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On a woman? What places do you find the least attractive?What area do you find the most attractive?
I would like to get a few tattoos... but with class. I don't want to look trashy.
I think it depends on what you get... but I also think the location plays a good role too. (trashy v.s classy)
what are your thoughts?
Answer
Right above the bikini line= Sexy. Lower back= Sexy. Back of neck= Sexy. Inside the thigh= Trashy. Bottom of foot= Trashy. Inner lip= Trashy. The 'taint'= Trashy. Behind the ear= Sexy. Middle back= Sexy. Top of breast= Sexy. Tailbone= Trashy Shoulder blade= Sexy. Nipple tat= Trashy. Belly button tat= Trashy. Ankle= Sexy Foot tat= Sexy. Upper thigh tat= sexy. Abdomen tat (centered)= Trashy Pubic mound= Sexy. Abdomen tat (to the side)= Sexy. Rib tat= Sexy. Wrist tat= Sexy. Neck tat (to the front)= Trashy. Neck tat (to the side)= Man. Top of arm tat= Sexy. Upper back, tapering down=Sexy. Face tat= no way. Dainty body suit (full coverage, feminine)= SEXY! Seeexy!!! Scalp tat, don't ask. Take care, hon!
How did the Pharoes of acient Egypt use tattoos to represent thier royalty?
Eminemizzl
I am doing a paper and I would like to know because I can't find hardly anything on the internet..
Sources too if you give an answer.
Thank you in advance!
Answer
â Tattoos
The Ancient and Mysterious History
By Cate Lineberry
â¢What is the evidence that ancient Egyptians had tattoos?
There's certainly evidence that women had tattoos on their bodies and limbs from figurines c. 4000-3500 B.C. to occasional female figures represented in tomb scenes c. 1200 B.C. and in figurine form c. 1300 B.C., all with tattoos on their thighs. Also small bronze implements identified as tattooing tools were discovered at the town site of Gurob in northern Egypt and dated to c. 1450 B.C. And then, of course, there are the mummies with tattoos, from the three women already mentioned and dated to c. 2000 B.C. to several later examples of female mummies with these forms of permanent marks found in Greco-Roman burials at Akhmim.
â¢What function did these tattoos serve? Who got them and why?
Because this seemed to be an exclusively female practice in ancient Egypt, mummies found with tattoos were usually dismissed by the (male) excavators who seemed to assume the women were of "dubious status," described in some cases as "dancing girls." The female mummies had nevertheless been buried at Deir el-Bahari (opposite modern Luxor) in an area associated with royal and elite burials, and we know that at least one of the women described as "probably a royal concubine" was actually a high-status priestess named Amunet, as revealed by her funerary inscriptions.
And although it has long been assumed that such tattoos were the mark of prostitutes or were meant to protect the women against sexually transmitted diseases, I personally believe that the tattooing of ancient Egyptian women had a therapeutic role and functioned as a permanent form of amulet during the very difficult time of pregnancy and birth. This is supported by the pattern of distribution, largely around the abdomen, on top of the thighs and the breasts, and would also explain the specific types of designs, in particular the net-like distribution of dots applied over the abdomen. During pregnancy, this specific pattern would expand in a protective fashion in the same way bead nets were placed over wrapped mummies to protect them and "keep everything in." The placing of small figures of the household deity Bes at the tops of their thighs would again suggest the use of tattoos as a means of safeguarding the actual birth, since Bes was the protector of women in labor, and his position at the tops of the thighs a suitable location. This would ultimately explain tattoos as a purely female custom.
â¢What did these tattoos look like?
Most examples on mummies are largely dotted patterns of lines and diamond patterns, while figurines sometimes feature more naturalistic images. The tattoos occasionally found in tomb scenes and on small female figurines which form part of cosmetic items also have small figures of the dwarf god Bes on the thigh area.
â¢What were they made of? How many colors were used?
Usually a dark or black pigment such as soot was introduced into the pricked skin. It seems that brighter colors were largely used in other ancient cultures, such as the Inuit who are believed to have used a yellow color along with the more usual darker pigments.
â¢Why do you think so many cultures have marked the human body and did their practices influence one another?
In many cases, it seems to have sprung up independently as a permanent way to place protective or therapeutic symbols upon the body, then as a means of marking people out into appropriate social, political or religious groups, or simply as a form of self-expression or fashion statement.
Yet, as in so many other areas of adornment, there was of course cross-cultural influences, such as those which existed between the Egyptians and Nubians, the Thracians and Greeks and the many cultures encountered by Roman soldiers during the expansion of the Roman Empire in the final centuries B.C. and the first centuries A.D. And, certainly, Polynesian culture is thought to have influenced Maori tattoos.
â Cleopatra Queen of Egypt was the last Pharaoh of Egypt, history's infamous "Queen of the Nile."
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