Boredom on long flights

[jordanianprincess 0]

Do women who wear hijab get their hair done in the salons or is that just a waste of money?

I saw them in Cairo too . . . . one woman came in wearing hijab and got her hair colored a dark red, etc . . . very fashionable looking with nice makeup. The salon would also thread the brows and upper lip . . basically the whole face if you wanted. It felt rather strange to get it done.

I agree that it is nice and cheap to go to salon and get your hair done. But they were always burning my scalp with the blow drier because they insisted on making it straight as a board so they took a long time and really pulled it out.

Their blowdryers also have a higher wattage and more heat. I have one

[UmmSqueakster 54]

is there any problem with me flying into Canada as an american..i want to fly from here...lebanon to toronto....then my mom is picking me up there or in buffalo ny.......will i have any problems entering and then leaving like the next day?

We're in a kind of visa waiver program with them. You'll need your passport, but no visa. Have a safe trip home!

[doodlebug 3]

I hate it when anyone but me does my hair. I'm a weirdo like that. I do like having my nails done however.

Whenever I get my hair cut I always wash it and redo it the minute I get home. Usama actually works part time in a barber shop so I wonder how he'd be doing my hair. That may be an option.

[ya falaha! 0]

Will you be wearing higab in Egypt, doodle? If so don't bother getting your hair done. It's a waste. The higab smashes the shitt out of it. If I was staying home all day then I'd fix my hair...that is when Mohamed would stop bugging me enough to do it. Otherwise just wash and dry it. In the summer I didn't even bother with a blow dryer. It was so hot and humid I looked like warmed up doo doo all the time. I had it pulled back in a pony tail all the time just like my SILs.

[melly 0]

Speaking of hijab making your hair flat as ****, I'm wondering about wearing it in the plane on the way to Cairo. After wearing hijab for 2 full days at the seminar I went to last weekend, my hair was absolutely flat as a sheet. How can I expect my hair to look nice for my fiance/hubby if I'm wearing hijab all day, if not on the plane then in Cairo itself? Do women wash their hair every day??? help!

[doodlebug 3]

Speaking of hijab making your hair flat as ****, I'm wondering about wearing it in the plane on the way to Cairo. After wearing hijab for 2 full days at the seminar I went to last weekend, my hair was absolutely flat as a sheet. How can I expect my hair to look nice for my fiance/hubby if I'm wearing hijab all day, if not on the plane then in Cairo itself? Do women wash their hair every day??? help!

I am going to wear hijaab in Egypt. I plan on putting it on right when I get off of the plane. I'll wear the scarf as more of a shawl before that on the plane and then just put it around my head real quick when I get off. He won't see me without hijaab until we're married. When I get there it will be 11pm so he'll just see me to pick me up and drop me off at the flat anyways. He won't be staying with me in the flat until we are married so I'll wash and do my hair when he's not around, though I may not bother since he won't see it anyways.

One we're married, insha Allah, I'll just fix it in the morning and then if we go out, I'll just fix it again when I get home. I don't like the type where you put that thing on under the scarf because I tried that at a seminar that I went to and I was boiling hot the whole time. I prefer the shayla type that just goes loosely over my head. He doesn't like it because he said it shows too much of my hair so I'll have to figure a way to fix it but no way will I wear that skull cap thing 'cause I'll faint from heat exhaustion!

[ya falaha! 0]

I wash mine everyday because it's baby fine so if I don't wash it everyday it feels greasy. I didn't worry whether my hair looked nice or not when I first met Mohamed. He was happier that I wore higab than if I would've shown up with a fancy hair do. Also when you spend 24/7 with a man and his family you have no choice but to get comfortable about messy hair and all. Another thing..after traveling for 20-24 hrs your hair will be a mess anyways.

[cbd2cai 0]

Do women who wear hijab get their hair done in the salons or is that just a waste of money?

I saw them in Cairo too . . . . one woman came in wearing hijab and got her hair colored a dark red, etc . . . very fashionable looking with nice makeup. The salon would also thread the brows and upper lip . . basically the whole face if you wanted. It felt rather strange to get it done.

I agree that it is nice and cheap to go to salon and get your hair done. But they were always burning my scalp with the blow drier because they insisted on making it straight as a board so they took a long time and really pulled it out.

