Starting my Filipino tattoo journey: episode 1
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
- This video is the first video of my Tattoo Journey series. I will be sharing details of how I learned about traditional Filipino tattoos and the group, Tatak Ng Apat Na Alon tribe. Please, like, comment and share if you found this video helpful. Don't forget to press that subscribe button.
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Thank you for sharing. I have been looking into this recently. I also am adopted but was raised by the white side of my family who couldn't teach me anything about the filipino culture. I am always trying to learn more.. and it has been a lonely journey.
Try to visit Philippines, your country and have a solitude and feel your native roots.
Those tattoos we're mostly practiced in the Cordillera region, where people hunted heads as a trophy a long time ago. We are called, Igorots, or people used to refer to us as people with tails! Those tattoos symbolizes strenght for men and represents beauty for women. But you represent BOTH. Strong and beautiful. ❤️
Thank you so much!
We all tattooed, not just in the Cordillera. From Luzon, Visayas, to Mindanao. The pintados the Spaniards called my ancestors.
I am here for our research project about local tattoos. I am from Visayas, Leyte in Particular which is also well-known for Pintados. Pintados is a famous body painting that signifies bravery and social rank. Pintados is a pre-colonial culture. That was before they killed our own culture.
@@kilipaki87oritahiti Others are almost like a myth😅unlike Cordilleran tradition which stands out, especially that they were the only group in the PH that was never been conquered😁
@@cookiemurph8532 Pintados or the Painted People are from Visayas they're not Igorot.
Thankyou for sharing your story to us! And I just wanna say that I’m proud of you KABAYAN 🇵🇭❤
Thanks to tiktok for getting me to your YT page. I've been contemplating Filipino tribal tattoos for over 2 decades but didn't know where to begin on design. Now I do. Thanks!!
being filipino as well, im so happy to see this art form making a come back!! im going to start my filipino tattoo journey next year and im gathering and learning as much as i can! your gorgeous by the way♥♥
Happy to hear that you are taking on the journey! Welcome to the family and I hope it is as fulfilling for you as it has been for me. Much love :)
I just got done writing you a letter on Instagram and I guess I just wanted to know the real story behind your tattoos. Listening to your story I started to tear up a little. I share a little bit with your story through my grandmother whom I miss so much. My grandma was an orphan who came to the United States during the Great Depression. She always told us how much her family that she created with my grandpa was so important to her because she didn’t know where she came from or who her family was that she was born into. They met when my Grandpa’s navel ship came in to dock in New York. They met at the ice skating rink in Central Park. Married at 18 years old I think and they were happily married for the rest of their lives. My grandpa passed away at age 68 and my grandma at 82 . I honestly think that she passed away from a broken heart. She missed him so much she stopped eating and fell sick. They are together now. She’s one of my guardian angels I still feel her around me. Anyway I thought I would share that with you for some reason.
You have helped me so much. I am exicted to watch the rest of your videos on this. I am starting my journey now and I am very grateful you have help connect me with some resources to get me started Thank you
I appreciate the kind words. Thank you for taking the time to watch and Im glad that it's been helpful. Much love :)
I’ve always loved tribal tattoos, seeing you now it’s inspiring. And your beautiful 😍
Im a filipino. Im also wearing my filipino tribal tattoo about my family and ancestors. Took almost a year to finish it. Wearing it with pride!
That is awesome!!
Your beautiful and have a good heart. I think you got your strong spirit from the Filipino side. We Filipinos are warriors, we persevere amidst life struggle. Goodluck and Godbless in your journey ♥️💕from the Philippines.
I appreciate learning about your tattoos and the process involved. I love the designs you've chosen and can tell they are so very personal to you. Looking forward to learning more about them!
Thanks so much!
YT you have done well! These are the recommendations i like 👍!!
Glad you like them!
Tribal tattoos awesome filipino pride! 🇵🇭 the real moana 😀😀
Thank you!! For your story. For your courage and for your service. Thank you!!!
This was very informative and helpful for me on my journey into getting a tattoo about my culture and how to properly start my search.
Glad to hear it
Thank you for sharing your story and the significance of your tattoos for you!!!
You’re welcome
Youre very beautiful my favorite tiktoker 😍❤️
Finally u created a yt channel
Yaaay! I'm The 1k sub!
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Astonishing
love this
Thank you for sharing your story. Very interesting and inspiring.
