The practice, primarily for women, is "an amuletic form of tattooing ... She is having the tattoos on her forehead and chin removed, as they represent Canadian Inuit designs and not Greenlandic ...
Andu Schiodt Pikilak has dark dashes on her forehead ... Inuit tattoos in Greenland – similar to those inked in other Inuit cultures, notably in Canada – are primarily worn by women.