Each tattoo is designed around an individual's life story The Spanish conquistadors who landed in 1521 dubbed the Philippines the Islands of the Painted Ones after the heavily tattooed locals. Nearly ...

There's an Indigenous form of tattooing based in the Philippines called batok, dating back to pre-colonial days. Natalia Roxas is a practitioner based in Hawaii. She calls it a spiritual ceremony.

Baybayin is the written language of the Philippines. Originally called Alibata by historians, the language decreased in use after the introduction of the Latin alphabet by the Spanish in the 1600s.

A Filipino tattoo artist who has been carrying out the practice for more than nine decades has become Vogue's new cover star at the age of 106. Apo Whang-Od, also known as Maria Oggay, is a master at ...

The Spanish conquistadors who landed in 1521 dubbed the Philippines the Islands of the Painted Ones after the heavily tattooed locals. Nearly 500 years on, tribal tattooing is almost extinct. Aya Lowe ...