Last Updated on January 7, 2021
Apart from having stretched lips to be seen as a beauty sign, red skin is also on fashion for the Himba, who are nomadic pastoralists, inhabiting the region of Kaokoland in northwestern Namibia.
To protect their skin from the sun, without being in need of a dermatologist, and giving them a rather red color, what they basically do is covering their bodies with red ocher and fat.
Tajikistan : Monobrows
Some people might not be quite satisfied with their monobrows because they ignore the fact that having such eyebrows in a country like Tajikistan is considered as a beauty sign.
As usual, not every girl is endowed with this beauty feature, therefore, girls tend to resort to makeup tricks like drawing a line between their eyebrows. In their tribal sense, monobrows are not only a feature of beauty but also a revealing sign of the future, as they think that the one having such eyebrows is someone born under a lucky star.
What can be gleaned from this is that there is no specific standard to measure beauty; its conception and perception vary from one culture to another. Reading this must have brought up a train of thoughts and questions, perhaps curiosity to take a closer look at these weird practices in their communities of origin.
Take a moment and think of how pleasing it will be to join an interesting trip to one of these regions; a journey filled with discovery mixed with a flavor of adventure and, maybe, you will change your mind about what real beauty is. But remember something, with physical beauty, comes spiritual inner beauty too.
