Sanskrit Tattoos

Posted on May 22, 2011
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Sanskrit tattoos belong to so-called script or lettering tattoos, those including names, mottos, quotations and other words meaningful to a tattoo wearer. When you think about a script tat, you always have to ask yourself a question – will these words be as important to you as they are now, or will you some day regret your choice?

You may as well wish some day that these words, your mottos and life principles were hidden from a strange eye and nobody knew about you more than you allow them to. That’s why a lot of people resort to exotic languages to convey their thoughts in their tattoos. It’s an excellent possibility to stay on the safe side; moreover, the letters themselves can be unusual, and hence eye-catching and attractive.

So Sanskrit tattoos are gaining more and more popularity nowadays for Sanskrit is the mother of all languages. It descends from the Proto-Indo-European language and is as important in India as Latin and Greek in Europe. It is the language of Hindu and Buddhist sacred writings while its old form was the language of the Vedic religion.

Sanskrit tattoos are excellent for those who are interested in Oriental culture, in Hinduism and Buddhism, which is not uncommon among Westerners nowadays. These religions offer a deep philosophical concept that changes life perception from hustle and bustle and goal hunting to peace and harmony in mind and praising God that is in your heart. No wonder such a great many of people show their interest in Oriental philosophy.

At the same time, Sanskrit tattoos are often seen worn by celebrities that show an example to vast audiences. That’s why Hindu representatives in the West can get worried about the fact that people use the language just for the sake of beauty and insistently recommend to study the philosophical background of Sanskrit, to get acquainted with texts that were some day written in it (in translation, of course. )

The most famous Sanskrit tattoos are that depicting Om, the sign of the universe. Another popular tat is verses from ancient texts that become your life mottos or reveal your world outlook.

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Getting an Eye Tattoo

Posted on May 12, 2011
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Eye tattoo is something unusual within tattoo art and its techniques. The procedure is highly peculiar and includes injecting ink into the white part of your eyeball with a syringe so that the ink would spread under your eye’s cornea, which will give coloring to your eye.

The reason for getting an eye tattoo may be some kind of trauma. So the tat may hide its aftereffects. However, it’s not a mere cosmetic procedure; it is connected with high risks and complications like blindness, infection and scars, so you need to consult your doctor before deciding for the thing.

Getting a perfect eye tattoo is problematic as ink flows over the sclera and doesn’t give smooth and even coloring. Several injections are needed to make it even and nice, and it’s not always possible to calculate the right layer. The ink may even run out of the injection hole.

Getting an Eye Tattoo

On the positive side, getting an eye tattoo is practically pain-free as compared to standard tattoos done on a skin surface. There’re no nerve ending in sclera, that’s why you won’t almost any feel pain, you can only feel discomfort. But still you need to use lidocaine drops for numbering the lids before tattooing while after it you’ll have to apply antibiotic drops and a patch.

So getting an eye tattoo is extremely risky but it can help you mask any eye imperfections caused by traumas. The usual color for an eye tattoo is blue or white as well as you can have the real tattoo done on your eyeball, but that’s much more difficult.

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Do You Approve of Skinhead Tattoos?

Posted on April 27, 2011
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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.

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UV Tattoo Art: For and Against

Posted on April 19, 2011
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UV Tattoo Art: For and Against One of the latest trends in tattoo art are so called UV tattoos, the tats that are visible only under ultra-violet rays. Such tattoos are made with the help of special dyers that are added to standard paints. Sometimes pictures are done only with UV paints but it is also possible to add just an UV contour to your ink tattoos.

Let us consider all possible advantages and disadvantages of UV tattoos.

One of the main points against these tats is the possibility of their negative influence on human skin. Before officially permitted UV dyers were put to market tattoo artists had to make experiments and to learn by their own mistakes. You could hear terrifying stories about UV tattoos connected with carcinogenic substances in them, or with customers’ allergic reactions to them, and so on and so forth.

UV Tattoo Art: For and Against Such fears are quite predictable as before a substantial research into UV tattoo art was carried out the dyers were made in unreliable conditions. Now you can read a lot of advice about UV tattoos - you ought to investigate into the topic first and only them buy a dyer, you ought to bring it to a tattoo master yourself in order to avoid negative consequences.

The first person to treat the issue from a scientific point of view was Joshua Fox, a dermatologist from the US. He had to deal with the cases of allergic rash caused by such tats. It was proven that UV tattoos can cause more negative aftereffects that standard tats do. Sometimes it was due to the fact that UV dyers weren’t mixed with standard inks.

UV Tattoo Art: For and Against Nowadays UV dyers are checked by the US FDA, but still you have to be cautious when deciding for an UV tat. There exist dyers are to be used only for decorative purposes and should not be used for body art. Only the dyers that consist of 97,5% Polymethylmethacrylate and 2,5% fluorescent additives are safe for human skin.

Still, not many people decide in favor of UV tattoos. Only five people from three thousand tattoo enthusiasts are eager to have an UV tat done. In Canada, for instance, UV tattoos are still under a ban.

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