Last Updated on January 7, 2021
For this particular reason, ladies with their tricky sense tend to take off parts of their hair just to give the impression or illusion that they actually have a high forehead. This is not a Fule-specific practice for throughout history, medieval European ladies used to shave as much hair they could from the top of their head as well.
Burma : A Long Neck
Scrutinizing the long and attractive neck of a giraffe must certainly incite an astonishing impression within you. In the eastern part of Burma exists a region named ‘The country of Giraffe Women’ or the Kayan people.
In this particular far geographical location, it is believed that women with long necks around which they wear brass rings are features of their feminine attraction.
Like any other tribal custom, this has got a legendary meaning ; as the people of this tribe have faith in the protecting powers of those rings, as the latter can shield women from animals like tigers, but the truth is that this mythical belief which is considered as the ground of such practices is not really true.
Hence, having women wear brass rings around their long necks is a matter of identifying themselves and distinguishing their tribe from other ones.
The Mursi People : Stretched Lips And Red Skin
The powerful beauty of an Ethiopian girl is bound by her ability to stretch her lower lip. This procedure is decisive for her for, on one hand, it identifies her beauty among others and social status, and on the other, it impacts the amount of money she shall be having as dowry before her marriage.
To stretch their lips, the Mursi tribe girls in Ethiopia utilize a particular type of large disks. In another southwestern Ethiopian tribe, near the Sudanese boundaries, which are one of the tribes situated in the Fertile Omo Valley with about 20,000 inhabitants, they perform the exact similar custom.
