Starry cat tattoo

Listen to I Think You're Really Beautiful on Spotify. Song · Starry Cat · 2015

Feline like some new ink?

Gone are the days when getting a tattoo was synonymous with desecrating your body. Now, getting inked with indelible art is the way our millennial generation expresses itself. And not just the mango people, mind you, the stars do it too!

Minimal tattoo designs are usually far from simplistic - there’s lots of thinking to do to turn your idea into something stripped down yet still conveying the thought behind it! And that’s part of the beauty of minimal tattoos, don’t you agree?

When considering various options for what to memorize on your skin, pets often come first. We hold them close to our hearts and wouldn’t think twice if presented with the possibility of tattooing an image of a loved furry companion. Today, though, it’s all about cats and cat tattoo ideas.

Jenna on Instagram: "Pretty color variation on this cat under an arch with some stars for Raven! I’m totally jazzed on the color choices we made for these - ty for coming back and getting tattooed again 🐈🌟 done @loveshop.tattoo . . . . . #cattattoo #kittytattoo #archtattoo #qttr #bluetattoo #handpoke #sticknpoke #atxtattooartist #austintattooartist #contemporarytattoo #handpushed #charmtattoos"

We all know that cats are the cutest, most mischievous, and quirky animals ever, but did you know that in ancient Egypt, they were associated with the goddesses Isis and Ba’at, often depicted in various drawings and even mummified? Or that later, in the Middle Ages, cats were killed en masse since people associated them with witchcraft? Luckily, the feline genocide ended with a medieval king of Wales, Hywel Dda, who made killing or harming cats illegal.