Traumatic tattoos. Coal miners could develop characteristic tattoos owing to coal dust getting into wounds. Similarly, a traumatic tattoo occurs when a substance such as asphalt is rubbed into a wound as the result of some kind of accident.
Amateur and professional tattoos. Here on the slide, you can see amateur and professional tattoos.
Cosmetic. When used as a form of cosmetics, tattooing includes permanent makeup and hiding or neutralizing skin discolorations. Permanent makeup is the use of tattoos to enhance eyebrows, lips and eyes usually with natural colors.
Medical tattoo. Medical tattoos are used to make different scars less visible and for the cases with some forms of breast reconstruction. Also they are used in skin tones to cover skin pigmentation disorder.
Identification. Tattooing among females of the Koita people of Papua New Guinea traditionally began at age five and was added to each year, with the V-shaped tattoo on the chest indicating that she had reached marriageable age.