March 8, 2012 The Mursi Woman Project

CaliforniaMama · 03-08-2012, 10:53 AM

Lower lip piercing.

Upper lip piercing.

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The Mursi are a Sub-Saharan African nomadic cattle-herding tribe from an isolated region of southwestern Ethiopia close to the Sudanese border. The Mursi women are famous of wearing plates in their lower lips – though photographs indicate that, in fact, either lip may be pierced. This practice is supposed to have originated as a means of detering slave-traders; as the lips are not pierced until girls are aged fifteen or sixteen this seems unlikely. The lip discs are made of clay and, yes, they are removed for eating.

As if these images aren't fantastic enough, check this out:

Just another Mursi woman?

No, not really. She is made up to look like a Mursi woman. She is really not Mursi.

She is not even black! She has blonde hair and blue eyes.

Here she is without make up:

Here are some images from the makeup process:

Posted by request. Thanks footfootfoot!

Images from themakeupgallery race makeups and demonstrations.

HungLikeJesus · 03-08-2012, 12:44 PM

Mursi, Mursi me. Things aren't what they used to be.

wolf · 03-08-2012, 12:55 PM

I'm surprised the plate in the lip look hasn't caught on with the body mod crowd. I mean you could do all sorts of things with it. Flashing chaser lights so it looks like it's rotating, embedded mp3 player and speakers. Nacho tray. The possibilities are limited only by your imagination and your willingness to pursue increasingly larger gauges..

Gravdigr · 03-08-2012, 02:24 PM

If this is supposed to be the same woman, I call shenanigans. Look at the lips. They're completely different.

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Wombat · 03-08-2012, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr

If this is supposed to be the same woman, I call shenanigans. Look at the lips. They're completely different.

This isn't mission difficult, it's mission impossible. "Difficult" should be a walk in the park.

infinite monkey · 03-08-2012, 05:39 PM

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Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus

Mursi, Mursi me. Things aren't what they used to be.

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Originally Posted by wolf

I'm surprised the plate in the lip look hasn't caught on with the body mod crowd. I mean you could do all sorts of things with it. Flashing chaser lights so it looks like it's rotating, embedded mp3 player and speakers. Nacho tray. The possibilities are limited only by your imagination and your willingness to pursue increasingly larger gauges..

Haggis squared!

SPUCK · 03-09-2012, 05:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr

If this is supposed to be the same woman, I call shenanigans. Look at the lips. They're completely different.

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I agree! Look back up at the picture that has a mirror to the right. I think we see the "blond white girl" applying makeup to someone else.

Clodfobble · 03-09-2012, 12:24 PM

I think her lips look different in the picture on the left because the face mask is partially plastered over her lower lip. The eyes look the same to me.

However, there's one shot (third from the bottom in the original post) where her eyes appear brown. Not sure what that's about. Could just be screwy camera lighting.

glatt · 03-09-2012, 12:54 PM

Or contacts to complete the costume.

jimhelm · 03-09-2012, 01:35 PM

I've seen these women with it in their bottom lip. Never in the top. seems like that would be a huge pain in the ass to live with in either lip, but more so in the top. how are you gonna drink from a can of coke? you're not! can't smoke a pipe, can't give a BJ, can't blow a raspberry, can't even smile properly.

Gravdigr · 03-09-2012, 03:13 PM

Philtrum. That's what I should've said. Their philtrums are too different.

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wikipedia: The philtrum,...is a medial cleft common to many mammals, extending from the nose to the upper lip, and, together with a glandular rhinarium and slit-like nostrils, is believed to constitute the primitive condition for mammals in general. For humans and most primates, the philtrum survives only as a vestigial medial depression between the nose and upper lip. The human philtrum, bordered by ridges, is also known as the infranasal depression, but has no apparent function.

xoxoxoBruce · 03-15-2012, 05:46 PM

Get outta here with that, and your little dog too.

SPUCK · 03-16-2012, 04:48 AM

Altering their pets like that. Disgusting!

BigV · 03-16-2012, 03:22 PM

People should just say no to snoutectomies.

03-08-2012, 12:44 PM	#2
HungLikeJesus Only looks like a disaster tourist Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: above 7,000 feet Posts: 7,208	Mursi, Mursi me. Things aren't what they used to be. __________________ Keep Your Bodies Off My Lawn SteveDallas's Random Thread Picker.

03-08-2012, 12:55 PM	#3
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	I'm surprised the plate in the lip look hasn't caught on with the body mod crowd. I mean you could do all sorts of things with it. Flashing chaser lights so it looks like it's rotating, embedded mp3 player and speakers. Nacho tray. The possibilities are limited only by your imagination and your willingness to pursue increasingly larger gauges.. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

03-08-2012, 02:24 PM	#4
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	If this is supposed to be the same woman, I call shenanigans. Look at the lips. They're completely different. __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

03-09-2012, 12:24 PM	#8
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	I think her lips look different in the picture on the left because the face mask is partially plastered over her lower lip. The eyes look the same to me. However, there's one shot (third from the bottom in the original post) where her eyes appear brown. Not sure what that's about. Could just be screwy camera lighting. __________________ My book My other book My spirit animal

03-09-2012, 01:35 PM	#10
jimhelm a beautiful fool Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: 39.939705 Posts: 4,504	I've seen these women with it in their bottom lip. Never in the top. seems like that would be a huge pain in the ass to live with in either lip, but more so in the top. how are you gonna drink from a can of coke? you're not! can't smoke a pipe, can't give a BJ, can't blow a raspberry, can't even smile properly. __________________ There's a Shadow just behind me. Shrouding every step I take. Making every promise empty, pointing every finger at me. _tool

03-09-2012, 12:54 PM	#9
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Or contacts to complete the costume.

03-15-2012, 05:46 PM	#12
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Get outta here with that, and your little dog too. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

03-16-2012, 04:48 AM	#13
SPUCK Professor Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,911	Altering their pets like that. Disgusting!

03-16-2012, 03:22 PM	#14
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	People should just say no to snoutectomies. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

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