It has a long and varied history, spanning across both time and cultural boundaries.
Body art is the use of the human body as a canvas for self- expression.
Although tattooing and piercing are mainly thought of when considering body art, it has a wide variety of forms, from something as simple as painting fingernails or dying hair to something as seemingly bizarre as teeth filing or implanting small objects under the skin. For brevity's sake, I'll just cover some of the more popular forms of body art. Piercing is the process of inserting a sharp instrument, usually a needle, into the skin to make a hole or holes. Tattooing involves ink being injected into the upper layers of the skin by a needle. The ink, which can be a variety of colors, is injected in a pattern or design.