Bodyart is one of the most ancient forms of personal expression. The human body acts as a canvass to be painted or modified into various forms to make a statement as a means of body adornment. Art in the body has several types that are now considered to be trendy and popular to many teens and adults like permanent tattoos, body piercings, and body paintings.
A permanent tattoo is a designed stain that can be made through the insertion of deep-seated ink using a bunch of tiny needles into the skin layer called dermis to permanently change its color or pigment for personal, ritualistic, or artistic reasons. A tattoo is a decorative type of body modification which for some holds more meaning than just a permanent marking on the skin. The entire procedure of tattooing can be very painful as the tiny needles prick through the skin.
Body piercing is another popular form of body modification which involves the “stabbing” of a body part and the subsequent insertion of a foreign body or jewelry into the new opening and keeping it in place until the wound heals to form a fistula or tunnel. Ear piercing is one of the most common types of piercings among women including men for ornamental, cultural, or sexual reasons.
Body painting is like a temporary tattoo which leaves no permanent mark on the skin. This is a fun and non-painful way of decorating the body using paintbrush or airbrush and a simple waterproof paint. In time, the color can fade off with continued washing. A henna tattoo is one good example of body paint. It looks like a real tattoo without having to go through the painful process of tattooing.
Aside from the above-mentioned, there are also other types of bodyart which can fall under the “strange and bizarre” category such as branding, scarification, scalpelling, implants and tightlacing, since these forms of art pushes the human body to its corporal limits. People who resort to these forms should be aware of the risks involved during the procedure and should require a skilled body modification practitioner to ensure the sterility of materials to be used and also for their overall safety. Moreover, these extreme types of body modification can be viewed differently by various cultures as either a normal or deviant forms of bodyart. However, deviant or not, this is a matter of personal choice for most us.
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