Sep 25, 2020
Tattooed Women of Kobani SANLIURFA, SURUC, TURKEY - 2014/10/25: Orin Wali, 18, from Boras village in Kobani, Syria at refugee camp in Turkey. "My mother put this [star] tattoo on my chin when I was just a baby. She told me it's because I had a wide face." The practice of facial tattoos stopped about 50 years earlier, partly due to the spread of modern Islam, in which body art is considered haram or forbidden. The tattoos were made on young women as a form of beautification, or for luck and fertility or against the evil eye with a needle and a mixture of soot mixed with women's breast milk.
Photo by Jodi Hilton
