Putting women’s pictures in women-only chat rooms to learn how to do makeup and other adornments
Question

                I am a moderator of a women-only chat room and they are asking me to allow pictures of women so that they can see makeup, hair styles and fashion styles (so that they can learn and benefit from it). There has been a great deal of argument about this topic. When I refused they suggested that the pictures could be sent to the one who has the password or the pictures could be partial (showing only the eyes or only the nose and so on).

Please note that any visitor to the chat room could put these partial images together. As for the password, any man could register in the chat room as a woman and ask for the password. … Please advise me, may Allah reward you with all good. I do not want to carry anyone else’s burden of sin. (Please give me a fatwa that I can post in the chat room).
Praise be to Allah.
    Firstly: 

    It is not permissible to make images or take pictures of 
    animate beings, whether they are humans, birds or animals, except in cases 
    of necessity, such as pictures for identity documents, passports and the 
    like. There is no distinction, in this regard, between drawings and 
    photographs, because of the general meaning of the prohibition on 
    image-making and the condemnation of the one who does that. Please see the 
    answer to question no. 22660 
    and 8954. 

    Secondly: 

    Some scholars granted a concession allowing partial images or 
    those in which that is cut off without which survival would be impossible. 
    Others were of the view that what matters is the head: if the head remains 
    the image is forbidden. This is the more correct of the two opinions because 
    the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said: “The image is 
    the head; if the head is cut off, there is no image.” Narrated by 
    al-Ismaa‘eeli in his Mu‘jam from the hadeeth of Ibn ‘Abbaas; classed 
    as saheeh by al-Albaani in as-Silsilah as-Saheehah, 1921. 

    Thirdly: 

    If the image is of a woman, and it is going to be published 
    in a magazine or newspaper or website, the sin is greater, because of what 
    that involves of spreading corruption and temptation. What is seen in many 
    chat rooms of pictures of women is something that saddens the believer. 

    Hence we appreciate your concern and your keenness to find 
    out what is permissible in this regard, and we ask Allah to guide and help 
    you and the sisters who are taking part in the chat room with you. 

    What we think is that you can allow the following types of 
    pictures: 

    1.Pictures of the head and 
    hairstyles from behind or from the side, with the facial features blotted 
    out.

    2.Pictures of the eyes or mouth 
    or nose, in such a way that the pictures cannot be put together, by taking 
    them from different pictures.

    3.Pictures of outfits minus the 
    head, or with the facial features blotted out completely.

    And Allah knows best.