Their blowdryers also have a higher wattage and more heat. I have one

I don't have one from over there, but I have a really good one that I bought thru the salon that I go to here . . . I think you can find them on-line too. But I've gotten into the "let it go curly" mode when I travel, so I do that here too . . . but wait for humid days . . . nothing like a ball of frizz, hehe!!

I didn't like getting my nails done in Egypt because they have a different way of shaping that I don't like . . . they cut me a couple of times (where I bled) the one time I did it, so I decided not to do it again. Threading . . . i could probably handle that.

I don't travel with my blow drier (dryer??, hehe) anymore because I blew up a few while travelling for work . . . PLUS the good one that i have takes up too much space.

[Together4ever 1]

I wash mine everyday because it's baby fine so if I don't wash it everyday it feels greasy. I didn't worry whether my hair looked nice or not when I first met Mohamed. He was happier that I wore higab than if I would've shown up with a fancy hair do. Also when you spend 24/7 with a man and his family you have no choice but to get comfortable about messy hair and all. Another thing..after traveling for 20-24 hrs your hair will be a mess anyways.

And one other thing... the water in Egypt is hell on hair and skin.

[ya falaha! 0]

Uh huh uh huh

[Bosco 1]

Speaking of hijab making your hair flat as ****, I'm wondering about wearing it in the plane on the way to Cairo. After wearing hijab for 2 full days at the seminar I went to last weekend, my hair was absolutely flat as a sheet. How can I expect my hair to look nice for my fiance/hubby if I'm wearing hijab all day, if not on the plane then in Cairo itself? Do women wash their hair every day??? help!

I am going to wear hijaab in Egypt. I plan on putting it on right when I get off of the plane. I'll wear the scarf as more of a shawl before that on the plane and then just put it around my head real quick when I get off. He won't see me without hijaab until we're married. When I get there it will be 11pm so he'll just see me to pick me up and drop me off at the flat anyways. He won't be staying with me in the flat until we are married so I'll wash and do my hair when he's not around, though I may not bother since he won't see it anyways.

One we're married, insha Allah, I'll just fix it in the morning and then if we go out, I'll just fix it again when I get home. I don't like the type where you put that thing on under the scarf because I tried that at a seminar that I went to and I was boiling hot the whole time. I prefer the shayla type that just goes loosely over my head. He doesn't like it because he said it shows too much of my hair so I'll have to figure a way to fix it but no way will I wear that skull cap thing 'cause I'll faint from heat exhaustion!

Do you wear put the hijab on before turning the webcam on? Will he want you to wear it when he comes to the United States too? I don't mean to pry, but I always find it curious when the husband has hijab preferences (i.e. - him not liking the shayla), but I guess that is because I consider it an act of faith between a woman and God and not one a husband should involve himself in; however, I realize that other people view it as a way of keeping themselves for their husband's eyes only in which case I guess he may have preferences. He doesn't mind that other men see your hair now and will on the plane but he doesn't get to until after marriage?

[peezey 0]

Ooooooooooooooooooooooh, an excuse to eat cookies! I'm sure Dr.Atkins won't mind

Didn't you hear? The physics of being airborne cause cookies to lose all calories while airborne.

My favorites..yummy

JP, I'm pretty sure Cost Plus carries those ginger snaps.

[jordanianprincess 0]

Ooooooooooooooooooooooh, an excuse to eat cookies! I'm sure Dr.Atkins won't mind

Didn't you hear? The physics of being airborne cause cookies to lose all calories while airborne.

My favorites..yummy

JP, I'm pretty sure Cost Plus carries those ginger snaps.

I'm also sure that Dr. Atkins would frown on those too, I can't have anything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Speaking of hijab making your hair flat as ****, I'm wondering about wearing it in the plane on the way to Cairo. After wearing hijab for 2 full days at the seminar I went to last weekend, my hair was absolutely flat as a sheet. How can I expect my hair to look nice for my fiance/hubby if I'm wearing hijab all day, if not on the plane then in Cairo itself? Do women wash their hair every day??? help!

I am going to wear hijaab in Egypt. I plan on putting it on right when I get off of the plane. I'll wear the scarf as more of a shawl before that on the plane and then just put it around my head real quick when I get off. He won't see me without hijaab until we're married. When I get there it will be 11pm so he'll just see me to pick me up and drop me off at the flat anyways. He won't be staying with me in the flat until we are married so I'll wash and do my hair when he's not around, though I may not bother since he won't see it anyways.

