Adorning the body to beautify, to protect, and/or to welcome a foreign spiritual presence is a complex negotiation. Young Muslim Oromo women in Hararghe, Ethiopia have the paradoxical responsibility to attract potential suitors and benevolent spirits through their physical appeal while repelling harm-inflicting supernatural forces like jinn, and jealous humans with the evil eye called buda. Therefore, Oromo women wear an ensemble of body arts to both attract and to protect. This paper examines the use of women’s body arts as vehicles through which spirits are experienced in the contemporary possession group called jarrii. In jarrii practice, a participant communicates through the treatment of her body- an adding to or deducting from her physical body in order to create synthesis or separation between self and spirit. This paper will further locate jarrii body art practices among the Oromo within a larger Oromo aesthetic discourse rooted in the play between disguise and clarity.