150 heart-shaped tattoos: ideas, design and meaning

Heart tattoos represent a variety of things. As far as religion is concerned, they usually represent the Christian symbol of the Sacred Heart. The Sacred Heart is the heart of Jesus, the symbol of divine love, the center where everything converges and which embraces everything. It represents the mystery of love where man and God meet.

Another meaning of heart tattoos can be compassion, true love, or courage. Therefore, they can be used to express love, grief, loss, or memories of a deceased person.

In Buddhism, the heart is associated with the Dharmachakra, which, in other words, means "the wheel of the law." Thus, these heart tattoos in a Buddhist context are a symbol of the perfection of the universe. But they can also send a message of spiritual dedication, mindfulness and compassion.

Types of hearts for tattoos

The most common heart designs are:

1. Broken Heart Tattoos: This tattoo design is often used to commemorate a lost loved one, but it can also be worn to depict a broken heart. On rare occasions, it can symbolize a long-distance relationship to show how sacred the love of two lovers is. ( See 40 broken heart tattoos )

2. Tattoos with black heart. As you would expect from black, black heart tattoos indicate a very sad experience in someone's life.

However, they can also be used to denote grief over the loss of a very close friend, the end of a relationship, or even to commemorate a tragic event that may have happened in the past. Black tattoos are often used with a name underneath, flowers, a cross, or even angel wings.

3. Tribal heart tattoos: this drawing of the heart has no particular symbolic meaning.

4. Tattoos with a winged heart. Often tattoos with winged heart symbolize freedom, free spirit and spirit in general. Most people who wear this type of tattoos express their happy and open nature or freedom from addiction (drugs or, often, bad habits).

5. Sacred Heart Tattoos: Of all the currently existing heart tattoo designs, the Sacred Heart is the most symbolic of them all because it represents the Christian faith of the wearer.

6. Celtic Heart Tattoos: this drawing is often considered a wonderful way to express strength and unity. Usually it consists of different patterns: crosses, knots, spirals ...

7. Tattoos with a lock and a heart. This drawing has a very positive meaning and usually symbolizes love for someone else: it means that only that person can open your heart.

8. Tattoos in the form of heart and flame: this type of tattoo represents a very strong passion and a very strong love. Flame is a sign of strong passion and fiery love.

9. Tattoos in the form stitched hearts : at sewn hearts have several meanings. For example, knitted or sewn hearts can represent a broken heart that is healing or has already healed, but they can also represent a scar left by the loss of a loved one or love.