Chinese like temporary Indian tatoos .
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Mehndi tattoo fad hits fashionable Chinese youth
PTI
(Beijing, July 25)
THE FASHIONABLE Chinese youth seems to have readily accepted mehndi,
the coffee-coloured extract from henna plant, as a traditional and
harmless cosmetic from India to beautify their bodies. During
scorching days in Beijing, fashionable young men and women boldly show
their tattoos which quickly spread across the capital, the
Shanghai-based Wenhui Daily reported.
Colourful flying dragons, soaring phoenix, blooming roses and
abstractive patterns are decorating bodies of youth, the paper
commented on the latest craze.
Media reports said body painting studios have been opened recently in
the capital and Shanghai. Temporary tattoos painted on a body instead
of jabbed into the skin have become a new fashion trend here this
summer, the Beijing youth daily reported.
The Jipin body painting studio, Beijing's only tattoo parlour, is
having a busy time to meet the requirements of its elite clientele.
Studio owner Zhang Zhe, an amateur painter who graduated from the
Beijing Institute of Foreign Languages, says business is good. His
clientele includes actors, singers, college students and white collar
executives. This form of body art is safe and painless and looks
beautiful, Zhang said while commenting on the popularity of this form
of body painting.
Zhang, 23, who opened his shop on June 18, has a large collection of
unique and intricate Chinese patterns in his computer.
He first prints the pattern his client selects, then applies a tonic
that will help the print leave a mark when pressed on the body. Zhang
then paints on the mark left by the pattern. This simple method
enables him to paint almost any pattern that can be stored in a
computer.
His collection of patterns includes simple designs such as jewellery,
flowers, cartoons, little animals and insects and complicated patterns
such as Buddhist Arhats and scripts. Girls prefer butterflies, roses
and small animals while the boys like abstract paintings, he says.
Common patterns cost from 10 yuan (Rs 50 approx) to 300 yuan (Rs 1,500
approx).
Since tattoos are not acceptable to most Chinese because of cultural
traditions, tattoo artists are exploring the market with more
varieties and cheaper prices, he says. A small bottle of mehndi paste,
which could be used to paint up to 50 small patterns, costs 236 yuan.
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No, China do not like temporary India, because China hat no freedom now.
All the chinese in mainlang China are isolated from aussen.
Please, look at the home page: http://www.angelfire.com/ga/chaok , you
would find that freedom is very important for everyone.
This home page has also the whole text of the "New Labour Theory of
Value" in Chinese and English.
Reading without thinking is nonsense!!!
Man said that there are many Mafia misuse internet, how could we fight
against such pigs??? Have you any good ideas?
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