Our second fundraiser of the year is coming up — an evening where beauty, food, and music come together to support women on the ground in Gaza and Ukraine. Come for the treatments, storytelling, and comfort food.

Our fifth episode is here — a live conversation with Charissa Chioccarelli, the powerhouse behind isla berlin, recorded at Podfest Berlin. In this special episode, she opens up about creativity, motherhood, feminist leadership, and building a global brand from Berlin.

At our Beauty Parlor launch party, we raised funds for women’s organizations in Georgia. The countries, foreign agent law blocked our donation but we found the alternative way to support feminist movement.

Join us for our first live event with Bard College Berlin - a listening party and conversation with young journalists Ina Constantin and Mariia Krychevska, Beauty Parlor’s founder Annamaria Olsson, and Prof. Agata Lisiak.

Our second Gaza & Ukraine fundraiser is happening on December 6 — a night of food, music, beauty, and community care in Berlin.

In this special podcast episode we take you on a journey to Kyiv and Bucharest, exploring what commitment to beauty means when your country is at war.

After recording podcast episodes in beauty parlors in Georgia, Morocco, Kosovo, and Ukraine, we are back in our Berlin hood with an extra special live podcast at the city’s premier English language podcast festival, Podfest.

What if just 2% of the beauty industry’s $690 billion went to feminist grassroots movements? Six months after our launch, our team met up in New York, reimagining self-care as community care.

Take a behind the scenes look into our recent travels throughout Berlin, building networks and bonds with migrant led beauty salons for up our upcoming feminist community program!

As we continue planning community events and preparing for the launch of new podcast episodes, we are excited to welcome two international interns to our team.

Building on our feminist book swop at our launch event - we are excited to announce our monthly accessible book club! Learn more here.

As we are getting closer to the launch of our next podcast episode, see Mariia Krychevska and Ina Constantin take us behind the scenes of the making of our Queer Ukraine episode.

We’re excited to share that the Beauty Parlor community is growing with new projects that celebrate care, creativity, and connection. From our third podcast episode on Moroccan hammams to our first joint Palestinian-Ukrainian fundraiser and the upcoming feminist book club, we’re creating spaces where women*’s stories and struggles are seen, heard, and honored.

The podcast tells a bigger story about what it means to be a woman* in today's world through the prism of global beauty salons.