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.

Filipino American actor Dave Bautista breaks down the significance of his Filipino-inspired tattoos in a video uploaded on Wednesday. Bautista, who has a Greek mother and a Filipino father, told GQ he ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vogue Philippines released its April issue on Friday and its newest cover model is an 106-year-old indigenous Kalinga woman, Apo Whang-Od, also known as Maria Oggay. Whang-Od, from the small mountain ...