Tattooing

Having a beautiful tattoo can be great however you can easily get bored with the same tattoo for the rest of your life. Tattoo can be a seasonal thing, what happens when you get uncomfortable with the tattoo and you no longer want it on you body? It’s simple really, using a laser less tattoo removal. This was created by Dorian Davis, he has really been on the fore front in advocating for the laser less tattoo removal. As a tattoo artist he often wonders why a person would spend more for the…

Tattooing is a medium of Art through which we can express emotions, ideas, memories, etc. We can communicate to those around us our thoughts, associations, inner feelings, and creativity. Throughout history, body art and ornamentation has become a worldwide phenomenon and has played a pivotal role in our lives. “The practice of body art has roots reaching back at least 30,000 years.” (E. Schidkrout, 2004). Stone and ceramic figurines have been found in ancient graves which depict people…

Tattoos... Always are going to be a thing to talk about. Some people hate them and the other one can become addicted to them. The art of tattooing began so long ago, hundreds of years, the Egyptian age. Discovered found some momies with drawing and words in their skin. However if we keep searching in the history of the world we can notice that in almost every century and country there were a different fashion of tattoos. For example in XIX you could go to the circus and found women covered in…

Tattoos have existed for 5,200 years. The first true siting of tattoos were on three Egyptian mummies and on Iceman. Most of these tattoos were on women. These tattoos were symbols of pagan rituals. Ancient tattoos usually had some spiritual meaning which was shown through a complex work of patterns. Although tattoos have been popular and are gaining even more popularity, they are not the best for anyone. Tattoos are harmful for human health. They contain traces of metals that could lead to…

The act of branding can have devastating mental effects, yet why is there nothing been done about it? By including this as a part of an international law could greatly reduce the use of such unethical methods of punishment. To summarize, branding/tattooing another individual without their consent is another similarity between slavery in the past, and human trafficking and it should be included as an international…

“Tattoos and piercings ruin your true beauty! The human body was not made for more holes and protruding metal. Do you even realize or think about how those will look when you’re older? You want to work in that kind of industry? That occupation is nothing but an absolute dead end.” Some pessimists may have this opinion in the matter of their beliefs toward the tattoo industry. In general, it is known the body modification industry is not favorable, but is not illegal and still present evidently.…

Nearly all ancient societies practiced body modification through either piercingss or tattoos. These ancient practices are becoming ever more present in our modern Canadian society, especially tattoos. One writer says, “Permanent tattooing is the process of body modification by deposition of a pigment into the dermis” (Simunovic and Shinohara 525). In the past three decades, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has become increasingly popular in the medical field. Magnetic resonance imaging is a…

You can always find senior Art major Diana Ostiguy in a very unique place: through the doors of Antone, down the main hallway, up the back staircase, and into a well lit, shared art studio on the top floor. Entering the studio, makeshift walls separate individual studio spaces that contain desks and easels. Ostiguy’s studio space, tucked away in a corner, is where you can find her, hunched over her desk, sketching out ideas on paper with the help from a single light above her. Peering over her…

During teenage years, teenagers start to think about piercing and tattoos and what they want to do with their body. I remember when I was in high school, many friends of mine got piercings. When I was I believe 15 or 16 years old, I wanted to get my belly pierced. The day I went, the person at the piercing parlor tells me that he needed to see my ID. Of course I'm confused because I didn't know why all of sudden he needed to see identification. I learned that day that all piercing parlors in New…

In most workplaces one must cover tattoos, Disney bans tattoos from their theme park employees’ skin, and in Japan, it is illegal to go to public baths with tattoos. In this country, tattooing was illegal in various states well into the 20th century. In one extreme example, New York City only recently lifted their ban on tattoos in 1997 which police were heavily enforcing. In some ways, tattoos are also inherently rebellious to systems…