Sormeh: How the Persian black eyeliner bonds me to my past

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The eyes have always been a focal point of Persian beauty for men and women and they have always been embellished with sormeh - a thick black eyeliner. Presenter Nassim Hatam's grandmother taught her mother how to apply sormeh, which originates from a 4000-year-old recipe. Nassim describes how sormeh represents a link to her Iranian ancestry. Photo: An eye accentuated with thick black eye-liner Credit: Getty Image