Nautical Star Tattoos

While Nautical Star Tattoos are really popular in today’s current tattoo culture, the origins and original application of Nautical Star Tattoos dates back much farther than most people probably realize.

Due to the high risk of traveling on the high seas, a lot of sailors would get Nautical Star Tattoos as talismans or good-luck charms. A lot of sailors believed that getting Nautical Star Tattoos inked onto their skin would help them return to land safely and would ward off any potential, unknown evils of the sea. Nautical Star Tattoos render the image of the North Star.

Before directional compasses were introduced to travelers, people found their way by reading the stars in the sky. Depending on the position of certain stars in the sky, many a traveler would be able to gauge whether they were heading towards the north, the south, the east, or the west. The North Star can be seen in the night sky from the northern hemisphere and was used by sailors to steer their course to ensure proper navigation and safe travels.

Nautical Star Tattoos have this really interesting design. While basically geometric in its shape and style, Nautical Star Tattoos have lines which are added to a traditional and simple five-pointed star. Each of the star arms in Nautical Star Tattoos have an intersecting line that runs from the arm’s end point to the center or balance point inside the star. Therefore, Nautical Star Tattoos have this killer ability to appear three dimensional in ways that many of the star designs rendered in other star tattoo art cannot.

The intersecting lines on each of the arms on these Nautical Star Tattoos allow more visual planes which can be further manipulated with different colors as well as various shading techniques that can give the appearance that these Nautical Star Tattoos are literally rising-up and outward from the skin.

Rather than gaining their aesthetic focus from their stars’ shape or the number or shape of points, Nautical Star Tattoos grab at the tattoo gazers’ eyes and make them focus on the arms of the star and the body of the star itself—the interior of the star design rather than its exterior or its simply outlined shape. Nautical Star Tattoos are all about interior forms and smooth shading techniques—no matter what ink colors are used.

Despite this mostly maritime association, Nautical Star Tattoos represent a power greater than yourself that will protect you and help you from losing your way and ensuring that you will arrive at a safe destination—no matter what road your travels happen to lead you down.