Micha Ella D.

Arandia
BSBA-1

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE
The topic that I chose is about Physical Appearance, it contains with Decorative Dentistry,
Tattooing, Color, Skull Moulding, Penis Pins Circumcision, Pierced Ears, Hair, Clothing and
Jewelry. For me physical appearance refers to a person's exterior look, including their hairstyle,
beard, clothing, weight, height, facial features, and other physical characteristics, regardless of
their gender. However, if and when such a requirement is consistently applied for entry to a
public facility or to employees at a business institution for a legitimate business purpose, it shall
not apply to the requirement of cleanliness, uniforms, or prescribed clothes. Human physical
appearance is the outward phenotype or look of human beings. There are infinite variations in
human phenotypes, though society reduces the variability to distinct categories.
I will start with Decorative Dentistry. In 16th century Austronesian’s idea was that only wild
animals had white teeth was widespread in Southeast Asia. To the bisaya, a most distinctive
feature of Iberian invaders was their white teeth, a feature shared with monkeys, dogs, and
pigs. As the Visayans said of the smiles of persons who exposed a mouthful of bare
undecorated teeth to be baga napkangan huligid (like a chaw of coconut meat). There are
different kinds of tooth like Bansil, Cebu’s common product was gold. It was also used in
decorative dentistry. Impressive examples of Visayan dentisty were the goldwork. Pusad wa
general term for goldwork in teeth whether inlays, crowns or plating. Halop or covering
included both plating held on by little gold rivets run through a tooth, and actual caps extending
over the gum line secured by pegs. Decorative dentistry has continued top envolve since
ancient times. Dental professionals should stay abreast of these trends so they can offer advice
and education to their parents.
Tattooing, the general term for tattoos are Batuk or Palik. Traditional tattoos, also known as
American, Western, or Old School are characterized by its clean black outlines, vivid colors, and
minimal shading. These are fundamental to traditional style and make it one of the most bold
and iconic tattoo styles there is.Creating a tattoo involves the insertion of pigment via tattoo ink
into the skin’s dermis. Modern tattooing almost always requires the use of a tattoo machine
and often procedures and accessories to reduce the risk to human health. Tattoo work was
done by a skillful artist who was well paid for his services. Before Spaniards called the visayan
Pintados because they were painted also they only applied tattoo when a man had performed
in battle. Before the first tattoos a person received were applied to the legs beginning at the
ankles and ending at the waist and the facial tattoos are from ear to chin to eye were restricted
to the boldest and toughest warriors.
Color, People of full Filipino descent typically have tan skin, dark hair and flatter noses. People
of mixed ethnic origin generally have lighter skin and hair, as well as narrow noses feautures
desired by many Filipinos today. Women here in Philippines were generally lighter than men due
to occupations like weaving which kept them less exposed to the sun. Filipinos doesn’t have the
same shade nor were they all necessarily darker than Spaniards. Filipino perceptions of beauty is
Skin lighthening isn’t just a part of Filipino culture, it is not uncommon in many countries like
Korea, Malaysia, Nigeria, and India. But as a Filipina, I wanted to explore the practice within my
own community. Of the many Filipino- Calgarians I spoke to about the use of skin lightening
products in the Filipino community, the majority said they think the reason skin lightening is so
prevalent is because, in Filipino culture there’s often a belief that you’re only beautiful if you
have fair skin.

Skull Moulding, skull binding was an old tradition in the Philippines. The elongated skull was
seen as a sign of beauty and status. The idea of beauty had always been traditionally culture
based. However, with the advent of colonization, the indigenous concept and practices related to
beauty gradually began to wane in favor of the European. During a head first birth, pressure on
the head caused by the tight birth canal may mold the head into an oblong rather than round
shape. New born head moulding is a common occurrence that usually disappears after a few
days. In non muslim parts of somatra, women used to bind babies heads to produce flat foreheads
and noses. Melanau and Sarawak wants their children to grow up Moon Faced. Visayan skull
moulding was done with a device called tangad. Adults with the desired tangad profile were
called tinangad. And the opposite of tangad was ondo.

Pierced Ears, In modern societies, ear piercing is done as a ritual indicating puberty, of which
each of the parents would pierce an ear, symbolizing the child’s dependence upon them. The
Ancient Egyptians are one of the oldest bodies found with stretched ear lobes. The holes-hogar
or tosok were made with a copper needle. Distended lobes tore out, the ends could be
trimmed and the raw edges sutured together to heal whole again. This operation was called
kulot or sisip. The person without pierced ears were called bingbing. Helix piercing, also known
as the traditional cartilage piercing, falls anywhere along the outer rim on your ear. Precolonial
Bisaya women had their ears pierced with three to four holes including panikaan or lower hole
to accommodate variety of ornaments plus jewelry. Ladies wore jewelry in all holes. Rings and
plugs were called generally as panika.
Hair, Hairstyles differed from one community to the next and they changed often but
throughout the Visayan islands men and women generally had long hair down to the waist for
some men and down to the ankles for some women. The men usually tied their hair in knot on
top of or behind their heads or they wrapped it in a head cloth similar to a turban. The women
piled their hair high in elaborate styles and used flowers and sesame seed oil to treat the hair
and to give it an attractive scent. In Visayas whether male or female, the Filipinos kept their hair
long. Cutting one’s hair was a manifestation of deep mourning or punishment. Spanish
impressed with the amount of time and care Visayan’s gave their hair. Facial hair and in some
places body hair too was removed. Both men and women had their eyebrows shaved into thin
arcs.
Clothing, In the islands of the Visayas regions, the Kimona represents Visayan clothing. Most
Visayan lowland people wear the typical Kimona, a type of Baro’t Saya blouse matching with a
knee-length skirt. Visayans basic garments were the gstring and tube skirt. This was like named
lambong, and because it can be fatened under armpits, over shoulders or even around the
heads, Spaniards called it sayo. This lambong included any garments tailored to a body, like
sinulog or sinina, short jacket which exposed the midriff. Sinina possibly originated also in
Indonesia or Malaysia, since the Visayans named foreigners Sina before the advent of
Europeans. A rectangular or tube like wraparound skirt worn by both men and women of the
Visayas islands and the Sulu Archipelago, similar to the Malong or Sarong. It was also
historically worn in parts of Luzon like Pampanga and Sorsogon. But more prestigious clothes,
lihin-lihin, were added for public apperances and in formal occasions like blouses with tunics,
loose smocks with sleeves, cape, or ankle length robes. In ascending order of value, textiles
included abaca, abaca decorated with colored cotton thread, cotton, cotton decorated with silk-
thread, silk, imported printstuffs and an elegant abaca woven of selected fibers, almost as thin
as excellent silk.
Jewelry, Both Visayan men and women wore some earings and earplugs, necklaces, even collars
of beads or gold chain, bracelets, wristlets, anklets then finger rings as well as the brooches,
clasps, and gold sequins on their clothes. Majority of these mentioned jewelry were gold. Gold
was the common product in Sugbu and other Visayan sites. Crnelians likely originating from
Mlay Peninsula or India were the most popular precious stones in our necklaces. Dried seeds
like our tigbi and gold beads were even strung in necklaces.