Gaza City -Amani Diwima has come to the salon with her 16 -year -old daughter Aya.
The 39 -year -old boy wants her eyebrows and wants the whole face of makeup; After that, the wedding is planned that evening.
“My niece’s wedding,” says Amani. “We are celebrating the bride with a small family gathering before her before her tent.”
Noor salon
The salon is a small blue tent that has a single table with damaged mirrors, depression tools, moisturizers and some makeup.
Reading a white manuscript mark outside the tent in Al-Shujya, east of Gaza city: “Noor’s salon” is hanging near the entrance to the screen.
This is a Nur Al-Gammy’s salon, a dream project for a young woman who leaves a nursing college to love her hair and makeup to her hair and makeup.
She established it about three weeks ago on the pavement destroyed, when she and her family returned to the south from their displacement.
After greeting Amani and Aya, she begins to soften a small piece of sugar paste, gently moles in her hand and starts to work.
“Since I opened, many women have come to me with heart attacks… about losing their family and loved ones. They are tired, their faces remove the light, “Noor said.
The idea of a beauty salon may seem strange during the war, Amani and Noor agree, but the action of self -care can help women.
“Women come to me from the remnants of tents, crowded schools or their destroyed houses.
“I try to make them comfortable for a moment, a short rescue. My main goal is to give up a little light, a little joyfulness for them. “”
Amani, who was displaced with Dir Al-Balah and recently returned to the north, did not consider going to the Beautician in the early days of the war.
After all, she came to a similar salon in Dir Al-Balah and started going as regular as possible.
“My mood changes when I care, especially when I see my reflection in the mirror. I always want to look at presentable.
“The tragedy around us never ends. Visiting a beauty salon is… a small relief from all the problems around you, “she added.
Back to the north, when she watched Noor’s salon and immediately spread good news to her neighbors and relatives, she became “happy”.
Beauty during the war
Noor believes that the war is especially cruel to women in Gaza-they pour their energy to live their energy for their homes and security and their ability to take care of themselves.
She said, “I saw a lot of women whose skin was completely burnt from the sun to the tent, constantly cooking on a wood fire, washing hands and carrying water containers,” she says.
“On the contrary, they have no privacy in the displacement camps that are crowded, do not mention all the terrible things of fear, bombing and war.”
And yet, she says, she has customers of all ages who feel that they need to take care of themselves.
“I met many women who could not stand on their faces or eyebrows. Some come to me regularly or occasionally every week, “says Noor.
She remembers a client once received, in the early age of 30, a woman who was killed by her parents and all her siblings in the Israeli Air attack.
To deal with her loss, the woman lost all the desire to do anything.
Noor says: “I felt very deeply for her.
“I gave her the whole treatment – threading, eyebrows, a haircut, even a free face massage and mask.
“When she saw in the mirror, her eyes filled with happy tears.”
Holding on to dreams
Israel started a war against Gaza because Nur was dreaming, planning her own-brick-and-mortar-salon.
Like everyone in Gaza, her life and plan was reversed because she, her parents and her eight siblings were forced to flee the south after an empty order of Israeli.
For the first two months, her only thought was to live and help her family, she says.
“But after the early months, when we settled in the southern displacement camp, I heard the women saying: ‘If there is only a hairstyle or a salon, we can take care of ourselves a little.”
“I will answer: ‘I’m a cosmetics!'” Noor laughed.
“Women were catching me as a treasure was just found and I will start working immediately.”
Some women came to her, when they went to their tent to others – according to their needs.
Now, her work has become an essential source of income for her and her family during the war, though she cannot charge five to eight customers a day.
She said, “I live here, I understand the reality,” she says why she keeps her prices low.
‘War us adults’
Amani looks unhealthy as Nur threaded her face.
She asks if Nur can paint her hair, but no matter.
She says: “There is no water in this area. “Dyeing water is needed, and my tent is on the pavement, surrounded by destruction – there is no water, no electricity, nothing.
“I do it with simple equipment and only offers basic services.”
Under her hijab, she runs the fingers from her hairstyles.
“I had only a few gray hair. But now it is everywhere. This war made us older, “she said in a sad smile.
Talking about the color of her dress to choose the matching makeup, Nur turned her attention to her.
“I have brought my daughter to my daughter today so that she will take a little care of herself – as a way to raise her souls,” Amani smiled at her daughter, whose eyes are closed for Aishado’s application.
“I want to know that she should always take care of herself, no matter what happens.
“I want to enjoy her a little. During this war, we have gone beyond destructively. “”
As Noor added her final touch to Ayya’s makeup, she talks about her dreams for a long time.
“I want to end this war more than anything so I can increase your business, go to the right salon and provide more services.
“But all women have my message: Whatever the case, take care of themselves. Life is short. “”