Phoenix Tattoo designs For Men

When you are considering getting a tattoo done on your body and that too the first time, it is not something that you approach flippantly. Particularly when it comes to a tattoo motif that is as significant as the Phoenix tattoo. This is a bird that belongs to myths. Endowed with qualities like the ability to emerge from ashes, this bird features in many stories of the past. If what the stories say is true,  then the Phoenix was known to live for hundreds of years in a solitary state. As they grew older, they would put together a nest and lay only one single egg. They would then set themselves along with the egg and the nest alight. When the fire dies down, a younger phoenix would rise from the ashes.

The younger phoenix would be young, strong and complete in spite of just having emerged from the ashes. Since longevity, survival of fire and regeneration after facing a calamity, are all things associated with the Phoenix, people opting for a tattoo design with the phoenix are also seeking or depicting something similar. They have either faced, fought and survived a personal problem or they may be seeking to do so in future.

You can get a tattoo anywhere you want as long as there is skin, and there it is in almost every part of the body. But the thing about phoenix tattoos is that, they are mostly drawn and created on the lower back, the shoulder or the forearm. This is so because it is better that you pick a place where you know the quality of your skin is not going to change too much, thereby keeping the beauty of your tattoo intact. We may think of tattoos being the territory of bold and aggressive people. But the fact is that now there are more and more meek and introvert people who are getting tattoos, albeit smaller ones  and in places where only they can see and enjoy them. A tattoo has become something that simply holds a lot of significance to them and is seen as an artistic depiction of their deepest beliefs.