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Desperate to brighten up the gloom of Thai prison life, Prontip Mankong and her fellow female inmates used to sneak food colouring from the kitchen and mix it with Vaseline to create a homemade lip gloss.
After serving two years for violating Thailand’s royal defamation law, the former political prisoner is now on the other side of the prison gate.

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Prontip and her fellow Thai female inmates used to sneak food colouring from the kitchen and mix it with vaseline to create homemade lip gloss. Now, after serving two years in jail, she makes recycled cosmetics for former inmates stuck in Thailand's jails, which have the highest female incarceration rate in the world.