Tattoo: The body art

Tattoos are the most common body modification act. Besides body piercing, body tattoos are now a-days, a most common way of the youth to display an expression of their persona.

Tattoos are made by inserting indelible ink into the dermis layer of the skin to change the pigment. Tattoo inks come in various colours which can be thinned and mixed together to get different shades. The removal of a tattoo is difficult and very painful. The success of the result depends on the material of the ink used.

Earlier, people associated tattoos with sailors, bikers and sideshow artists. But it has become more popular in recent years, and the people who get them are as diverse as the styles and designs they choose. The tattoo machine has a sterilized needle which punches the epidermis 50 to 3000 times a minute and fills in the ink. So, when we look at somebody’s tattoo we are looking through its epidermis.

Proper tattoo studios are there and professionals work over it.

In ancient days, many tattoos serve as rites of passage, marks of status and rank, symbols of religious and spiritual devotion, decorations for bravery, sexual lures and marks of fertility, pledges of love, punishment, amulets and talismans, protection, and as the marks of outcasts, slaves and convicts.

But this new language of expressions of the youth describes a free living and loving heart spirit. Now a days these tattoos are available in variant designs , styles and themes  such as flowers and faces, bike and rides, birds and flight , love and faith etc. you can find various professional  tattoo parlours with a renowned and reliable artists to work with your body.  So if you are a tattoo admirer, this season you can go with the in vogue trend of getting body tattooed of which , I hope, you have quite a knowledge now!