Cherry blossom tattoo
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Five rounded petals, each with a small notch at the tip: that’s how you tell a cherry blossom from any other flower, and it’s the bloom behind every design here. All of them develop in one tone, blue-black, with no color added, which makes them a natural fit if you were after a black-and-white look.
Fine line. A bare branch, a few loose sprigs, two blossoms side by side, or a sprig framed like a postage stamp. They sit lightly on the wrist, the collarbone or just behind the ear.
Garlands and ribbons. Strings of tiny blossoms that circle the wrist or ankle like a bracelet, or trail down the forearm.
Japanese-inspired panels. When they’re in stock, these larger blackwork pieces leave the flowers as bare skin, framed by waves or clouds, for the upper arm, the calf or the shoulder blade. They come and go.
In Japan, sakura are admired precisely because they fall so soon. The petals stand for beauty that doesn’t stay, an idea often linked to the phrase mono no aware.
From pale to blue-black
Each cherry blossom tattoo is printed with jagua ink and goes on in two minutes or less. It starts out faint. Over the next 24 to 48 hours it deepens to blue-black. Give it 8 hours without water or rubbing; after that, it’s waterproof. Expect up to two weeks of wear, a little less on hands and feet. Vegan, with no PPD.
More blooms grow in our flower tattoos, and the panels have company among our Japanese tattoos. Planning a permanent cherry blossom tattoo? A trial run on your skin shows how big it should be and where it sits best. Want a name worked into a branch? Draw it, and we’ll make it a custom tattoo, from 3 copies up.
