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On this episode of Macro Beauty, we meet Michelle who is getting a Traditional Hawaiian Hand-Tap Tattoo. She met up with Hawaii’s first-titled Kahuna Kā Uhi (tattooing priest) to experience it first hand. Watch this episode to learn how this process works. | Refinery29