Piercings and tattoos have a long history in many cultures and serve both aesthetic and cultural purposes. Piercings involve drilling holes in the body to insert jewelry and can cause infections or nerve damage if not done properly. The earliest evidence of piercings comes from 709 BC Egyptian hieroglyphics depicting a man being pierced by his wife. Tattoos involve inserting pigment under the skin to change its color and have been practiced since Neolithic times, with some mummies dating tattoos back 7,000 years. Both piercings and tattoos were used in tribal cultures as forms of cultural expression and religious symbols that could last a lifetime.
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2. A drilling or piercing, is an opening in the human body to put an earring. These piercings are a form of body modification and reflect both cultural values, religious and spiritual.
3. HISTORYIn Western history, traditionally only women practiced a single hole in the ears from small for life. Regularly, small loops are often topped with a sphere, metal or plastic.
4. The first signs of perforations, dating from 709 BC Hieroglyphics found where the image appears "Jaguar Protector", being drilled by his wife, Lady Xoc, tongue.
5. RISKS OF DRILLINGInfection in the area.Allergic reactions.Very heavy bleeding, or constant.Drilling of a nerve.Alterations in wound healing.
7. A tattoo is a change in skin color, creating a drawing, figure or text made in ink or other pigment under the skin of a human or animal.
8. HISTORY The tattoos were a Eurasian practice in Neolithic times, during what was magical-religious belief in the afterlife found even in some mummies dating back to 7000 years.
9. Some tribal cultures create tattoos by cutting the skin and smearing the wound with ashes, ink or other material or puncturing the skin with animal bones.