Well, you peel the shell off a plam nut and then take its pulp off.What is left is its round stone with many yellowish or blond fiber on one side of the stone. Then wash it until it comes out all clean and then leave it to dry in the sun. Next, comb the fibers with a tortoise-shell comb, braid it. And tie it up with a pretty ribbon. Then paint the face as you like.