Cowboy Tattoos

The cowboy community is associated with country living, their robustness and their love for life. The American Cowboy Magazine has an entertaining bunch of articles related to western living, cowboy cultures, profiles of the greatest cowboys and their life stories. Cowboy tattoos look really cool and sturdy. There are many designs that you can choose from.

These designs are inspired by the cowboy culture, its attributes and the history and origin of the cowboy lifestyle. There are several designs that the western tattooist use. The famous designs include, skull tattoos, tribal tattoos, cowboy hat tattoos, boot tattoos, and skeleton cowboy tattoos. Dallas Cowboy tattoos are also famous today.

Many people living in western part of the United States have had a beloved grandparent or some other family member who lived the life of a cowboy, at some point of time. This fact remains as a great fact of pride in the American hearts, which is what makes them opt for cowboy memorial tattoos.

Cowboys are considered to be heroic and thus, it is not unusual for a western American to get a tattoo that is inspired by a real life cowboy hero’s image or something that symbolizes his heroic spirit.

There have been some legendary cowboy heroes that we know as rodeo stars or cowboy celebrities. These artists mostly include country musicians and film icons. A John Wayne image tattoo or a Willie Nelson’s face tattoo has decked many shoulders and forearms in western America. Usually, the die-hard fans of such rebel stars get such celebrity cowboy tattoos, as a way to pay tribute to them.

There are many symbols that depict this culture and these symbols are commonly used as cowboy symbols. Cowboy skull tattoos are one of the most requested tattoo designs in the world. They are not always drawn citing the human skull. The tattoo artists use skull designs of many animals like cows and bulls. They are often combined with a cowboy hat tattoo design or a flaming skull tattoo design.

The six-shot pistol crossed in front of a skull is a widely used design. Initially mistaken as the symbols of death and devil, today they mainly represent the presence of pirates.

Another famous one is the cowboy boot tattoo. Cowboy boots is a patent style statement for cowboy dressing. It is an inevitable part of cowboy uniform. Huge brands like Ed Hardy, designs cowboy boots as a fashion statement. Cowboy boot tattoos represent the robustness and strength of a cowboy. Cowboy horse tattoos are also very famous and so is the bull and steers tattoo design.