The Popular Tribal Tattoos

 

Tattoos are believed to be a modern phenomenon adopted by the liberalized young generation that is mostly found in big cities around the world. Most parents still advise their teenagers against getting tattooed. Surprisingly most of the tattoo designs used widely today date back to many years before the present civilization. These are what are referred to as tribal tattoos.

Europeans in the early days traveled far and wide to explore the world and in their expeditions they came across different cultures of which some they adopted when they went back to Europe. Some African, Asian and south American societies had the culture of tattooing their bodies with designs which were either symbolic or purely aesthetic. It was the sailors who went for the expeditions that first started to put the designs on their skins.

Tribal tattoos re-emerged into the tattooing styles in 1982 when Don Ed hardy and his friend Leo Zulueta founded a tattoo magazine with the first issue capturing the readers with the title "New Tribalism". The magazine featured tribal tattoos from Borneo and Samoa. since then tribal tattoos became part and parcel of the school of tattoos design. The re-introduction of the tribal kind of tattoos after many years of being demonized paved way to new dimensions to the application of the mostly black style. After just a short time of its re-introduction, the black tribal tattoos earned global recognition as one of the most popular tattoo design.

Some of the popular tribal design includes the drawings of animals such as the dragon which is mainly of Asian origin, the scorpion, wolf, tiger, lion, butterfly and snake. Tribal kind of tattoos may also feature symbols such as the cross, heart, star, flame and the sun. The tattoo can be designed in any part of the body but the most popular spots include; the arm band, at the back, lower back, shoulder, arm sleeve, neck and in some cases the face.