Many people were taken by their parents deep into the mountains to be tattooed in secret. The preconditions for having tattoos were gradually relaxed. Males no longer had to have hunted a human head, and females no longer had to be able to weave. The age at which facial tattooing occurred was also moved forward; many children and adolescents had facial tattoos early, according to their parents 'wishes.
但是，泰雅人並沒有因此而屈服，許多人被父母親帶往深山偷偷文面，文面的條件也逐漸的放寬，男子不再需要曾馘首，女子也不再需要會織布；文面的年齡也一再提前，許多幼兒少年，都在父母的要求下提早文面。