Four Leaf Clover Tattoos

When you hear someone refer to, "The luck of the Irish", have no doubt in your mind that, the speaker is referring to a 1 in 10,000 chance of success. It is what your chances are of finding a four leaf clover. Because of its rarity, the Irish have accepted it as the manifestation of the ever elusive luck. Four leaf clover tattoos are appreciated not only by the Celts of Irish origin, but by all of those who want to be lucky, at least once in their life. Along with the shamrock, the four leaf clover symbolizes Ireland. Now that you know what four leaf clover tattoos are meant by, a person sporting them on his arm or elsewhere will always appear to be lucky to you.

Four Leaf Clover Tattoos Meaning

According to a legend, a four leaf clover was carried by the Eve, when she was expelled from heaven along with Adam. The Four leaf clover tattoo's meaning is short and simple. In fact, you already know its keywords and their meaning. Four leaf clover tattoos represents in pictorial from, the 4 important aspects of human life:

• Hope
• Faith
• Love
• Luck

These tattoos link us to a past that spans thousands of years, from the modern era when the natives of Ireland were converted to Christianity, to the Celtic tribes and then on to the Druids, who inhabited Ireland before them.

Four Leaf Clover Tattoos Designs

There are literally hundreds of designs of four leaf clover tattoos on the Internet, especially, on websites dedicated to the art of tattoos. People throughout the history of mankind have used not only four leaf clover tattoos to change their luck but also zodiac tattoos depicting zodiac signs which help in reversing one's luck too. There are a huge range of tribal tattoos that display a similar concept of attaching meaning to each tattoo.

If you are hunting for luck for some reason and if you are open to tattooing consider four leaf clover tattoos. Instead of downloading ready made 4 leaf clover designs from the Internet and using one of them, creating a unique design to use as a tattoo for yourself is a better idea. An idea combining a horse shoe, which is considered as a lucky charm, with the four leaf clovers in a tattoo sounds good or you can combine it with the image of a rabbit foot to make the tattoo more impressive.

If you have really decided to come up with your own four leaf clover tattoo designs, you may consider an important fact that, the four leaf clover is a genetic variant of the three leaf clover. I have seen few four leaf clover designs with similar and perfectly shaped leaves. Presumably, not all of the designs available on the Internet are of this kind.

A true four leaf clover has a leaf that is a bit shorter than that of the rest. If you incorporate this detail in your four leaf clover tattoo design, it will make the tattoo more traditional and contain true good luck charm, which is what you want.

Tattoos, especially tribal tattoos, have been a part of human culture for thousands of years. Tattoos such as the Chinese dragon tattoos have been used as a medium of expressing one's deepest desires such as gaining power, success, security and to pay respect to deities and the supernatural, or powerful forces using the tribal sun tattoo design. In some of the cultures it was used to distinguish the status of an individual in social ranks using various tribal tattoo designs. Four leaf clover tattoos, which are part of the Irish tradition, are considered the lucky charms along with the rabbit foot and dice. It is no wonder that it received appreciation and is favored all over the world by the people.