TATTOOS
BODY ART Body art is art made on, with, or consisting of, the human body. The most common forms of body art are tattoos and body piercings , but other types include scarification , branding , scalpel ling , shaping (for example tight-lacing of corsets ), full body tattoo and body painting . In the past few years I have wanted a tattoo mo than anything… but once I think about the pain that I would feel I let go of the arge. Tattooing has been practiced for centuries in many cultures spread throughout the world. A tattoo is a form of body modification , made by inserting indelible ink into the dermis layer of the skin to change the pigment. The first written reference to the word, "tattoo" (or Samoan "Tatau") appears in the journal of Joseph Banks, the naturalist aboard Captain Co...