Baby Portrait Tattoos by Phil Young

Do you know about baby portrait tattoo ? A tattoo is a kind of body modification, made by inserting ink, either temporary or indelible, in to the dermis part of your skin to change the pigment.

The word tattoo, or tattow in the 18th century, is a loanword from the Polynesian phrase tatau, indicating "to write". The Oxford English Dictionary gives the etymology of tattoo as "In 18th c. tattaow, tattow. From Polynesian (Samoan, Tahitian, Tongan, etc.) tatau. In Marquesan, tatu." Before the importation of the Polynesian expression, the practice of tattooing had been identified in the Western world as painting, scarring, or staining.

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This is not to be perplexed with the roots of the word for the military services drumbeat or performance -- see armed forces tattoo. In this full case, the English term tattoo is derived from the Dutch word taptoe (OED).

The first written reference to the term tattoo (or tatau), looks in the journal of Joseph Bankers (24 February 1743 - 19 June 1820), the naturalist aboard Captain Cook's ship the HMS Endeavour: "I will now mention just how they tag themselves indelibly, all of them is so marked by their humour or disposition".

The word "tattoo" was taken to European countries by the explorer James Cook, when he went back in 1769 from his first voyage to Tahiti and New Zealand. In his narrative of the voyage, he refers to an operation called "tattaw".

Tattoo buffs may refer to tattoos as "ink", "items", "epidermis art", "tattoo art", "tats", or "work"; to the designers as "tattoo artists", "tattooers", or "tattooists"; also to places where they are "tattoo shops", studios" "tattoo, or "tattoo parlors".

Mainstream art galleries carry exhibitions of both conventional and custom tattoo designs such as Beyond Skin area, at the Museum of Croydon. Copyrighted tattoo designs that are mass-produced and sent to tattoo painters are known as "display", a notable occasion of professional design. Flash sheets are prominently shown in many tattoo parlors for the purpose of providing both creativity and ready-made tattoo images to customers.

The Japanese word irezumi means "insertion of printer ink" and often means body art using tebori, the original Japanese hand method, a Western-style machine, or for that matter, any method of tattooing using insertion of ink. The most frequent phrase used for traditional Japanese tattoo designs is Horimono. Japanese may use the term "tattoo" to suggest non-Japanese varieties of tattooing.

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