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A tattoo is an adornment for the skin. Tattoo is a kind of design or motif which is designed on the fore skin in such a way that it looks attractive and elegant. Though tattoos are mistaken to be of permanent as well as temporary kinds but it is not so in the actual case, because a tattoo is a permanent mark or design which is made on the skin by insertion of inks of various colors into the skin in order to change the pigment for fashion, decoration and for other reasons. Tattoos on the skin of human beings are a kind of decorative body alteration, whereas tattoos on animals are usually used as an identification mark. Tattooing has always been practiced all over the world. The indigenous people of Japan which are known as Ainu have always been wearing tattoos as a traditional mark on their faces. Today the Maori people of New Zealand and the Berbers of Tamazgha can be easily seen wearing facial tattoos. Tattooing was prevalent among the people of Polynesia and among some tribal groups of Philippines, Mentawai islands, Borneo, Africa, South America, North America, Europe, Mesoamerica, Cambodia, Japan, China and New Zealand. The art of tattooing has always been popular around the world despite the taboos surrounding it. |
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