Tribal tattoo designs are created using black ink and natural skin tone to create intricate designs, patterns and pictures. The popularity of tribal tattoos is in the significance behind them. In ancient times these tattoos were used for two main reasons: to mark a person as being a part of a social group or to represent spiritual beliefs. Some popular tribal tattoo designs include images of the sun, the cross, fire or flames, Celtic knots, dragons, butterflies, tribal armbands, flowers, hearts and scorpions.

Tribal tattoo art is no longer restricted to ancient or aboriginal designs. For example, it’s easy to find tribal fairy tattoo designs, tribal skull tattoo designs, tribal angel tattoo designs and tribal barbed wire designs.