What Tattoo Lovers Should Know About The Removal Of Tattoo?

Posted on July 29, 2008
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CO2 laser tattoo removal
It was one of the first ways of the removal of tattoo. Its effect was the analogue to burning metal: this type of the tattoo removal causes thermal burn not only on the tattoo skin area but on the tissues with 3-5 times depth more than that of the tattoo one. It leaves a scar on the tattoo area. CO2 laser is the least “aesthetical” way of the tattoo removal but at the same time the scars left after it are smaller than those did after mechanical and chemical tattoo removal ways.

What Tattoo Lovers Should Know About The Removal Of Tattoo? Rubin and erbium lasers
Erbium and Rubin lasers effects don’t damage cutaneous covering because all the emanation energy is spent on thermal dye particle decomposition which is located under the skin. Laser applying warms those particles up to the temperature of thermal decomposition after which the dye partially becomes colourless and than decomposes. There is a real disadvantage in this way of the removal of tattoo. As the skin is transparent for this emanation the red erythrocyte color is also transparent and therefore red and green tattoo colors become also transparent.
For red color removal one can try lasers working on copper steams, which are very expensive that’s why they are scarcely widespread.

Photo activation
Photo activation effect is similar to Rubin and erbium laser ones but differs from them by its photo activators light flashes emanation specter. They are one thousand times wider than those of laser emanation. Therefore the quantity of energy taken up by dye mater particle is less. That’s why one needs to do a number of photo activation tattoo removals.
This way of tattoo removal feature is in the fact that the paler becomes tattoo dye the less light energy it becomes to take up and therefore tattoo is paling after every procedure.

Mechanical grinding
The most spare mechanical tattoo removal method is grinding which is made with the help of the drill and cutter. Tattoo skin areas are grinded but this place turns into noticeable scars. The process is done with local anesthesia.

Chemical method
One puts manganese solution onto the tattoo area, than moistens it and leaves for 1-4 hours. Manganese solution corrodes the skin up to sore formation. Than one moistens the removal area with water and waits until it heels. This type of the removal of tattoo leaves the most noticeable scars. Sometimes tattoo area is punctured by milk with Streptocid solution with the help of tattoo machine. The milk, carried into the skin causes festering in 2-3 days. The skin with dye rots away. In 2-3 weeks scarring begins.

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What Are Some Curious Facts about Tattoo Art?

Posted on June 25, 2008
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Tattoo Art. Ancient traditions and new reality
Prologue (some curious facts about tattoo history)
Tattoo art appeared many years before architecture, music and fashion occurrence. Its history goes by the entire humanity history from antique Egyptian landfills to our days. Ancient nations used tattoos in religious rituals as the amulet and just as a decoration. The Greeks made codified tattoos to their spies, and the Romans stamped their slaves and criminal thereby. The tattoo doing technique and images were identical in all the countries – plant and geometrical ornament, birds and animals images. Japanese and Polynesian tattoo art played a major role in tattoo making. Up to the end of the 20th century Polynesian ornament “mocha” and Japanese dragons from ancient Japanese legends were the most popular tattoo images.

What Are Some Curious Facts about Tattoo Art? Why do the Europeans owe Cook?
In Middle Age Europe Christian Church tried to destroy tattoo traditions, having considered it as a barbarian heritage. In 1771 captain Cook brought an indigene tattooed from head to foot from New Zealand. His appearance in England caused an unprecedented stir among the English and general tattoo ardour first among seamen than among working people. Then body images fashion spread all over Europe.

Many politicians and the members of royal families decorated themselves with tattoos: The English King George I, the Dutch King Frederic, The Greek queen Olga, The British prime-minister sir Winston Churchill and others.

The enterprising Americans and rock’n’roll
By the end of the 19th century tattoo had become popular in the USA. There were opened thousands of tattoo saloons there; tattoo equipment manufacturing began to prosper. In 60s the clients of tattoo saloons became rock’n’rollers and hippies. The youth began to follow their suits.

In early 80s various conventions and tattoo festivals were held. The first convention took part in 1976 in NY and ever since it is held every year in various countries of Europe and America. There famous masters and freshmen demonstrate their tattoo art mastery, exchange experience and ideas. There you can make tattoo at a famous master who made it to the Rolling Stones or Angelina Jollie.

Modern tattoo epidemy
In the epoch of MTV and top-models, tattoo art became very popular. It has been the occurrence of the world culture: doctors and lawyers, politicians and businessmen, university professors and housewives decorate their bodies with exotic hieroglyphs, magic signs and ornaments. Their interest is stirred up by celebrities tattoo tendency: Madonna, Frank Sinatra, Jonny Depp, Bjork, Jon Bon Jovi, Julia Roberts and others.

Today we can see a real tattoo boom. One can’t define what is fashionable today. Women don’t limit themselves with roses and other flowers. Every tattoo is individual and unique.

In beauty’s service
Nowadays tattoo is made not only as a body decoration or a talisman. A so called cosmetic tattooing is a permanent coloring of lips, eyebrows and eyelids lines. Such make up doesn’t need any correction for 3-5 years and is widespread in many saloons.

