Crazy Fashion: Nigerian Men tattoo their lips pink!

(Real-Life Nollywood - Nigerian Fashion) There is a new Nigerian fashion trend sweeping the country's tattoo parlours - so-called "Pink Lips".

The process involves young men having their lower lip "tattooed" or bleached with a pink paint so that their lips are no longer a shade of black, but instead - a shade of pink.

The reason behind the procedure may be strange but at one tattoo parlour in Lagos, the owner explains: "We help out those with black lips, to clean their lips and make them pink."

None of the men would explain to us the reasons why they were getting their lips done in such a fashion, but the main reason seems to be that women find men with pinker lips more attractive (Desmond Elliot, anyone?).

This particular tattoo shop gets up to ten customers a day and does 'Pink Lips' for about 7000 Naira ($30)

(Real-Life Nollywood - Nigerian Fashion) The owner explains they can also do a shade of red as well.

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[nom som]

it's cute as long as it's safe i don't see the problem. except i love dark lips on African men.

[BattaBox]

yes o +Nom .. dark, original African lips are much better!!

[Rebecca Smith]

It looks ugly!

[BattaBox]

abi o ... but they hope that it bleaches their lips to make them better looking... can you imagine?!!

[VV Pyne]

I wanted to see what it looked like after a couple of hours ... It can't stay that pink lol

[BattaBox]

hey +VV Pyne ! we hope not as well sha...! It bleaches the lips (*we think!*) so his lips are permanently 'lighter' but not that pink...

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[MidWestDevilHead]

no gloves probably no autoclaves and probably reusing needles. doesn't really bother me any I hope they all get AIDS.

[BattaBox]

abi o... we saw no health/safety measures in the tattoo parlour o...

[BattaBox]

abi o +Joanna !

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[Festus Utubor]

Another easy way to spread HIV... OMG! look@ that niddle scrapping.... damn!