Scott Rapacon (United States) Family name with flag in the letters by Nick Gahley of Valhallas Gate Tattoo “Rapacon is who we are and Philippines is where we are from.”

Federico Heyward (Telford, United Kingdom) Representing the Homeland by Telford Tattoos “Looking through the site a few months back, and seen lot of the Suns and Star designs. Some were a bit too plain for my liking. I seen this and I thought that’s the one and no one on the site was rocking it [...]

Karlia (Hawthorne, CA) Maye Dianne, My Rebirth by Oscar (Tattoo Shop off of Centinela & La Cienega) “I wanted to get a tattoo that symbolized the day my partner came into my life. So with her being Filipino I thought what would be better than getting her name in Baybayin . The writing says, “Maye [...]

Verny (Seattle, WA) Representing my Filipino pride and my family name by Lucky Devil Tattoo “Basic Philippine sun, but instead the two stars were dropped to extenuate the lower back. And across the sun is a banner with my family name.”

JC Cristobal (San Francisco) God Blessed You by Tengko “Pinoy art!” Son of God. God incarnate. The Messiah. Nazarene. The King of Jews. Joshua. The Anointed One. The Prince of Peace. Liberator. Redeemer. The Wonder Counselor. Emmanuel. Son of David. And the list goes on. Jesus has been a celebrated subject of art-related activities like [...]

Archgie (California) 3 Stars and a Sun by Ink Assassin Its old-fashioned feel and historic charm style are some of the reasons why this type of font is famous and can be seen almost everywhere in the tattoo community. But very little is known on how the Old English Text font started. Nevertheless, one thing can [...]

Jerweezee (San Diego CA) Filipino Sun/Alibata/Tribal by Salvation Ink San Diego “The Kuya” “We have the Filipino sun on the back and on the arm the word Pinoy with Alibata of kids name and Filipino/Hawaiian fusion tribal.” Ancient Filipino script shouldn’t be called in any other way but Baybayin. Baybayin was coined alibata by a [...]

Sharjah UAE My name and My kid’s initials and My sign (water sign) by Mike from Dubai “I just want to share it with every one! And I’ll post the other one that I will be getting.” Prophet Muhammad clearly stated that getting inked is forbidden and sinful as it attempts to modify and destroy Allah’s [...]

Jesse (Southern Cailfornia) by Tiki Tattoo in Lacey, WA  Are we really related? If you go online and use the words Filipino and Polynesian as keywords, you’ll actually find out that Filipinos are being questioned as to whether have Polynesian lineage as well since we have the same resemblance. Some say we are and others [...]

Jason (San Diego) Ruivivar by Skin N Art “RUIVIVAR and I’m proud to be a Filipino. This tats is my last name and we’re quite a few in our hometown. So I decided to write it in modified Spanish way and also to show that no matter where I am or who I’m with, I’ll [...]