The people with tattoos on the face — who are they?

If you see a guy in a dark alley, do not hurry to run off. Most likely before you some creative people. A journalist of Komsomolskaya Pravda Viktor Huseynov tells the stories of our countrymen who have decided to attract attention to yourself by using a face tattoo. (Hereinafter — the words of the author)

My wife and I have a game: "Skinhead or hairdresser". The rules are very simple — sitting somewhere in a public place and try to guess what the selected character. For example, we were sitting in a restaurant, two men go bald, high boots, black bombers, tattoo sticking out from everywhere, poured out skinheads from the nineties. Start listening of the haircut, some new model cars and realize, no, this fashionable hairdressers.

So I was sitting one day, staring at the face of a guy and was wondering where he works, what he's doing. Usually people are annoyed when a stranger looks at them, but this one had the answer in his forehead was tattooed big sign in English.

Honestly, I still have a lot of tattoos, childhood was pretty funny, blue and infection is not spared me. But that face... I didn't even occur to you that the phrase "tattoo on the face" and "normal operation" could not stand.

Meeting these people on the street and in the subway, I tried to do a portrait of the average owner of a tattoo on his face. So, if you see a guy in a dark alley, do not hurry to run to run, most likely in front of you is some kind of creative person like this.

I'm a craftsman, working on myself, sew clothes, haberdashery, pull the furniture. Because I'm my own boss and I have a creative, informal appearance I sometimes even helps because people expect from me some bold decisions.

Somewhere I came across a photo of a cool man with a tattoo on her face, I thought, wow, and made themselves too. To be honest, I just wanted to show off and I somehow didn't keep. Mom just do not like it, but I was expecting that she'd be more upset. The only problem is that I often get stopped by the cops.

In General, in Moscow for a long time no one pays attention to me. But in the summer I went to the Crimea and felt that I was attracted men and it was a bit annoying. When I stabbed himself, I wanted this kind of attention, and now I was older and probably wouldn't want to get distracted. To me it is not fun.

Probably I wouldn't have to do them. Now I have no need to show off in this way. Now I can show off something more serious.

I do PR, advertising, in it for the money. My parents are creative people, mom is the composer, the father of the musician. I also found myself in the work, doing video projects, music videos, writing music.

A year ago, I went to Kiev, I had to return from this journey with a tattoo, then don't even think that it would be, but on the third day after a minute I realized that I wanted a cross on the face. For me, the cross is the symbol of the sun, a symbol of the universe. I really like how my face looks like this tattoo, it's my true face, the cross helps me in my work.

First tattoo I made at the age of 16 in honor of his mother. She was born in the year of the dragon, the dragon is such a talisman. Started. Now I get tattoos when I have something going on in my life, I have about fifty.

I have long wanted a tattoo on my face, now I Wake up look at myself in the mirror and just enjoying this. When I want to make a new tattoo, I'm not stopping because I'm a hair stylist, I make people better and it will be everywhere and always in demand, no matter how I looked.

I am professionally engaged in parkour and earn money involved in various shots, people are trained. My work of a tattoo is not affected in any way, except for those moments when the right people is absolutely without a tattoo and if the body of them can be hidden, the face is not particularly obscure. But, in General, any discomfort I don't get it.

I just once again wanted to get a tattoo on my face, I went to a friend of the tattoo artist did. In the early days, I started to notice some views in my party, and I thought that that was hard! now it always will be. First tattoo strained my relatives, but then they got used to.

First tattoo I've done in new York, I was only 16. Like any teenager, it was my rebellion against the system. I wanted to stand out. Then I liked the stuff on the body, more pictures, musicians, historical figures... I can't even count how many I have now tattoos.

Almost all of the body they covered only the legs are left clean, but I plan to fill portraits of Putin and Stalin. Face tattoos in General have changed my life, it's a challenge. I prove I can be a successful person with a bunch of tattoo no matter where they are. Moreover, they help me to develop my business. Customers remember Barbera, whose face is covered with tattoos. It's unusual and attractive.

Russia's attitude to the tattoo remained from the Soviet era, when portaci stuffed exceptionally former prisoners. But this is mostly the older generation, young people perceive it differently. Exactly the same situation in the States, my mother is very unhappy that I get a tattoo.

Psychiatrist Artem Gilev:

— The desire to decorate themselves with tattoos can be due to a number of reasons. One of them is the desire to attract attention. It can occur in individuals hysteroid type. There are painful reasons when people tries to "protect" itself from the evil forces of the special symbols on the skin for crazy motifs.

But in most cases, tattooing is a fad and the desire to decorate your body.

Head of the Department of skin and venereal diseases named after V. A. Rakhmanov sechenovskiy University, doctor of medical Sciences, Professor Olga Olisova:

— The paint is inserted subcutaneously in tattoos, is an antigen that is foreign to the body and substance. Therefore, after applying the tattoo can develop allergic reactions.

There are cases of development of cutaneous skin at the site of tattoos. This is a benign proliferation of lymphoid tissue in the form of nodules, which requires serious treatment. Pseudolymphoma can degenerate into a malignant lymphoma of the skin. This occurs most often when using red paint.

The same applies to tattoo eyebrows. One of the patients with permanent makeup we saw sarcoidosis of the skin (a chronic inflammatory disease in which the skin form is not absorbable nodules of small or large size. — Approx. Ed.).