Beauty and Personal Grooming

Some of the worst enemies of a fresh new tattoo are the sun, salt water, and sweat. It’s okay to get some of these on your new tattoo once or twice while it is still healing, but soaking in it can definitely affect the way your tattoo heals. Working out is definitely possible even after getting a new tattoo. You just have to be extremely careful and make sure to follow the tips that we will be giving out today to make sure that your tattoo’s healing process won’t be put at risk.

Regardless of whether you have just got your first tattoo or added a new one to decorate your body, a certain period afterwards you have to pay special attention to the tattooed part of the skin. Proper tattoo care in the couple of weeks after the process is necessary if you want your skin to heal faster and the ink stay vibrant and spotless.

A relatively new option is available to vitiligo patients. Vitiligo causes patches of skin to turn white because they lose their pigment. Some clinics are offering a new state-of-the-art method of permanently recoloring skin that is differs from old-fashioned tattooing.

Brides in India are seldom imagined without mehendi decorated hands on their wedding day. On this special day, every bride wants to be the center of attraction. So with jewellery and wedding costume being the topmost priority, we often neglect the mehendi till the last minute and rely on the local bridal mehendi boy/girl for doing the mehendi design.

One of the first things you need to do before you get a tattoo is to make sure that you want it. This is going to take some time, as you will need to think about it and determine how it is going to look when it is on your skin. At the same time, you also need to consider the different choices when it comes to your tattoo. You will need to find a choice that you are going to be happy with. Sometimes this can be very difficult to find. Sometimes, however, you may end up getting a bad tattoo. This can be very annoying, especially if it was a mistake done by the artist. In cases like this, these can be covered up.

A tattoo is meant to be personal. Many people choose to get them in order to mark a specific point in their lives, or illustrate a certain belief. If you are going to get a tattoo, then you will want to make sure that it is unique to your own style. There are a lot of generic tattoo designs that can still look quite good, but if you want to get something that stands out you will need to put a bit of thought into it. This is going to mean having a look at different designs and see which ones strike a chord with you.

Smriti asks: I am an 18 year old girl. Whenever I put Mehendi (Henna) tattoos I get small rashes on the back of my wrist and palms. Why does it happen? Should I not use Mehndi at all?

Also known as micro-pigmentation or ‘medical tattooing’, this involves implanting small amounts of colored pigments into the skin for cosmetic or reconstructive purposes – usually endowing permanent colour on the lips, cheekbones and eyebrows or restoring colour to white scars from burns, accidents or surgery. Initially, the lasting makeup may look incredibly extreme and gaudy. However as you are getting it done from a professional with proper skills, you need not worry much about the look as the person knows what he/she is doing. And even though the ink may appear strong at first, it soon subsides, making the look realistic. Almost always the implanted color is not perfect after the first procedure and at least one follow-up to the initial procedure is highly necessary and this is often scheduled after a minimum of 5-6 weeks. Very soon the lasting makeup will start looking like everyday makeup. Time commitment: About 45 minutes, but the area becomes a little swollen after the procedur...

Many teenage girls and boys go in for a tattoo due to peer-pressure or the overwhelming desire to feel unique and different. They may go on flaunting their body-art for quite some time but after a while they start feeling that it wasn’t the best thing to do. And quite a few are motivated to get their tattoos removed. The interesting fact, however, is that more women than men are unhappy about their tattoos - in f act a study ascertains this. Perhaps the social stigma attached to tattoos coupled with their own changing beliefs and attitudes makes them think so. The researchers interviewed 196 tattooed people; 130 of them were women and 66 were men. It was found that more women (69%) than men (31%) went in for tattoo removal. The reason cited by these people for wanting to get rid of their tattoos was that they had a "shift in their identities," and wanted to do away with the past.

If you are likely to attend the Mehendi (henna) ceremony at your friend’s wedding, think again. The intricate, hand stenciled designs could give you something you didn’t expect – an allergic reaction like redness, inflammation and intense itching.

These pictures will leave you spellbound. The deft strokes from the brush of an expert artist and body painter Guido Daniele have literally transformed human hands into animal and bird look-alikes. [ Source ] (Pictures published with permission from the artist)

Did you know that you could use postage stamps in a unique way to decorate your finger nails? Here are the pictures from a Swiss-German site Atelier-v.ch , which demonstrates this. See also: The magnificent Mehendi (henna)

Since very early times, women have been inventing ways and means of beautifying themselves, mehendi being just one of them. Stylish, sophisticated and spiritual, mehendi is definitely here to stay. Whether you choose to doodle a little or decorate yourself intricately, mehendi(henna) is one of the oldest and most promising ways to enhance your beauty. Though initially North Indians were the most ardent users of Mehendi, over the years, it has spread out to almost all the areas in India cutting across religious, regional and linguistic barriers. No ceremony, religious, festive or otherwise in India is complete nowadays without women adorning themselves with Mehendi. A relatively foreign concept to westerners, it recently found way to the masses when rock singers & Hollywood stars sported Mehendi designs on their hands and faces. Mehendi is now considered “cool” and the “in-thing”. It is also gaining popularity as a painless temporary tattoo.