattoo is popular for a reason. Let you mind explore the depths of the meaning while playing with some spectacular colors in your design.
Planning is key, and if you have a favorite butterfly then you are in luck. For most, they just want a common Monarch or something of that nature. Take the time to look at all of the different kinds of creatures and the colors that they display. Then you can choose the best one that will show your inner feelings on the outside.
These tattoos can be placed nearly anywhere on the body without doing a lot of extra work. A good artist will place your tattoo right where it can be best seen, without making a scene. You don’t want a crowd, or maybe you do want a crowd of butterflies. They are majestic beautiful creatures, enjoy.
Butterfly design idea inspiration:
Most popular butterfly species: – Monarch butterfly
– Cabbage white
– Painted lady
– Red admiral
– Black swallowtail
– Mourning cloak
– Eastern tiger swallowtail
– Viceroy
– Orange sulphur
– Gray hairstreak
– American lady
– Limenitis arthemis
– Common buckeye
– Great spangled fritillary
– Common wood-nymph
– Eastern tailed-blue
– Pearl crescent
– Eastern comma
– Hackberry emperor
– Summer azure
– American snout
– Variegated fritillary
– Cloudless sulphur
– Banded hairstreak
– Clouded sulphur
– Aphrodite fritillary
– Small pearl-bordered fritillary
– Small copper
– Spicebush swallowtail
– Meadow fritillary
– Coral hairstreak
– Giant Swallowtail
– Zebra Longwing Butterfly
– Gulf fritillary
– Queen
– Little yellow
– Western pygmy blue
– Common blue
– Clouded yellow
– Pipevine swallowtail
– Holly blue
– Question mark
– Satyr comma
– Blue morpho
– Tawny emperor
– Silvery checkerspot
– Common checkered-skipper
– Dreamy duskywing
– Baltimore checkerspot
– Speckled wood
– Juniper hairstreak
If you want a butterfly tattoo design, why not place one right on your hand? This one appears to have just landed in all of its swirling sky blue glory. We must all have childhood memories, maybe even adult ones, of either trying to catch a butterfly or one landing right on us only to flit away a moment later. This is a playful way to display a butterfly tattoo.
Take away the bright colors and you might see a skull revealed as in this black butterfly with beautiful shading. This is a perfect way to display your soft butterfly side without revealing too much. Popular with all types of personalities, we all seem to have the same connection to the mysterious butterfly.
This is a lovely framed brown butterfly against a gorgeous backdrop of evening light. Framed in reds and greens with ribbons and jewels, we see a dramatic portrait of this special butterfly. Maybe you have someone that reminds you of butterflies, had a special moment with a butterfly connection in the past, or it’s just your favorite species of insect. This is a unique way to bring light to that butterfly design.
A cute full leg tattoo idea can be a remarkable choice to display butterflies. At first glance you might not even see the masked woman! I didn’t see her until I looked closer and saw she is wearing a butterfly mask. This is large piece to have tattooed and a leg or back is necessary for such scale. Combining jewels and roses is a popular way to go for a feminine look.
Simple color or just plain black is an effective way to design a tattoo. This delicate representation of a rose and butterflies has a modern look with the simple diamond within the design. The diamond adds a bit of framing with a modern look. These monarchs are beautifully detailed in their shading.
Arms are a popular place to wear a butterfly tattoo. Personally I see it alluding to the closeness of where you would brush against a rose in the garden and come into closer contact with actual butterflies. A soft color palette in rosy pinks keeps your tattoo looking softer and sweet.
This is a unique and cute butterfly on a large scale seen on the upper thigh. It is composed of sweet black line work and is a mosaic medley of garden flowers and plants. The daisy eyeballs are a quite unexpected twist and funny and sweet to boot. The tattoo artist had a very fun time with this design.
Oh, the sweet memory of a butterfly landing at your breast! Why not tattoo a realistic design straight onto your chest to remind you. This is a very effective design complete with a shadow underneath that really makes the butterfly appear very real at first glance.
This is a gorgeous hanging butterfly that looks like jeweled adornment or chandeliers. Combined with a lovely look of jewels, this design frames out the ribcage. Be ready to show off your midrift for this one. I imagine this being a very feminine and sultry tattoo design for a belly dancer.
Butterflies can quickly and easily be used as central design points since they are symmetrical in their shape. This butterfly is resplendent combined with the iron work of the design in the background. This tattoo would also look amazing on the upper or lower back. The richness is achieved by the greytones in the shading.
This is a gorgeous women’s image of an outstretched hand holding a twig with a large lunar moth attached. The moth is large and lush and finished in great detail down to its large faux eyes on the back of its wings. These eyes are actually called eyespots and thought to draw attention away from the moths other body parts and confuses their predators.
This women’s butterfly tattoo design is rich with greytones and decorated in dripping jewels. Butterfly tattoos are of any size and can easily be added anywhere on the body, even if you are full of tattoo designs. There is always room for a winged creature.
Blue butterflies are easily combined with monarchs. I have both in my garden. Here we see them alighting on apple blossoms, harbingers of springtime. This is a lovely design to add to a larger part of the garden to create an entire scene. The upper leg would work well for a design of this size.
Here is a really cool women’s inspired design with the Death’s-head Hawkmoth. I love the extra black that comes down around the hand to form a cuff or sleeve of sorts. These moths actually look like they have a skull and crossbones on their backs, though they are not quite as defined as this one looks in the moth tattoo design.
