Tattoos In Today's Society

Tattooing, not a new trend or fad, but a continued tradition. Tattooing started around since the Tahitian “tatu” which means “to mark something”. The Tahitian, who are an indigenous people who live in Tahiti, used sticks with sharp bone dipped in natural made inks from berries. The stick poked in and out of the skin for hours, and the tattoos were used as representation of the person's family story. As time passed the vessel used to deliver the tattoos changed as well as the trends and meanings. Through it all tattoos remain an art form of self expression, coping with emotional and physical pain, telling your life story, and creating individuality. Using tattooing as a form of self expression differs from males to females. Females tend to …show more content…
Females usually chose a tattoo that shows their children or family members, rough times in their life, or their passions. Women commonly display their children by getting the child’s footprints or handprints tattooed. A tattoo of a portrait or a small item representing a loved one or a memory are common as a way to honor the person’s loved ones. Rough times in the customer's life are expressed by using a visual representation of what the person was dealing with. Passion tattoos are straightforward where as a tattoo showing a rough time period in that person's life are harder to decipher. A tattoo showing the person’s passion is usually the object of their passion. An example would be a woman who loves dancing could get a ballerina slipper tattooed on their body. Males tell their life story similarly to females, children’s footprints represent them and loved ones are shown by getting a portrait or an item representing them. The major difference between males and females telling a part of their life story through tattooing is males tend to get large pieces that represent their family or their passions. While females get a mixture of passions, family, and