Mabuhay.... Now you have to practice the art of our people also... Kali, Escrima..... Since you have the art of the cordillera....arnis.... If I didn't know that you were part Persian... I would have thought you were Ilocano.... There are a few of us that are your size..... my family especially.... The tallest of us is 6'.... We are Austronesian as a race.....The polynesians come from us also...it's actually quite fascinating how we migrated throughout the pacific.
Austronesian isn’t a race tho😝 There’s only one race, the human race!
Be proud beautiful austronesian filipino tattoo filipino island style
I want to get a full warrior tattoo from whang-od but it's impossible because i don't have honor to prove, like killing or beheading someone
mabuhay
she's twenty one years old in 2005 she looks like she is still twenty one years old!
Thank you for being honest
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I will have my own stories for my tattoo. Mindanao roots
I wanna get traditional tribal tattoos in the future but I don’t know what designs to do and how to find them. I don’t just wanna grab a picture online...
I’m glad you want to get them the right way. You’d need to research Polynesian tattoo artists. I can recommend some Filipino, Hawaiian and Samoan ones but not sure what you’re looking for
Unless you know for sure, don’t just get them. Re sesrch your own ancestors, lineage erc. Huge taboo to get the marks of someone else’s tribe, ethnic group, if not your ancestors. Best way is to take a DNA test. I did. Then I asked a cultural practitioner who has the knowledge to find the appropriate markings for me in regards to my ancestors, tribe and ethnic background.
@@the1SamJuan can u recommend som filipino ones?
I have no room for any more tattoos besides I have diabetes so I don’t heal so good 🌹🙏
I'm too scared to have my Filipino tattoo...............coz its a sacred thing.....but if you marry me I'll definatley get one :)
Tiktok brought me here 🙂
I’m researching now myself and I’m trying to find the right symbols that represent me.
I would go to Spiritual Journey Tattoo in Stanton, CA. They are a wealth of knowledge when it comes to all of that. Good luck!
It would be nice if you only wear a beads (jewelry)to cover your your chest to accent your tattoos. That is how I saw it. They only wear jewelry for tops , That is how they present themselves. Usually cost a number of carabaos( beads Jewelry) Gold is actually easier to find in the Philippines. The girls have gold but they present themselves in beads for decoration.
The way it goes is you decorate with jewelry to honor your husband(Warriors keep land and take everything from their opponents) and decorate with tattoos for the afterlife. My folks are also quiet because they are always working.
And you are very beautiful.
It is also customary to decorate your daughter for beauty and prestige.
Nowadays the government is highlighting the weavers to sell fabric to France but in the past the tops is bead works or jewelry because that is the only proof that you don't talk shit. Keep quiet and work and leave your jewelry to your kids and cross with your tattoos to the afterlife.
So cultural tattoos are okay with the Army, I say the because I have known a Army guy forced out because of Tattoos.
Get a tatoo with apo wang od
I have been trying to find someone that can help me draw one by the meaning too. My moms side is Filipino
My family is from the Philippines and I’m trying to fight out the meaning of a lot of it so I can get a pattern to tattoo Andy ideas we’re to start?
Have you tried contacting Spiritual Journey Tattoo?
I want to get my tribe's full upper body tattoo but I can't cause its culturally not appropriate for men to get tattoos without going to war and collecting their enemy's heads (yes we hunted heads during wars), for women like my grandma they get tattoos to symbolize beauty do they can get it til now
Edit: I'm from Cordillera so I don't know the rules of the katagalogan where your tattoos came from
There are tattoos that are not headhunting tattoos. I’m Ilonggo, my lola was from Negros Western Visays. We all took heads and where tattoed to head to toe all over the Philippines. I carry the creation mark of my tribe on my forehead🤷🏾♀️ I’m not dead nor has my kaliwatan cursed me yet😝 You can’t go out and take heads anymore to “earn” one, so needs to adapt to how we live today... it’s a common misconception that we only had to earn our markings. It’s enough to be “Filipino”. It’s in our blood. Our ancestors are always with us.
@@kilipaki87oritahiti Well yes of course not every tattoo is for headhunting but for my tribe here in Cordillera males should earn their tattoo through hunting animals or from battles but now a days its rare for tribal wars(the government has no control of tribal war deaths) to escalate so not a lot has completed their tattoo. Tattoo for females and outsiders(visitors) are just ar-arti(decoration).