The majority of Western cultures and religious traditions have associated tattoos with criminality, primitivity, and other forms of unsophistication. Artistically and resolutely, many of the colonized today counteract the violence of cultural and religious erasure by getting inked. For others, tattooing is a form of body liberation and healing: Choosing to mark one’s body and determining which designs to be permanently marked with is a reclamation. One Saturday morning, I had breakfast with tattoo artists Alaga and Wiji Lacsamana at Tattoo Nebula, a tattoo and piercing studio in Manila, Philippines. This coincides with co-founder of Long Time Tattoo Celeste Lai’s words on the connection between tattooing and body reclamation.