Birth flower tattoos, month by month
Both flowers for every month, drawn botanically right, with the pairings people use to mark children, siblings and parents in one piece.
April birth flower
April pairs the daisy, which is the most forgiving small flower in tattooing, with the sweet pea, which is all ruffles and tendrils and needs more space.
August birth flower
August gives you a tall sword shaped spike and one of the best small flower subjects in tattooing, so the two behave very differently on skin.
December birth flower
December is the month where sources disagree most: narcissus, holly and poinsettia all appear, and the three make completely different tattoos.
February birth flower
Both February flowers are small, flat faced and low to the ground, which makes them lovely in person and easy to ruin at tiny tattoo sizes.
January birth flower
January gives you two very different flowers: a dense ruffled carnation that suits bold linework, and a snowdrop so small it needs a careful hand.
July birth flower
Larkspur is a tall spike of spurred flowers that suits a spine or a forearm, and the water lily is a wide open bloom that needs real size to work.
June birth flower
June gets the rose, which is the most tattooed flower there is, and the honeysuckle, which almost nobody asks for and collapses if you draw it small.
March birth flower
March is the daffodil and the jonquil, which are close relatives, and the trumpet in the middle is the part that decides whether your tattoo reads at all.
May birth flower
Lily of the valley is the most requested birth flower of the year, and the bells only work if each one gets enough room to stay hollow.
November birth flower
November is the only month with a single traditional flower, and the chrysanthemum is the one birth flower that genuinely needs size to work.
October birth flower
The cosmos is eight clean petals around a yellow disc and works at 3 cm. The marigold is a packed pompom that closes into a blob if you go small.
September birth flower
The morning glory is one of the most forgiving small florals in tattooing, and the aster needs its ray count cut back before it will hold at any size.