2) It is claimed that tattooing has existed since 12,000-years-BC. Its origins are not clear although it is argued someone somewhere accidentally rubbed a wound with their soot-covered hands, and as the wound healed, the mark stayed permanently.
3) The oldest known tattoo was found in October 1991, when the 5,000-year-old frozen body of a Bronze Age hunter was found perfectly preserved in a glacier between Austria and Italy. Amazingly, his body still bore several recognisable tattoos.
4) According to statistics gathered by Lycos, the word ‘tattoo’ rarely drops out of the top ten search terms used on the Internet and reached as high as number two on the leader board before the term was dropped to make room for other searches.
5) Psychologists state that ‘conformity’ is the major reason why people tattoo themselves. However reasons vary greatly, for example, tattooing has been used as a way of smuggling secret messages across enemy lines in times of war in ancient Greece.
6) The world's most tattooed person is Lucky Diamond Rich. Born in New Zealand, he has 100 per cent of his body covered with black ink. Lucky even tattooed his eyelids, gum and the skin in between his toes.
7) The title for the world's most tattooed woman is shared between Canadian Krystyne Kolorful and American Julia Gnuse. Both have 95 per cent of their bodies tattooed. Julia’s tattoos disguise her porphyria, a disease that leaves the skin permanently scarred.
8) Tattoos are growing in popularity across the globe. In fact, so much so that in a study conducted in 2006, it was shown that a massive 36 per cent of people from the age of 18 to 29 had at least one tattoo.
9) According to Islam, tattooing is haraam in all forms because it involves changing the creation of God. Furthermore, in the Hadeeth teachings it states that those who get permanent tattoos will be cursed as they have committed a major sin.
10) People who tattoo themselves are prone to allergic reactions, even long after they have tattooed themselves. Furthermore, skin disorders like Keloids and Granuloma are mostly found in people who have tattoos.
