My jaw clenches and my teeth crunch as the tiny blade slices liquid poison into my calf. Each cut stings with a nagging numbness – sort of like my recent breakup. Getting a tattoo was how I wanted to ...

RANGIROA, French Polynesia — The origins of Polynesian tattooing go back to the first waves of migrations from Southeast Asia. The first traces of tattooing in Polynesia date back 2,000 years! The ...

The Aranui 5 is a passenger-freighter vessel that makes 14-day voyages between Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands. James D. Morgan/Getty Images Born on the 40-square-mile island of Ua Pou in the ...

Two New Zealand tattoo artists will join tattooists from all over the globe as they converge on Tahiti today for one of the world’s largest tattoo festivals. Kiwis Netane Singh-Lagah and Dwayne Maihi ...

Lio Faamasino didn't start with a formal apprenticeship in tattooing. He didn't learn in a shop, and he originally bought a machine to ink himself out of his own home. All three of those details would ...

The filmmakers behind Moana put in plenty of effort to make the film as culturally accurate as possible. To tell the tale of Disney's first Polynesian hero, the animation giant formed the Oceanic ...