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PHOTO: A Thanaka Seller in the Scott Market, Yangon

March 9, 2016

Thanaka seller in the Scott Market

The women and children in Myanmar have a culture of painting their faces with a paste made from tree branches of a special tree. The makeup is called Thanaka and aside from decorative is supposed to have medicinal properties to clear up bad skin and act as a sun block.  Here a lady in the Scott Market who sells Thanaka was checking out her face and hair.

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