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1. The trendsetter
The fact that the Face Tatt has now become a generally accepted style option is thanks to the big appearance of the facial rapper/trapper, R’n’B singer and Comet of success Malone at the 2018 “MTV Video Music Awards”-although by Aerosmith. “Stay Away” is written on Malone’s barbed wire -wire -wireless forehead and “Always” and “Tied” under his tired eyes. Incidentally, the area-tattooed Instagram king Justin Bieber now switches to his face.
2. Storytelling is everything
Obviously, something like that must do white pop stars so that it can become mainstream. Because according to the great role model Lil Wayne, who already wore a lot of ink around the nose in the mid-nation years, the face tattoo has been established for some time in the US hipphop offspring that is not only artistically pleading: Google names such as 21 Savage and Gucci Mane and enjoy works such as “knives between brewing” or “Eis bag” and Read in the counterfei of 6ix9ine like on the inside of a toilet cabinet door.
3. The nineties
In punk rock, hardcore and metal there have been musicians since the 90s who left the needle between their ears.
Among other things, members of Korn, Mastodon, Blink-182 and Rancid.
4. Charles Manson
The most famous example of a face tattoo was long (and long in front of Mike Tyson) the swastika, which murder-sect guide Charles Manson had attached to his forehead in 1970. In fact, however, this was a (brain) brand.
5. The ideal of beauty
In the indigenous people of New Zealand and Polynesia, angry body and face paintings were part of the ideal of beauty and marked the social stand by scratching and scraping.
In the North African Berbers, blue-green spiritual tattoos, also on the face, were reserved for women.
6. The statement
If you had your face tattooed in western cultures, you actually wanted to manifest your departure from society. A particularly extreme example of this are Latin-American street bands such as Mara-18, the members of which can be stabbed their passage symbols over the entire visa. In countries like El Salvador, such a tattoo is enough to end up in court.
7. The thing with the job
US tattoo artists also call Face “job stopper”.
8. The tear
The most famous criminal tattoo: a tear under the eye. It can stand for the retirement of long prison terms, for a murder carried out or to have been “marked” by his rapist in custody. But it is also simply worn as a sign of grief. Amy Winehouse cried her husband Blake Fielder-Civil in 2007 in the jail.
9. The fashion world
Also in fashion, these “dangerous” styles have long been played, if only painted on: John Galliano already brushed the models ethnic decorations for a givenchy show in 1996.
10. The faker
Other Funny Face-Tattoo fakers: Money Boy, Zayn Malik (ex-one-direction) and Lafee.
11. The Rolling-Stones album
The most prominent ink face of the good old rock’n’roll is on the cover of the 16th Rolling-Stones album Tattoo You from 1981.
It shows -not so easy to recognize -a revised and -painted, extremely androgynous portrait of Mick Jagger.