The Hijablog

Rest in Peace

basbousa — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:55:05 +0000

A good person, a civilian, was killed Monday in Iraq.

May he rest in peace insha’a Allah, and may God heal the broken hearts.

Hijabs High – the Muslim sartorialist

basbousa — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:26:26 +0000

I’m sure most of you are familiar with the concept of the sartorialist: a blog full of pictures of people on the streets that dress unique.. Hijabs High is a newly started blog that features a picture of a stylish Muslimah sister every day. How cool! Since they have only been going on for a week or so, the blog isn’t loaded with pictures yet, but you should definitely check back… What they have up so far seems rather promising…

I heart the first look the most. And the girl is soo beautiful, masha’a Allah. Yallah, check out more pictures here. What do you think? Isn’t the blog a great idea?

Madiha’s way – Pick your favorite hijab style

basbousa — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:49:20 +0000

Hi gurlies! The Hijablog is honored to introduce Madiha (also known as the scarf wrapping guru of youtube) as a guest contributor on this blog. She will contribute with hijab wrap styles, style tips from Egypt (maybe some reviews of hijab related stuff and much more) on a weekly basis, insha’a Allah. Here is what our funky sister has to say, together with a collage of hijab styles where YOU can pick and choose whatever wrap method you want to learn (IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH MUSIC YOU BETTER TURN THE SOUND DOWN WHEN VIEWING THE VIDEO):

My name is Madiha M.K, an almost 20 year old American/Egyptian. Some girls may know me from Youtube, as the girl that does Hijab tutorial videos.

After a long while of being away from youtube, I uploaded my latest video yesterday. It’s a collage video slide show, consisting of 31 different Hijab styles & wraps, all which you can VOTE for, for my next Hijab tutorial videos!

I will make tutorial videos on how to do the top rated styles in this video, so watch the video and VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE STYLES!! The poll is multiple choice, so you don’t have to just choose one ^^.

Each style is labeled with a number, level of difficulty, the number of scarves used and certain fabrics.

Levels of Difficulty: 1 – 5

1=Not much work at ALL.

5= LOTS of work.

Fabrics that I don’t mention in the video below a specific style, are completely up to you! Meaning that you can use whatever fabric you like. If I’ve mentioned the fabrics needed, it’s only to complete the look and it’s nice to know anyway.To vote, please go to this poll page.

Nice, huh? Are we looking forward to Madiha’s future posts? What style(s) would you like to learn?

The Pterodactyl look is a hijabi no-no!

basbousa — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:25:56 +0000

I’m pretty sure this scarf has the potential to look good on some girls… But if you are planning on putting your hair up in an antenna like way, and then put this rather dinosaurish texture scarf on top, expect to be mistaken for the prehistoric Pterodactyl.

See the similarities (backhead, texture, color)? Pretty scary, huh?

Thumbs up! Shopping abaya from Afrian fashion

basbousa — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:53:50 +0000

Ok so the site looks a little bit scary.. There are no prices or anything, but trust me they rock! I decided to trust this company because I fell in love with a couple of cute abayat on their site, and I’m really happy I did! Service is great, shipping is fast, and the design and material of the abayat are wonderful! Get one of the cheaper sale abayat for 65$ and up, and those others from around 100$ and up! Totally worth it!

The pictures are not the best, but don’t be fooled by that. The abayat are fantastic. Among the two I got is the 1st one – one of the sale ones. The material feels like a dream. Check their site out for more beautiful and not overly expensive abayat!

Do you like any of these?

Turkish formal and bridal hijab style

basbousa — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 23:16:22 +0000

I love the creativity of the different styles of hijab wraps they make at Ayse Kuafor. As you might remember, I have posted about these wonderful formal styles earlier, here and here. Well, they have got some new pictures up, which are worth checking out if you need inspiration for the next wedding party or formal occation (sorry for the red water marks right across every picture).

I love the way the scarves are wrapped here, and the colors too (the green color is fab). Although the “cakey” dresses are not my favorites, I love the red dress (have something very close to it, just way less tight)…

Then, if you trust your wrapping abilities and is getting married soon, or if you are just dreaming, check out these wedding wraps:

CUTE! I want to attend somebodys wedding… Like right now!!!! Playing dress up is fun. And all that food is not bad either. What do you think? Would you try any of these styles?

Funky Malaysian style

basbousa — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:41:34 +0000

I just stumbled upon some pictures of Malaysian student and hijab model Aimi. She has some serious personal style going on, and I just had to post some of her outfits. You can find the original post with a couple more pictures and more info about her on this blog.

Now although some of it is a lil fitted, I think her style rocks! I love the accessories in the 1st picture. Both pink outfits are cute too. What do you think? Do you dig her style?

If Egyptian style is not your thing…. M&A abaya art

basbousa — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:53:40 +0000

Lately I been falling in love with the über elegant hijab style of the gulf ladies. I went crazy and ordered a number of cheaper but fashionable abayat with matching shaylas.. But more about that later. Guess I caught the virus….

Now while we’re dreaming of escaping the poor student life and getting filthy rich, let’s drool over these sizzling hot styles from M&A abaya art that are soooo above my league for the moment (I will get there some day though, insha’a Allah… Ya reet). Apparently the designers have won several prizes for creative design and stuff. Enjoy…

The funny and stupid thing about these pictures are that the models are not wearing a shayla on most pictures, so you really cannot tell how the matching shayla will look like. I had so many more pictures but I didn’t have the patience to put it all together. If you do a simple google image search you will find many more of these delights.

Are you an abaya girl or do you prefer western clothes? Would you wear any of these abayat?

The lovely designs of Reham Farouq

basbousa — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:07:51 +0000

YAY! I just discovered some new designs of Egyptian designer Reham Farouq. Enjoy it. I know I did Does she still design for Veil? Does anybody know?

Owwwww, how I love the last outfit with the abaya/jilbab/galabiya like dress Which one of these is your favorite outfit? Are you loving or leaving the Egyptian hijab style?

Cute (but not very covering) way to wrap your scarf

basbousa — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:13:52 +0000

I knoooow, it has been such a looooong time since I posted. The good news is I finished my first ever quarter at university a couple of days ago with top grades – yaaay. Insha’a Allah I will continue like that Unfortunately I don’t have photoshop here on my new laptop… Arrgh.. I got stuff that I wanna post but it looks so messy without arranging it and fitting it to my blog. Well…

Here is a cute but very non-covering way to wrap. The style is girly and in fact easy to do to but you better cover your neck/chest.

What do you think? Maybe something for a wedding party?