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Tattooing — fashion or art?
Tattoos are no longer associated with primitive tribes, sailors, social margins or criminals. Although their implementation is associated with pain and can be harmful to health, currently this custom is experiencing a renaissance, and body decoration has become an art.
Is the tattoo an expression of expression? Or maybe it is a sign of vanity or a momentary whim, following the fashion that can be changeable? Nowadays the demand for tattoos is created by stars, athletes and celebrities such as Angelina Jolie, David Beckham or Brad Pitt. But also Cher, Sean Connery, Whoopi Goldberg, Gerard Depardieu have tattoos. What about movie and stage stars! It is said that Albert Einstein himself had a tattoo, and King Frederick IX of Denmark had several — on his torso and arms. However, the real range of colors and patterns can be seen in MMA fighters and boxers, decorating their muscular bodies for the same purpose as warriors did in the past — to show that they are dangerous, strong and dangerous.
Whatever the motive behind getting a tattoo — to stand out from the crowd, to give oneself confidence, to leave an important date or name on the body as an emotional message — in Europe, such body adornment is not a…
