What To Know Before Getting Body Tattoos

Men and women all over the world easily copy habits and styles of celebrities including body tattooing. We should however remember that permanent tattoos would be with us forever. As such, it becomes important to ensure that tattoos must be looking good as well as well placed on appropriate parts of body.  Tattoo is a symbolic representation of your personality and has its hidden meanings as well.

Side Effects of Tattoos
In spite of all these facts tattoo lovers must know the negative impact of tattoos on skin health.  Tattoos are designed by piercing the skin with needle and injecting ink of different color in small amounts. The chances of skin infection are totally corresponding to the artist’s sanitation and equipment sterilization used to design tattoo.  Secondly if you want to remove tattoo from your body it requires surgery again. In spite of painful surgery which is not only expensive but also carries its own complications. Lastly there are some sensitive parts of body on which tattooing is not recommended.

Sensitive Parts of Body for Tattoos
Keeping in view all health related issues the most important question is where on the body should get a tattoo done? Following five areas, considering more sensitive, are unsuitable for designing tattoos on these. So never get tattoos done on these areas.

Lower back
Skin stretches over while designing tattoo and later on looks very sluggish. It looks very odd especially for ladies who like to get tattoos on lower back as common place.

Neck
Neck is very much delicate part of body which contains numerous blood vessels. So during tattoo designing, any unfortunate slip may cause damage to nerves and vessels which may lead to serous defect like paralysis of any body part or so many other complications.

Groin
Being very sensitive body part, getting a tattoo design is very painful which may prone to infections due to use of unclean and non sterilized needle or other relative equipment.  So think twice before taking this decision.

Face
Face is not considered an appropriate area for designing tattoos. Face skin is very delicate and exposed part of body. Beautiful face can not be replaced with any other beauty; especially in women it is very much risky.  Tattoo designs looks beautiful on plain and tight skin and looks very odd on wrinkled skin. With the passage of time and due to tattoo designing surgery skin might be sagged which will make tattoo horrible instead of looking good.

Hands and Feet
Hands and feet are similarly are exposed body part and remain in use mostly. Wearing shoes and daily routine work results in rubbing hands and feet making them worn out along with your tattoo.  Tattoo which is designed to look beautiful can destroy your beauty if not placed on appropriate places.

Culled from HEALTHBODYFIT