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DRESSING THE HAIR
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The custom
arms
young
girls with
very general. I
have already described how this tattooing is done. When
their skin is not very dark they generally ornament their
faces in the same way, by putting three or four spots on
the cheeks and chin. These marks produce very much
the same effect as the black patches which were once the
fashion with European ladies. I have already mentioned
the habit which the beauties of India and Brahmin ladies
observe of painting all the visible parts of their bodies
with yellow saffron, and also of darkening