Mike Tyson has it and everybody got to see just how cool his face tattoo looked in the first installment of The Hangover. While that doesn’t necessarily mean that the age of face tattoos has truly arrived, it also means that seeing someone with a face tattoo may not be that extraordinary an experience as it may sound. So why do people get tattoos on their faces? Let’s try to find some explanations for it.
Tattoos in Chinese lettering have got to be the second most popular form of tattoos after the ones that use heart imagery. But what remains a mystery to most people is why someone who doesn’t even speak Chinese would get a tattoo in the language. We try to decipher the mindset that prompts people to get tattoos in Chinese.
The motivations behind why people get a tattoo can inspire many a book but for the average tattoo getter, the reasons behind getting a tattoo are often emotional ones. Even though most tattoo artists agree that younger tattoo getters often get inked for nothing more than vanity, they still concede that they still get plenty of requests for tattoos that are unique in meaning and have a very deep, personal meaning behind them. Here are some of the key reasons for getting a tattoo.
Tattooing has been an old practice in many cultures, especially in Asia and Africa, and spread throughout the world. Though it is difficult to unearth the origin of tattoos, but tattooing has been a Eurasian practice at least since Neolithic times. Earlier tattoos were inscribed to depict social and cultures values of different tribes or societies, but over the period tattooing has experienced resurgence in popularity, which has now become a fashion or style statement in different parts of the world. Nowadays, tattoos are painful, permanent and expensive; still they are becoming popular as a fashion trend among masses. If you ask people why they went under the needle, you’ll get as varied reasons, some logical and other silly, as there are individuals. Following are some of the most common reasons for engraving tattoos.