What Are Tatoo Designs

A tattoo is a permanent mark made with ink on the skin. Using a needle, which acts like a pen and is inserted into layers of skin, various shapes and sizes are designed on the body for religious or decorative reasons. Tattoo designs are decorative shapes drawn on a person's body with the use of dyes and pigments. Tattoo designs are a part of tradition among indigenous people all over the world including Ainu, people of Japan, Berbers of Tamazgha in North Africa along with Maori of New Zealand. These traditional tattoo designs are drawn mainly on face.

Tattoo designs were part of passage of rites or they were marks of rank and status among indigenous people. In some regions, they were symbols of spiritual devotion and religion, marks of fertility, decorations for bravery, pledges of love or punishment, protection, amulets and talismans and as marks of slaves, outcasts and convicts. The impact and symbolism of tattoo designs varies in different cultures and places even today. In today's world, tattoo designs are part of fashion and people decorate their bodies to show attitude and as a sign to prove something.