I don’t know about you but going through life as a hijabi
can sure be tiring. Here are some of the things that I struggle with being a
hijabi:
Wet hair
The feeling sucks when I wash my hair and supposedly to “feel
fresh” but have no time to dry it off and have to suffer the damped hair
covered with my hijab for the entire day! Furthermore, I dry my hair manually.
Literally. Like using a fan or let it dry by itself. Mainly because my mom
always says that using hairdryer will worsen my hair condition. So it gave me a
little fright to use it. As they all say, different people take care of their
hair differently. Lucky for me, my hair does not need conditioner partly because
it is not exposed to the sun too much and does not dry out, I guess. However,
the after feeling was really horrible makes me have the need to wash it off
again.
Windy places
Who doesn’t love windy season where it’s not hot and
everything is cooling. But for a hijabi like me, it’s tough. Maintaining my
hijab, making sure that it does not exposed my neck or hair is hard. Every time
when there’s a gust of wind, I would literally face backwards when I am
walking. Yeah, it’s that bad. Okay, maybe it’s not THAT bad. Haha. I often
carries a file with me so when my shawl is “flying”, I would use it to protect
my shawl. Or if I use a sling bag, I would sling it so that my shawl would not
be moving around that much.
Losing pins/broche
Pins will never be enough for me because I will tend to lose them sooner or later. No matter how I designated a place to put all my broches and pins, I definitely will misplace and lose it. What I hate the most is never being able to find the right pin at the right time. My sisters will be yelling and screaming at me to return the pins I borrowed. But, I still can’t find it. It exactly the same as bobby pins! I often used the same set of pins everyday to make sure I do not lose them and keep the nicer ones aside for special occasions.
Pins poking onto my head
Rush or no rush, pins will forever poke onto my head. If it
isn’t poking my head, it will poke on my finger. It hurts. But if I’m lucky, I
don’t bleed. Haha. That isn’t the point. The point is I do get stab by the pin
often!
Bad hijab day
Like any other girl in the world, a good hijab, or for some
is hair, with a good shoe will make a good day. But there are also times when
my hijab just didn’t want to listen to me. At the end the day, I will always be
like “Did I literally looked like this the entire day?” No matter how many
times I have adjusted my hijab, it will never turn out the way I wanted. At
times I feel like sitting in one corner and just cry or just cover my whole
face. To make it even worse, when I took my shawl out from my hanger it will be
crumpled no matter how many times I have ironed it.
Making sure that your
hijab stays perfectly still
I have wonderful friends that always keep my modesty
covered. I might never know if my hijab may reveal my neck or my baby hair.
That’s where I can definitely count on them to tell me that my hijab is off.
Matching my shawl with the
outfit of the day
Matching my shawl colour with my outfit is the most tiring
and hardest thing I have to go through every day of my life. At times I want it
to be something other than black but and other than my outfit colour but things
just doesn’t seem to work out. This calls for the job of colour blocking. It is
never wrong to mix and match your shawl with other colours. I especially like
bright colours. But just be cautious of what colour suits with the other or you
might end up looking like a spiderman or other characters. Haha!
Styling your shawl
especially with specs
There are a lot of hijab tutorials you can find all over the
internet. But for a specs person like me, I must make sure my hijab fits my
face when I’m wearing my specs. There are a lot more hijab tutorial that are
suitable for non-specs people therefore I have to improvised to make it suits
my face. You don’t see me often in pictures wearing specs but in person I
rather wear specs everyday than wear contacts. Ironically, I don’t really
prefer myself to take pictures with my specs that often so I will take it out
just to snap a pic. Do I suit's with or without specs?
Not enough storage of
extra cloths
There will never be enough storage to keep my shawls. Wait,
no that’s not it. Most girls will never have enough space for clothes, am I right?
And I’m just one of them. Apart from normal blouses, dresses and jeans, we
hijabis have an extra cloth wrap around our head thus the minimum amount of
layer we wore everyday in our life is at least 3. Plus I being the same like
any other girl in the world, will always say “I have nothing to wear” when I
couldn’t really disagree that my clothes are piling up in my wardrobe. It never
stops. At times when I definitely want to stop from purchasing, there’s a sale
going on. Who could resist the word “S-A-L-E”? That’s why, the clothes kept on
pilling up.
However, despite all the struggles I go through in my daily life, I never once hated wearing hijab. Everyone has their own struggles and challenges they have to face even if it's just a small problem. Thats what makes our life interesting.
Till next time !
xoxo,
Emma
Emma
( credits to: google pics )
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