A tattoo, or dermal pigmentation, is a mark made by inserting pigment into the skin for decorative or other reasons.
Tattoos on humans are a type of decorative body modification, while tattoos on animals are most commonly used for identification or branding.
Body piercing usually refers to the piercing of a part of the human body for the purpose of wearing jewelry in the opening created.
Body piercing is a form of body modification. The word "piercing" can refer to the act or practice of body piercing, or to a specific pierced opening in the body. Some people practice piercing for religious or other cultural reasons, while many individuals, particularly in the modern West, choose to be pierced for spiritual, ornamental, or sexual reasons.

Advice Before A Tattoo Or Piercing

- Consult different artists.
- Ask them to show you their arts.
- Make sure that the artist you choose puts in the first place your healthy and safety.
- Ask him if he use sterile needles everytime.
- Ask how he sterilise his equipment.
- All equipment who touched the skin must be washed and then sterilised.
- Equipment sterilisation corectly it's made in autoclave.
- Use only special jewelery made for piercing.
- Sterile needles must be used everytime.
- Never share sterilisied needles.
- Be carefull that the zone where is next to make the piercing is washed first with water and soap.
- Then the zone must be cleaned with antiseptic solution or alcohol.
- Don't do piercing in neck, wrists, arteres and sinews.
- Visit a medic right away if the zone will be infected.
- Use a professional artist for tattoo.
- Assure that the artist uses bonnets for the masking ink.
- Clean very well the skin ( by washing it with water and soap) that follows to be tattooed.
- Then the zone must be cleaned with alcohol or an antiseptic concetrated solution.
- Assure that the tattoo is covered with unsticky bandage.
- Wash your hands before you touch the tattoo.
- Consult imediatly a doctor if there are any adverse effects (like inflammations).
- You can easily acquire the B, C hepatitis or HIV if the person who mades the tattoo or the body-piercing doesn't respect the rules for sterilization and disinfection.
- This infections are not destroyed by the sterilization apparatus with ultraviolet.