Fashion: Tatoo/The New AGE Culture??

Yes it is true; youngsters today are crazy about getting Tattoos. They can get tattoos nearly any and every part of their body and despite its excruciating pain tattoo is yet the most demanding fashion style. Interesting enough it not only attracts young and trendy or “cool” customers but it is also a hip for the Old people. Tattoo sees no age, no race, no culture. It has penetrated the fashion house with its expanded veins that has captured millions of heart today.

So what is a Tattoo? According to Wikipedia’s definition A tattoo, is a permanent mark made by inserting pigment into the skin for decorative or other reasons. Tattoos on humans are a type of decorative body modification. Most shockingly it is commonly used on animals for identification or branding. Tattooing has been a Eurasian practice at least since Neolithic times and has creeped into the twenty first era as a new fashion.

Tattoos are used for different purposes like to display religious symbols, mark of status or bravery, pledges of love ( which is currently the most popular approach to tattoo) and also to mark the outcasts, slaves and convicts. People chooses tattoo to symbolize their belonging to or identification with particular groups, including criminal but also a particular ethnic group or law-abiding subculture. The best example of tattoo used as Identification is done by the Jews during the Holocaust. What ever the history of tattoo was, today’s generation has created a new history into the world of cosmetics where tattoo is a means to achieve bold beauty.

There are different types of tattoos Chinese tattoo, UV tattoo, three dots tattoo, two dots tattoo, Dragon tattoo, tribal tattoo and more. Tattoos come in many variations, images and icons. Although we do not get to see quite often any Bangladeshi youth carrying tattoos on their bodies but nevertheless it is penetrating into the fashion industry like fire. Temporary Tattoos are available in the market which many boys and girls are using to display their personality on their bodies. Whatever the case is there is always risk involved in it. First of all it is permanent and removal is hardly successful, and secondly it may develop allergic reactions on your body due to ink that has been used. No matter parents may disagree with this form of fashion there will always be an attraction to the forbidden apple and that’s probably why Tattoo is the unconventional craze today.