Cherry Tattoo for Girls

Cherry Tattoo

Although cherry tattoos can symbolize sweetness, kindness, and goodness, they are usually associated with sexuality, loss of innocence, fertility, or lust. 

The cherry is sweet tasting, delightful to eat, and incredibly good for you.  It is filled with a variety of vitamins and minerals necessary for good health, as well as providing one of the highest concentrations of vital antioxidants.  On the other hand, they are tempting and decadent.The fruit and juice of the cherry is usually rich red in color.  It is notorious for staining lips and fingers the same tantalizing shade.  For this reason, cherries are often associated with virginity because the fruit is tempting while the color mimics blood.  Cherry tattoos typically symbolize this second meaning.  Usually chosen by women embracing the sexual connotations, they are often tattooed around the hips and pelvis or lower back and butt area.  The draw of the cherry design extends far beyond tattoos, and is a very popular motif for bras and underwear.

  In a more historical sense, the cherry is less sexual.  Cherry trees are found in a variety of climates and occur naturally in many parts of the world.  Cherries were originally cultivated in 300 BC, making them one of the oldest cultivated fruits.  Often said to be the fruit of heaven or paradise, cherries have a rich history around the world.  In Japan, cherries, cherry blossoms, and cherry wood are all significant.  The fruit and flowers represent the fleetingness of life, as well as the sweetness, and the wood wards against evil.  In fact, the Samurai warriors used the cherry as their symbol and decorated themselves with cherry blossoms before war to illustrate their readiness to die.

Today, though, cherries are almost always associated with love, chastity, or sexuality.  The overall design of the cherry tattoo is important in understanding its meaning.  When covered in chocolate sauce or topped with cream, a cherry tattoo becomes more tempting, but also more sweet.  This tattoo is more playful, but still very sexual.  A tattoo that depicts a cherry still on the tree represents purity, innocence, morality, and chasteness.  Removed from the tree, the cherry tattoo now stands for loss of innocence and virginity.  Likewise, a bitten cherry tattoo also represents a loss of virginity.  A bowl or mound of cherries can illustrate sexual accomplishment or conquest.  When men get cherry tattoos, they usually represent past flames and lovers.

A cherry tattoo that features cherries still on the stems symbolizes freshness and youth.  As a cherry matures, it will fall from the stem.  The same technique can be used to decide if cherries at the grocery store are fresh – if they are firmly attached to the stem, they will soon ripen or are newly ripened.  Another common cherry tattoo design is the flaming cherry.  Typically, these tattoos depict burning cherries still on the stem.  The message is clear.  This tattoo symbolizes a youthful desire, represented by the fact that the cherries are still on the stem, that is passionate and consuming, illustrated by the flames.