Travel in Nepal 6 : Women in Red in Nepal

I traveled to Nepal during the last Christmas holiday. 
Nepalese women like the color red.

You can see many women in red dresses, red scarves and red stoles. They have a 'bindhi', a painted mark, on their forehead, which is also red. 

In Japanese culture, red is for young women. As we get older, we don't wear red. So, elder Nepalese women wearing red are interesting for me. In Nepal, apparently wearing red is traditional for women. 

They also have their own way of doing their makeup. They put black eyeliner around their eyes, and put red lipstick on their lips. Some women put jewellery on their noses. It seems to depend on the different tribes. Their hair is long. We rarely see women with short hair. 

In Nepal, we had to suffer from an electricity shortage meaning that we couldn't use electricity for 8-12 hours per day. So, I couldn't use hot water in the bathroom even though it was the cold season. Kathmandu is a very dusty city, so I wanted to take a bath every day, but I gave up. Once when I'd just arrived in Kathmandu, I took a shower and got a cold. The weather was cold, the shower was not hot enough, and I couldn't use a hair dryer. But, I saw many Nepalese women with wet hair in the morning. They wash their hair before they go to the office, with cold water, without a hair dryer. I admire their efforts to be clean.