Your Tattoo

A tattoo (also: tattoo and today also heard many English tattoo) is a decoration of the body below the epidermis to ink. The word tattoo is believed to come from the Italian word Tahiti tatu, which means stroke or stain. Another form of tattooing is permanent makeup. This is usually used to face in the eyebrows, eyeliners and lipliners definitively pigment them.
Making tattoos

Tattoos are made by ink-conditioned by needles to pierce the epidermis. By affixing a tattoo should be adequate hygiene measures, such as the use of sterile materials. The skin is punctured by using one or multiple needles that more than 100 times per second up and down and so the drawing up under the skin.

Tattooing History

“Ötzi, the ijsmummie from the Alps, who lived around 5350 years ago, had 57 tattoo. There are tattoos found on Egyptian mummies, which date back to 2000 BC. Also in the Classics is made to tattoos in the ancient Greeks, the Germans and even more people. The current Europeans discovered the art of tattooing in the Polynesian and American Indians. In the Tahitiaans does the word tattau mark.

Reasons for a tattoo to

A person may have different reasons for a tattoo to continue:

* Aesthetic: the tattoo as an ornament for the body considered.
* Status: the environment of the medium (and the medium itself) derives a certain value to the tattoo, such as the New Zealand Maori moko the TA.
* Identification: the carrier hopes on the basis of his tattoo to be recognized, for example after drowning. This was the usual reason for sailors. During the Second World War, most were caught in the concentration camps an identification number tattooed on their arm. When members of the SS, the elite corps of Nazi Germany, their blood type tattooed under their armpit.
* Medical: The carrier hopes to remain free of certain diseases by wearing a tattoo. Thus Ötzi had tattoos on joints, which is why we suspect that he suffered osteoarthritis.
* Cosmetic: scars, burns or wine stains may be through tattoos made less conspicuous. Also lost eyebrows replaced by tattoos.
* Harassment: the carrier indicates member of a criminal organization such as the Yakuza in Japan.

Dangers of Tattooing

Insufficient hygiene or use of contaminated material such as various types of infectious diseases such as hepatitis, tuberculosis and HIV are transmitted by tattooing.

Not infrequently, the bearer of a tattoo regret, for example, because he is nagewezen because he no longer belongs to the club which he bears the tattoo, or because he can find no work. It is very difficult and costly to remove a tattoo again, but today there are methods that the pigment with a laser dots can break, allowing them (slowly) by the blood of jobs are included. If this is not done, we risk a tattoo instead of a burn on it.

It would be preferable to set the age limit for a tattoo to raise to 18 years and above.
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The history of tattoos is impossible to schedule carefully, but the tattoos is a well-known in various cultures from around the world for thousands of years.
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There are some areas of the body that should simply be prohibited to make a tattoo on.
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Methods for removing tattoos
Are there any other methods than the laser tattoo removal without scarring or liquids such as lotions.
And if so, which are commercial products that can remove tattoos?

I would like to know if there is any risk or is recommended if a tattoo done, in my case on the foot, when you’re pregnant.

I need ideas for a tattoo
I want a tattoo in, which represents in some way these things: Health, Luck, Love and time, because we all have the time comes in life.
I had thought of a joker with a dice in one hand and hourglass on the other.
What do you think about it?

Never in a million years I always thought it would be so excited about anything as I am about getting my first tattoo. Working in a very conservative race as an adviser and consultant to business I’ve been more of a voyeur style and the kind of hip-ness of me for the past several years. [...]

I will do my first tattoo soon. I will be on my hip.
I would like to know some things before doing so, I do not know how does it affect my skin.
How common are allergic reactions?
Do after a time, all the reactions heal? What is that there are people who “eats” ink and have to [...]