Looking Good--in Afghanistan

I saw this excerpt from the program 'Witness' off of Al-Jazeera English some time ago, but it still brings a smile to my face. Ah...women and beauty. As much as feminists love to bash any and all wide generalizations about women, it is true that a woman loves to feel beautiful and there's nothing that beats the confidence felt when leaving a beauty salon after having been cut, styled, colored, primped and b-e-a-u-tified! I recentely read a wonderful book called Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez, which I would highly recommend, as well as a DVD documentary by the same name. It reinforced even more the need for post-conflict economic opportunities for women; especially in Afghanistan. I wrote a letter to Dove's Real Beauty Campaign hoping to secure more donations for the beauty schools in Afghanistan and to promote an international look at beauty and what it does for women in conflict zones--but didn't hear back.

Here is Deborah's website: http://oasisrescue.org/

I'm going to try to embed the You Tube video in the blog, hopefully it works--if not, I'll paste the link as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjeghnF2npQ