BUSCALAN, PHILIPPINES • Whang-Od, 107, has witnessed more than a century of change in her remote village in the Philippine northern hills. But the greatest changes have come because of her, the ...

Surrounded by lush rice terraces and undulating landscape, the mountain village of Buscalan is home to just 200 or so households. It rests in the Kalinga province of the Philippines and is about a ...

At 106, Apo Whang-od is the oldest known person practicing batok, a traditional tattooing technique that dates back 1,000 years in the Philippines. These tattoos were once badges of honor to warriors ...

For their April 2023 issue, the magazine tapped 106-year-old Apo Maria "Whang-Od" Oggay, a traditional mambabatok, or Indigenous tattoo artist, to pose for the beauty-centric issue. As outlined in a ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Vogue's latest cover model is shattering expectations in more ways than one. Apo Whang-Od is a tattoo artist from Buscalan, a mountain village in The Philippines' Kalinga province.

For example, some get bamboo tattoos in Thailand with a prayerful backdrop, and others call upon the magic of the grapefruit thorn in the Philippines. Souvenir tattoos are no young person's whim. They ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Surrounded by lush rice terraces and undulating landscape, the mountain village of Buscalan is home to just 200 or so households.