Tattoos

Background to Tattoos & Body Piercing in Oaxaca, Mexico, Through the Eyes of a Lawyer

Lawyer Kaireddyn (Kai) Orta began fabricating his own, rudimentary tools for making tattoos in 1996, while still in high school here in Oaxaca, Mexico. One day a neighbor saw him carrying a shoe box, and asked him what was in it. Kai showed him the adapted motor, needles, ink and other paraphernalia. The neighbor was the recipient of Kai's first tattoo. Kai then began doing tattoos for his schoolmates.

Kai had been interested in tattoos (tatuajes) and body piercing (perforación) since boyhood. It was natural for him, since his father was a history teacher, constantly recounting stories of rituals of Mexico's indigenous populations. There was no shortage of books around the house with images of pre-Hispanic peoples who were accustomed to self-adornment. Kai ate it up.

Skull Tattoos

When a person wants to choose a tattoo in order to look and make him feel tough, it is common for them to choose skull tattoos. There are several varieties of these tattoos available in the tattooing world. Even though the general public may currently associate skull with fearless attitude and death, it is not always true.

According to its modified designs in the present times they may also look cartoonish or even at times cute. It is interesting to see as to how by the change of its colours and design skull tattoos can break through its envisioned darkness and gloomy forms and extend its symbolic structure even for a delightful meaning.

A few notable symbolic meanings of the skull tattoos are as follows: