If you think a chandelier is just a fancy housing accessory from a bygone era, think again. These classical light fixtures are being redesigned as a popular tattoo trend suited to a variety of placements and design inspiration.
Often associated with the opulence and wealth of time periods such as the Roaring 20s, chandelier tattoos most often translate to elegance and style, while their ability to cast dazzling light also links a chandelier with purity and vision.
Read on for this gallery of amazing tattoo designs applying chandelier concepts with a range of other motifs to create brilliant body art examples that you’ll love and may prompt a call to your tattoo artist.
1. Nape and Back Tattoo Design Ideas
There’s an awesome mix of sizes and styles in each of these lady’s back tattoo art. Some opt for a floral central theme augmented by the lace of interconnecting lines and jewels, while others opt for either an old school fine detailed design or freehand Gothic light source filled unique candles and featuring heavier black ink.
2. Jewel Tattoo Inspiration
I love how sparkling, multifaceted jewels can bring a design to life and turn chandeliers into 3D tattoos. The jewels are either the central image, or a well worked complement to an insect or animal. The decision of the artist to etch a bright color component in jewel and beading really brightens the effect.
3. Leg and Foot Body Art
A chandelier design can be exceptionally good at covering harder areas to link, as these lower leg and foot designs exemplify. The bony, uneven terrain is covered brilliantly by the beading or dangling necklace-like drop of jewelled stone past the ankle and along the top of the foot.
4. Arm/Shoulder Designs
Another great tattoo spot for utilizing a dropping chandelier design or using a cool secondary piece of body art to augment the flowing line and bead work of the chandelier. Again, color blends brilliantly with black ink. The evolution of a singular piece of body art into a bad ass sleeve as it runs from the shoulder down to wrist is one of the standout tattoos on this list.
5. Sternum and Underboob Tattoo
For some female tattoo art enthusiasts, the boob gets in the way and gets left alone amongst their other body art designs. A chandelier tattoo sort of does this, but also applies the shape of the breast in creating memorable designs.
6. Thigh Tattoos
Thigh ink is increasingly popular real estate for tattoo lovers. It’s a large canvas, equally useful for covering or showing off, and offers great opportunity to get creative in design elements. I like the opposing styles of these examples, between color or black and gray or even a wider gauge needle against fine detail in single needle execution.
7. Wrist and Hand Designs
As is the case with the lower leg and foot ink above, wrist and hand tattoos work strongly for a chandelier tattoo piece. These examples are reminiscent of traditional henna ink from the Indian sub-continent and Middle East.
FAQs
What does a chandelier tattoo mean?
With their association with opulence and wealth of time periods such as the roaring 20s, a chandelier tattoo often translates to elegance and style. A chandelier, due to its ability to cast beautifully dazzling light, is also linked with brightness of vision and purity.
Which themes go well with a chandelier tattoo?
Using a central theme complementing a lace like chandelier is a fantastic style option for tattoo enthusiasts. Some effective design ideas include:
- Mandala
- Lotus flower
- Rose flower
- Crescent moon
- Butterfly
- Jewel
- Animal
Where should I place my chandelier tattoo piece?
There are a range of fantastic body part options to place a uniquely designed chandelier tattoo. An growing popular tattoo trend for women, different sized versions of the classical light can be found:
- At the nape, where the back and spine meet
- Across the top of the shoulder, and down the upper arm
- From the center of the chest and underneath the breasts
- Over the lower forearm and wrist
- Down the lower shin and along the top of the foot
- The thigh
And remember, if the size or placement of your chosen body art idea is making you pause, you can always get a temporary tattoo. A temporary tattoo can help you narrow down the tough decisions before you make an appointment with your tattoo artist.
Are sternum and underboob tattoo the same thing?
Essentially, yes, although the physical differences between the sexes change the description a little. Chandelier ink is a popular design for a woman looking to get the area between and under her breast along the sternum tattooed. The natural curvature to coalesce into intersecting brilliant lines across the ‘under boob’ area, and along the lower rib cage.
For men, whose breasts are defined differently, a sternum tattoo is generally drawn across the top rather than underneath the breast, while for both sexes the central breastbone is utilized.
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