tattoo

It is very common to hear people wanting tattoos and fixating over other peoples. Its grown very popular, but not as directly as skinny jeans or having the latest digital gadget. Its an unspoken cool. Today there aren't just the regular ink and needles it has even grown to henna tattoos. Its become so popular down at the beach and board walks to see henna places set up and tons of girls giggling around all the designs to choose which one they would like. Its an alternative to the regular tattoo. I think the other big thing about henna is that its natural dye. Its not chemically made and wont effect the body too much. I would never want to do anything to my skin that could harm it, but I do admire certain tattoos. This is because they can be seen as pieces of art. Brilliantly done and colored. I get a henna tattoo every summer when I am down at the beach. This is my limit to inking up my body. But I do realize that henna tattoos are more special then just how the kids see it. "Henna has been used to adorn young women's bodies as part of social and holiday celebrations". Brides also wear henna, it is supposed to bring luck and joy. Many traditions involve henna and we have turned it into something our culture uses to make a profit off.

Most parents today would not allow their children to get a tattoo. My friend Jacara has decided to get a tattoo when she turns 18. I think the reason behind it is because when we turn 18 we are legal adults and her mother could not argue or tell her not to get it. Or at least she wont have to listen. But she said she wants a thin circle on her wrist which represented a cycle, something never ending. It seems meaningful to her and I have noticed her attraction to them in the past but i was surprised to hear she was actually going through with it. I think when were young we want things that will make us cool and somehow in a way seem to ourselves that we own our own body. Getting a tattoo is a way in which we own our own body, we choose what to put into it. Though as those kids grow older they start to regret every getting one.

We all act in plays, putting in shadow our real life story. Perhaps tattoos are a way to show our story without actually breaking out of the role we set up for ourselves. Tattoos are usually meaningful to a person and have great significance. They want to never forget so they decide to keep it with them at all times. The only ones that I can see as a mistake are when boyfriends or girlfriends get the name of their significant other and when it turns out they were wrong for each other and break up, they're left with a constant reminder. But there are also the tattoos of lost loved ones, picture and names. These show a persons past and history. Going back to tattoos being an opening into reading someone better. I could try with Jacara's tattoo but I do not think i would get it right. Circle for forever, but why would anybody want to go in circles, following the same path over and over again? But thats probably not what she was getting at, so lets forget that.

Not only had the sailors, soldiers, and gang-members had tattoos but members of the Holocaust were also given tattoos to identify who they were. These were not as positive as others have been but tattoos have always been used worldwide and in many different cultures. Gangs use them as ways to mark what they have done like possible kills and prison sentences. In Japan the Yakuza have full body tattoos