Friday, April 30, 2010

Melissa Joan Hart Tattoos

Melissa Joan Hart is a fantastic American actress, best known for her role in television shows such as Clarissa Explains It All and Sabrina the Teenage Witch.

Melissa Joan Hart has been pictured with two tattoos on her body, including small cross on the back of her neck, plus a blue butterfly just above her left breast.

There seems to be some debate as to whether the butterfly tattoo is real or fake.

Melissa Joan Hart tattoo pictures.

Female Tattoo Gallery

The most popular tattoo designs for women include butterfly tattoos, tribal tattoos, star tattoos, flower tattoos and fairy tattoos. The most popular tattoo spots for girls and woman are the lower back, wrists and feet. Old school tattoos are in vogue at the moment as well.

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Female Fairy Tattoo

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Tatto

It's not really known how long tattooing has been around but it's quite possibly as long as 12,000 years ago and we do know the ancient Egyptians practiced the art of tattooing.

One may think the art of tattooing has its history mainly with men. Not so. Women from various cultures tattooed their bodies for a variety of reasons. Take the women from Borneo. They would mark themselves to show what they were skilled at, such as weaving or a gatherer of medicinal herbs. This communicated their rank as marriage material. In western Asia, girls were marked in such a way as to show their place in society.

Tattooing has gone through its ups and downs over the centuries, has even been banned many times in different cultures for periods of time. It appears that tattooing will never really go away. During periods of a ban it seems to go underground until such time it is free to resurface.

Tattooing, (which is a Tahitian word meaning "to be marked") in some cultures, has only the women being allowed to do the markings.

Today's women are free to make their own choices in regards to tattooing. It is becoming more and more popular to have artistic designs placed just about anywhere on the body. You commonly see tattoos adorning an ankle, or husbands or boyfriends names on a forearm. Some women like to have a private tattoo for their spouse only.

maori Tattoo Designs

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In this maori tattoo design article i am going to let you know a few things about Maori Tattoo Art and what you should try not do.

This is important especially if you are looking at having a unique and great looking maori tattoo design

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There are many mistakes people make when getting traditional maori tattoo designs and i hope that by the end of this article you will avoid the most common mistakes made by most people these days.

These days with the ever growing popularity of tattoo art amongst all cultures through our increasing multi cultural society, traditional maori tattoo designs seem to be the choice of tattoo at the moment, almost like a fashion statement.

In fact traditional maori tattoo designs are some of the most popular tattoo designs around and there's a valid reason why traditional maori tattoo art is so popular in our current multi-cultural societies.

In today's world with so many tattoo artists and so many people looking to get tattoo art, you will find them going through and looking at other cultures in the hope of borrowing or worse of stealing other peoples designs to come up with their own tattoos. This can lead to artistic flair, but not so when choosing traditional maori tattoo designs .

To understand traditional maori tattoo designs you need to understand traditional maori terminology. As you know if you were learning about science or any field there will be terms associated with that particular study and so it is with traditional maori tattoo art. The ta moko is the name of the family identification of Maori that form part of the group known as whakapapa.

The reason it is important for maoris to know their family history is important especially when they were waring amongst each other over the centuries and before their arrival of the shores of new zealand.

There are still Maoris that can trace their history with these maori tattoos, some chiefs can look at a Maori tattoo design, read it like a book, they do this by feeling the texture, looking at the design and the precision that went into getting the tattoo and will be able to trace back some of these Maori family trees. There are designs that date back over a 2,000 year period in maori history, these chiefs have the skill and ability by looking at the design and are able to tell how far this tattoo dates back to or this particular design origins.

What most people don't realise when looking at a design is that they tell a story, though they look like a swirl or twirl to us, they actually tell a full story when you know how to read these tattoos.

So you have learnt about the "ta" form of the maori language now its time to introduce the "moko" part, that is the important part as it involves the chiseling of the tattoo into the skin.

So you think that getting a tattoo by today's standards is painful, well traditionally the maori made deep cuts into the skin using brutal tools and yes also the bones of albatrosses, for the maori to be able to distinguish themselves from the other tribes they used the color of the ink to tell the family history and the patterns on the skin would then allow someone to interpret the family history of these patterns.

