City Girls Snub Traditional Hindu Face Tattoos In Pakistan

Source: International Business Times

Six-year-old Pooja shows off her tattoos at the Jogi Colony, a Hindu-majority district in Umerkot, Pakistan AFP Grinding charcoal with a few drops of goat's milk, 60-year-old Basran Jogi peers at the faces of two small Pakistani sisters preparing for their first tattoos. The practice of elder women needling delicate shapes onto the faces, hands, and arms of younger generations stretches back centuries in the Hindu villages that dot the southern border with India. "First draw two straight lines between the eyebrows," Jogi instructs her friend poised with a sewing needle.