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Hijab Comic

Published: Jan 29, 2017

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It's been slow with my regular art, so I just doodled up this weird and slightly different thing in under ten minutes instead. XD

Has this ever happened to any other Muslim girls out there?
This happened to me several times in high school. Sometimes the hijab (veil, headscarf) I wore would come loose after several hours or my hair would come loose out of its bun underneath it. I'd either wait for any male teachers to leave before doing it up again or just go to the ladies' room. Regardless, almost every time one or more of my classmates would exclaim about how pretty I looked with my hair down - one girl even once asked me to do a hair flip like in a Dove commercial. XD
The funny thing is, I didn't start wearing the hijab until the middle of seventh grade, so those who'd been in the same class as me since fifth grade all knew what my hair looked like. I'm exceedingly plain looking and I wear glasses, and in fact I used to be made fun of because I never did anything special with my looks or went against the school's dress code (skirt below knees, hair tied up, sleeves rolled down, no make-up etc.). But every time the hijab came off it's like I transformed into this rare beauty. It's a pretty nice feeling. Giggle

_{This hasn't really happened so much in college though, since like, 90% of the female students wear hijab and it's not a big deal.}

Sidenote, this is the doodle style I used to draw comics with in school. It took a moment to get a feel for it again but then it felt totally natural. I'd like to make more of these the next time I reach an art slump.

Side sidenote: This is not some sort of sales' pitch for girls to start wearing a hijab. It's just a cute silly thing I thought some people might find relatable.

Edit: Hey look I made another one!

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Waanmo

Oct 23, 2017

I really love your tiny comics about your life! They're pretty nice and at the same time sensitive.

I'm living in a place where sadly islam is looking like something really bad most of the time and because my work I've seen a lot of little girls growing and starting to wear Hijab slowly (first in special days, later more usual, finally always). Some of them trust on me to explain me the challenge that does it means, explain about if it's their election or not and this stuff. For some people "hijab" only means "poor, awkward, stranger" and nothing more. Even I know some situations where people totally left some girls appart just because using this "piece of cloth in their heads".

Sorry for long messange!! But I wanna try to leave here my feelings about all of this and sorry too for the serious tone of my words!!!

At the same time, sadly too, the man islam comunity here doesn't help so much. Some of them gets into lots of trouble (I'm living in a little town) and womans are trapped at homes, taking care of the children, knowing nothing about our language, living in the very closed small islam comunity (about 6-7 entire families). They can't ask for help, can't doing something for themselfs because they simply can't talk with the rest of the village, even those women can't go to the doctor without their husbands or big sons! Of course this looks very bad for the rest of the villagers.

Thank you for sharing this little window to your culture and religion because it's very important to give this sweet vision to the rest of the world. I feel very sad to know that an entire culture is accused for the acts of radical groups. Hope you find more time to draw them!!