The word Tattoo originates from the Polynesian word ‘tatua’. The word was initially presented by one of the famous British explorers of the Royal Navy, Captain James Cook. He wrote in one of his books about his discoveries in the land of the Polynesian people. He carefully mentioned that these were sacredly involved in painting their skin in a very different manner. For they used animal teeth/bone turned into sharp, pointy objects that they then dipped in an ink like substance in color that looks either blue or black and is made out of oil from a nut or maybe coal. This thus leaves a very ineffaceable mark on the skin. The natives there called it tatua. The trend worked its way through young...
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