Sometimes people are ready for very strange things for the sake of beauty.
In some countries, the concept of beauty is interpreted in the same way, and everyone immediately understands who is attractive in appearance and who is not. But on the huge map of the world there are also places where things are considered beautiful, rather strange, and sometimes frightening. We decided to expand our knowledge of body modification in different parts of the world and share it with you.
Some tribes in Indonesia are still filing their teeth to keep them sharp and narrow. And before the wedding, some girls have their front teeth filed. What’s most interesting, they do it without anesthesia. It is very extreme and painful, but it is considered very beautiful in the tribe. Therefore, the girls do not hesitate to agree to this procedure.
Rating: very popular
In parts of West Africa, super plus size bodies have been trending for years. To be in fashion and successfully get married, young girls take terrible measures: they eat about 16 thousand calories a day, although the daily norm of the average person is 2 thousand.
Rating: still popular in Mauritania
In South Korea, many are convinced that round eyes are very beautiful. Due to the ever-growing interest in Western stars, the demand for surgery to remove and soften the inner corner of the eyelids, the so-called epicanthroplasty, has increased.
Rating: becoming more and more popular
Asian girls know how to amaze with their transformations. Among the fair sex in Asia, a mega-popular procedure is used that allows you to completely change the shape of the face, eyes and nose. But for this, the girls do not lie under the surgeon’s knife, but use a special … scotch tape. With the help of invisible adhesive tape, Asians fix parts of the face so that it turns out to be very narrowed towards the bottom. They do this in order to achieve the V-shape, which is considered the standard of beauty.
Before applying makeup, girls use the same tape to lift overhanging eyelids and make them look more open. And the shape of the nose of the Asian woman is corrected with the help of wax, which is first melted, then given the desired shape and finally glued to the back of her own nose.
Rating: insanely popular
All Iranian surgeons managed to get rich on girls who massively decided to change the shape of the nose, or rather, make it slightly snub-nosed. The girls themselves are sure that such a nose makes them more pretty in the eyes of men. The corrected nose with a plaster glued on it after the operation even became a testament to the material wealth of the family.
Rating: insanely popular
Many kayan women wear brass coils to give the impression that they have a long neck. The weight of these coils lowers the collarbones and compresses the ribs so that the neck actually becomes longer. As you already understood, a long neck is a sign of beauty and elegance. Despite the fact that it is fashionable, girls would gladly abandon this trend because of the eternal discomfort and health problems.
Rating: still popular in some parts
In Japan, it is generally accepted that when walking, the feet must be directed inward, then the gait is very graceful and elegant. Some explain this fact by the fact that it is almost impossible to walk in the national shoes of geta and zori without clubfoot. Men find it feminine and very innocent, so even old ladies seem quite sexy.
Rating: very popular
In some parts of Africa, a whitewashed face is found to be very beautiful. A light skin tone immediately helps a girl to become more successful and quickly find a groom. Therefore, the fair sex buy up all possible whitening agents or apply white masks to the face.
Rating: popular, but prohibited in some parts of Africa
And in some African tribes, it is customary for women to wear discs on the lower lip. Representatives of the Ethiopian Mursi tribe do this procedure to demonstrate to the men of their ethnicity that they are ready to create a family and have children. The larger the disc a woman wears, the more attractive she is to the opposite sex.
Rating: popular.
In this country, a woman should be rounded. The main parts of the body – the buttocks and chest – should be large. That is why, if a girl was born without such data, she goes under the surgeon’s knife to increase these zones.
Rating: very popular
To get a wasp waist, Western celebrities have resorted to removing their lower ribs. One of the first Hollywood stars to be suspected of such an extreme body change was actress Marilyn Monroe. Rumor has it that a similar operation was also performed by the singers Cher and Janet Jackson, the dancer Dita von Teese, and the actress Demi Moore.
However, not only the stars of the first magnitude are decided on such drastic interventions. Immediately six lower ribs were removed by the Swedish model Pixie Fox and underwent a number of plastic surgeries to be as similar as possible to Jessica Rabbit, the heroine of the Roger rabbit cartoons. To narrow the waist, another famous model from Germany, Sophia Wollersheim, resorted to the same method. Another owner of a wasp waist is “Odessa barbie” Valery Lukyanov, but the Instagram star denies that she removed her ribs, and also that she did other plastic surgeries.
Rating: popular.