Foreign Tourists Interested In Tatoos In Kuta

KUTA, Bali, March 29 (Antara) - Foreign visitors in spending their holiday in Kuta Beach, Badung District, Bali starting to be interested to make tattoos from local tatto artists. "We offer the best tattoo service which only uses one needle for one customer as an effort to avoid the spread of HIV / AIDS," Arik, one of the tattoo artists said here on Wednesday. He prioritizes are the cleanliness of needles, hand slop, and the ink quality. He said the fee of the making tattoo could not be decided because the value is highly dependent of the size and the ink quality of the tattoos. Foreigners from Australia, Germany, New Zealand and France usually use the tattoo making service in Kuta with various fee which starting from Rp 300,000 to tens of millions. Some types of tattoos are offered to the consumer, such as oriental tattoos that accentuate the sharpness of color, bio mechanical tattoo (illustration of the human body), portrait tattoo (idol figure tattoo), geometric (line elements tattoo) and water color (splashing water form tattoo). Besides, local tourists also interested on tattoos from Bali, Kadek Arta said. Eron, a tattoo artist said a tattoo business was uncertain since five years ago. Moreover, when Mt. Agung has eruptioned, the economy of the local people remained very small, almost nonexistent. However, after the eruption of Mt. Agung , the visits of tourists remain stable especially at Kuta Beach.