Tattoos are no longer a trademark for sailors, sideshow artists, criminals, drug addicts, gangsters, and bikers as more people have worn tattoo on parts of their bodies in recent years. The public, in general, have an extreme bad impression towards those who are wearing tattoo as they have been regarded as a life related to crime. Nevertheless, nowadays, this bad perception has changed in accordance to the progress of the society as more and more people tend to have parts of their bodies tattooed. Therefore, it will not be surprising to know that celebrities and even political leaders are wearing tattoo as the surge of the modern trend of fashion that have invaded modern human's lifestyle.
According to a 2006 study by the Journal of American Academy of Dermatology, 36% of Americans ages 18 to 29 have parts of their bodies being tattooed. Some of them thought that the tattoo they are wearing might have eased their regret and eliminated their shameful feeling due to the physical abnormalities and appearance.
The tattooing pictures are created by artists by injecting ink into a person's skin with a dental drill-like electrically powered tattoo machines into the dermis (second layer of the skin) to deposit the insoluble ink into the skin for a person's permanent lifetime. The machine moves the needle up and down with a drop of insoluble ink in order to puncture the skin between 50 and 3,000 times per minute by penetrating the skin deep down into about a millimeter thick.
The tattooing pictures, logos or symbols, sometimes, have been regarded as a permanent makeup to further emphasizing the physical appearance of the individuals. The styles and designs they chose reflecting the diverse consumer choices in arts, Science, nature, computer, Mathematics, games, medicine and even some abstract expressions.
Basically, there are four types of common tattoo designs, among them are Tribal, Polynesians, American, Japanese and Chinese tattoo arts. Polynesians portray the designs of island, scenes, tropical images and picturesque ocean views; Tribal designs symbolize the random pattern of lines and curves being incorporated to form an abstract form of arts; American designs symbolize American cultures such as eagles, the American flag, cross bones, and roses; Japanese tattoos are more popular with the designs of dragon, fish, and Japanese characters; while Chinese designs include complicated subjects of dragon, god, mountain, fountain, Great Wall of China, Chinese symbols and characters which are popular among its communities.
Could you differentiate which is his original face? It looks like his amazing tattoo on the back of his head resembles the real face at the first glance. Now, you should call him two-faced man.
Wow, this man is cool though! How could he get all his face tattooed like a checker board? His bizarre and yet amazing tattoo make me wondering to address him as “Mr. Checker Man.”
This dragon masterpiece is mostly favoured by Chinese or Japanese communities who will have their arms, legs, hands, heads and even bodies tattooed with a dragon picture. Dragon is always regarded as the most brilliant animal which has the highest position among the world of animals.
This 3D tattoo is cool! It appears to me that the bone in his arm is fragile enough that it might be fractured anytime!
A very comprehensive human's skeleton was made a choice as a tattoo target. Now, you don't have to buy a book on anatomy as the details could be obtained from the tattooed hand. It's incredible!
What could you interpret from this appearance? It has some numeral symbols, patterns, and words tattooed all around his face. What our world will be looked like if every one of us has our face tattooed in this manner?
Are you scared while looking at this tattoo? The skull was tattooed in the ear lobe. Do you dare to wear this type of tattoo?
Wow, the cat was tattooed in this man's belly! It's cool…..!
This is another strange tattoo, in which the person's head was tattooed with some pictures of bearded men. Are those men representing the same person, Osama bin Laden?
This is a tattoo design to symbolize the computer and web choice as the Intel logo was tattooed in this man's arm.
What's this tattoo about? Is it an evil or the hell?
It's rarely to see people have their eyes tattooed. As seen in this picture, she had her eye tattooed. The doctor had implanted a love shape diamond on her sclera. She was proud with this tattoo design and called it as “the diamond of the eye.” It's indeed appalling to look at this strange tattoo!
This is a scene of the 1ST International Tattoo exhibition held in Moscow, Russia. People were waiting eagerly to have parts of their bodies tattooed.
Have you heard of a luminous tattoo? It's getting popular nowadays. These are some cool pictures to share.
It's disgusting to see people to have their mouths being tattooed. The trend of tattoo has moved to the extent that the mouth is also being tattooed with symbols or words among the celebrities.
These are the appearance of scary 3D design tattoos. Are these the beauty appearance in exchange of tears, pain and blood?
Japanese gangsters, both male and female, will have all their bodies tattooed with giant dragons.
This is a Braille being tattooed on the arm by an art student from a Berlin University.
Most of the games are transferred to parts of the body as the design of tattoos. These designs reflect the consumer choices on Nintendo, PS2 as well as the anime screened in the show such as Final Fantasy, Akira, Lion King, Jungle Book, and so forth. Above are three pictures that show the games: Mario rescues the princess, Mr. Pac man and the Final Fantasy.
Don't think that these are simply black spots. If you connect each dot in a sequence, it will finally end up with a picture of a giraffe.
Besides the beauty, tattoo can even employ something practical like what you see in this picture. Mikeysklar has his arm tattooed with 8mm long straight ruler. Next time, he wants to measure something, he can make use of this portable straight ruler.
Final Remarks
The tattoo artists should ensure that their works are devoted with high-level of hygiene and sanitary to avoid themselves from getting diseases due to an accidental pinprick from their clients. Moreover, the tattoo devices must have properly sterilized so that the agents of diseases would not be transferred to their clients. Improper hygiene and sanitary tattoo process could lead to the spread of common diseases such as flu, coughs, hepatitis, colds and even AIDS via the tattoo devices.