One we're married, insha Allah, I'll just fix it in the morning and then if we go out, I'll just fix it again when I get home. I don't like the type where you put that thing on under the scarf because I tried that at a seminar that I went to and I was boiling hot the whole time. I prefer the shayla type that just goes loosely over my head. He doesn't like it because he said it shows too much of my hair so I'll have to figure a way to fix it but no way will I wear that skull cap thing 'cause I'll faint from heat exhaustion!

Do you wear put the hijab on before turning the webcam on? Will he want you to wear it when he comes to the United States too? I don't mean to pry, but I always find it curious when the husband has hijab preferences (i.e. - him not liking the shayla), but I guess that is because I consider it an act of faith between a woman and God and not one a husband should involve himself in; however, I realize that other people view it as a way of keeping themselves for their husband's eyes only in which case I guess he may have preferences. He doesn't mind that other men see your hair now and will on the plane but he doesn't get to until after marriage?

Wow I was thinking the same from Doodle's and Melly's post. I guess I just don't get the point of selectivly wearing hijab.

You could electrocute yourself in the bathroom by having a curling iron that is plugged in fall into the bathtub.

You could bonk your head against the porcelain tub or tiles and crack your skull open.

You could faint from heat of the shower/tub and lose consciousness.

You could scald yourself.

so do you feel better now about planes?

No..they have bathrooms on planes!!!

Actually now I'm freaked about catching the avian flu. I just read that in mid October '06 they had another fatal case of it in Egypt, though the woman who died of it used to pluck duck feathers. I'll have to stay away from the duck feather plucking activities.

Also, I never got vaccinated for Hep B, but I never told my doctor that there's a chance I may become "intimate" with a native Egyptian, which is one of the risk factors. Hopefully he doesn't have it.

Have you been vaccinated yet? What about him? Has he been to the Doctor to get tested?

[doodlebug 3]

Do you wear put the hijab on before turning the webcam on? Will he want you to wear it when he comes to the United States too? I don't mean to pry, but I always find it curious when the husband has hijab preferences (i.e. - him not liking the shayla), but I guess that is because I consider it an act of faith between a woman and God and not one a husband should involve himself in; however, I realize that other people view it as a way of keeping themselves for their husband's eyes only in which case I guess he may have preferences. He doesn't mind that other men see your hair now and will on the plane but he doesn't get to until after marriage?

Wow tons of questions

I don't put it on using the webcam because when we started out talking as just friends I was not muslim and he saw me without it. I just think it'd be silly for me to start wearing it in front of him now since he's already seen me without it. Plus I think that when you are deciding to marry it is ok to be without hijaab. I forget where I read that but basically I mean what if the chick is bald??? The poor guy would find out on his honeymoon and that's just not ok.

He does want me to wear it while here in the US and we have that discussion all the time...last night in fact. I told him that I do not want to wear it here because I live in a community where prejudice is sky high and I don't want to put my children in a position where they are ridiculed by the other kids and even the teachers. If I did not have children I would absolutely be wearing it everywhere and anywhere but they are a real consideration that I have to think of. He keeps saying that it is not up to him it is up to God in the end but I know he's not happy.

He absoultely does mind that others see my hair now but it's something he has conceded that he has to deal with. It's all about compromise.

Have you been vaccinated yet? What about him? Has he been to the Doctor to get tested?

I have had the Hep A vaccine and I'm picking up the Typhoid pills today. Not looking forward to that one. I had a very bad reaction that I'm still dealing with from the Hep A vaccine and I'm not really that hopeful about the Typhoid pill.

I am going to ask him tonight if he's been tested for Hep B, but I doubt it. He hates doctors and dentists. Thinks it's a waste of money. I want to phrase it in such a way that he doesn't think I think he has it, if you know what I mean. I don't think he does though because he's 1) never even kissed a girl and 2) never done intravenous drugs. I believe those are the two ways that you get Hep B.

[ya falaha! 0]

If it's silly for you to start wearing it now why is it a must that he doesn't see you without it before marriage? I can understand why you want to wear it in Egypt but for him not to be able to see your hair before marriage is kinda silly IMO. It's just hair.