As an Asian woman, getting a tattoo is not easy. Prejudice about women who are dignified and pure from body to soul has been deeply ingrained in Vietnamese people's thinking for thousands of years; and moreover, the idea of tattooing was lost many thousands of years ago.
For girls, tattooing is not only a way to express their skull couple individuality and style, it is also a way for them to tell the world about the little hidden corners of their souls.
Once a week
I Skype with my parents once a week. When my father saw the new tattoo on my wrist, he said, "Son, if you like it, stick it on so it's pretty, don't get it old and ugly!", I hid my hand from the webcam. That's when I realized that overcoming prejudice is not easy. I have been independent for nearly a decade, have my own family, live hundreds of thousands of kilometers away from home, do whatever I like, have some tattoos on my body, and my parents are also relatively modern, but when I have a New tattoo, I still reflexively hide it when my parents see it. And my father, the idol of my life, still thinks that I tattoo to look good.
Nearly ten years ago, tattooing is not new. From Saigon Ink opened the first professional studio in Ho Chi Minh City. In Ho Chi Minh City, a few artists appeared in the newspaper to show off their new tattoos, and then gradually a series of Tattoo Parlors bloomed in the South - North. Not a small part of young Vietnamese people have tattoos, if they are not big, they are small, if they are not closed, they are open. Talking about tattooing is a fashion is not necessarily wrong, but in that wrong there are many other layers of right that not everyone understands.
Angelina Jolie has a tattoo on her left shoulder that flamming skull is a Buddhist scripture, written in Cambodian with the meaning of protecting her first adopted son Maddox. Meanwhile, supermodel Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and singer Rihanna both own small, seductive tattoos on wrists and fingers.
As an Asian woman
getting a tattoo is not easy. Prejudice about women who are dignified and pure from body to soul has been deeply ingrained in Vietnamese people's thinking for thousands of years; and moreover, the idea of tattooing was lost many thousands of years ago. Few people know that ancient Vietnamese ancestors still had the custom of tattooing, which means that tattoos are not a product of Western culture, much less just a temporary pleasure. Tattooing, past and present, is an identity affirmation, which makes an individual's identity. Not to mention that the tattoo is ugly and beautiful, the meaning is shallow and deep, daring to keep a permanent image on the skin, is to dare to admit that I am different.