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Body Art - Perfect Colour Tattoos

Body art is very broad term which includes ear piercing to a funky tattoo, painting or you can say everything related to skin decoration. Today there is a craze among college students especially to get a funky tattoo done. Having a body art done is a means to express themselves and their individuality.

Besides piercing and tattooing body painting is growing in popularity as a body art form. Body art painting treats human body as a blank canvas, and beautiful crafty colorful pictures are drawn on it. Although this artistry may not be your drawing room's show case they are still splendid.

These days companies have employed a new marketing funda of using body painting as a form of advertising. Many advertisements showcase the models with company logos painted onto their bodies.

Be it a sports day at school or cricket match in the country or going in discs beautiful body art, or painting is apparent. Fans many times express their love and compassion for their favorite team by painting the team mascot or writing their favorite team's name.

Tattoo asthe popular body art

Tattoos are very old art, anciently practiced as marking to identify animals or some convicts and also as permanent ornaments to decorate the body. The word Tattoo is actually derived from a Tahitian word "Tatau." The regularly growing passion Tattoos differ in patterns between males and females. Where males prefer tribal, skull, scorpion patterns, females go for angel, sun, moon patterns.

Tattoos may be permanent or temporary. Heena or mehandi, sticker tattoo or that drawn from water colors is temporary tattoos. Permanent tattoos are much painful and costly too. Inspite of pain involved tattooing has been practiced by modern as well as tribes across the world. The procedure of making tattoos too sports a wide variety; in some cultures tattoos are formed from scaring and rubbing it with ashes or charring while pricking with thorns to insert dyes in others.

Uses of Tattoo

1. Decorative and spiritual uses of tattoos involve symbols of religious and spiritual devotion, decorations for bravery, mark of fertility, amulets and talismans for protection.
2. Now-a-days people choose to be tattooed for cosmetic and sentimental purposes. Extensive decorative tattooing is common for traditional freak shows and by performers who follow in their tradition.
3. Tattoos are a marking that gives an idea about status and rank of an individual.
4. The tattoos were carved out for identification of inmates by Nazis. Sometime a tattoo can be useful for forensic pathologists as they might help identify burned or mutilated bodies.
5. These days for the cosmetic purpose tattoos are marked as permanent eyebrows, lips liner or lipstick, eye liner and even moles.
6. A new application of tattoo is 'Medical tattoos.' Tattoos are used for in repeated radiotherapy and for breast reconstruction.

Method of Tattooing
Modern days tattoo parlors mushrooming in cities uses the electric tattoo machine which has an oscillating unit that has a mount of group of needles. These needles dipped in Azo- or Acri- dyes goes in and out of the skin around 80-150 times resulting into a gorgeous tattoo.

The Cultural Background Behind for the Tattoos

Tattoos are often just another way of conforming to their chosen subculture, whether it be surfing, rock 'n' roll or a hippie lifestyle. These cultures comes with their own style, with tattoo books in Japan often categorized by such genres. Tattoos on the forehead are usually forcibly applied, and designed both to humiliate the bearer and warn others about him or her. They frequently consist of slurs about the bearer's ethnicity, sexual orientation , or perceived collusion with the prison authorities. Tattoos used to be done manually — that is, the tattoo artist would puncture the skin with a needle and inject the ink by hand. Though this process is still used in some parts of the world, most tattoo shops use a tattoo machine these days.

Tattoos can lead to local bacterial infections. Typical signs and symptoms of an infection include redness, warmth, swelling and a pus-like drainage. Tattoos are also placed on animals, though very rarely for decorative reasons. Pets, show animals, thoroughbred horses and livestock are sometimes tattooed with identification and other marks. Tattoos, even lit ones have definitely lost their "rebellious" intellectual meaning, at least to a very serious degree. Actually, what I've been wondering about for years is subject of so-called spiritual tattoos.

Tattoos will stay with your for the rest of your life, unless you choose to get them surgically removed. Taking care of your tattoo now will keep it healthy and infection free in the long run. Tattoos are meant to make permanent marks into human skin . Tattoos are just a permanent representations of who I am. I change, and then the tattoos are a reminder of how I change.

Tattoos are also placed on animals, though very rarely for decorative reasons. Pets, show animals, thoroughbred horses and livestock are sometimes tattooed with identification and other marks. Tattoos may be removed by a slow, difficult process. For the significance of tattooing and scarification, see body-marking . Tattoos are popular around the world as a type of decorative body art or modification, made by inserting pigment into the skin and also known as dermal pigmentation. The word tattoo is thought to derive from the Samoan word tatua meaning to mark or stike twice, referring to a traditional method of applying marks to the skin.

Tattoos are now considered very sexy, feminine, sensual and provocative. It is no longer just for male but women of all walks of life embrace it more and more, especially the artists and actresses. Tattoos key search terms are even being searched for more then many of the top porn and adult related key terms. Tattoos are applied beneath the outer layer of skin (in the dermis). The dermis does not break down foreign objects like the epidermis does (the outer layer of skin).

Tattoo Pigments Old and New Colour

Not every tattoo is the same. That's the point of tattoos, as any skin art aficionado will affirm. It's not a simple divide: the tattoo is an ancient art form, which has spawned many variants over the centuries. That means whole different "schools" of tattooing, each with their own look and pictorial language. Tattoos aren't simply different pictures - they are individual statements in whole different languages, with particular inks suitable for (even demanded by) particular dialects. There are as many types of tattoo pigments as there are tattoo languages - to do any tattoo right, the proper colours have to be taken into consideration.

Take two simple examples, both of which should be pretty common to the knowledge of the average Westerner. On the one hand, we have nautical style tattoos - a catchall term that includes naval service tattoos, pirate inspired tattoos, and the Caribbean tattoo look pioneered by returning US servicemen in the early part of the 20th century. On the other, you've got the South American tattoo style - characterized by its repeated images of skulls and brightly coloured plants. Different tattoo pigments suit the two styles in different ways: which means choosing, and using, different inks to get the required effects.

The nautical type tattoo was first popularized in the West thanks to the return of naval service personnel who had been introduced to the art in the West Indies and the Orient. Typically, nautical tattooing contains recurrent images and phrases, which have actually been associated with genuine "sea dog" tattoos for centuries: a swallow (for a safe return home) and an anchor (for safe ports in stormy seas). The tattoo pigments used here are mostly water colours (blue, green and yellow), and red for the heart that often features in the imagery. To get these tattoos done correctly a person needs to use the pigments associated with the West Coast tattoo parlours from whence the images first came. Anyone looking to retrace this ink language back to its roots, and get the proper Oriental seafarer's tattoo, will require a different set of inks again - something paler, more akin to the Japanese silk pictures one sees painted on screens and plates.

South American tattoo imagery has much more to do with the land than the sea. The recurring images here are skulls and bones (signifiers of mortality, in much the same way as the Elizabethan memento mori); and flowering plants (signifying life in the face of death). The tattoo pigments used for this currently fashionable form of skin art are much brighter and more diverse than the colours one finds in the seafaring tattoo: rich reds, pinks, oranges and yellows; vibrant greens; even mescal-tinted blues and purples. South American style tattoos are louder, more ornate, brighter than their naval counterparts - taking their colours and their themes from the sun baked, cactus crowded land of mesa and tequila. As a result they require much stronger, more intense tattoo pigments: otherwise the images look wrong.

There's a lot more to the art of skin than simple drawing and filling. These colours are a language all of their own. Anyone looking for the genuine article need only ask his or her tattooist about the inks they intend to use: the answer will reveal everything the prospective human canvas needs to know.