Face tattoos were first in Japan

Archaeologist believe that the first settlers in Japan, the Ainu people, were tattooed in the face. In Japanese sepulchres, Haniwai has been found, small clay figures with face tattoos, presumably aimed for social rank and to keep evil spirits away. Later face tattoos were used to punish criminals.

Basic forms of body scratching are found in all indigenous cultures. Brands, which expresses a symbolic link between the individual and the cultural community and, therefore, often involving the name. Maybe the names, as Karl Young says in his essay on tagging, played an important role in the development of the language. "Tattoos was probably one of the earliest forms of visual poetry and the body the original basis for the book."

The girl from CherryVegas Flickr series Tokyo Streets is a living graffiti wall. Her face is painted with the old Japanese text, linked to her family and their names. A female counterpart to the Chinese bodyartperfomer Zhang Huans script ritual. The whole face is complete aesthetic composed: it all at once blurred and distinct calligraphy works with the graphics, asymmetric hair, the artificial, crooked placed eyebrows and the ink around the mouth. It shows the tension between the blurred and the permanent, between volatility and a sense of belonging to the Japanese tradition.

Many writers have used the tattoo as a metaphor for the relationship between something that at the same time is permanent and blurred. This duality is the landscape of graffiti artists.

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I was searchin’ around the net today and stumbled upon this insane facial tattoo. I never know what to make of facial tattoos; to get one, you either need to have obscenely massive balls matched with an equally massive FTW attitude, or you are just sadly misguided and/or mentally unstable. I’m surprised he found someone willing to do it for him! I hope to hell he’s in a rock band or something…

Rouslan Toumaniantz and Kimberley Vlaminck face tattoo

An adolescent girl is take legal action of tattoo artist for £10,00056. 18-year-old Kimberley Vlaminck paid £55 for 'the graffiti that has bankrupt my life' in her Belgian home municipality of Courtrai. She maintains the Romanian tattooist who carries out the artwork misunderstand her French and English. after she supposedly asked him for three stars on her face, however ended up with

She maintains she fell sleeping while he was doing his work. In addition, awoke to 'this nightmare'. However today, Rouslan Toumaniantz - himself enclosed from top to foot in tattoos and piercings and said he would assist pay for action to take out the tattoos.

However, be that as it may: Kimberley is not happy and it is not my desire to have a displeased customer. There is a way to take out the tattoos with the aid of a laser. He believes to pay for half the price.'

Rouslan maintain Kimberley was joyful with the work during she left his shop in Coutrai however distorted her brain when her father saw the stars. She is 18 years old, she is a mature,' he said. 'He does not be sorry it.

In Courtrai, Rouslan Toumaniantz's tattoo parlor Belgium, where Kimberley's face was tattooed. According to Kimberley, ‘He cannot go out on to the street, He was so uncomfortable.

To take out these stars would need operation costing £8,500. Rouslan, who runs the tattoo parlour know as The Tattoo Box in Courtrai, said Kimberley was up and really looked in the reflect some times for the period of the process to see how it was done.

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