Tribal tattoos and those combined with angel wing tattoo designs usually have the most meaning on a personal level for the person wearing them. Tribal tattoos often symbolize togetherness, and a belonging, and combined with angel wings tattoos they can signify a togetherness with your spirit, or a unity with your God source or purity.
Best Places for Angel Wings Tattoo Designs
By far the most common station for angel wings tattoos are across the back, starting at the shoulder blades. That’s where wings would normally reside, so it makes a reasonable choice for placing these kinds of tattoos.
However, there is no set place where the wings need to be placed, and depending on the size, you can also have them wrap around your arm, neck or legs, as well as spread out across your lower back.
Back pieces created with an angel wings tattoo are symbolic as well, and along with all of the above, can be used to signify the desire to do good, be pure of heart and spirit, or indicate a desire to take off, fly or be free.
Angel wings tattoos on the back also represent lightness of spirit and openness to all possibilities.
Angels Wing Tattoos as a Memorial
An Angel Wing Tattoo design makes a fantastic memorial for lost loved ones. Placed around a cross, or surrounding a name or initials they are the ultimate symbol of new life, passage and release.
Angel wings tattoos are also a fitting memorial to the special events such as the birth of a child, or graduation to a new path in life.
Combinations with Angel Wings
Angel wing tattoos can be combined with other symbolic artwork to create powerful messages such as a heart with wings to symbolize your soaring spirit, or a Celtic knot, sunburst or lightening, blade or star to create the images you feel represent you best.
What Size Angel Wings Tattoos to Get
Size is a completely personal decision. Angel wings tattoo designs can come in any shape, size and position. Typically, the back piece is large, and spreads from shoulder blades to the edge of the back, and down along the sides. However, smaller versions of angel wings tattoos in other spots of the body have the same meanings, and just as much symbolism.
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