This sunflower is blooming out of where a scar once was. Using flowers is a beautiful signifier of change and growth, especially to transform scars into art.

Using the curve of their foot and ankle is a great way to make this tattoo seem extra fresh and cool. The tattoo wraps around her foot, stretching from her ankle to her big toe. This is a great way to achieve a natural-seeming effect of flowers growing and moving.

This person didn’t just settle for a flower tattoo or a butterfly tattoo, she combined those ideas together to create a design that is completely original and gorgeous. Featuring a butterfly prominently over your scar is a powerful move, as butterflies often symbolize transformation and adaptation, in addition to hopefulness. What a cool idea!

Using the shape of the branch or the stem here is a great way to get a flower design to cover the whole scar, which is itself long and thin. This tattoo, especially the linework, is elegant and light. Having a tattoo across the chest is super unique and a cool way to address a scar.

This rose perfectly fits the scar on this person’s ankle. The detailed linework and the strong shading on this piece also completely cover their scar, which seems to be the goal here. It’s amazing how detailed a small tattoo can be.

This tattoo does the double duty of addressing a scar and serving as permanent lipstick for this woman. The process also sounds really cool.

According to the tattoo artist: “I used different colors to neutralize the scar area first, then covered her entire lips with her desired color💄”

She turned her scar into an opportunity to embrace her beauty.

This set of skull and leaves helps to change the look of this person’s stomach. Most of this tattoo is above their scar, so it really seems like the scar was used as a launchpad for the body art.

What better way to brighten up a burn scar than a pretty paisley design? The colors and swirling design of this tattoo bring a lot of liveliness to her skin. The scar gave the tattoo artist an opportunity to stretch the art across her back, which pairs well with the bohemian vibe of the paisley.

Because this person has a scar on their wrist, it was a great opportunity to put a tattoo in a visible place to make a statement. Placing a tattoo that looks just like a bouquet of flowers in a place that pretty much anyone can see is guaranteed to brighten onlookers’ days.

This butterfly and flower tattoo changes things up by creating a sense of movement and interaction between the butterfly and the flower. In this case, it looks like the butterfly is flying toward the flower to land on it. It’s a cute and fun way to make the ink on your body look like artwork.

If you look closely, you’ll see that this tattoo, much like the previous one, features a little creature flying towards the flowers. In this case, it’s a little bumblebee, which makes this tattoo look playful and fun.

Putting a spin on the flower motif, this tattoo also brings in some religious imagery by showing a rosary wrapped around the two roses.

Many people like their tattoos to have deeper meaning and connect them to what is most important to them, so it is extra poignant that this person chose to transform their scar with images from nature and religion.

This tattoo completely follows the lines of this woman’s scar, which creates a really interesting masterpiece over her stomach. The style of this tattoo is much more delicate and at times geometric compared to the other tattoos we’ve seen in this list. It almost looks like a very fashionable body chain that people sometimes wear to the beach.

By having her tattoo cover only the lines of her scar, she isn’t necessarily covering it up, she’s embracing the uniqueness her scar has given her!

This mom found a whole new way to embrace her C-section scar. By turning her scar into a beautiful butterfly and lush flowers, she can pay homage to her child’s birth. Now, in addition to a child she adores, she also has this cool tattoo!

This man’s burn scar became the landing page for a super cool tattoo that depicts the Japanese Daruma doll. This doll is a symbol of encouragement and perseverance, as well as helping people to achieve their goals.

Hopefully, this tattoo served as a symbol of good for the person who got it too!

The unique shape and size of this scar provided some cool chances to make interesting designs. The tattoo artist here does a great job of focusing not only on the bellybutton but on incorporating this person’s entire ab region into the beautiful picture. This is a beautifully integrated design.

These lilies seem fun and energetic. The thigh is a perfect place to put a group of flowers that really like to take up space and show off their bold shape. Although this isn’t a tattoo that many people will see often, it’s a cute idea, and the secret aspect is a part of that!

This tattoo features a clock, a feather, and a flower. The artist and the client probably put a lot of time into identifying the images that the client wanted on their body, and these images all have deep meaning.

The effort to create a design that combines all these images is impressive!

The feathers and birds imagery is really cool, especially since it seems like the smaller birds are growing out of the larger feather. This design that hugs the line and angle of this man’s scar is a great way to work with a scar to put art on your body. It’s almost like they took direction from the scar.

The colors used in this tattoo are absolutely gorgeous and bring a lot of life and activity to an area of the body that doesn’t typically get a lot of attention. Since it’s on her shoulder, she can decide to cover it up with long sleeves or even a t-shirt, but something tells me she’ll be rocking these sleeveless shirts a lot more now.

The lines of this tattoo intricately build off of and around the original scar. This style and the number of images and things going on in this tattoo are mesmerizing, and the scar is the basis for all of it.

From the leaves, to the skull, to the flower, and the palm trees at the very top, this person took advantage of having a big scar by crafting a super cool tattoo.

This tree blooming out of this person’s spinal scar is powerful. The symbol of new life and starting again is always beautiful, but in the context of her scar, it becomes even more profound.

This person’s belly scar inspired them to get a tattoo that is equal parts gorgeous and full of life. The bright colors and cute butterfly off to the side are really eye-catching.

This person’s tattoo covers way more than their scar, which just proves that it was never about covering their scar up, but rather using their scar as a reason to get some cool ink. The shading here is heavy and the lines are thick.

This tattoo is bold and is sure to start lots of conversations.

This tattoo plays with the idea of scarring by making it look like the stem of the rose is going through her skin. This tattoo is beautiful in its intensity.