Tattoos enjoy high popularity for many thousands of years. Besides they are chosen for themselves not only by the young people aiming to emphasize the identity but also adult men and women who have more serious reasons for such decision.
Tattoos and current trends
Representatives of many youth currents choose as decoration of tattoo. The main objective which people pursue in such cases is self-expression. The aspiration to show the singularity, independence, attempts to be allocated in crowd are characteristic of youth.
Quite often guys and girls just aim to imitate the idols, to emphasize the musical preferences, outlooks on life, features of character by means of tattoos. All this can be carried to the aspiration to be allocated.
It can seem strange at first sight, however now tattoos are quite often done by people vulnerable, too emotional, preferring loneliness. For them symbolical images become the peculiar barrier protecting from the outside world. In such cases of tattoo can become also reminder on important events in life and painful experience, peculiar removal of sincere scars at skin. Many tattoos of Angelina Jolie have been executed quite so.
For some people the availability of tattoo can also become manifestation of peculiar revolt against system. It is first of all about criminals whose headdresses can mean their pride of the offenses, unwillingness to improve and even aspiration to extermination of law enforcement officers. Tattoo in such cases can become confirmation of the status of the person also: on his body it is possible to determine a lot of things by the image if the nobility as it is correct to decipher.
Why people do tattoos
The tattoo can be done in case it is necessary to hide any defects of skin. It is about scars, extensions, birthmarks and so forth. Unfortunately, sometimes completely it is impossible to get rid of defect even by means of plastic surgery, or it turns out that operation costs very much. By means of tattoo it is possible to disguise problem sites of skin.
Quite often women hide the scar on stomach which has remained after Cesarean section by means of tattoo. It is remarkable way to quickly return beauty of skin and even to make image more sexual and bright.
It is possible to make tattoo and in case the charm which will always be with it is necessary for the person. Apply runes, hieroglyphs, symbolical images to skin. Such tradition was used more than century ago and has remained still. Tattoos can be symbol of protection, force, endurance, good luck, love, fidelity.