What this would essentially do for some one, is that they would, if they were an elder be able to tell the history by looking at the design the moko and of course the patterning of the skin. There is a common misconception around the world thinking that maori tattoos in their original sense were only done on the faces, however this is not true, they were also done on peoples bodies, what this allowed them to do was distinguish their chiefs or leaders by having these markings on their faces

There are so many people copying maori tattoo designs these days, many people think there is no harm in doing this, at first sight but is it really ok to steal other cultures identities?

One should never just take words, images or symbols from the maoritanga or Maori culture without knowing what they are doing, as to the Maori this is seen as an insult, can you imagine walking around with some maoris family history? One thing not to do is to go out into the world of maori tattoo designs and just start copying any design, this could lead to a situation of stealing some maoris family tree

How would you like to know what maoris really think about other cultures and especially now the western cultures stealing their identity and culture?

The word "pakeha" might not mean anything to you as a westerner however in the maoris language it is associated with negativity, those that never ask for anything and simply take.......

..........without asking! Wouldn't you say that this sounds more like stealing someones culture? Well this is what the maori think of other people and especially the western world for taking their tattoos, they feel that not only did they loose their land but also now they are loosing their culture of tattoo designs

One thing that is annoying many traditional maoris as mentioned, is the stealing of these tattoo designs and the reason that it is annoying them, is the fact that they foresee a day when the maori will have lost everything, they believe they have lost their land, now they are loosing something that makes the maori for who they are today, and that is the maori through their tattoo designs, they feel that this is the last thing to go in terms of spirituality before they have lost all to the west, which is quite sad as all cultures on earth are only bound as a culture through their individual rituals and unique flair such as tattoos in the maoris case.

So how will this effect your decision when getting Tattoo Maori Designs?

The safest thing for anyone like you to do is to perhaps look at a few designs for inspiration but try never ever to copy the design like it is on maoris in newZealand.

The quickest way to get a traditional maori tattoo design would be to contact someone in new zealand who is in charge of a tribe or a tribal tattoo artist and ask if the design that you are looking at is not someones design already, though this might seem dumb as mentioned we have to be sensitive to a culture that has shrunk over the last 200 years, with the internet this could be done in a matter of hours Maoris are really only annoyed when you just take, they might even grant you a special maori tattoo for asking, do you want to know how many people would actually ask for a design?

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Religious Tattoos

The idea of religious tattoos may seem counterintuitive, for several reasons – not only is tattooing prohibited by some religions, such as Orthodox Judaism, but until recently, tattoos were associated with a vaguely disreputable counterculture that seems at odds with religion.

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Religious Tattoos

However, religious symbols – Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Islam or otherwise – are actually quite common tattoo designs. It might surprise you that about 25% of all tattoos in America have a religious meaning

Sarah Harding Tattoos

Sarah Harding is a charming English singer-songwriter and actress, perhaps best known as a member of the pop group, Girls Aloud.

Sarah Harding has been seen donning a few tattoos recently, including a rather large Tibetan script inked on the inner portion of her left forearm.

She has also been spotted with a new tattoo design located behind her right ear, which is a star design.

And just last year she a small tattoo on her back removed by way of laser.



Alyson Hannigan Tattoos

Alyson Hannigan is a lovely funny American actress, probably best known for her role in the movie American Pie, and the television show How I Met Your Mother.

We have spotted three tattoos on Alyson Hannigan.

Her tattoos include, two intertwined tribal dolphins on her right ankle, along with a small turtle on her left foot, and finally a Japanese kanji which represents good luck and happiness, located on her lower back.


Tatoos


Tatoos

50 Cent's Tatoo covers most part of his body and look like a work of art. He has tattoo covering his arms, back and the front region of his body. He had some of the tattoo on his right arm removed as he was keen to pursue a career in Hollywood.

He thought that the tattoo could be a hindrance to his dreams of making it big in movies as a lot of time was spent on make up to cover his tattoo and had some of the prominent ones removed.

The tattoo on the back which is more famous and which sports the signature 50 cents and Southside are still present and are part of his overall personality and one cannot imagine him without these.

For a person who had quite a troubled childhood to rise to such fame is amazing and 50 cents whose albums Get rich or Die Tryin and the Massacrre were multi platinum selling hits.

You need to have a certain personality to carry off a tattoo and 50 cent does it in style. Lot of celebrities get some part of their bodies tattooed and after a period of time removes it.

Tiger Tribal Tattoo

Cool Tribal Tattoo ideas for Men

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Cool Tribal Tattoo ideas for Men

Head Of A Scary Tattoo





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Simple Back Hand Girl Tattoo Picture




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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Bird Tattoo Designs

Bird tattoos are one of the oldest tattoo designs of the Western world. Thanks to the old school revival, they are in vogue again. Most popular are swallow tattoos, followed by phoenix tattoos.

swallow tattoo

Geri Halliwell Tattoos

Geri Halliwell is a wonderful British singer-songwriter, author and actress, best known as a member of the pop group the Spice Girls, under the nickname Ginger Spice.

Geri Halliwell has two tattoos on her body, including a star at the top of her back, just below her neck.

Her other tattoo is of a black panther and is located in the center of her lower back, however Geri Halliwell has since had this tattoo removed.



Sammy Hagar Tattoos

Sammy Hagar is a great American rock singer/guitarist, best known for his work with the rock group Van Halen and Montrose.

Sammy Hagar has two tattoos which we know of, one design on each bicep, including a circular picture of a Mexico sunset with the word "Cabo Wabo" which is the name of his club in Mexico.

The tattoo on his right bicep is rather difficult to make out clearly, however it appears to resemble a torch of some sort.


Jake Gyllenhaal Tattoos

Jake Gyllenhaal is a wonderful American actor, known for his role in such films as Donnie Darko and Jarhead.

Jake Gyllenhaal has been spotted with a couple of tattoos lately, including a Pittsburgh Steelers team helmet, and a line of old english variant letters.

However both of these tattoos are believed to be 100 percent fake.

Sakura Tattoos

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Butterfly Tattoos



Butterfly tattoos have become a growing trend among women compared to other tattoos that are available. Today you can find different kinds of butterfly tattoos being designed in a variety of colors and shapes. Adults as well as teenagers often visit stores to choose from different butterfly tattoos and get them engraved on their body. Tattoo galleries provide a variety of tattoos that might have to spend time in selecting one that suits your choice. Some of the most popular choices at the butterfly tattoo gallery are Celtic Butterfly tattoo, Tribal Butterfly Tattoo and several others. Most often the colors used for butterfly tattoos are red, yellow or green with different designs, themes and styles. There is also a combination in tattoos like with flowers or animals. There are some tattoos which act as a fashion statement while the others might have a specific meaning.

Butterfly Tattoos

Black Dragon Phoenix Tattoo

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Dragon Phoenix Tattoo

Why Tribal Tattoos?

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Natural Tribal Tattoos

Tribal Tattoos
are extremely popular and can add a distinct 'je ne sais quoi' to a person's character. The real beauty of tribal tattoos is that they don't have to be loud and obnoxious useless you want them to be, but rather subtle and stylish. It is a style that typically capitalizes on solid black lines and coloring (with some exceptions of course) and it is also composed of pointed and curved elements. It's bold and eye catching. In short, it's a pretty wicked looking style!

Tribal Tattoo, tattoo ideas

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Tribal arm Tattoo ideas

Tribal tattoos, as the name implies, originated among Native American tribes and date back to over 5,000 years. Perhaps they are so prevalent among fraternity brothers due to the fact that the tattoos were originally applied to show loyalty to a particular tribe in native lands.

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Tattoos were also used to display a person's caste status, wealth, role in the tribe, even to document his brave deeds or societal contributions. They also served a purpose when it came to traveling, tribal tattoos clearly identified a stranger as belonging to a neighboring sect and detailed what rank he held.

Later on, tattoos were used to create scenes on the body depicting battles the tribe member took place in. They were also used as memorials for loved ones who had passed away, their memory honored in the form of a soaring eagle.


Tattoos were certainly not limited to Native Americans, however. The Yokuts of California used body modification to call attention to the location of a person's supernatural power; the indigenous tribes of New Zealand, Africa, Central America and Hawaii also practiced the art of tattooing.

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