Tattoo art since ancient times, the origin can be traced back to the ancient totem culture, which expresses the human desire for their own a manifestation. In ancient Africa, it has been used as a kind of differentiation between racial groups, identity, status and other signs. China's tattoo art has also been more than a thousand years of history, the Song Dynasty mother Yue Fei for Yue Fei on the arm tattoo "loyalty to the country" four words, in fact, is a tattoo behavior. Early tattoo art due to the pigment is relatively single, and to the green color is mainly, also known as tattoo. But because most of the people who loved tattoos in society in the past were jianghu characters, so in the traditional concept of the general public, the tattoo will bring a negative impact on their own, and will be mistaken for an unorthodox person.

Rodan said: "the human body is the most beautiful works of art", in fact, for the body has been very beautiful full body or local tattoos (painting or tattooing), so that your body, with a little wild, with a little alternative, in the wild in the soft, in the rough with a mysterious, will be more prominent out of the "You" itself a touch of beauty - for men, to increase the masculine beauty; for women, with a little teasing, with a little wild, with a little flirty. Of course, the "beauty" mentioned here is not the crude "tattoo" in the past, but the modern beautiful and delicate colorful patterns. Society is progressing, people's self-consciousness is also improving, tattoo art as a kind of recognition of their own bodies, currently in Western European countries, Japan, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, including China's Shenzhen, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other major cities, has slowly been accepted by the public.

Tradition or New Wave

Artists use brushes to wield magic on various materials, but one day someone realized that the human body is the best carrier of beauty, so they boldly took the body as a canvas and used special make-up oils to draw all kinds of patterns on the model's body, so that the human body becomes a work of art. Now, this has become a unique and professional makeup art, following the tattoo stickers, localized body and face painting popular in the world of beauty. The earliest body painting is the primitive people in the body with whale ink painted totems, as a protective sign. Subsequently appeared popular to this day "tattoo", the pattern in addition to totem graphics, most of the fish, crosses, triangles and jagged pattern, basically geometric. 1891, the United States invented an electric tattoo machine, but also formulated a unified pattern, popular for a while. British high society and Japan have also popularized this special "make-up". Body painting also includes the face, the Chinese opera character face painting, is the peak of the world face painting art.

In order to pray for peace and happiness, the ancient Indians invented the art of tattooing; for the same purpose, people in ancient Africa and the Middle East used all kinds of pigments to paint their own bodies in a variety of colors. Time flows thousands of years, the 21st century, body painting waves again, but now people's purpose is to show the beauty.

The art of body painting is an art that competes with God for favor, which gives artists unlimited space for imagination, and draws a picture that is layered, three-dimensional, and rich in expression. Creation from life, can show the lively animal modeling; can show interesting game stories; can cast lines of smooth human sculpture. The creators use rough color blocks, delicate brush strokes vividly show the human body exquisite lines rich expression.

Love of fashion is not willing to let the fashion stays on the runway, fashionable white-collar class, avant-garde young people, but also gladly in their own shoulders, belly, navel, back, chest and other parts, painted on their favorite patterns, so that they are cool. Think about it, the love of your life in the visible parts of the painting on the symbol of "marry me," the image is more romantic than sending a rose to propose? When your lover's birthday, the picture of her painted on the body is not more than a gift to express your love?

When people finally realized that there was more room for play in painting than in tattooing, painting quickly became unstoppably popular. So, between tradition and taboo, what does body painting give us? Decoration? Flaunt? Seduction?

Body painting is a self-expression of individuality, chest, face, neck, arms, hands, feet, or the body's most secret places, all are the performance of the position. Body painting can vary from person to person, showing their favorite patterns. Girls love to paint scorpions, butterflies, roses, etc., mostly on the chest, back, arms, navel, etc., while men love to paint abstract totems and body guards. Not only that, body painting is also like your clothes, you can change from time to time as you wish. A girl painted a butterfly on the bare part of the shoulder and asked her how she felt. She said, "This and then wear a halter dress will be much more vivid, and will attract a high turnout."