Was listening to something a bit back about tattoos, apparently the idea way back when was they told the story of your life, Iām sure they said an example was the swallow on the side of the hand above your thumb indicates youāve sailed round the cape of good hope, and the name came from how the South Seas islanders did them with a sharp stick with the ink, and a heavier hammer type stick to hit the sharp one, with two sharp blows, they called them ta tou after the noise it made, sailors corrupted the name to tattoo