Pasting of Thanakha

Most of the girls and women of Myanmar has always a tradition that is to paste their face with "Thanatkha" after they washed their face in the morning. It is a kind of beautifying themselves with the liquid of thanatkha. Thanakha is a word of Myanmar to call a tree which botanical name is Micheltia champaka or anything like. The small tusk of Thanakha is obtained from that particular tree that naturally grown in upper Myanmar. The tusk of thanakha is grinned with water on a circular stone which has circular engrave around. Rubbing and grinning of thanakha on the stone with water will get the sticky liquid glue like taking place in the engraved line of circular stone. That glue like thanakha is ready to paste on the face of girls and women. Practically saying, the pasting of thanakha keeps the skin smooth and relief the sun burn on the face.