The balance between bright color – Leo is a sun sign – with other black ink parts create beautiful contrast. I particularly like the use of crackling golden watercolors to feel like the rising sun warming their tattoo. Others use an effective fully saturated single color palette to work in opposition to black or shaded ink.

4. Delicate Leo Tattoo Design

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Delicate constellation tattoo designs are great opportunities for artists to shows off complementary skills in creating versatile pieces. They aren’t simply gentle, tiny light gray or color pieces, but technically difficult Leo tattoos.

These examples combine clever ideas, such as line and formwork with geometric principles to make a forearm tattoo, or delicate dotwork against supporting themes like the planets and solar system, to achieve finely detailed, top quality tattoo art.

I particularly like how these delicate tattoos depict Leo tattoos amongst the other star signs, such as the string of Zodiac signs across the collarbone, or the side tattoo using the star sign in conjunction with the Libra scales and Sagittarius bow and arrow.

5. Leo Flower Tattoos

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Rather than opting for a simple glyph style Leo tattoo, each subject in these tattoos have threaded flower designs into each tattoo.

Leo is an August and summer star sign, so sunflowers or the August birth flowers gladioli and poppies are thematically popular choices for those looking to use flowers in a Leo tattoo.