Braille tattoos are rising in popularity and it’s not just for their beautiful aesthetic. These tattoos are a way for people to connect and communicate through skin. Blind or visually impaired people are now able to enjoy tattoos as they can read the designs and words with their fingers. The tattoos are not really tattoos but titanium or plastic beads which are placed under the skin, these stick out like embossed dots, allowing them to be read like braille.
Many people are getting Braille tattoos which are not sub-dermal implantations, purely because they like how they look. These is also a sense that the message is secret to others, very much like tattoos in Arabic or other languages. The words cannot be deciphered by those who do not know the language, but could the message be lost in translation? If one dot is put in the wrong place could the whole meaning be changed?
Do you have a Braille tattoo or would you consider getting one?
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