Want To Get High? Get A Tattoo Done

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Rahul got it done a year back. He did it again three months ago. Today, he is back, and he wants to do it for one more time. When asked, he says, it's just an addiction and he can't get himself away from it. If you only you thought we were talking about some kind of drug addiction, then stop your assumption right away. We are talking about a different kind of addiction here – an all new addiction that seems to be taking everybody who has done it. Welcome to the world of Tattoo addiction.

Ever asked some body who has got a tattoo as to how addictive it is to get a tattoo done. The answer will come loud and clear. 'Very Much'. Just like anushka says, "This is my third tattoo and I am doing it in my ankles. The previous two are on my back and chest and I just can't stop what I started a year back." Anhijit, another victim of this addiction retorts: "I don't know what is great about tattoos, but more than anything I get a kick out of it. I love the way it pains... the way it punctures my skin finally leaving the ink with a stain, some thing that will remain with me for the rest of my life."

Tattoos have been always a popular trend. What previously was seem mostly among music fanatics slowly transmitted to the outer word affecting everybody with the re-animated syndrome, of what many may call 'tattoos'. Why re-animated syndrome? Well, tattoos have always existed. You must have possibly seen your grand parents with a tattoo, and they must have seen their parents with the same. Just that, today, it has changed. The designs, the concepts, ink, machines – everything has changed. What remains the same is the art in it self – tattoos. Today, people don't mind spending thousands of rupees for a nice piece of design. Of late, the art has got so much of popularity that people, too, don't mind to look at it as a prospective career. A place like Bangalore has more than 45 tattoo artists.

Many tattooed individuals jokingly warn friends, (almost every body go through this) who are getting their first tattoo that tattoos are addictive, and it's hard to stop with just one. And they don't realise it till as time they themselves get one done. The art soon takes the form of an addiction when the urge of getting another tattoo keeps hitting then ever and again. The urge, however, becomes tough to be curbed and soon it makes them realise how much they are hooked to the whole tattooing thing. "I remember a friend who told me that I will have to go back for another tattoo soon after my first one, which, I, didn't believe then. Today I have eight tattoos and I have already planned

Rakshita has recently got her second tattoo, a mermaid, on her left arm, and she admits: "There is some thing nice about getting a tattoo. Perhaps, it's a feeling to have some thing that I will carry till the last breathe of my life". "I never thought I will get a second tattoo, but it's addictive. I couldn't keep my self away for a long time," concludes the girl flaunting her newly inked coloured tattoo, a bunny. So, do you still get the answer? People, even the tattoo artists seem to be confused with the whole idea of tattoo being addictive. Dominic Savio is a tattoo artist and he has been in the business for more than a year. He quizzically admits, "I get a lot of the clients coming for the second time. A lot of them keep coming. The urge to get a tattoo doesn't saturate easily." Dominic says this while he prepares himself for the new design one of his clients have got it. "It's a nice feeling to get a tattoo done. A lot of my clients get their own designs. All I need to do is ink the design into their skin," concludes that ink man.

Getting Tattoos can mean different things for different people. However, the common thread is the fact that they do become addictive. Partially because of the endorphin, a body compound that's produced by the pituitary gland during excitement. Now, this, is what considered to be addictive. "It may be because of endorphin which gets released when one endures pain. To some this may be very addictive," says a skin specialist from one of the hospitals in Bangalore. He adds: "It's the same compound that gets released when one has an orgasm."

Hence, let's take this new thing as a positive addiction as compared to the other form of addiction and leave it to people. It, after all, is an art and no where in the world will you actually get some body to define it.