In addition to the patterns that jump off the hijab and make Egyptian women an integral part of fashion, the way they wrap their hijabs also puts a unique landscape hovering over the city.
Generally speaking, women put the headscarf from the forehead to the back of the head will be hair all wrapped up, in the jaw with a delicate pin fixed, and then the rest of the headscarf around the head around a circle, and then the rest of the part of the natural hanging in front of the chest. The head thus wrapped only reveals one face.
In recent years, as more and more Muslim women have been educated in the West, they have brought this idea to the way the hijab is wrapped. There is also a magazine on the streets of Egypt called Hijab, which describes some hijab wrapping techniques and new hijab styles. The Spanish style and the braided style, are the best examples of this. Among them, in order to emphasize more the clear outline of a woman's face and make her look more charming, the Spanish style hijab wrapping method will put the hair into a bun first, and then use a hairpin to hold it in place, and then tie the hijab at the back of the head in a knot, and wrap the ends of the hijab around the bun and then coil it into the pocket into the end and fix it with a pin. In this way, the ends of the hijab are naturally tied in a petal style while wrapping around the bun. It makes the head look more layered. The braid style is, needless to say, the way to wrap a young, cute type of little girl. It's a way of braiding the ends of the headscarf and the hair together into a twisted braid style.
In the past, women who wore the black-based hijab, which hid their beautiful faces with only their eyes showing, were considered to be the most conservative. As the quality of life has improved, hijab traders have gone through various channels to bring more styles of hijab to Egyptian women who love beauty.
Elasha Mohamed wears a two-layer hijab, with the outer layer being green and the inner blue layer peeking out at the edge of her forehead. She said wrapping the two-layer hijab is a fashionable wrap for young students this year.
Egyptian women tend to choose their hijabs according to the style and color of their clothes and the occasion they are attending.
Most of them will be the color of the hijab just right with the robe, shoes, satchel with each other, neither conflict, but also echo each other. Some avant-garde schoolgirls, will also be like in the hair clip hairpin, in the appropriate position of the headscarf don't some colorful beads, or hang a small ornaments.
Especially in attending weddings or party occasions, women in addition to wearing colorful clothing, the choice of headscarf has become the focus of the women fighting each other.
The vast majority of Egyptians are Muslims. According to Islamic rules, women must wear a hijab when they become adults. In Cairo, in Alexandria, whether it is a youthful young girl or a full-bodied older woman, the head without exception draped with a headscarf. Those colorful hijab, become a beautiful scenery on the streets of Egypt.