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 ...

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 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 ...

Hi! I'm Morgan, and I'm a 30-year-old Samoan woman. Morgan Sloss / BuzzFeed Even if you don't know much about Samoan culture, you've likely seen or heard about our tattoos. Fun fact: the English word ...

"I am so proud and grateful to be carrying this kakau (tattoo); truly feeling more whole," she wrote. "As I spend more and more time away from home, having my Mauna Kea, manu, and nihotaniwha remind ...