Tattoos

Well! I got to confess it! I am a maniac! Look at it! Isn't it beautiful? Isn't it great? 

Tattooing has been a Euroasian practice at least since Neolithic times. 

The word "tattoo" was brought to Europe by the explorer James Cook, when he returned in 1771 from his first voyage to Tahiti & New Zeland. In his narrative of the voyage he refers to a technique called "tattaw". 

Before this it had been described as sccarring, painting or staining.

Tattooing has been practised for centuries in many cultures, mainly in Asia and spread thoughout the world.

Some tribal cultures traditionally created tattoos by cutting designs into the skin and filling the resulting wound with ink. Some of them continue this practice even today. Some others use sharpened sticks or animal bones  or teeth (e.g. shark 's teeth) in order to put the ink into the skin.

Today the most common method of tattooing is the electric tattoo machine, which inserts ink into the skin via a single needle or a group of needles.

Early tattoo inks were obtained directly from nature. For example in ancient Hawaii kukui nut ash was blended with coconut oil to produse an ebony ink! Today an almost unlimited number of colors and shades of tattoo ink are mass-prodused and sold to parlors worldwide. 

Either way they are marvelous and special for each one. Some people deside to have a tattoo that means something about them. It's like they scar a hiden secret on their body! Some others have a tattoo just to have one (or more).

I'll come back on this subject as soon as i have my next tattoo!!!