This butterfly appears to be emerging from lace to splatters of paint. The image has a strong modern graffiti style to it. The bold colors are lovely and the butterfly seems to be going through many changes, as they often do though not quite of this nature.
If you are a Harry Potter fan, a Winged Key or Flying Key might be the best butterfly tattoo design. In the books and movie, Professor Filius Flitwick enchants these keys with a charm so they can guard the Sorceror’s Stone. If you are into popular booklore, these are a really fun image that alludes to the butterfly species.
When choosing girly butterfly tattoo designs, you don’t need to limit yourself to an actual specie color. This butterfly conjures up red, white, and blue imagery for me. Use your favorite mascot or sports team colors if you the USA flag isn’t your palette. There are lots of ways to go with color blending in butterfly design.
The female back of the shoulder is always a really pretty spot for a butterfly tattoo when it comes time to wear a formal or a summer dress. This simple butterfly plays on asymmetry within the symmetry of the species body. One half is designed with the garden florals in mind while the other half is all butterfly.
Use a butterfly in a full sleeve tattoo design for elegance, femininity and natural beauty. Butterflies and roses pair well together as they do in the garden. Pretty and feminine in their imagery, little to no color can be used in the design to make it successful. This design is very realistic and the subtle hints of red and sweet and add a touch of romance to the look.
This blue butterfly appears to be touching down right on the leg! With a perfect shadow below it, this realistic portrayal is a fun way to go for butterfly tattoo design. We seem to all carry this fantasy and close connection with butterflies landing on us so make your dream real with your tattoo design.
Whether you are wanting a permanent tattoo or a temporary one like this, butterflies are always a popular winged creature to wear on your body. We love them in the garden and we love them in imagery. Combined with flowers and flaunting their floaty beautiful wings, we find them dreamy and mystical.
Several butterflies arranged like they are in flight is a fun way to present your tattoo design. Added to an upper leg is a perfect way to display your new winged creatures. Butterflies are a popular addition to any set of tattoo you might already have.
Butterflies can be added to women’s flower sleeve themed tattoos easily. They combine well with flowers and roses. They are lovely in their winged detail and always a beloved sight amongst the garden flowers.
This highly stylized butterfly is complete with eyespots from realistic human eyes. This is an interesting and dreamlike combination flirting with realism and surrealism. Beautifully finished in black line work, this design can easily be added to any location.
This young beauty seems to be daydreaming of winged creatures. Or are they butterflies actually flying around her head and she isn’t actually dreaming this up? Either way, they sweet and feminine image can get your creative juices flowing in your own unique tattoo design.
Shhhhhh, don’t scare away the butterfly that just landed on my face! This fun design makes for an interesting conversation piece. Placed on the forearm, she is sure to get some double takes on life adventures.
Many colored butterflies seem to be flitting playfully around this bed of roses. Using a varied color palette and intricate line, your design can be placed anywhere a large garden scene will fit. The upper back, the upper thigh, or the torso are all good choices for a large piece.
This lovely large lunar moth is stretching its wings right across your midsection if you want it to. The upper back is another lovely location for outstretched wings. Using no color and only black line, you can have a lot of detail achieved in your creature designs.
This lovely stylized butterfly can fit anywhere with your other tattoo designs. Relying on minimal color, it’s all about the style and modern look of the butterfly. Winged creatures are a popular tattoo to add whether you have a large collection or are just starting with tattoos.
This tiny butterfly is flitting past to bring you messages of love throughout your day and every time you see your wrist. Magical, sweet pastels are a nice combinations when it comes to butterfly tattoos for women. They are only as unique as you are.
This lunar moth is beckoning to the moon across this large central back piece. Add minimal color to keep the image focused on the design instead of color. Moths are as popular as butterflies when it comes to finding a winged creature design ideas.
Butterflies and magic seem to work hand in hand, or is that wing in wing? Either way, add some magic sparkles and several winged creatures and you suddenly have a lot of mystical fun to play with in your tattoo designs. These are cute on an ankle.
This full back winged creature piece is like a totem of moths and butterflies. A beautiful way to fill up a section of the body, wings seem the most at home here on a backside. The use of only black makes the overall design work together like a specialized piece of clothing.
This flirty unique butterfly is wispy in its overall design. Multi-colored and intricate black line detail give this a sweet look. The watercolor effect is a nice way to add the look of movement to the creature’s wings.
Butterflies are a popular girl’s tattoo design. They fit anywhere and can easily be added to whatever designs you already have. As seen here, mixing and matching tiny winged creatures is a good and popular choice.
Playing with the symmetry, it is fun to focus on using an asymmetrical pattern to finish off the detail. One half is floral and the other half is winged creature. Using black line focuses on the details rather than the palette.
Using a landscape scene inside of a winged creature such as this butterfly, lets the body of the creature become the actual frame with the imagery inside of it. Placing at the upper central back is a popular choice for winged species. This alludes to your own wing placement if you had them.
From chrysalis to butterfly, giving yourself time to grow and change seems to be the overall message in this sweet little design. Locating this on the shoulder, it becomes a sweet message to viewers in the spring and summertime when you can wear dresses or tank tops.
Don’t cover these winged beauties up girls. These butterflies look realistic and popping on and off your back. Show them off at the beach this summer when you have less clothes on. The colors are fun, bright and playful.
Roses are a common flower to design with your butterfly tattoo imagery. Roses remind us of romance while the magical whispering butterfly flits about in the breeze in a summer garden. Butterflies remind us to slow down and witness the magic of a slow moment.
Even more butterfly variations to consider:
