Tattoo Designs 2017

Tattoo is a mark made by inserting pigment into the skin. In technical terms, tattooing is micro pigment implantation. tattoos can be made on the skin of humans or animals. Tattoos on humans are a form of body modification, while tattoos on animals commonly used as identification.

Tattooing is a practice that is found almost everywhere with a function in accordance with local custom. Tattoos formerly often used by the isolated tribes in a region of the world as marking territory, degree, rank, even signify a person's health. Tattoos are widely used by man in Polynesia, the Philippines, Borneo, Africa, North America, South America, Mesoamerica, Europe, Japan, Cambodia, and China. Although in some circles is considered taboo tattoo, tattoo art continues to be something that is popular in the world.

In Borneo (Kalimantan), the native women there assume that the tattoo is a symbol that indicates specific expertise.

In China, during the Ming Dynasty (about 350 years ago), women from ethnic Drung tattooed on the face and buttocks to a sign for good offspring.

Indian, body painting English: body painting and carving is done to beautify the skin (for aesthetic purposes) and show social status.

Mentawai tribe view tattoos as a sacred and serves as a symbol of nature's balance.

There are various ways to create a tattoo. Some use animal bones as needle-like which can be found on the Eskimos, the Dayaks with thorns lemon trees, and some are using copper heat to print images such as dragons in the skin that can be found in China. Instead of being sick in the process of tattooing. Actually, the pain must be experienced when making a tattoo on the body, but because of the high value of the tattoo, and self-esteem are obtained, then the pain was not considered a problem.

There are various kinds and various forms of tattoos, depending on what is believed by tribes concerned, and in each region generally have different perceptions about the tattoo, although in principle similar.