Tattooing

PROCESS OF TATTOOING This essay will explore the history of tattooing as well as the modern techniques of tattooing. 5 types of tattoos: •Medical tattoos •Traumatic tattoos •Professional tattoos •Cosmetic tattoos •Amateur tattoos Have you ever wondered why you have heard of tattoos hurting or experienced the tattoo process? Have you ever wondered how or why tattooing began? Well in this essay I hope to get you these answers and more. My Reasoning After 11 years as a Tattoo Artist I decided to

Camari Michael Mrs. Lambert English III 19 October 2016 Global Tattoo Methods Throughout history, people have used, invented, and modified ways of permanently inking the skin. Tattooing is believed to have begun in the Neolithic Era, also known as the New Stone Age, which was between 4,500 and 2000 B.C. The very first tattoo discovered was on a mummy located in South America. There are four main methods sued globally in order to create tattoo, though there are many more that aren't generally

featured in magazines such as Inked, it is rare to see any working in shops as artists. Since the rise of tattooing as prominent industry in the mid twentieth century, it has almost always been a male dominant field. With the progressive nature of modern society, the tattoo industry can become more inclusive of female artists if they can be respected more as being serious and talented. The tattooing field today is extremely exclusive and difficult to break into, as well as being highly male dominated

Tattooing has been practiced across the world since at least Neolithic times, as evidenced by mummified preserved skin, and ancient art. Ancient art finds of possible tattooing tools suggest tattooing was practiced by the Upper Paleolithic period in Europe. However, direct evidence for tattooing on mummified human skin extends only to the 4th mulleneium BC. The oldest discovery of tattooed human skin to date is found on the body of Ötzi the Iceman, dating to between 3370 and 3100 BC. Other tattooed

What is tattooing? 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) Tattooing is not just a recent fad. Tattooing has been around for a very long time. "The current first proven incident of a tattoo

In the article Tattooing:Mind, Body and Spirt: The Inner Essence of the Art, it discusses how body art has been around for thousands of years and throughout the years there have been many different forms of body art. It goes into detail with how people get body art for many different reasons. Going further into why the reason are based depending on the time period and the culture. In some cultures body art could symbolize the expression of individuality, depiction of rebellion, definition of group

7, 2017 Tattooing in Samoa Introduction: why does this matter? Origin story and meaning The Samoans are an ethnic group that reside in Oceania, on the islands of Samoa, in an area of Polynesia. Samoa has been occupied by these indigenous people for about 3000 years, when they came from the west, occupying the islands of Fiji and Tonga around the same time (Barnes and Hunt 2005, 243). They carry many traditions with their culture, however, I will be discussing their tradition of tattooing. Tattooing

Bodily piercing and tattooing are regarded to some as art or adornment, to others, a purposeful religious sentiment. Many individuals fail to entirely consider the fulminant risks associated with penetrating subcutaneous tissue with foreign bodies. The human body is composed of complex systems and mechanisms, which interact in order to maintain homeostasis. When deviancy disrupts the bodily chemical reactions, the internal processes operating to uphold optimal living conditions will be altered.

therapeutic or medicinal purpose. Examining of the scars leaves no doubt that they were not just ornaments. “They were an established treatment for a condition of the pelvis, possibly being chronic pelvic peritonitis” (Tattoos). The process of tattooing involves the placement of pigment into the skin’s dermis. After the beginning injection, pigment is dispersed throughout a homogenized damaged layer down through the epidermis and upper dermis (Tattoos). In which both activate the immune system’s

Westerners, tattooing became a widespread American practice. Margo DeMello, a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology, declares, "Tattooing…is as American as baseball, Mom, and apple pie ." Tattooing did not originate in America, but styles and technology originating in America have significantly shaped the modern, global tattoo scene. O'Reilly's tattoo machine brought tattooing to the main stage of the American consciousness by making tattoos available to the masses. His machine made tattooing faster and