A black rose tattoo doesn’t necessarily have to have those specific symbolic meanings to you - or any meaning, for that matter. If this is all getting a bit too English teacher for you, then just ignore the symbolism of it all. But where there is death there is also birth, and so a black rose can also represent a farewell to something bad and a new beginning of something good - or so the Victorians thought. Given that, black rose tattoos sometimes serve as reminders of mourning and remembering someone or something lost. In Victorian England when people began creating a secret language of flowers to communicate their feelings (because they couldn’t just Tweet them back then), black roses were said to symbolize death and grief, an idea that has clearly stuck around through to today. Void of life and color, black rose petals bring with them a sense of macabre and tragedy (re: the black rose in American Horror Story: Murder House). Whereas the imagery of a red rose conjures up notions of love, affection, and conventional romantic beauty, a black rose tattoo flips the motif on its head.
A black rose, though, is an interesting one, because it’s like an opposing take on one of the most common tattoo designs: the red rose. And who can fault them? Roses are a classically beautiful flower that have a timelessness to them. There’s something about roses that compels so many people to get them permanently etched onto their bodies - just ask Dua Lipa, Cardi B, Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Jaime King, Lily Collins, Lili Reinhart, Halsey, Hilary Duff, Paris Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, and Bella Hadid (among so many, many others).
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