Salutations Steemers, I will follow up this story with more photos that paint a bigger picture of the more in your face risks associated with getting one these tattoos. They don't have the mod cons of a regular tattoo shop here, even the fact they use the same pine charcoal ink with a folded stick to do the traditional designs which could be thousands of years old or at least as old as the rice terraces that their ancestors built, that surround the village it self.
A small piece of bamboo hold the Acacia Thorn (yes Acacia 4 those in the Gnosis of plant medicine) in a small hole while the artist taps away with a pine stick, loading the thorn with charcoal ink swabbed up with her finger from a coconut shell,
you can watch the skin pierce and lift with each tap all the while thinking well maybe placebo will save me from real risk of the alphabet soup of hepatitis one could be acquiring here to participate in ancient tradition.but that will be the least of your worries about danger the real and present ones will be known if and when you chose to come here, and i do hope some of you or at least one of you do.
A tiny lil old lady of 102 yrs of age really
put this place on the map only 8 years ago, although in was discovered in the mid fifties the tattoo culture of the world has put this place and these noble people on the map and this meek humble lil old lady who is nothing short of legendary status & i am proud to have her sign off on her students work.... her Name is Op Whang Od go search her, watch some videos then by all means up vote me, or donate some BTC when you find my QR Code next to some art at Charlies home stay in this amazing lil village of Buscalan.