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Quote: GIRLS’ BEAUTY Young ladies once they reach puberty they go through a process of lip-sticking and facial scarring. Baggara are only lip-sticking the lower lips. Lip-sticking could be considered as passage to womanhood; it is a painful process which entails sticking the lower lip with needles or thorns and adding dyes until the running blood stream dries out. Baggara use grounded charcoal mixed with animals’ fat as a dye; many trees’ charcoal is used such as Balanites aegyptiaca (vernacular Sudanese name: haglig), acacia seyal (vernacular Sudanese name: taleh) and others. Similarly, Baggara use Balanites aegyptiaca thorns to stick the lips; usually the woman who practice lip-sticking choses about twelve stout needles; she cleans the needles and lays the girl flat on her back with her head on the thigh of her aunt or a woman relative. The young lady’s peers and mothers (her mother and aunts) start singing bravery songs. Young men cheer on the crowd. At the end of the process the lip-sticker woman applies fine grounded charcoal dust to the lip and overlays it with brush of animal fat, and ties a cloth’s warp around the young lady’s chin to the back of her neck to support the lip to go back to normal size after healing. For a couple of weeks, the young lady grounds the charcoal herself and gives it to some of her mothers or peers to apply it to her lip until the lip completely heals. After healing, the lip remains dark blue colored, which considered a sign of beauty. In the future if the lip’s blue color fades away, girls may reconsider lip sticking for a second time. Fading away blue color of the lip after sticking considered a novice sign of the lip-sticking practitioner; and in the future, girls may not use her service. The blue lip color has to last forever. Without going through the lip-sticking process, young women considered still too young to marry. The process considered a passage to adulthood.