Makeup Tips for Women with Hijab

Soft color eye make up for women in hijab

When a woman wearing a headscarf, it means that her face will be the center of attention. Therefore you need to be careful to choose the appropriate style make up with the veil model selection.
In the book ‘Dressage’ and ‘Style Riding Hood’ by Tini Sardadi and Amy Wirabudi, explained a few things that need to be considered by women veiled to do the make ups.

Eyebrow

Cat eye style

For those who are veiled, the eyebrows should be much more visible than those who are not veiled.
A messy eyebrow make the face looks dull and not fresh. Use an eyebrow pencil to draw the shape of eyebrows, avoid the eyebrows tattooed impressed because it’s unnatural. Do not draw the eyebrow too short or too long, it should be ended right at the end of the eye’s corner.
Be careful to choose the form of an eyebrow, not to give the impression of your face sad, surprised, shocked or angry. If you draw the line of your eyebrows too low at the eye corner that will make your face looks sad. If you draw it too straight that will make your face looks angry.  

Eye make up for small eyes

Eye shadow

For those who have small eyes and wanted to make them look bigger, you can put the eyeliner more visible with a darker color. But if you have big eyes and wanted to make them look smaller, you still can put a less eyeliner on your eyes with the cat eye style and avoid dark colors as your eye shadow. The most important thing on eyeliner is that too much eyeliner especially black color and wrong application can make your face looks older.

Smokey eyes for women in hijab

Color selection

In making the selection of makeup colors, keep your eyes and lips at the same time highlight. Choose one of them, eyes or lips only. If you choose the eyes as the center attention of your face, then select the color ‘nude’ for the lips. If the lips colored ‘hard’ then use ‘light’ to the eyes color. When you wear dark-colored or patterned scarf crowded, it is advisable to choose soft colors of eye makeup.
Meanwhile, if the light-colored scarf or motive was not too crowded you can choose a slightly darker color to display the beauty of the eyes.

Saree with Hijab

Saree is an Indian traditional dress that can represent the elegant style of a woman. Saree will look good in every shape of woman body. So, you don’t have to be worry about how you will look like on your saree. You will look gorgeous, definitely!



Saree wears with Petticoat and Cholli. Petticoat is a plain skirt with a waistband to tuck the saree on. Cholli is a tightly fitted short blouse above the petticoat. There are many different styles of saree that usually different on how to tuck and wrap the saree and pallu (loose end of a saree) on the body.


What if a Muslim woman who wears hijab wants to dress up on saree? There are some modifications you need to do on a basic form of saree, which are:

1. Choose a blouse as a cholli that has long sleeves and turtle neck to cover the skin. You can choose a fitted or a little bit loose blouse. That won’t become a big problem cause the wrapped of saree will cover the shape of the body.

2. Choose a simple hijab style to cover the head. Why? Because saree already has a long garment, so the simple hijab will give you more space to move.

3. Choose a plain color hijab that has similar color or match with color of the saree.

4. You can add jewelry on your hijab as accessories besides wearing ring, necklace and.

5. Don’t forget to wear high heels because saree will look perfect with high heels, especially high heels with gold color or silver.

 Well… that’s all for now. Hope I can come up with a better idea next time.

Fresh Flowery Hairstyle

There are many ways on how we make beauty for a woman. Flower is one of the accents that usually add on a woman style. We can see flowers on women’s dress, shoes, bags, jewelry and also women’s hair and hijab. Now, I want to share something about how we use fresh flowers on woman’s hair or hijab.


We often to see women using fresh flower on their hair is when they got engaged or married or when they attending a formal occasion. There are various blooms to use in this purpose. It could be a single large bloom, some of medium bloom or a cluster of tinny ones. You can utilize as well a headband that has attached to it various decorative flowers that go very well with the overall aspect of your hairstyle.

Fresh flower headband

The decision of your bridal hairstyle is better to be taken at the moment when you are dressed with your bridal gown and have your hair stylish to look at the choices you might have, especially when you are definite into having wedding flowers for hair. You should always know what kind of bridal bouquet you will carry as you might want to coordinate the flowers in the bouquet with the ones arranged for your hairstyle.

Cymbidium Flowery Hairstyle

For a simple look, it would be definitely better the choice of a single bloom that is large enough to showcase your choice of wedding flower for hair. You can simply tucked the flower behind your ear while your hair is combed up or down on the other side of your hair. For instance, a lily can do the best for it. You can choose Asiatic lily for a plain color or oriental lily for a mix colors. If you don’t want to use lily, you can choose cymbidium orchid or catleya orchid. Don’t forget to pick a perfect blooming stage of the flower with a strong little stem. Use a hairpin to hold the flower on your hair. If you worn hijab. It’s better for you if the end of the stem warped by a floral tape or aluminium foil to prevent the flower’s sap stick on your hijab.

Roses Flowery Hairstyle

If you want to use some flowers on your hair, pick the smaller once than lily or cymbidium. The choices you might have are roses, freesia, orchid, carnation, calla lily, dianthus or mini gerbera. Tuck the stem of the flowers on your hair with grouping or spreading style. It depends on how long and how is your hair style. If you wear hijab, then it will be easier if you arrange the flowers first before you put them on your hijab. It will reduce the flower’s changing position while you move your head.

Baby Breathe Flowery Hairstyle

If you want to use a cluster of small flowers, baby breathe, aster or jasmine will look great on your hair. Be careful when you tuck them on your hair because they have a small stem that will easy to break and falling down from your hair after a while.




There is also a way to combine a big flower or medium flower with the small flower on your hairstyle which is by arrange them with a certain type of a small flower arrangement. It can form a circle, oval or linear. The most common combinations are lily and roses with baby breathe or aster. If you want to add foliage, ivy or Australian leaf will be the best for it.

Lily, aster and baby breathe hairstyle

Roses, baby breathe and
bear grass hairstyle

Flowery hairstyle with ivy

In some countries, there is a typical flower arrangement that used for bridal hairstyle. In Indonesia, we use jasmine and we usually call it “ronce melati”. It’s been made by stitched them together until they form a certain shape like circle, triangle, dangle, etc. In here, we use jasmine bud to make ronce melati. Every shape has a specific name that only use for a bridal needs. As far as I know, in India, there is also almost the same flower arrangement for wedding hairstyle. It called “mallu”. Mallu is using jasmine blossoms and other kind of flowers such as aster, marigold and dahlia.

Indian Bride Hairstyle

Indonesian Jasmine Hairstyle

Wedding Hijab style with roses & baby breathe

It is more complex for us if we decided to use fresh flower for our wedding hairstyle rather than we use an artificial ones, since fresh flowers need a good treatment to prevent withered in a short time or in the middle of the wedding party. But one thing for sure, the nature can’t lie. It fresh, colors, blooming form and smell definitely different and more elegant rather than the artificial ones.