Different folks, different tattoo

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Since the early 1990’s, there has been an increase in the popularity of tattoo in the western world, a trend that has since spread around the world. Anyone who has taken a look at the media will easily come away with the impression that the current trend in tattoos and other forms of body art, such as body piercing, has arisen out of a cultural void and that there is scanty evidence to suggest where the root might lie.

One may ask, what is tattoo? Simply put, tattoo is the practice of piercing a design on the skin by pricking and staining the skin with an Indelible color pigment.

Technically defined, tattooing is a micro pigment Implementation, a form of body modification. Tattoos have had a rich and colorful history in western popular cultures for the better part of two centuries and nowhere is this better illustrated than by the rather extraordinary number of historical figures and modern day celebrities who have sported oi currently have body art.

Tattoo is so many things to so many people. According to Ms Mary Charles, managing director of Twinkuls, a popular. tattoo center on Allen avenue, Ikeja, “some wear tattoos to make them look sexy and attractive, others do tattoos on their breast and some on the arms. For Instance, the Americans use tattoo to write names of their late loved ones on their body to keep the memory of such loved ones with them for as long as they see the name.”

When asked the history of tattoos, she says” I read in the encyclopedia tattoo is from the Indians, the red Indians, but the truth is, tattoo has been for long in Africa for as far back as the days of our fore fathers, during the time of slave trade. Tattoo was used to write names on people to easily identify them anywhere they go, so we can not specifically say where the origin o tattooing came from. People do tattoos for different reasons. Most do it because they want to look sexy and attractive and some do it for other reasons like wanting to get rid of a scar the find embarrassing or It may be a birth mark that they do not like to be seeing where it is. Most of these celebrity ladies and guys have them on their bodies. Some have it on their chest and some around their waist”.

Tattoos are placed on different alluring parts of the body Some do It on their breast, chest, waist, leg and a other parts of their body”

Others see tattoo as something with demonic origin while for some It is a good way of showing the world how sexy they are.

With the advent of many communicable diseases, some fatal, it has become necessary I institute certain isolation and sterilization procedures in the tattoo process to assure the public of a safe, risk-free tattoo. Professional tattooists working with local, state, and national health authorities.