Day of the Dead Skull Tattoos

Are you inspired from tattoos or you want a tattoo to be inked on you skin? You may find many different tattoo signs like bats, dragons, gravestones and skull but the best inspiring tattoos are the dead skull. Yes you may be fond and may also have deadly skull tattoo on your forearm but do you know the hidden story behind this tattoo design? This question has been asked because people follow trend but do not think in depth to know the basic underlying story.  

The day of dead is a Spanish tradition to remember and pray for the lost loved ones. They honor them with the help of different feasts and celebrations and it is the 2^nd November following the Saints day on 1^st of November. This event has also been observed in some other countries like Latin America, Mexico, Philippines and USA. The use of dead skull tattoos was started in the Aztec period to show the feelings for lost ones. Aztecs were in a habit to keep the skulls of enemies to demonstrate their victory. Preserving the factual skulls of dead people as memory was started with the influx of Spanish Conquistadors. After then the habit of getting dead skull tattoos got in practice with a concept to remember the deceased one with a permanent skull design. You can have infinite designs with different color schemes and arrangements. It is considered that brighter colored dead skull tattoos are considered good as compared to the dull ones.