Special forms and meaning
Tattoos can have many different meanings: Over time, special forms of tattooing have developed. A large industry is the application of permanent make-up. Here, contours, for example, of eyes and lips are highlighted, traced and shaded. Surgery also makes use of this aesthetic technique by concealing operation scars or reconstructing areolas.Have you already got a tattoo and don’t know how to treat it?
- Member sign
- Ritual or sacred symbol
- Expression possibility for differentiation and exclusivity
- Amplification of sexual stimuli
- Protest or political statement
- Jewelry
- Affiliation and function of prisoners (for example, even then concentration camp inmates received a prisoner number and members of the SS received a tattoo on their upper arm)
Diagnosis
Tattoos / tattoos are not easy to remove without residue – with no method. Depending on the accuracy of the observation of the skin, after a tattoo removal will almost always be skin changes or color residue or both can be detected. Before the tattoo removal, the conspicuity of the permanent skin change can not be predicted exactly.
In a consultative assessment, the following factors play the main role: the tattoo itself (body part, size, colors, age), skin type, removal method. The practitioner must be familiar with the corrective therapy of scars. A partial treatment can be offered for testing.
