Why do People Get Tattooed?

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People get tattooed for various reasons including cultures, beauty and social class transition among others. People sometimes choose to get tattooed as a way of remembering a period or transition in their lives and also to stand out from the rest. Tattooing has been used historically to denote both high class segments of society as well as to indicate criminal elements and as an aesthetic alteration of the body.
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Tattoos have been around for the longest time with the first ones being used as tribal markings to identify different tribes. The art has slowly evolved to become something used more for beauty than anything else. Gangs still use tattoos to brand their members and to celebrate a particular skill.
People get tattoos for many reasons like for example, as a form of self expression and the rebellion of society, some get tattoos to show what they have endured in life and some get tattoos to recall anything that has happened in their lives. Prisoners for example, have their entire stories tattooed on their bodies.
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