【本期话题】HOW TATTOOS ARE MADE?

In the U.S. you must be 18 years old to get a tattoo (n, v) 刺图案，纹身. If you are under 18 years old, you must have your parent’s permission. ...【更多故事尽在TalkOnline】

Sample dialogue:
Boy: I want to get a tattoo.
Tattoo artist: Are you over 18?
Boy: Yes, I am
Tattoo artist: Let me see some I.D.!
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Other forms of the word tattoo:
tattoos (pl. n)
tattooed (v)
tattooing (v)

      All societies and cultures have different tattooing procedures. In some tribal societies they create tattoos by cutting designs into the skin and put ink, ashes or other coloring agents into the wounds. In other cultures, tattoos are created by beating ink into the skin using sharpened sticks or animal bones. In Japan the traditional tattooing method is by hand poking with needles of sharpened bamboo or steel.

      Today, the most common method of tattooing is with the electric tattooing machines (tattoo gun). Tattoo guns make tattooing very easy. They insert ink into the skin using needles that prick the skin hundreds of times per minute.

Do you have any tattoos? Would you ever get a tattoo? What kind of tattoo would you get? Where would you get it?
  

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