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 ...

Buscalan, Philippines (CNN ... The elaborate designs once adorned both men and women, signifying everything from valor to strength and protection. But the traditional art form fell out ...

and beauty—on the skin of thousands of people who have made the pilgrimage to Buscalan,” Vogue Philippines said in a post on social media. The art can only be passed down to blood relatives ...

Whang-Od, from the small mountain village of Buscalan in the Philippines, is considered the country’s oldest mambabatok (traditional tattooist). She has become famous for mastering a 1,000-year ...

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 ...

The first sound I heard upon reaching Buscalan was that of heaving and ... which is tucked deep into the undulating mountains of the Philippines’ Kalinga province. But, like me, my fellow ...

(CNN) – Vogue Philippines has unveiled its latest cover star – Apo Whang-Od, a 106-year-old tattoo artist from the mountain village of Buscalan in the Kalinga province of the Philippines.