What is tattooing- tattoo is made by inserting ink into the Dermis layer of skin. ink is made of inedible materials. tattoos was used by ancient peoples for body modification and for animals as a mark of identification.
word tattoo originated from word tattaow, tattow. word tatau was included in English and changed to tattoo in Europe.
copyrighted tattoo designs are known as" Flash" they are produced in mass and sent to artists. in japan people use word" irezumi" means insertion of ink by using hand method known as tebori.
Badasun- facial tattoos of Atayal tribe in Taiwan are known as Badasun. tattooing has a very deep history in mankind social life. oldest record found to man of tattooing is Otzi the Iceman, dating fourth to fifth millennium BC, found in Otz valley in Alps and had 57 carbon tattoos like simple dots and lines on his lower spine, behind left knee and right ankle. mummies of Amunet fron Egypt second millennium BC also had tattooing.
Tattooing in Western world originated in Polynesia and took by European sailors and then by West.
