Beautification

One of the common ways the Homelanders use to distinguish themselves from one another is beautification.

They utilize various materials and methods for this purpose.

Charcoal
Charcoal, produced by pyrolysis of dead trees, branches and similar materials, is used to emphasize the eyes' edges, making them look bigger and more expressive.

To make more charcoal, the Homelanders cultivate the shortest-living trees, and when they die their carcasses undergo pyrolysis and turned into more charcoal.

Several types of trees are cultivated that have even shorter lifespans, than the natural trees.

Clothes
The Homelanders use cotton to craft a wide variety of clothes, primarily hoodies, caps and scarves. Cloaks are also very popular among the population.

Clothes are dyed in many colors, with bright multicolor patterns prevailing. Black and white colors are rare, mostly because any grade of CBNI is colored that way, even if multicolored coats hide it.

A typical variant of casual wear (no other types of clothes, such as ceremonial or formal are produced, though some casual wears can be fancy) is a combination of a cap, a medium-long hoodie which ends just below the waist and a scarf, usually long and wide.

During the rain, if the weather isn't supposed to be altered and if a Homelander has no desire to accelerate raindrops away (some of them like walking in the rain), they use cotton cloacks, waterproofed by the common beeswax, produced by genetically modified bees, like spider silk produced by millions of GM spiders.

Paint
The Homelanders use paint to dye their clothes and their eyelids in different colors. All types of paint are organic, renewable and nontoxic, derived from dummy plants, specifically made to exist without any signs of sentience and kept from roting only by the life-support apparatus.

Paint brushes are made of steel and hair from the dummies' tails and fur. Each Homelander has an eye shadowing brush, though not all of them actually use it.

Jewellery
A lot of various gems and other natural materials are used to craft pendants, bracelets, bobby pins and many others.

Natural gems can be replaced with synthetic ones, made of glass or bioplastic. The Homelanders care only about how they look, not about the source of them.

To hold gemstones together, as well as to craft thin chains they use steel, because silver and gold are used in microelectronics, and using them as jewellery parts considered as a waste of important material.