"If a woman walks with a bad looking man, she will definitely want to drill the cracks." If she doesn't, it's because she loves her husband too much."
This is the saying of the local woman of the Vodabe tribe in Africa, and in this sentence, we read a very strong signal: appearance is particularly important!
However, it is very interesting in the Vodabe tribe that it is men rather than women who are required to look good, because this is a tribe known as a "matriarchal tribe", and women have more power than men.
In the Vodabe tribe, all the property in a family belongs to the woman, and the man does not obey. Moreover, a woman can "marry" multiple husbands to return home if she wants to.
Which region of Africa do you say this tribe is in?
They are a nomadic people whose activities are usually south of Niger, through northern Nigeria, to northeastern Cameroon, as well as southwestern Chad and western central African Republic.
Don't think about going to Vodabe to start a family by the face, men don't look like people in this place, the family status is too low. Not only must we rely on our appearance to compete for "work", but also to ensure that all orders are obeyed by women.
After all, you can successfully "get on the job" does not mean once and for all, because this tribe has a competition meeting every year, and if a woman wants to "marry" a few more men, it is entirely on her own mood.
Do you want to know the steps of the "Competition" conference? It is also simple to say, that is, men who do not know civilized society have several who can do it.
First, men who want to participate in the "competition" have to sign up for a local organization called the Gryvor Festival in September.
This is the most formal blind date for locals, also known as "Courtship Festival".
This blind date lasted 6 hours, and the men had to use their full body solutions at the conference to let the women who came to look for high-value men look at themselves, so that they had a chance to be taken away.
Secondly, at this blind date, men are not showing muscle than strength.
Because "makeup" is the theme of this blind date, you look too ugly, and you will not "makeup", I am afraid that you are doomed to "marry" can not be lost.
In the end, the six-hour Bimi was only the first item, followed by a seven-day assessment period.
Men who have passed the first pass must sing and dance for the next seven days to impress and attract women's attention, and then there is a possibility of being named.
Makeup is definitely an important part of this blind date.
Men shave part of their hair in order to make themselves more prominent and more attractive to women's eyes, and they usually choose to shave off a piece of the top of their head.
Why this look is good, I don't know, anyway, the aesthetic of this thing is different everywhere.
After shaving your head, you should comb the remaining long hair into small braids, which is said to be symmetrical to the left and right, and combing a few more can show the feminine beauty of men.
The hairstyle is done, and then the part of the face is finished. Start by applying "foundation" to your face.
It was a kind of red mud, and there were also yellow mud. Anyway, the popular colors are yellow and red, and their main purpose is to be eye-catching. You say black? Black is a common color in the African land, and there is nothing eye-catching at all.
After applying the "foundation", you must also draw a "face" out, from the forehead to the chin, drawing a white line. Why is this not clear, is it to achieve a clear distinction between latitude and longitude?
Painting the face is lipstick, which is a very important part.
Some say the most central contrast at this blind date is shown on lipstick, which can make a person's teeth look whiter.
Why does this make the teeth whiter? Because they don't paint red lipstick, they paint black.
Lipstick also does not require men to spend too much money to buy any high-end brand, because waste batteries can fully meet their needs.
Usually, men take out the waste batteries they usually collect on this day and smash them, and then take the black powder inside and coat their lips. If you can wear makeup, you will also apply your eyes with a little.
In fact, it is conceivable that whether it is "foundation" or "lipstick", their ultimate purpose is to show the teeth in their mouths.
This is probably the beauty in the eyes of African tribal people: a mouth of snow-white teeth.
And, what you can't imagine most is that in order to let people know that their teeth are white, men will grin at the blind date so that women can see if their teeth are white enough.
The use of white teeth as beauty is a criterion for local women to judge male beauty. For the men of the Vodabe tribe, this is probably the most "compassionate" beauty pageant.
Of course, in addition to arming to the teeth, men are better off making their hats taller and inserting a little feather to make themselves more noticeable.
In addition to looking at these external male conditions, local women will also require men to dance various local dances for a long time, as well as sing songs, such as Yagi dance, Rum dance, etc.
This kind of dance is not particularly beautiful, but it is very physically draining, and women can judge men's endurance by the length of time and dance posture of men.
Singing this way of expression has been very important since ancient times, anyway, in this blind date, if a man only dresses up beautifully but can't sing, the chance of being favored by women is still quite slim.
When the time is slowly approaching the end of the conference, women already have their own hearts of the opposite sex.
At this time, there will be an unmarried woman as the host, so as to understand the women's preference for men, and then introduce the man to the women who are interested in him, and directly take the woman home.
You see, the "cost" of this blind date is not much at all, and it is makeup, dancing, singing, spending money to buy clothes, and spending another seven days. Therefore, a blind date will come down, if it is fruitless, the mood can be imagined.
But from our aesthetic point of view, a blind date that lasted for several days turned out to be a picture of men grinning their teeth and sticking their necks outstretched and staring at their eyes, which must also be quite scary.
After all, in such a large group of dark people, such a gathering of white eyes and white teeth is scary enough to think.
But then again, this kind of blind date that transcends status is still very exciting, women make their own decisions, who they want to marry, and want to "marry" a few. This feeling of being the head of a family is not too good.
People say that Africa is a civilized place, but there will be tribes like Vodabe, and it translates to "people who are forbidden by purity", how wonderful and how fair the world is.