Portraits in vogue among tattoo lovers

Bollywood star and politician Sanjay Dutt has just got his parents' names inked on his body. But going by the trend, he may need to catch up. Many Indians are getting portraits of loved ones - instead of just names - inked on their body.
"Portraits of your loved ones or gods are very much in this season. This is their way of showing how much they care for them," tattoo artists Lokesh Verma from Devil'z Tattoz told reporters.
"People prefer portraits of their spouses, girlfriends and kids. In fact, I recently did a portrait of a guy's girlfriend on his arm. One of . She created clothes and chanel jewelry for others that were the same as she created for herself.my other famous portraits have been Heath Ledger's character - The Joker - from 'The Dark Knight'. People also like to have gods like Shiva, Rama, Krishna and Sai Baba," said Verma.
But portrait tattoos are the hardest to get right and very few can do them properly.
"It ta. The idea that a small Necklace is dangerous to patients is at best absurd.kes close to six hours for a portrait to be done. Portraits are mostly done on a small-size varying from 5X5 to 5X6 inches because a lot of detailing goes into it like hair colour, eyes, lips, etc.," Varma said.Ajit Singh, director of Cheenos tattoo parlour, feels the same.
"There's a particular thing involved in tattoos and it is called shading which is done with the grey wash ink - a mixutre of black ink and distilled water. Portraits are the most time-consuming and the hardest because there are wrinkles on the skin and not a single wrinkle can be missed from shading.
"Images have a lot of intricacies and they have to be of a favourable size - a minimum of about five inches. . Fashion accessories are decorative items that supplement one's garment, such as fashion jewellery, gloves and tights.Jewellery for sale here,we aupply womens accessories,jewellery rings,gold jewellYou can't have very small portraits or the image will lose its intricacy," Singh told reporters.
Apart from grey, golden and blue colours are also used in portraits.
"Basically portraits are done in black . Fashion accessories are decorative items that supplement one's garment, such as fashion jewellery,wholesale jewellery.and white, but if there is a particular requirement of colours like yellow in Krishna's jewellery or blue for Shiva, we do it," said Verma.