Butterfly Fairy Tattoo Designs
Outside, the shop front is shabby and dull. I walk around the corner and look at the painted wood door, the red paint peeling with age. I push at it slowly and enter a corridor, a wall of must and heat greeting me. Slowly, I climb the steps, one at a time, trepidation twisting at my stomach muscles. At the top of the stairs is a relatively new, and comparatively well cared for door. I push through it, and enter a colorful world.
Now that you have decided that yes, yes you do want to remember this day, this time, you move over to the rails upon the walls. Hundreds of little designs displayed before you, ready for your choosing. Chewing on your bottom lip in thought you begin to peruse, before glancing to the folders upon the countertop, taking a couple and holding them close to your chest, as you move to the couches to sit and look through.
Finally! You lay your fingertip heavily upon a specific design of a butter fly tattoo. It looks beautiful, stunning, but as you gaze at it you realize its just not quite right. With a defeated sigh, you flip the page and realize why. It is merely incomplete. A fairy would finish it off completely, and would enable you to convey all that you wanted to convey.
A butterfly. A change in your life. You came along to mark that anyway, didn’t you? You have moved on now, grown up, it’s a new chapter, a transformation. And that is what you instantly think of when you see the butterfly. You see it, and you know you will always be reminded of your childhood, of your innocence and of its fragility.
And then there is the fairy. You identify with her. There is something gentle and playful about her, she seems to have retained her childlike sense of wonder. It reminds you of when you were a child, of the magic world you believe in, and how desperately you did not want that veil to be taken away. Is that what you want now?
The combination of the butterfly and fairy could be simply because you think it is beautiful, but if you are like me, it may symbolize the fragility of childhood. Or, for others, the transformation from one thing, child hood innocence, into another, maybe explained by the womanly appearance of the fairy themselves.
