Girls in southeastern Turkey used to use breast milk and tattoo soot to seduce boys. Tattoos are still on their bodies today, but the custom is slowly disappearing.
A tattoo on the back of the hand of Mrs Hedla Gocmen as she holds her niece's crib at her house in the village of Dikmen near the town of Kiziltepe in southeastern Mardin province, Turkey. Tattooing is a tatkuinkcom traditional beauty treatment for many women in this area.