Filipino women generally let their hair grow long, often tying it in knots that vary from group to group. Some women, especially the Aeta, adorn their hair with combs.

Tattooing is also virtually universal among traditional groups, each of which maintains different patterns. The Visayans were originally called Pintabos by the Spanish because of their proliferation of body art. Both men and women wear tattoos. The Aeta, being dark-skinned, practice scarification instead.

Tribes in the south traditionally consider filed and blackened teeth beautiful. This tradition is also practiced to a lesser extent by the peoples of Luzon.

Men also generally value hair length as well as beauty, letting it grow as long as it will. The pre-Europeanized Tagalog formerly cut theirs off at the shoulder, while the Sambal and Batak shaved the front half of the head, leaving the back unshorn. Ifugao men wear a bowl-shaped haircut unless in mourning, when it is left unshorn.