PIERCINGS

BY :LUDY ALEJANDRA RENGIFO

A drilling or piercing, is an opening in the human body to put an earring. These piercings are a form of body modification and reflect both cultural values, religious and spiritual.

HISTORY In Western

history, traditionally only women practiced a single hole in the ears from small for life. Regularly, small loops are often topped with a sphere, metal or plastic.

The first signs of perforations, dating from 709 BC Hieroglyphics found where the image appears "Jaguar Protector", being drilled by his wife, Lady Xoc, tongue.

RISKS OF DRILLING Infection in the area. Allergic reactions. Very heavy bleeding, or

constant. Drilling of a nerve. Alterations in wound healing.

TATTOOS

A tattoo is a change in skin color, creating a drawing, figure or text made in ink or other pigment under the skin of a human or animal.

HISTORY The tattoos were a

Eurasian practice in Neolithic times, during what was magical-religious belief in the afterlife found even in some mummies dating back to 7000 years.

Some tribal cultures create tattoos by cutting the skin and smearing the wound with ashes, ink or other material or puncturing the skin with animal bones.

Remain throughout the life except in the case of the removal by laser.

GLOSSARY Loops: bucles Drilling:

perforaciòn Sphere: esfera

Hieroglyphics:Jeroglíficos

Risks: Riesgos

Ashes: ceniza

Ink: tinta Belief: creencias

Wound: herida

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