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Thursday, January 5, 2012

79th Story : Just Like a Tattoo


Tattoo is just like a fungus in Jakarta, in everywhere even on a street way side there is a tattoo man around.

@Kota Tua, Disposable gloves are used in modern tattooing for hygiene. Modern tattoo machine in use. But I don't know its hygiene or not...


A Tattoo is made by inserting indelible ink into the dermis layer of the skin to change the pigment. Tattoos on humans are a type of body modification, and tattoos on other animals are most commonly used for identification purposes. The first written reference to the word, "tattoo" (or Samoan "Tatau") appears in the journal of Joseph Banks, the naturalist aboard Captain Cook's ship the HMS Endeavour in 1769: "I shall now mention the way they mark themselves indelibly, each of them is so marked by their humor or disposition".

Many tattoos serve as rites of passage, marks of status and rank, symbols of religious and spiritual devotion, decorations for bravery, sexual lures and marks of fertility, pledges of love, punishment, amulets and talismans, protection, and as the marks of outcasts, slaves and convicts.(Wikipedia)


A Temporary Tattoo Applied, i still don't know its hygiene or not T_T

Today, people choose to be tattooed for cosmetic, sentimental/memorial, religious, and magical reasons, and to symbolize their belonging to or identification with particular groups, including criminal gangs (see criminal tattoos) but also a particular ethnic group or law-abiding subculture. Some Māori still choose to wear intricate moko on their faces. In Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand, the yantra tattoo is used for protection against evil and to increase luck.

So that all my post today, hope you will enjoy the pict, and C U with another story of mine...