Do You Approve of Skinhead Tattoos?

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Do You Approve of Skinhead Tattoos? Getting a tattoo is rather a controversial issue. If tattoo are had to deal with inking images on the human skin only, things would be much easier and simpler, but it is symbols and their meaning that would stay with you for all your life (unless you go through a painful process of tattoo removal).

So you need to think carefully about the symbolic meaning of this or that image. Among tattoo designs you can find cute images of flowers and animals, universal symbols that stand for traits of character, feelings or depict elements of the world, yet there’re symbols that are connected with some religion, concept or even ideology. It is the latter you have to consider carefully before getting a tattoo for your beliefs may change as the life flows. Moreover, some symbols are connected with non-humane ideologies and be offensive.

It is skinhead tattoos that I’d like to talk here about. But who are skinheads themselves? It is worth mentioning that real skinheads have nothing to do with nazi ideology and come from the English mode scene. Their symbol was a laurel wreath from the Fred Perry logo.

Still, skinheads and skinhead tattoos are associated with Nazism now. And speaking about skinhead tattoos it would be more reasonable to point to the symbols used by nazi adherents of the past and the present. The majority of them are notable by the idea of violence they convey.

The most popular images for skinhead tattoos are warrior runes, Schutzstaffel, or Nazi Bolts, resembling two S letters done in an aggressive font, either black or white with a black contour, life runes mostly used by women for they can give birth to human creatures, death runes, Odin rune (not necessarily skinhead as Odin is a pagan god of Northerners), death heads, the wolf hook rune, the Three Sevens, the sun rune, the Celtic cross and so on. Various abbreviations of Nazi slogans and titles are also famous among skinheads as well as religious symbols and Christian symbols in particular as there’re a lot of believers among skinheads.

The typical skinhead tattoos are done on the back of the head, on shoulders and on the back. It’s not infrequent to see people wearing long sleeve or full skirt tattoos with skinhead symbols. But – well – I doubt that such tattoos would contribute to communication of such tattoo wearers with people around or help them find employment.