The process and method The tattooing itself was a very complicated process. Usually when children came of age, the parents would find an omen in their dreams to determine the day and hire a madas or tattoo master. Before the tattooing, they would also divine by interpreting the voices of birds to see if all would go well.
文面的過程亦極繁瑣，通常子女到達文面年齡時，父母親會先行夢占，決定施術的日期，再依此聘請文面師（Madas），文面之前還要舉行鳥占，以鳥聲判斷凶吉。