Choosing A Tattoo Design That Fits Your Personality

So you want a tattoo - not sure what type of tattoo or design to go for, well below please find some information on the more popular types of tattoo. But please bear in mind before you take this step, that tattoos are permanent and placing one on your body shouldn't be taken lightly, something that seems cool at the time, may not years down the track.

Some of the types of designs you can choose from would be celtic designs, tribal designs, octopus designs or Kanji designs (Japanese), just to name a few and of which I will go into more details in this article.

With Tribal designs you have to be very careful not of offend anyone as tribal tattoos generally are used to identify tribes, clans and families. It was intended to allow someone to find his or her tribe and not any one individual in particular. The great thing about these tattoos is that they come from designs created by the ancient civilisations, first imprinted by accident by playing around with fire and burnt sticks. So these tattoos have a lot of meaning from history and have been around for a very long time. Early tribal tattoos were pictures created to honor their gods i.e. flames to honor the sun god.

Tribal tattoos are the most common tattoo and come in a great range of designs. They depict native cultures of the past to up to date graphic designs.

How To Get Rid Of Tattoos, Planet Ocean

Many people have tattoos and eventually people want to get them removed. Laser tattoo removal is a way to get rid of tattoos. Other options such as intense pulsed light therapy and over the counter creams are also available. Many people try these options first because they are less painful. Laser tattoo removal has been proven to be the most effective. Anyone can benefit from laser tattoo removal simply because removal techniques can be suited to treat each case. Doctors try to suit the removal process for the individual in order to reduce scarring. In some cases patients that were treated previously and experienced scarring because of it can also be candidates for laser tattoo removal.

Laser tattoo removal works by breaking up the pigments of color in a tattoo. The high intensity light beam is put over the tattoo and it is slowly removed. During laser surgery there are certain thing to generally expect. Although treatment varies from person to person here are the normal occurrences that happen during laser tattoo removal:

-Protective eye shields are used to protect the doctor and patient.
-A test is done to see if the patients skin reacts correctly to the laser.
-Laser tattoo removal is done by placing a hand piece onto the skin and activating the laser.
-An ice pack is applied to the area immediately after treatment followed by a topical antibiotic cream and a covering will be applied to protect the skin.

Like any procedure there are factors that decide whether or not the treatment is effective or not. The age of the tattoo as well as the size, colors and the patients skin color also decides on whether treatment is effective. Larger tattoo will take longer to remove. Black is also the easiest color to remove. Brighter colors require several treatments.