Well the frenzy of blog posting has gone down in my friend-commuity. I don't know if this makes me sad that not as many of the awesome writers I know are posting or happy that I have time to write my own. A little of both I guess.
So I should probably give a point to this blog...hmm. Okay, Let's talk about tattoos. There's a multitude of reasons, number one being that it's what I thought of first.
No one really knows what made people start doing this, we don't even know when. However we're pretty certin that it's been around since before people started recording history. Otzi the Iceman, the most well preserved natural mummy ever found even has tattoos. 57 of them to be exact. No, it wasn't a dragon or a heart that said "Mom" on it, they were dots and lines found on the backs of his knees and ankles. (Perhaps it was fashionable?)
Tattoos can be of litterally anything. As long as you have the tatoo gun, pigmant and artist (depending on what and where your getting you might not even need that) and you can do pretty much whatever you want! How people react to it...is another thing entierly.
Many people believe that tattoos are evil, or something God will punish you for. (Personally, I think that's incorrect, see Isaiah 46:16) Some think that it's something only criminals wear, be it a gang tatoo or a identification marker, such as those in Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust wore. Along withe the the above mentioned, many find it difficult to get a job with tattoos that show, and many have to remove them with skin grafts, plastic surgery, lazer surgery or dermabrasion before they're able to move up in there job.
So, after readin this far I bet your just about to hope out of your seat and get (what you think says) "Strength" in an Asian dialect (when in reality it means "Chicken") on your forhead, but before you do, there's some physical risk involved.
The process of getting a tattoo can be pretty long and painful, after all your inserting little drops of pigment that's breaking the skin at about 80 to 150 times a second. On top of that, because your opening your skin it's possible to get an infection, just like any open wound. Sometimes people have allergic reactions to the ink once the tattoo is complete, resulting in hives or itching. Sounds great!
No, don't worry. I know that whenever anyone looks into tattooing (as I have myself) the first thing you see is all of the health warnings and how your going to never get a job, and if you have a tattoos you'lll end up as a 50 year old hooker with herpes or something, which isn't true.
As with any big life altering choice (going to collage, buying a house, getting married) getting a tattoo is something that should be considered carefully. Most people arn't going to want a permanent mark on there body to remind them of a failed ralationship. So when chooseing a design, go for something that really means something to you personally. Now what qualifies as important to you might be stupid to someone else. However just because your tattoo isn't a large portrait of you dead granfathers face on your forarm doesn't mean it's not important. If you feel your reasons to get that butterfly on your ankle are strong enough and your will to live with it, go for it.
Okay. Lots of facts, a few opinions. I'm great at puking information on my readers! To sumerize- Like everything in life, there's at least a little risk. If your willing to deal with the pain, and take care of it, keepong in mind that this mark will be with you forever and ever, what's holding you back? I guess it's pretty obvious were I stand on the "Should I get a tattoo?" debaucle.
-Nanu
(Info compiled here can be found on American acadamy of Dermatoligy, The Encyclopedia Britannica, eMedicine, The Mayo Clinic,
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