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What Everybody Should Know About the History of the Tattoo Machine?

Posted on June 17, 2008
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Today millions of people decide to decorate their bodies with tattoos of different designs and different colors. Some pay much money to do the procedure at the best masters, others go to private masters to be sure that their tattoos will be unique. But a few have ever thought about tattoo machine that do such a wonder? Where does it come from? What’s the history of the tattoo mashine?

What Everybody Should Know About the History of the Tattoo Machine? History
The history of the tattoo machine is very interesting. New York tattoo master Samuel O’Rihley invented electric tattoo machine in 1891. Before everybody had practiced hand method of tattoo doing, that was very slow and painful. But the increasing tattoo demand made people to find out the most radical methods.

Once O’Rihley found the equipment called “electric pen”. Invented in 1876 By Thomas Addison the “pen” was a part of machine for copying documents and it was much in demand among businessmen of that time.

The hand machine mechanism worked on the basis of back-translation movements, the engine pushed the only needle. The non-paint machine punched out for stencil. O’Rihley upgraded the machine construction with paint tank and in 1891 he got patent. So, then the history of tattoo machine began.

Modernity
Within recent years tattoo machines haven’t changed mainly. It The only thing is that they are upgraded technically: for example now some machines have precious metals details: silver, gold and platinum.

World tattoo market varies greatly. Tattoo machines are distinguished by their prize, structure, power, vibration and noise level, needle work amplitude, needle quality and so on. But today tattoo machines can be divided into 3 main groups: rotor-type, induction and universal machines of the new generation.

Rotor-type machines
Such machines are equipped with eccentric engine. They are noiseless and practically have no vibration, rather powerful and work all-mains. These machines are ideal for beginners and to do permanent make up.

Induction machines
These are traditional tattoo-machine for a professional master. It allows him do any operations: make strokes, do shade lines, and work with thicker skin.

New generation rotor-type machines
They also do back-translation movement but have no vibration, the needle works straightly. As a result there is no pain and the skin is less damaged.
These machines have special needles that are smooth and thin. They work like “hairs” and are ideal for eyebrow tattoo.

The last tendency of the tattoo-machine market is the producing of custom-made tattoo-machines.

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What Everybody Should Know About The Celtic Tattoo Art?

Posted on June 1, 2008
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The Celtic tattoo art in spite of its todayâ€™s popularity represents the same mystery as theÂ skiff one does because of its origin misidentification.

There is a great deal of Celtic tattoo graphic elements, things from life and fairy-tales. If comparing ancient Celtic cosmogony with its natural basic and its loads of animal motifs many questions and serious discords are rising. The thing is not in alien details, but in its predominance change. A so called â€œwickerâ€ was famous all over Eurasia from the ancient times. Celtic tattoos always kept aloof due to its special â€œarborealâ€ preferences, which were developed in its unique ornaments (knots and wickerwork).

But, to consider the evolution of Celtic tattoos letâ€™s return to the subject of the Celts. Who were they? When did they live and where?

The Celts are the ancient tribes that lived in the beginning of the first millennium BC in Rhine, Siena and Loire basins and later occupied the territories of modern France, North Italy, North and West Spain, the British Isles, Czech Republic and Hungary and Bulgaria in part. The Romans called them the Gauls. The Celts mingled with indigenous tribes. In the 2nd century BC the Romans forced out the Celts from the north of Italy. Soon Caesar captured Gaul. By the middle of the 1st century BC the Celts had been conquered by the Romans and were romanized.

The Gaul and Britain conquest of Caesarâ€™s legions struck a crushing blow to the Celtic world. Hence it appears a question â€“ where do the animals in plant wickerwork come from as the Romans propagated Greek realism in art? It may be connected with the fact that a conquered part of Britain was under the control of the hired Sarmats. The inhabitants of the steppe regions Sarmats and the martial Celts mixed. The second version is that there were many Germanic and Scandinavian tribes that lived at that territory. So Scandinavian Vikings took in local customs and in a period of time added their own to the Celtic tattoos.

Further the Celtic tattoo art got a new style name â€“ Celt-roman. Slavic tribes together with Rus christening got their past modernized motifs called Byzantine style. In contrast to Indian motifs Celtic tattoos canâ€™t be considered as similar and invariable.

The popularity of Celtic images in tattoos has experienced regeneration recently. As the ancient Celts were famed by its skillful metal masters, complicated jewelry and weapon traceries their modern descendant saved the ancient symbolism in clothes, jewelry and, certainly, tattoos.

The majority of Celtic design variants were taken from the antique Irish manuscript “The Book of Kells”, which is kept at the College of the Holy Trinity in Dublin. The designs copied from stones come also from that Celtic period.

Celtic nodes usually have neither the beginning nor the end. This symbolizes the endless death and birth cycle. Celtic animal images follow the same principle though its lines can stop in head, paw and tail areas. Some nodes can be finished with spirals and zoomorphic elements.

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