For some Gazan women, beauty has become a link to their old selves
As women across the Strip focus on daily survival, they are increasingly returning to their old beauty rituals to rediscover a fragile sense of normalcy
A bride leaves a beauty salon with her partner before heading to a mass wedding ceremony in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, last month. Credit: Abdel Kareem Hana / AP
As women across the Strip focus on daily survival, they are increasingly returning to their old beauty rituals to rediscover a fragile sense of normalcy
03:41 PM • January 04 2026 IST
For so long, life in Gaza has been reduced to matters of necessity. Survival depends on daily calculations: When will there be electricity? When will there be running water? How far is it safe to walk, and what can be carried if another evacuation order comes? Beauty, in this reality, is often assumed to be irrelevant.
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