Stars in tattoo
Stars in tattoos are rather popular images and one may see a number of such tattoos. In most cases those are the tattoos for women but there are also men who have those on their bodies. For example a member of one famous music band is covered with stars. Actually, in common tattoo culture the stars are images of no particular meaning, those are just decoration of the body and may be patterned on any part of one's body. Though, there are certain groups of people who recognise stars as ID of a person and those people have certain strict rules about where the stars may be patterned on.
According to criminal culture of tattooing the stars are symbols that may be patterned only on the bodies of hairy thieves and criminals. Those are tattoos typical for big fishes, hairy thieves and people who are the leaders of some gangs. There are also strict rules about where to pattern the star on. The number of points of a star is also important as each point is of particular meaning. There are also criminal subcultures of tattoo that recognise the meaning of stars according to their colour.
The star tattoo is usually coded sentence understandable only for criminals. Though, the secret of criminal tattoos was found out there are also police officers who are also able to recognise the message of tattoo. Actually, such state of things made criminals to reject the tattooing or to pattern those on places hidden of the public eye. Though, they still greatly about the meaning of those and follow the rules of star tattooing.
Common place for such tattoos are the shoulder-blades, the place where the policemen wear their medals. The tattoos patterned on the shoulder-blades are the tattoos that express one's attitude towards law and officials. Those are also tattoos that identify one's status among other criminals and his attitude towards prison. For example there are star tattoo according to which one may be sure that a person was born on prison, had spent most part of his life in it and consider the prison as his home. There are also star tattoo the obligate one to hold the whole prison in his hands.
The star tattoo may also be of biographic meaning. Those are tattoos that may be recognised as short narration about life of a criminal or the tattoos that express the main idea of his life. Though, this kind of tattoo is rather peculiar and there are a lot of factors that influence the meaning of the tattoo. So, common meaning for a star in tattoo is an identification of a criminal as high and mighty among criminals. In case if a person have the stars on the body and break the rules those stars appoint there will be a punishment for such neglecting of the rules.