Happy Anniversary Tattooworld, I will love to share this awesome content and experience of mine to celebrate tattooworld. A tattoo to my knowledge and experience is a mark that involves a specific type of design placed or drawn on the skin to help identify or beautify the skin. I so much love tattoos and the beauty they bring to the body but religious beliefs and cultural ethics are my limitations to tattoos. tattoos are made on the body through inks, dyes, and pigment.
Tattoo in this present day is a means of body modification to help bring the beauty of the body out and make it unique in style. Growing up in a Christian home made me lose interest in tattoos because we were told that if we drew tattoos we would go to hell, This act of belief persuaded my mom, dad, and everyone around us and made them have no interest in drawing any tattoo to the body in which they believe a tattoo is a sin.
My First Experience with Tattoo
In the early century tattoo is believed to be a means of identification of workers or slaves. My first experience with tattoos was through my late grandmother. My late grandmother had three tattoo Arrows pointing to her shoulder, I remember asking her why she drew tattoos and pastor, she and everyone talked about tattoos as being evil, she then told me “This tattoo is a means of identification”, I asked how identification she then explained to me that in her early day's tattoo where used as a symbol to identify workers in a company most especially owned by foreigners, she also explained to be that when you have the tattoo you can’t steal anything from them and run away because when you get noticed the person can be killed immediately.
My late grandmother talked about slavery in her early days and that the reason why people were asked to draw permanent tattoos on their bodies is that slavery was serious in those days, and no matter what families needed to work to survive and eat because it’s not every day that is Harvest for farming.
My Opinion about tattoos
Based on my Cultural ethics and religious background tattoo is seen as a workpiece of the devil but growing up made me question so many facts and truths about these answers. During my childhood, we were made to understand and believe that tattoo is a sin and not acceptable to God and we might perish in hell. But Modernizations have made me Question facts and truth like this, I remember having a strong desire and urge to draw a particular shape on my hand, I sat down that day and kept on asking myself “Is that true, do we go to hell when we draw tattoo”, But the answer to be was it depends on the type of tattoo we draw on our body. Some people attempt to draw the devil, alien, or other scary stuff on the body just because society approves. I am not against it though, it’s a choice, but most people abuse tattoos on the body. I believe just a single or three different types of tattoo is enough on the body and if there is anything more than this it is not advisable for me.
My Best Type of Tattoo
There is this special tattoo I am craving to have on my body the tattoo of a lion and a crown, These two tattoos have always been my best tattoos as it had a specific understanding of my nature. I love lions because they are the king of the jungle and there is nowhere lions cannot adapt on land. I also love the crown because it symbolizes I am special and royal. The lion tattoo mainly symbolizes Bravery and courage, it’s a sign to the world that am brave. While the crown symbolizes, royalty, Self-confidence, power, and a lot more.
In conclusion, having a tattoo is not bad regardless of cultural and ethical beliefs or religious beliefs, but we need to avoid drawing unmeaningful tattoos and draw a meaningful tattoo that represents the nature of the type of person we are.
HAPPY ANNIVERSARYARY TATTOO WORLD
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Hello @mikechrist, welcome to the community, thank you very much for participating in our anniversary.
Questioning important decisions is for intelligent people, I congratulate you for it, for me tattoos as something that is worn on the body for life if you want, is something important and should know the reasons why we do it, but I do not question those who take it lightly or fashion. Anything that makes the soul happy is welcome.
How sad the memories of your grandmother related to the tattoo, that part brought a tear to my eye.
The lion is a beautiful animal and if you identify with its qualities you must be a very strong person.
Your post is beautiful, and if you want to opt for one of the prizes of the contest that is anchored to the community please review the post, and identify the requirements, I think you just missed to invite two people to participate. Thanks for posting on tattoo world.
Thank You @soyunasantacruz for reading my post and engaging 😊 I am sorry my sad grandmother story brought tears to your eyes, i will love to participate in the prize contests. I will go read about the requirements and follow the process now, thanks!
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I see that, you were also in my shoes. I meant, made to belief tattooing is in a sin.
I think it high time to revisit some religious belief 'cos it creating so much misconceptions.
Conversely, I think does beliefs restrained us to do some certain things,which were for the best.
Yea, exactly, a lot of misconceptions surrounds it and misunderstanding also.
I was limited in so many ways by those believe, I hope people start to discover themselves and the truth about everything
Hope so too.
A quick help to getting a lion or crown drawing: Use henna to draw and repeat every month when the old one would've washed off. 😂😂😂😂
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So you want to have lion tattoo your body. Hehe! This one na no try me signal😂
Me I want to have snake or scorpion tattoo oo 🫣🏃🏃
The design you would like to get tattooed has a strength in its meaning that would surely be a grounding wire for you and for those who see it (if you ever decide to do it).
It is sad that this art of tattooing has also been used to mark people as if they were the property of others.
Thank you for your participation in the initiative for the first anniversary of our community.
Thank You 😊
I will draw the tattoo, because I know it defines me
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