Algeria's Tattoos of Beauty

Djena Benzahra, 74, a berber woman from the Chaouia region, who has facial tattoos, sits inside her house in Ouled Azzouz in the Aures Mountain, Algeria October 9, 2015. Benzahra was forced to have a tattoo when she was 9 years old by her mother, who wanted her to look beautiful. All the girls her age were tattooed, her mother said. "I still remember, it was so painful and I was crying, refusing to be tattooed", Djena said. Today even if her tattoo looks small she regrets allowing her mother to do it, because, like all tattooed women, religious people around her have told her that she has committed a sin. "To ask forgiveness from God, I've given away all my silver jewellery after turning the offering seven times on my tattoo". (Photo by Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)
Algeria's Tattoos of Beauty
   
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