Prepare to marry and go to the husband family, first thing the girls have to do, that is piercing their ears by thorns for earing then gradually widening the hole as possible. They then get point of the elephant ivory which hunted by men in the village to pierce on the hole.
Mrs Nang Nang, 90 years old, said that this is the type of customs and also the type of beauty of B'rau ethnic minorities women in the village of Dak Me, Bo Y Commune, Ngoc Hoi District, Kon Tum province, Vietnam. They pierce their ears as wide as beautiful, earing wearing holes can be more than 10 cm wide. Later, when have no more elephant ivory to make earings, they are replaced by the short bamboo sticks or plastic bottle caps ..
After finished beauty for the ears, the woman continue make beauty for her teeths, they grind their teeth shorter by a stone. This is not only important for women but for men too, it show they now come to the age to have to do all the work, from go working to grow rice on the field, to going in the forest to hunt elephants for pulling timber.
When the teeth grinding was done, it mean they are not voracious, eating in moderation, do not eat all of the parents, they are filial children to their parents.
The B'rau peoples also make the beauty by tattoo strange shapes up around the face, the shape of the tattoo with thei preferences, it could be a cross or parallel lines ...
The peoples, who tattoos express themselves on their body this way, it mean they living in affluent families, poor people are not allowed to tattoo like that.
Currently, the customs have gradually been eroded. Dak Me Village have now just over 10 women with over 80 years old still have earings hole about 10 cm wide. The village also have two women lived in a rich family who were tattooed on their faces, that Mrs Nang Nang and Mrs Y Bu (103 years).
Mrs Nang Nang said: "I and my husband tattoosed when we married, I did tattoos for the beauty only. In general, it is customary leave by our ancestors but we would not understand much about it."
Toni Nguyen
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