Sugar Skull Meaning

The meaning behind the sugar skull tattoo designs comes from the Mexican day of the dead celebrations. Sugar Skull art showcases a folk art style of adornment. Covering the skulls with colourful icing, flowers and decorations. These sugar skulls represent the dead.

Sugar Skull Tattoo Ideas

Sugar Skull Tattoo Placement Ideas

Sugar Skull Finger Tattoo

Finger tattoos look great and a small sugar skull on the finger could work well as a Sugar Skull finger tattoo.

Sugar Skull Hand Tattoo

Hand Tattoos can make quite a statement. Ive seen many hand tattoos with beautiful Sugar Skull Tattoos on them. Choose a Sugar Skull tattoo design for your Sugar Skull hand tattoo.

Sugar Skull Sleeve Tattoo

Choose a Sugar Skull Tattoo Flash Art Sheet to send to your tattoo artist. Your tattoo artist will be able to place all the elements for the Sugar Skull tattoo flash sheet to create your Sugar Skull themed sleeve.

Sugar Skull Chest Tattoo

Choose a Sugar Skull Tattoo Flash Sheet to send to your tattoo artist. Your tattoo artist will be able to place all the elements for the Sugar Skull tattoo flash sheet to create your Sugar Skull themed sleeve.

Sugar Skull Tattoo Design Ideas

• Folk Art

Sugar Skulls are traditionally adorned with folk art so decorating your Sugar Skull Tattoo Design with traditional folk art will give your tattoo an authentic look.

• Flowers

When used in Sugar Skull Imagery, Flowers represent life. They are often used to decorate the eye sockets of the Sugar Skull Tattoo Design.

• Spider Webs

Spiderwebs are often used to decorate the sugar skull designs and symbolise death.

• Hearts

Hearts represent love so are very often used in sugar skull tattoo designs as a remembrance of loved ones that have died.

Sugar Skull and Girl Tattoo Design

A popular tattoo design that incorporates a beautiful girl with a sugar skull.

Which Sugar Skull Tattoo is for you?

How to choose the perfect Tattoo Design? Once you have decided on the placement of the tattoo you will next need to decide on the tattoo design.

Sugar Skull Tattoo Designs for Females, Lady Sugar Skull, Sugar Skull images, Sugar Skull Drawings

Some things to consider:

Black and white or colour?

Depending on whether you are after a black and white tattoo or a colour tattoo will help choose the right design. 

Light or Dark?

Some tattoos are very dark, and have a lot of solid black incorporated into their design. They are usually high contrast and done just using black ink. Other tattoos look light, have may have more detail, they are not as heavily shaded and don’t contain as much solid black in the design. 

Modern or Traditional Style?

Do you want a traditional tattoo or modern tattoo?