JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — To Grace Bao, it's more than just a tattoo on her arm. “This is actually a very common design motif when it comes to Batok across all the different tribes,” Bao said. What ...

BUSCALAN, PHILIPPINES • Whang-Od, 107, has witnessed more than a century of change in her remote village in the Philippine northern hills. But the greatest changes have come because of her, the ...

Surrounded by lush rice terraces and undulating landscape, the mountain village of Buscalan is home to just 200 or so households. It rests in the Kalinga province of the Philippines and is about a ...

At 106, Apo Whang-od is the oldest known person practicing batok, a traditional tattooing technique that dates back 1,000 years in the Philippines. These tattoos were once badges of honor to warriors ...

Filipino tattoo artists are no longer hidden talents. And this year, the practice gets a boost from seven artists who ...

For their April 2023 issue, the magazine tapped 106-year-old Apo Maria "Whang-Od" Oggay, a traditional mambabatok, or Indigenous tattoo artist, to pose for the beauty-centric issue. As outlined in a ...

The first sound I heard upon reaching Buscalan was that of heaving and panting. A group of us had just completed a steep climb to the remote village, which is tucked deep into the undulating mountains ...

BAGUIO CITY (PIA) – Celebrating the role of women in tattoo and culture, the Museo Kordilyera recently hosted the “INKheritage: Women Tattoos and Cultural Identity in the Cordillera” at the University ...

But this 2025, Nadine made the bold choice to remove some of her tattoos through the Aivee Tattoo Removal by the Aivee Clinic. In a TikTok video with Aivee Clinic's founder, Dr. Aivee Teo, Nadine ...