Body Art

Most people love art and have different way to express their creativity whether by portrait painting, dancing, or even by singging. Now, most people love to express their feeling, thought, moment of their life, and even portrait of someone that they love through doing body art such as tattoo and scarification.

Tattoo

Meaning
Tattooing has been practiced worldwide.Tattoo is a marking made by inserting ink into the layers of skin to change the pigment for decorative or other reasons. Tattoos on humans are a type of decorative body modification while tattoos on animals are most commonly used for identification or branding.

History
Tattooing has been a Eurasian practice at least since around neolithic times. Otzi the iceman, dating from the fourth to fifth millennium BC, was found in the Otz valley in Alps and had approximately 57 carbon tattoos consisting of simple dots and lines on his lower spine, behind his left knee, and on his right ankle.

Pre-christian Germanic, celtic and other central and nothern European tribes were often heavily tattoed, acording to surviving acounts. Various other cultures have had their own tatto traditions, ranging from rubing cuts and other wound with ashes, to hand-pricking the skin to insert dyes.

Purposes

• Decorative and spiritual uses
• Identification
• Cosmetic
• Medical

ear tattoo

Negative Association

In Japan, tattoos are strongly associated with yakuza, particulary full body tattoos done the traditional Japanese way (tebori). Some of the place in Japan often openly ban those who has bearing tattoes in attempt to prevent yakuza from entering the place.

While in United States, many prisoners use distintictive tatoos to indicates facts about their criminal records. A tear tattoo can symbolize murder, with each tear symbolize the death of a friend.

that's must be really hurt!

Procedure

Tattooing involves the placement of pigment into the skin's dermis, the layer of dermal tissue underlying the epidermis. After initial injection, pigment is dispersed throughout homogenized damaged layer down through the epidermis and upper dermis, in both which the presence of foreign material activates the immune system's phagocytes to engulf the pigment particles. As healing proceeds, the damages epidermis flakes away(eliminating surface pigment) while deeper in the skin granulation tissues forms, which is later converted to connective tissue by collagen growth.

This mends the upper dermis, where pigment remains trapped within fibroblasts, ultimately concentrating in a layer just below the dermis/epidermis boundary. Its presence there is stable,
but in the long term(decades) the pigment tends to migrate deeper into the dermis, accounting for the degraded detail of old tattoos. (Ouch! why do people willing to have tattoo?*sigh)

injection procedure

Scarification

Cutting in single line produces relatively thin scars, and skin removal is a way to get a larger area of scar tissue. The outlines of the area of skin to be removed will be cut, and then the skin to be removed will be peeled away. Scars from this method often have an inconsistent texture.But, when the skin is healed from the cutting the result will become more beautiful.

koi scarification

fern scarification (after the healing)

bamboo scarification

Having tattoo and scarification is very big responsible because you have to take care of it until your skin is fully recover from the injection and scarification (skin peeling). Tattoo studio also must be very hygienic with the surrounding environment to prevent infection after tattooing and scarification(skin peeling). Tattoo maker should sterilized their equipment before tattooing other people. Tattooing and scarification maybe very painful form of an art but most people said that "Beauty is pain"!