Lighthouse Tattoo: The Best Ideas and Templates
Tattoo motives are something very personal! What a lighthouse tattoo stands for, we explain here. Plus the most beautiful designs.
Why a lighthouse tattoo?
Tattoo motifs have often been considered very carefully, many of them have a special meaning for the wearer. The lighthouse is also a meaningful symbol: It gives light in the darkness, guides ships safely through the waters and is an indispensable signpost.
Such a tattoo could stand for a new path, a trend-setting experience in life or for hopeful light in the dark. Maybe this light is also a beloved person you want to immortalize with it?
A lighthouse can of course also be chosen without a meaningful background, because it fits to other motives on your skin, because you find it beautiful, or or or or.
Individual design
A lighthouse tattoo belongs to the generally popular maritime motifs. Pictures from and around the sea can also be wonderfully combined with the lighthouse, for example:
- Steering wheel
- Ship in a bottle
- Anchor
- Captain
- Mermaid
- Diving helmet
- Sea/waves
- Gulls
For those who find that too much frills around, the lighthouse can stand alone – and speak for itself. The style in which the signpost is engraved is of course a matter of taste: oldschool, minimalist, watercolor, colorful or black and white – whatever you like is fine! When designing the motif, you should consider beforehand whether you want a scenery, just the lighthouse, a combination with other motifs, with a frame or without a frame.
Lighthouse Tattoo: Ideas for motifs
Old school tattoos are characterized by strong outlines and few but strong colors.
A lighthouse is also great to combine with a compass or coordinates tattoo!
The motif does not even have to be large, it can also be minimalist – with the same wow effect: