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Tattoos have been around the world for many years. It is a very old form of body and has continued to be practised all around the world. It has became a fashion trend and mark of gaining a certain kind of authority to have a permanent mark drawn onto your skin. Britain is well known for its tattoo design using various advanced tattoo supplies and demonstrating a passion for indelible ink art. Another trend is the conventional ink tattoo art.

Henna, known as Mendhi in the South East Asian regions, is a tradition used for a temporary coloring of various designs on the skin, mainly hands and feet. Henna is existing since centuries and incorporates the use of the mendhi plant leaf that is grinded down and mixed into a paste. The application differs from normal tattoo supplies as the color is topically applied to the skin using a cone, sticks or a paintbrush. A temporary coloring varying from orange to a deep red dye on the skin is the result. It will last only between a week and 6 weeks depending on how potent the product is.

Over the time the tatoo supplies have changed with the first electronic tattoo needle invented in Amarica that consisted of multiple needles moving in circular motions. That way the tattooist was able to control the needle depth into the skin. Henna is a topical product and therefore does not need special tools to leave its traces of color. But both have rarely caused long term problems or allergic reactions.

Tattoo history

It is believed that tattoo ink body art originated from the Eurasian region sind the Neolithic period. Otzi the iceman whose remains where found in the Otzi Valley in the Alps is an example of early tattoo art. He lived in the time of the fourth millenium BC and had 57 carbon tattoos consisting of mainly lines and dots on his lower spine, knee and ankle. Ritualistic and culture practisesof that time could have made those findings possible and even today in some regions tattoo art is practised for religious and cultural traditions.

The Egyptians also used tattoo art during the construction of the pyramids. With the expansion of the Egypt empire the art of tattooing spread across Greece, Persia, Crete and Arabia. Henna art is believed to be as old as tattooing but it is still not known where the art derives from. Speculations say that it may have derived from India around the 12th century AD.

Due to the early use on prisoners, gangs and criminals tattoing has gained a negative reputation. The true meaning of being an ancient form of body art was lost as the essence of tattooing. However, Henna has been widely known in the West as Henna-tattoo and its usage in ancient cultural and religious practises. Today our culture of body has transformed into the perspective of cosmetics but tattoos will always continue to exist as a form of a permanent branding art on the body.