The book is dedicated to tattooing - an ancient, ubiquitous phenomenon, obligatory in narrow circles and only recently taking over the world. After reading it, you can not only broaden your horizons in this area of art, namely, drawings on the body belong to it today, but also come to a deep understanding of it, deciding for yourself what a tattoo is - harmful fun, fashion or a special type of painting. Reader will find here a lot regarding body decoration: information from history, descriptions of ancient and modern methods of tattooing, types and classification of designs, which in this case are of considerable importance.