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  Indian child with black eyeliner

 

India

In addition to the tilaka that is sometimes applied on the face of small children in India (fig.), they often wear black eyeliner around the eyes, which make them less perfect and thus less likely to attract Evil Eye or adrishti, and thus should turn any malicious look back to the envious person.