Women’s tattoos depict such images as: centipedes, birds, plants, shells and hair combs. These icons vary from the male tattoo, but are equally powerful, positive images drawn from life in Samoa.

Through Special Tattoo, Samoans in SoCal Connect to Their Homeland Each session takes hours, and the pain can exceed that of a regular, machine-tooled tattoo.

Samoan-born MP Su'a William Sio, who represents the South Auckland seat of Mangere, has told the New Zealand media that Nike should have investigated the origins of the tattoo before the company ...