BACKGROUND Hairdressers are occupationally and personally exposed to hair dye substances and adverse reactions from the skin are well known. Currently, little is known about personal exposure to hair dye ingredients and temporary black tattoos. OBJECTIVES To investigate hairdressers' professional and personal risk exposures and to compare the frequency of temporary tattoos among hairdressers ...

Introduction: In the forensic identification of unidentifed corpses, several technological clinical tools are used in order to obtain data that may be relevant judicial investigation. One them is registration and documentation tattoos. Tattoos body modifications with marks on skin made by impregnating epidermis various pigments forming diverse figures. Their presence plays a very important role...

Tattooing has gained a tremendous popularity for the past twenty years. The motivations that drive an individual to acquire a tattoo are plentiful. Tattooing has also found its way in the field of medicine (corneal tattooing, gastrointestinal tattooing during endoscopy, permanent make-up tattooing, scar camouflage or radiotherapy field marking...). An emerging application of tattooing is for th...

Malignant skin tumors, including squamous cell carcinoma and malignant melanoma, have occurred in tattoos. Seven documented cases of basal cell carcinoma associated with tattoos have also been reported in the medical literature. We encountered a patient with basal cell carcinoma in a tattooed eyebrow. We report on this case as the eighth reported case of a patient with basal cell carcinoma aris...

One of the features present time is increased interest young people in tattoos on body. Tattoo a cultural phenomenon that has long history since its inception.
 The problem research lies fact at youth subculture considered as rich source innovations and discoveries art, fashion, forms leisure; variant mass culture, product media industry; form creative activity who do not find acceptance s...

Permanent makeup is a cosmetic tattoo that is used to enhance one's appearance, and which has become more popular among middle-aged and elderly women. A couple of benefits seem to be associated with permanent tattoos in the elderly: saving time (wake up with makeup); poor eyesight (difficult to apply makeup); and saving money. On the other hand, cosmetic tattoos bear the same risks as other tat...

Volume 86, Number 7 www.aafp.org/afp American Family Physician 669 A 39-year-old man presented with small nodules that had developed in his tattoos over the previous eight weeks. The nodules were not painful or pruritic. They were present only in the blue portions of the tattoo, but appeared in different tattoos on his arms and upper back (Figures 1 and 2). The tattoos were professionally appli...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Although nanosecond-domain lasers have been the mainstay of laser tattoo removal for decades, recent disruptive innovations in laser design have introduced a new class of commercial Q-switched lasers that generate picosecond-domain pulses. STUDY A picosecond-domain, Nd:YAG laser with a KTP frequency-doubling crystal was used to treat 31 decorative tattoos in 21 subje...