[a-quietdream]

Ksenya Istomina.

[russiawave]

[dasfinanzamt-deactivated2026030]

Mixing the two ingredients, and wielding a simple needle, they applied traditional tattoos to their faces, legs and hands.

“I was in love with a man, who later became my husband. I wanted him to find me beautiful,” says the 84-year-old Yusufoglu. “Although the needle hurt badly, we young girls of 10 and 16 used to tattoo each other.”

They collected the soot from the bottom of cooking pots used on wood fires, and mixed it with breast milk from a mother feeding an infant girl.

“The milk of a mother nursing a girl is used because the tattoo made with this milk comes out a paler shade of green,” 87-year-old Hulu Aydoglu says. “The milk of a mother nursing a boy comes out darker.”

The tattoos are still visible on Yusufoglu’s lined face 70 years on, but the practice is dying out.

Some women blame growing Islamic opposition to the practice, saying preachers have told them the tattoos are a sin.

“At that time, the tattoos were our make-up,” she says. “Now there is make-up - and no need to make oneself beautiful with tattoos.”

[garlandedspirits]

Rae Klein + eyes

[killyridols]

music room by salman toor, oil on canvas, 2021

[nevver]

Barely above water, Dadu Shin

[tanyushenka]

The Sanctuary of Imam ‘Ali also known as the Mosque of ‘Ali located in Najaf, Iraq, 1911

[cottaegecore]

plants and books <3

[omenalehto]

warmest days

[sunpdf]

1. václav jirásek, infection // 2. ahndraya parlato, 2016 // 3. source unknown // 4. source unknown // 5. neocha magazine,  vois sur ton chemin - 2017 // 6. marcus moller, symbioses // 7. source unknown // 8. source unknown // 9. source unknown // 10. james lacroix

[parasoli]

ph.by olivia bee.

[la-venere]

i think the mediterranean sea is the most perfect girl in the world and i'm in love with her so if she wants to swallow me alive that's her god given right

[framevsframe]

[nah-notsaf3-anymore-deactivated]

[bakwaaas]

logically I know nothing matters and everything is temporary but emotionally I am crushed by the weight of everything that has ever happened to me and ever will happen

[sosaysdean]

they just don’t assassinate mfs like they used to

[livingtrophies]

Amy Beager