In Iran, on the northern slope of an extinct volcano Sahand Azeris once built a unique village. They certainly knew that a few centuries, their descendants will flood the crowds of tourists and they will only pay for the opportunity to peek inside their homes. The fact that the houses in the village Kandovan carved in the rocks, each rock the house. The age of some of them over 700 years. The very nature of these grown-sharp fangs rocks, people can do is to hollow out their rooms and pasted the windows and door.

The first written reference to the word, “tattoo” (or Samoan “Tatau”) appears in the journal of Joseph Banks, the naturalist aboard Captain Cook’s ship the HMS Endeavour in 1769: “I shall now mention the way they mark themselves indelibly, each of them is so marked by their humor or disposition”. The art tattooing has been practised for centuries and was mainly used in a tribal decoration and cultural sense. In the 21st century this is still mainly the essence of a tattoo. To make a statement about yourself to others. What a 45-year-old woman with a tramp stamp or an accountant from London with a tribal tattoo are trying to say with their markings is only to be guessed at. The same can be said for these extreme tattoos.