Body Art - Tattoos
Body Art
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
Decorative and spiritual uses of tattoos involve symbols of religious
and spiritual devotion, decorations for bravery, mark of fertility,
amulets and talismans for protection.
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.
Tattoos are a marking that gives an idea about status and rank of an individual.
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.
These days for
the cosmetic purpose tattoos are marked as permanent eyebrows, lips
liner or lipstick, eye liner and even moles.
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.
So, be sure to do some research and think about the pains before GAIN....
Body Art