Glasses tattoo: best ideas and meaning

Glasses tattoo: meaning and symbolism

Glasses stand for clear sight and for a decision to look properly. At the same time they are a device that alters what a person perceives – hence the reading about point of view, and about reality being seeable in more than one way.

Historically glasses belonged to learning and reading, and they keep that flavour today. Sunglasses run the other way: they cover the eyes and give nothing away.

Modern meaning and personal reading

A large share of these tattoos are memorial motifs – the specific frames someone close used to wear. It is one of the quietest ways to remember a person, because the object stands in for a portrait.

The second group is about identity: round frames as a nod to a particular era or figure, sunglasses as part of a personal style. An addition – a book, an eye behind the lens, a flower – takes the meaning further.

Styles and design variations

Our gallery is dominated by thin black line – a clean outline of frames that works in a small format on the forearm or wrist. The shape is simple, so the accuracy of the curves decides everything.

Black and grey realism suits specific frames with glare on the lens and material texture; that kind wants more room. Colour enters sparingly, usually inside the lenses. We tattoo glasses most often on the forearm, wrist and shoulder blade.

Our artists like to experiment, and they will build you something that still makes sense to you years from now.