COOL PIERCING GIRL

Talking lip piercings to the next stage

Lip piercing has its origins in African and American tribal cultures. In Pre-Colombian and North American cultures, labrets were seen as a status symbol, and only the highest ranking male members of society were permitted to wear them. African lip piercings are almost always exclusively female, and have significances varying from tribe to tribe. For example, the Dogon tribe of Mali wears lip rings for spiritual reasons, while the Saras-Djinjas tribe of Chad pierces a woman's lip upon marriage to show the male's ownership of her. [4]Finally, the Makololo tribe of Malawi pierces the lips of its women for beauty's sake; few Makololo men will mate with a woman who is not pierced in such a manner, considering it unnatural.