By: Xie Zheng and Mike Kelley

First introduced during the Neolithic period around the fifth millennium BC.Began as carbon tattoos in the form of simple shapes such as dots and lines.Thought of as a form of healing.

Northern European tribes were often tattooed with dark blue copper designs.Japanese tattoos originated over 10,000 years ago and were commonly rubbing cuts, wounds with ashes and pricking skin.

Western tattoos originated in Polynesia.Tattoos were discovered by 18th century explorers. Explorers would get tattoos before travelling to the new western world.

George Orwell stated that miners would receive wounds from working, these would be classified as tattoos.Any tattoo that is received by a wound or trauma that is permanent.

Tattoos that are used as a right of passage, ranking or religious symbols.Commonly used in tribes in the Philippines because they also believe tattoos provide medical qualities.Often reflects the bearers accomplishments in life.

Often performed using modern tattooing machines.Done for many reasons including cosmetic, sentimental, religious, or magical reasons.Often represents the belonging to a certain group or organization.

Includes permanent makeup and changing skin colors.Makeup procedures are intended to improve eyebrows, lips, eyes, and occasionally moles.The tattoo is intended to replicate temporary makeup.

Are intended for functional use only.Often used to ensure that instruments are properly located during treatments.Tattoos can often reflect the medical condition of the patient, including their blood type.

In Japan, tattoos are always associated with crime organizations such as the yakuza.In the United States many prisoners and criminals use tattoos to indicate facts about their criminal behavior, such as how many people he or she killed.

Financial Risk. Body art is expensive. An average tattoo studio charges almost $100 per hour.Health risk. Tattoos use black inks which are made of toxic metal dyes, this may cause skin cancer and melanoma.

By using laser treatments.The expense and pain of removing tattoos will actually be larger than the expense and pain of accepting them.Consider comprehensively before you try to get a tattoo.

Temporary tattoos are popular among children. And it can just last for few days or several weeks.The most common style of a temporary tattoo is similar to a decal.Henna tattoos and silver nitrate can take up to two weeks to fade from the skin when they are exposed to ultraviolet light. However, both of them are toxic.