These individuals must be after the Hannibal Lector look.... Some Fava beans and a nice Chianti maybe?
I wonder if that "lip gauge" is real,. This image is used twice in this thread, but I can't find other photos on the internet....
I think it's totally fake. Zooming it up it looks doctored. Also, you could not drink through a straw or hold water in your mouth for that matter. It's nasty either way.
I wish it was like you say..... I saw a freak in the Seattle harborview area a fewer back with two of them 1 in each check and the lower lip looked like a lower duck bill... kind like this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lip_plate That was nasty that was sick..
Why? Why? Why? Why would these kids or younger adults think its cool.. It's more than lets screw the establishment. Do they think it makes them more popular. No thoughts to how they will look in there 70's or 80's and become Grandparents and My opinion is these kids will and do have sex as they see the tats and body and ear cutting as kinky.. The Ethiopians have a cultural reason that go's way back, that I understand..
Look at the photo again: it's like a little porthole, so water will stay in his/her/its mouth (Porthole.....could it be a Buick fan?)
to cover the tats. If they dont see them no problem. She'd put a little bandaid over each finger each day before work.
They're real. They use a plug while eating or drinking like a sink drain stopper. Lots of other gross chin & cheek gauge pics out there. You can't unsee that crap so don't go looking.....
Its has been going on for 100's of years. To each their own. This is a stock photo off the web I wonder if that plate would hold food? Frees up your hands
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I'm not the beholder of beauty in that way. Throughout the animal kingdom, the female is the less adorned while the male is often more colorful.