Rockabilly Tattoos

Today I wanna take my time to tell you something about rockabilly tattoos. You heard right rockabilly's nowadays have tattoos. That is one thing you could hardly imagine in the 50's but today many rockabilly's have tattoos and here we have a bunch of typical tattoos for this lifestyle.
You can remember vintage, old school, retro style or pin up? This tattoo styles are all typical signs for the rockabilly lifestyle. Previously they where typical sailor tattoos but that is over. Nowadays the techniques are more effective and better and so you get really nice and beautiful tattoos.

I wanna list now typical rockabilly themes:
Pin up girls, playing cards, 8-Ball, cherries, skull, panther, hearts, flames, swallows, lucky 13, sailing ship, dice, hot rods, tiki and hula girls, stars, brass knuckles and many more.

Many rockabilly's and rockabella's have also portraits from their idol where the most popular ones are Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe and Johnny Cash.


Another important thing to know is that people often have tattoos over a whole part of the body for example very popular are sleeves which covers the whole arms, legs or upper part of the body.

One of the most popular tattoos is the swallow it is an old school or new school style of tattoo. Here you can see most of the time the swallows as a couple. That can stand for angel and devil or man and women. Normally they are colored in red, blue or yellow but the sky's the limit so be creative. The meaning of the swallow is love, personal freedom and hope.