Face tattoo
A permanent design pricked, carved or stitched into the skin of the face.
Also: facial tattoo
Facial tattooing is found in many Indigenous traditions: tā moko of the Māori, kakiniit of the Inuit, the chin and lip tattoos of Ainu women, the facial tattoos of Atayal people in Taiwan, of Apatani women in Arunachal Pradesh and of Chin women in Myanmar, and the chin marks of Amazigh women in North Africa. Many were suppressed by governments or missionaries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Some are now being revived by the communities themselves.