Am Back

Hello people! So sorry i haven't been writing for a while now.That is because, i have been having trouble uploading my write up... Am so happy it went through tonight and am even happier finding out you guys have been checking this page out, even when i was nowhere to be found. Thanks alot.
I hope i woudnt have to go out of circulation again ooh. Really trying to change the network i use, maybe it would help. Once small, thanks for keeping faith in me. Muaaaaah!

TATTOOS

Tattoos are becoming really trendy with 9ja celebs; Oge Okoye, Tonto Dike, Ruky Sanda, Jumobi Mofe Damijo,Paul Okoye, Seu Kuti etc and even the ordinary girl and guy next door are joining in the crave for it. Tattoos are beautiful and i love them, especially if its on a smooth flawless skin. I used to tell my self that i will surely rock a tattoo when i become older. Now, am older and i don't fancy it any more. Am writing about it today because i went to a salon to do my nails and the guy that owns the saloon was persuading me to get a tattoo. I just told him am too black and i don't think the tattoo will be visible on my skin but that's not the reason why. Truth is i now have a creepy feeling about tattoos now. I feel if i get one, i will be desecrating my body and disrespecting it, can you imagine? I feel that is a bad way of thinking about such a beautiful thing, so i decided to do a little research about tattoos. 

The word tattoo comes from the Tahitian word tattau, which means "to mark," and was first mentioned in explorer James Cook's records from his 1769 expedition to the South Pacific.
Tattoos were also found on Egyptian and Nubian mummies that date back to about 2000 B.C.

Throughout history, tattoos have always had an important role in tradition and ritual of the different people that were them.In Borneo, women tattooed their symbols on their forearm indicating their particular skill. If a woman wore a symbol indicating she was a skilled weaver, her status as prime marriageable material was increased. Tattoos around the wrist and fingers were believed to ward away illness.The Ainu people of western Asia used tattooing to show social status. Girls coming of age were marked to announce their place in society, as were the married women. It is also associated with secret cult, pagan worship, mysticism and used as a mark to distinguish criminals. 

Tattoos are created by injecting ink into a person's skin by the use an electrically powered tattoo machine that resembles (and sounds like) a dental drill.The machine moves a solid needle up and down to puncture the skin between 50 and 3,000 times per minute. The needle penetrates the skin by about a millimeter and deposits a drop of insoluble ink into the skin with each puncture.     

When you look at a person's tattoo, you're seeing the ink through the epidermis, or the outer layer of skin. The ink is actually in the dermis, which is the second layer of the skin. The cells of the dermis are far more stable than the cells of the epidermis, so the tattoo's ink will stay in place, with minor fading and dispersion, for a person's entire life. 

The process of creating a tattoo is quite painful as the tattoo artist pierces the needle into the dermis, the second layer of the skin, to get the ink inside, it is the ink in the dermis that now appears,depending on the design on the out skin layer called the epidermis.

 Health Risk

Since tattoos involve needles and blood, they carry several risks, especially when sterilization and sanitation procedures are not followed. This includes transmission of diseases like hepatitis, tuberculosis, syphilis, HIV and other infections organisms can be dropped in a person's skin.  
Well, at the end of my research, i didnot get anything to agree with my creepy, desecrating idea about tattoos, but i sure got to know its got health consequences, and even social consequences and i agree with my adult self, to forget getting one.