A Mru girl shown below portrays the Mru idea of beauty. With blackened teeth with soot and red painted lips this is definitely the opposite idea of beauty in modern England, where people will pay a lot of money to have the complete opposite!
Another idea of beauty in the Sakkudai culture is the sharpening of the teeth. The book reads; 'A hammer and chisel are used to grind down the enamel in this painful procedure'. Ouch!
The outcome of sharpening the teeth...
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