Tattoo Russian Emergence

The trend has changed a lot all over the world but tattoos were always in Russia. The boys use to pierce the tattoos on different parts of their body parts.

The trend has changed a lot all over the world but tattoos were always in Russia. The boys use to pierce the tattoos on different parts of their body parts. In Russia mostly different gangs use the tattoos as their gang symbol. Some of the people pierce the tattoos to give personal expressions. Different designs have been developed that recognize and give different meanings. Whereas in Russia the code system is really complex that makes it difficult for many of the people to decode the tattoos.

The piercing of tattoos in Russia started from the jails. Tattoo Russian became a usual practice in the Russian jails and prisons. This underground activity was first discovered by the soviet researchers in 1920s. If you so through the photographs of old prisoners from the early period it elaborates the high developed subculture of Russia of making the tattoos on the body. At that time it shows the disapproval for official justice and retribution. Different phrases of tattoo Russian directly make fun of the phrases and images of different reforms and political figures. This all activity was carried out within the jail.

Different tattoo Russian has different meanings. Some of them are following:

.The barbed wire tattoo on the forehead tells that a person has a sentence of life imprisonment without any parole possibility.
.The drug addicted person was symbolized by the spider or spider''s web tattoo on any part of the body.
.The tattoo of the star was used to represent the years spend in a prison. Each corner of the star represents a single year.
.The cross tattoo on an individuals body indicate the oppression, subordination or slavery.
.The tattoo having the blade through necks symbolizes sex offenders.
.Some personal statements on the arms were also commonly used as tattoos.
.One of the tattoos representing that I was born free and I should be free is as image of birds flying over the horizon.
.The tattoo of a cat represents the past life of a prisoner. If it has a single cat it signifies that the criminal was alone. If there are several cats it indicates that the person acted as the criminal as part of the gang.
.Some images of the tattoo Russian were borrowed from the rich traditional popular art of Russia and its icon painting.
.Some of the military images were also used as the tattoos to signify criminals comings and goings or some of the others aspects of the prisoners history.

Tattoo Russian is a widely used activity in Russia now too. Not only boys but girls are also lot into the tattoos piercing. The process of applying the Russian tattoo is really painful. These are applied painfully with the needles and electric shavers. Ink made from urine, soot and shampoo is used to make these tattoos. These also cause different allergies to an individual and sometimes death is also caused by the process of piercing the Russian tattoos.