Beauty and Culture

Wondering what neck rings are? They are formed with one or more spiral metal coils of many turns worn as an ornament around the neck of an individual. In a few African and Asian cultures neck rings are worn to  create  the appearance that the neck has been stretched. A Kayan girl showing here beauty   The Kayan(Burma) is an indigenous tribe in Myanmar/Asian who practice the art of the neck ring. They considered a long neck as beautiful. It also showed of the families valuable metal rings, indicating wealth. A women wore up to twenty pounds of rings on her neck. At the age of two and in some other cases five, girls are introduced to their first neck ring. As the grow older rings are added. This will give them an elongated neck and will attract husbands. Kayan women   In Africa the neck ring culture is found amongst the Ndebele tribe. The reason is the same, it gives an appearance of stretching the neck and some form of beauty. They used copper rings as well. ...

Dreadlocks  to most is a black thing, after doing some research i found out that dread locks has been in somany cultures since ancient times. If you are interested to know more as i was, read on. Ancient Times Dreadlocks have been around since the dawn of time. Ancient Egyptians wore them , ancient Asian emperor´s wore them, cavemen wore them even John the Baptist and Samson wore them. The first writing available about dreadlocks is in the Veda scriptures of India , the earliest piece dated to 1800 Bc. Many people and tribes wore dreadlocks , the Germanic tribes, The Greeks the Nazorites, the Pacific people and the Naga Indians.  The Mau tribe wore dreadlocks to intimidate the colonizers of Kenya in East Africa. Even Caesar claimed that the Celts wore dreadlocks by describing them as having ´hair like snakes´. Slavery The actual word dreadlocks comes from Jamaica, made up in the early movement of the Rastafarian, dreadlocks came from the word dread for mean...

As a little girl i always wondered about the origin of makeup. Then growing older i wondered how its origin connected to the ancient concept of the evil eye . The evil eye is a belief that is reflected in virtually every culture known to mankind. In order to understand the constantly changing trends in cosmetics, its interesting to take a look at the evolution of Makeup. Men and women from different cultures and origins have worn make-up for centuries. The styles of make up have certainly taken a dramatic change. The earliest historical records date far back as the 1st Dynasty of Egypt(c.3100-2907 BC). Tombs revealed unguent jars. These jars included products to combat stretch marks, minimize wrinkles, eliminate scars and encourage hair growth. Egyptians were very particular about their eye makeup, popular shades of eye make up were black and green. The green color was made of malachite and oxide copper. The black kohl was called galena. Women in Greco-Roman wore white lead chalk on th...