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Tattooing Procedure
All societies and cultures have different tattooing
procedures. In some tribal societies they create tattoos by cutting
designs into the skin and put ink, ashes or other coloring agents into
the wounds. In other cultures tattoo are created by beating ink into the
skin using sharpened sticks or animal bones. In Japan the traditional
tattooing method is called Irezumi. In this method they make tattoos by
hand poking i.e. they insert the ink under the skin using
non-electrical, hand-made and hand held tools with needles of sharpened
bamboo or steel.
Today, the most common method of tattooing is with the electric
tattooing machines. Though tattoo machines are very popular yet they are
not used everywhere. Tattoo machines make tattooing very easy. Tattooing
machines insert ink into the skin by way of needles that are soldered
onto a bar, which is attached to an oscillating unit. The tattooing
needles go and come out of skin hundreds of times per minute. In prisons
tattooing is done with homemade machines as common tattoo machines are
not available. But the tattoos created by these handmade machines cause
pain and injury. There is also major risk of illness, including such
blood-borne diseases as HIV and hepatitis.
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