Gaza City Amani Dawima came to the salon with her 16 -year -old daughter, Aya.

The 39 -year -old wants her eyebrows to be formed, and she wants a complete make -up verse; There is a planned wedding in that evening after breakfast.

“My nephew’s wedding,” says Amani. “We celebrate the bride with a small family gathering before the groom takes her to their tents.”

Nour salon

The salon is a small blue tent with one table inside it with a damaged mirror, removal, moisturizing tools and some makeup.

Outside the tent in Shojaya, east of Gaza City, there is a handwritten white sign: “Salon Nour” hanging near the entrance that was lowered.

This is the Salon of Nour Ghamari, a dream project for the young woman who left the College of Nursing to follow her love for hair and makeup.

She prepared it about three weeks ago on a devastating berth, and the only option available when she and her family returned to the north from their displacement to the south.

After greeting Amani and Aya, she begins to soften a small piece of sugar dough, knead it gently in her hands, and starts work.

“Since I opened, many women came to a tragic stories … about the loss of their families and their loved ones. They have reached exhausting, their faces drained from light.”

The idea of ​​a beauty salon in the middle of the war may seem strange, Amani and Nour agreed, but the act of self -care can help women.

“Women come to tents, overcrowded schools, or their destroyed ruins.

“I try to give them a moment of rest, a small escape. My main goal is to leave a little lighter, and a little happier.”

Amani, who was displaced to Deir Pala and recently returned to the north, also did not think of going to a beauty expert in the first days of the war.

In the end, she encountered a similar salon in Deir Al -Lala and began to go regularly as she could.

“Caring for myself changes my mood, especially when I see my reflection in the mirror. I always want to look brilliant.

“The tragedies around us never end. She adds:” Visit a beauty salon … a small escape from all the difficulties around us. “

Once again in the north, she was “happy” when Salon Nour saw and published good news immediately to her neighbors and relatives.

Beauty amid war

Nour believes that the war was particularly harsh for women in Gaza-which is stripped of their homes and security and its ability to take care of them while pouring their energy to survive.

“I have seen many women whose skin was completely burned from the sun from living in tents, and they are constantly cooking on wood fires, washing clothes by hand, and carrying heavy water containers,” she says.

“Moreover, they do not have privacy in the crowded displacement camps, not to mention fear, bombings and all the horrors of war.”

However, she says, she had customers of all ages who felt that self -care is necessary for them.

“I met many women who could not bear one reckless hair on their face or eyebrows. Nour says:” Some came to every week, others regularly or from time to time. “

She remembers a agent she got once, a woman in the early thirties she was shocked when her parents and all of her brothers were killed in an Israeli air strike.

Dealing with her loss means that a woman has lost every desire to do anything.

“I felt deeply for her,” said Nour.

“I have given it a complete treatment – the threads, the formation of eyebrows, shaving, and even a free face massage and a mask.

“When I looked at the mirror, her eyes were full of happy tears.”

Dreams stick

The Israeli war on Gaza began properly as Nour was dreaming, as it laid down its special plans-from bricks and softening.

Like everyone in Gaza, her life and plans were forced upside down because she, her parents and eight siblings were forced to flee in the south after Israeli evacuation orders.

During the first two months, her only ideas were to survive and help her family, she says.

“But after the first months, when we settled in a displacement camp in the south, I heard that women say things like:” If there is a hairdresser or a nearby salon so that we can take care of ourselves a little. “

I would like to respond: “I am a beautiful expert! “Nour laughs.

“Women were holding me as if they had found just a treasure, and I will start working immediately.”

Some women came to her, while she went to others in their tents – depending on their needs.

Now, her work has become an essential source of income for her and her family during the war, although she cannot impose fees from five to eight clients per day.

“I live here, and I understand the reality,” she says, explains why their prices remain low.

“The war ranges between us”

Amani looks turbulent as light ended her face.

She asks if a light can dye her hair, but light cannot.

“There is no water in this area,” explains. “The dye needs running water, my tents on the sidewalk, surrounded by destruction – there is no water, no electricity, nothing.

“I do with the simplest equipment and only the oldest basic services.”

Amani sighed, running her fingers through her gray hair under her veil.

“I just used to have some gray hair. But now, it is everywhere. This war ranges between us,” says with a sad smile.

Nour turned her attention to a verse, and discussed the color of her dress to choose matching makeup.

“I brought my daughter today so that she could take care of herself – as a way to raise her spirits,” Amani said, smiling to her daughter, whose eyes are closed to apply eye shadows.

“I want her to grow up knowing that she should always take care of herself, regardless of what.

“I also want some joy to bring it. What we saw during this war was further.”

While Nour adds her final touches to a verse’s makeup, she talks longing about her dreams.

“More than anything else, I want this war to end so that I can expand my work, move to a suitable salon, and provide more services.

“But my message to all women is: Take care of yourselves, regardless of what. Life is short.”

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