After seeing Giamba’s temporary face tattoos turn heads on the runway at Milan Fashion Week, I’ve been getting obsessed with temporary tattoos. Sure it might sound childish to some, but after ...

Toetu‘u, who apprenticed under Su‘a’s father Su‘a Alaiva‘a, points out that “Maui bears ‘Neo-Polynesian Tribal’ tattoos, which is a contemporary style that began in the late 1990s ...

The legacy of Polynesian tatau, the onomatopoeic name for the practice of tattoo, began 3,000 years ago—the designs as diverse as the people who wear them.The Polynesian Triangle includes more ...

Unlike the modern fashion of body art, traditional Polynesian tattoos were a powerful means of communication and expression. Polynesian tattoos represent the good “Mana” wisdom, a spiritual ...

3200 B.C. Ötzi, who would become the world’s oldest mummy, gets a tattoo: about 60 lines and crosses on his lower spine, right knee, and ankle joints.

As with my Polynesian tattoo on the left side of body, the symbolic mana lays over my heart. We all have mana. Our strength. You just have to find it. [jwplayer TlCc1r4K-t2dCqACG] ...

Op-Ed: New product echoes the history of Polynesian art and tattoos (Includes interview and first-hand account) By. Jonathan Farrell. Published. December 6, 2015 ...