A Kiwi newsreader has made history by becoming the first person to anchor a TV news bulletin with a face tattoo.

​Oriini Kaipara, 37, who has a moko kauae, a traditional lower chin tattoo worn by Māori women, read Newshub Live's 6pm news bulletin on Monday.



https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10348829/amp/Newsreader-traditional-Maori-face-tattoo-makes-history-reading-New-Zealands-6pm-news.html

Loooks like a costume. E no bad if na good news but if otherwise

We've got a good team at Newshub, I don't feel the pressure as much as I used to when I first started out in journalism.

But that comes with doing the hard yards, and then actually realising it and doing it is really exciting.'

I'm very much aware that I'm the first [with moko kauae] to anchor a six o'clock primetime news bulletin.' she said.

Kaipara is bilingual and of Tūhoe, Ngāti Awa, Tūwharetoa and Ngāti Rangitihi descent, something she proudly displays while working as a prominent journalist.

'That is always at the back of my mind, that every step I make is like breaking through a glass ceiling.

'It's breaking new ground for us as Māori, but also for people of colour. Whether you've got a moko kauae or not.'


Māori facial and body tattooing, known as Tā moko, represents the wearer's family heritage and social status.

For Māori women the moko was a rite of passage, marking the passage between girl and adulthood and symbolises a personal process of transformation.

Traditional tattoo

Waoooh I've gat tattoos in my body but a face tattoo is a No No for me.

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Scary though

Waoooh I've gat tattoos in my body but a face tattoo is a No No for me.
Face tribal marks & designs comes to mind

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RiyadhGoddess:
Waoooh I've gat tattoos in my body but a face tattoo is a No No for me.

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exactly

The tattoo spoilt her fine face

E be like bia bia

Same way tribal mark dey scatter afonja & janjaweeed dem face

Eroding of morals.

Just like this woman

Seen

Beautiful if is in Africa mostly Nigeria Ahaa! Dem 4 done bring down earth with ill mindset and religious oppression

Righteousness2 babylon don fall finish.

Old news.

Booosheeett

Disgusting. Her decision her headache anyway.

This looks tribal.

When it's sin by our pastors

A pastor once said putting on jeans by men is a sin.
I just can't deal with those masochists.

Is she married...??

If she is the first, what will you now say of our Yoruba, Hausa or Igala origin that reads news in NTA back in 70's & 80's with tribal mark

This is a traditional tattoo, see the write up there,
Same with roman reigns and rocks tattoo, the similarities between both proves they are of Viking ancestry, same as the women above, they are aboriginals the original black owners of new Zealand, so it's normal they hold their cultural values close, at least if they wouldn't lose all their traditional identity....

The pastors must warn them of this dangerous practices.

It will only bring the Devil.

This believes must be cast aside.

Jesus alone is their salvation.

Really??
Since all these years, she is first Maori woman with face tattoo to cast news??
Ommo thank God for African way of life oo

Beautiful

Felabrity:
Scary though

That tattoo is just plain nasty looking. It gives that previously beautiful woman the hideous appearance of a person suffering from a disfiguring skin disease.

Oh well, I suppose it could have been worse.