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#truth #confidence #self love #self care tag

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If you don’t love yourself, you’ll always be chasing people who don’t love you.

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The Himba wear little clothing, but the women are famous for covering themselves with otjize, a mixture of butter fat and ochre. The mixture gives their skins a reddish tinge. This symbolizes earth’s rich red color and the blood that symbolizes life, and is consistent with the Himba ideal of beauty.

It also protects their skin from the harsh sun.

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It’s also to keep them clean because they live in parts where water is scarce and drinking > bathing. As the otjize flakes off, dirt and dead skin go with it.

The Himba also use it to style their hair, and different headwear is worn during different stages of a female’s life to symbolize her becoming a woman.

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I will forever reblog this because I find it so damn beautiful.

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Well this stuff makes their skin look awesome, i need some of that.

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Black people are just so innovative

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You can tell a lot about a person by how they treat the people who serve them at restaurants

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We are the outcome of all we have seen and thought throughout our lives. Darkness isn’t conquered in the safety of light and comfort. Don’t limit your outcomes by being too afraid to step into your darkness and discomfort, how can you know what is light and what is dark if you haven’t seen the art of beauty in pain or the art of surrender in bliss?

~ CDNB