The Process of Giving a Tattoo

Doing my senior project I found out that just doodling a Tattoo is difficult because you wouldn’t want it to be flat or too simple, so you have to really but in detail and attempt to put in depth to help your piece come to life even before it’s on skin, What I did was I put in a different color where the bottom area of the tentacle is and tried to do highlighting with some silver to give more depth. My mentor assisted me with ideas also with her Tattoo in general.

Tattooing is a body modification practice used for centuries across the globe. Because of the multiple origins of tattoos, there are several techniques and countless styles. Every tattoo is unique in meaning to the person that receives it, though often they can fit into generalized categories. Tattoos have fallen in and out of popularity over the course of history, though they have never and most likely will never disappear.

Tattooing is the art of marking the skin with indelible patterns, pictures, or legends by making pricks and inserting colored ink. The word itself has its origins in the South Pacific. The art had been referred to as pricking, scarring, or staining until explorer Captain James Cook encountered the indigenous peoples of Tahiti. (Wilkinson 6)

A tattoo is a puncture wound, made deep in your skin, that’s filled with ink. The tattoo is made by penetrating your skin with a needle and injecting ink into the area creating some sort of design of

The art of cultural tattooing is the art of marking skin with indelible patterns, pictures, or legends by making pricks in the skin and inserting colored ink. This art has been referred to as pricking, scarring, or standing. They use small instruments made of bone, cut into

Tattoo is a form of art portray on an individual’s body as a form to express themselves. The person I interviewed one of my best friends from high school. My friend is a female, who is 19 years old, and belongs to Asian Indian origin. She is majoring in Graphic Design at NC State University.

The decision to get a tattoo is personal and different for everyone. Tattoos are generally permanent additions to the body. Rushing into a design typically ends in regret. Taking a considerable amount of time to find the perfect design and the positioning on ones’ body may not be a bad idea. Unfortunately, there are far more tattoos that are spur-of-the-moment rather than thoroughly considered, meaningful, or commemorative tattoos. In Beth Janes’s article, “Why I Rue My Tattoo,” and Stephanie Dolgoff’s piece, “Tattoo Me Again and Again,” the authors describe the different processes that they went through when deciding to get their tattoos. Both authors discuss their reasons for getting their tattoos, the designs they chose to get, and

Permanent eyeliner has always interest me, but I am too scared!  Tattoo make up is definitely a procedure that must be done by a  reputable and licensed person.  I guess my biggest fear is the "permanent" part of the deal.  Tattoo for permanent make up would be more difficult to cover up and hide if it did not meet ones expectations than a tattoo done on another area of the

Most people may think that they want a tattoo, but are scared away the the somewhat painful process. Tattoos are permanent body art created by injecting ink into the skin using any number of extremely small tipped needles that puts the ink into the body. People have wildly different pain tolerances, so there is no clear way to judge how much they will actually hurt you in particular. And different places on the body hurt more then others. Some of the most painful places to get tattoos are your hands, feet, ankles, shins and ribcage. The pain level also changes due to how large the image will be, if you were to get a small tattoo, it will seem much less painful then a large one. The colors in the ink may change how well it will stay (not fade over time) and the overall price. Tattoo prices vary depending on how large it will be and what colors are used. Also it may change due to how long it takes to

Very rarely do people go blindly into a tattoo parlor and walk out with a new tattoo, as usually they’re looking for first impressions and completed tattoos done by the artists inside the parlor

Anyone who wants a tattoo has to have a high threshold for pain. Where the tattoo is located will generally tell a person how much discomfort will be involved. Some of the body parts that cause the most discomfort for men and women are: head, neck, back and front of the knee, hands, and the wrists just to name a few. Usually the parts of the body that has more fat or muscle build up will cause the least amount of pain. This would include the: stomach, buttocks, outer arm, and the calves. No matter where you get a tattoo it will hurt, but it’s not unbearable. A major advantage of body piercing is the pain is manageable and only lasts for the first day. For most people it is just a slight stinging feeling. It is said that piercing hurts less with a gun but it is advised to use a needle for safety reasons. The only other way a piercing could case pain would be if a person got an infection. There is a risk of infection but only if a person does not care for their

There are many reasons to get a tattoo removed, and many ways to remove the tattoo. There are natural ways to remove a tattoo, surgical ways, and ways that do not work. Tattoos consist of different colors of ink injected into the skin using a set of needles in a “tattoo gun”. When tattoos do not look as expected there are two options, either to get the bad tattoo removed or to get them covered up with a bigger tattoo. Many times removal of a tattoo is associated with laser removal, but there are many other ways to remove tattoos.

What used to be the property of sailors, outlaw and rock star is now become a popular body decoration for many people. It’s not just anchors, skulls, and spider web anymore, people have found plenty ways to express themselves with their tattoo. You might be thinking to get your first one, but fear of the unknown can sometimes hold you back from it. The best thing you can do is educate yourself about the process how the human skin is transformed into a beautiful work of art.

When deciding what type of tattoo to get, a person may want to go into the shop and look around first to make sure that it is clean and safe. Make sure that they use sterilized equipment. Then one can look at his or her “flash” tattoos. These are

There is a long list of cultures that utilised tattoos as a form of decoration and communication (Swami, 2011). That said, within some western societies, that historical connection to the tattoo is not that strong. However the art of tattooing has seen a steady growth of its popularity and acceptance, and since the early 1990s, that growth has accelerated dramatically (Caplan, 2000; Cash, 2011; DeMello, 2000; Swami, 2011). The current estimated incidence of tattooing amongst the populations of North America and Europe is approximately 25 percent (Laumann & Derick, 2006; Swami, 2011), with one researcher suggesting those rates could continue to increase to as much as 40 percent of the population (Anderson, 2006).