Let's be straight.
Tattoos were originally gang shit, prison shit. In our lifetime.
if you wanna go way back, it'd be Mayan and Inca shit. Māori shit.
This is white people just taking something what isn't really theirs to begin with and claiming it as their own shit. Sound familiar?
Yes, ancient whites NEVER EVER painted or tattooed themselves before they were introduced to it by pacific islanders or americans.
"By far the most civilized are those who dwell in Kent. Their entire country borders on the sea, and they do not differ much from the Gauls in customs. Very many who dwell farther inland do not sow grain but live on milk and flesh, clothing themselves in skins.
All the Britons paint themselves with woad, which produces a dark blue color; and for this reason they are much more frightful in appearance in battle. They permit their hair to grow long, shaving all parts of the body except the head and the upper lip. Ten and twelve have wives 16common among them, especially brothers with brothers and parents with children; if any children are born they are considered as belonging to those men to whom the maiden was first married. . . ."
Julius Caesar.....44 BC
And "The history of tattoos goes much further back than just antiquity. Even in the Stone Ages people would get tattooed.
A good example of a tattooed stone age man is Ötzi, the natural mummy of a man who lived somewhere between 3350 and 3105 BC, and who had a total of 61 tattoos. But there are also tattooed mummies from Egypt that are about as old."
He was found in....AUSTRIA.
Might want to shelve your race crap and read some real history, for academic purposes of course.