Although tattoos are mainstream nowadays, and possibly most people have one or two, there are some facts about tattoos that are super interesting and most people don’t know about it.
The tattoo artist sprays ink under the surface of the eye with a needle. This colors the sclera, also known as the white part of the eye.
Yair Shimansky, jeweler from Cape Town, South Africa designed the world’s most expensive tattoo on a South African supermodel. Although not being a real tattoo, it’s considered the most expensive tattoo ever created.
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Ötzi was a mummy found on a glacier in the Italian Alps. The iceman happens to be the oldest – 3270 BC- evidence to date of tattoos -61!-.
New Zealanders are the most tattooed people in the world. This is mostly due to the island’s Māori, who still get traditional Polynesian tattoos.
In 1846, Martin Hildebrandt, an immigrant from Germany, set up the first tattoo shop ever in New York. A few years later, the first electric tattoo machine was patented – based on Thomas Edison’s invention, the perforating pen.
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A British man named Jack Reynolds got his first tattoo when he was 104. He currently holds the title of oldest person getting a tattoo for the first time.
If you are fascinated by or like the idea of human tattoo canvases being displayed as art you can actually donate your skin to a museum when you die. A man named Geoff Ostling is doing just that and giving his floral-patterned body to the National Museum of Australia upon his death.
We all know that Russia is a pretty rough place, but did you know that Russian prisoners sometimes made ink out of urine mixed with soot when they couldn’t find anything else?
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The Roman emperor Caligula punished people with tattoos. We can assume that get a tattoo in ancient Rome wasn’t a walk in the park, so these people endured a lot of pain for no good reason.
In 2008, Mattel did a collaboration with Harley Davidson, where Barbie had a big pair of wings tattooed on her back. Later in 2009 the Totally Stylin’ Tattoos Barbie was released, where the infamous doll came with tattoo stickers.
For women who have undergone breast reconstruction after cancer, there is an incredibly effective way to make a fake nipple. Specialized tattoo artists can create a hyperrealistic nipple in 3D, made entirely of ink.
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Lucky Diamond Rich, native from New Zealand, is currently the most tattooed person in the world. It’s estimated that Lucky has spent more than 1.000 hours under the needle, covering places like his eyelids, the upper part of the ear canals and even his gums!
Their tattoos worked similar to an ID, passport or resume, except that it was printed on their face, usually around the mouth and nose.
In general, the most sensitive areas on the body are also the areas that are most painful to get tattooed on. This includes places with many nerve endings such as the face, hands, genitals, neck and nipples. Areas where there are bones with little or no fat around are also the most painful, such as wrists, ankles, feet, collarbones, ribs and elbows.
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When injecting ink into the skin, the needles attached to the machine moving up and down can vibrate from 50 to 3.000 times per minute.
Contrary to common belief, black ink (along with dark green) is easier to remove that lighter colors like yellow or purple. The reason is that different dyes respond to different light wavelengths.
After getting tattooed, the outer layer of the skin typically takes 2-3 weeks to heal. However, the layer underneath can take up to 6 months to fully bounce back to normal.
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