Khaleeji Hair Clip

Khaleejia said: Big Hair clips are very popular amongst khaleeji women. A hair clip is "mishbak" (مشبك) or shabasa in Arabic.

There are many huge and colorful hair clips sold in the shops. Khaleeji girls prefer to use a massive hair clip as it helps to create a necessary volume under the scarf (sheyla) that is to achieve the trendy "hump" look. All you need to do is to pin your hair with a huge hair clip on top of your head and put a sheyla on afterwards ;)

There's a big choice of hair clips on the market, some of them for the price of 3 -15 AED from China. But many hair clips are made by local women at home - simple ones will cost around 20 AED and beautiful hair clips for special occasions will cost 40-110 AED

A Hilarious Emirati Cartoon- Shabiat Al Cartoon: شعبية الكرتون

Khaleejia said: "Shabiat Al Cartoon" is a very funny low budget cartoon made by Emirati youth.
This cartoon tells about life of the modern UAE nationals in an honest and funny way. It's in Arabic, but those who lived in the UAE or know Arabic culture will be able to understand a lot even if they dont know the language. At the same time some parts of the cartoon refer to very specific aspects of locals' life which is hard to understand for people outside Emirati society.

This cartoon is showed on TV during Ramadan. Last year this cartoon was more successful (i.e. was loved by locals) than the famous "Freej" cartoon which was rather boring. Hence "Freej" was stopped but Shabiat al Cartoon will be shown on TV again this Ramadan (of course all new parts :)

You can watch some parts of this cartoon on YouTube

Enjoy!!!!

DANCE AS KHALEEJI WOMEN! workout!

Khaleejia said:


For those who're interested i have posted about yowallah(preferably man's style khaleeji dance) but now i am going to share with you this video -small workout for khaleeji woman dance. without digging the history of the dance.I was lucky to get this vid as i hope you will enjoy it. I know that my blog has been visited mostly by girls from different continents, and i know that this style of dancing is learning in every country of the world. But the same time i am sure that not every of those girls have clear idea abt khaliji woman dance . well i hope this post will bring more light on it,and give you a chance to try it yourself. Must admit it's one of my favs among woman dance' styles.

BEAUTY OF ISLAMIC NATIONS..CHECHENYAN&INGOUSH PEOPLE

Khaleejia said:
i donno why this people (i met some during my trip that is successfully over)caught my interest but their culture is so uniq and maybe one of the least popular compared to the european or south american or even gulf countries that i dare to present in my blog. This muslim nation we firstly know from the terrible war that started in 1994 and was oficcially over in 2002 . but history of this nation goes for 6000 years back . what i understood Checenyan one of the most proud and strong people. They keep up their draditions wherever they live. Forced to immegrate to different countries they keep their national pride and togatherness with their homeland fellows, when they are asked about their nationality they prononce it with eyes full of respect and love to their land. Also i heard that it's very complecated for woman or man to marry different nationality otherwise they are in big risk to lose their parents and relatives.May be thats why some are married secretly. If you allow to decribe me their men's temper and beauty of their women i would say it's like when you see eagle hovering highly among picks of the rocks nobody can hurt him as his nobel beauty that make such a magic to those who watch it from the ground. this was my own introduction of this amazing people.

beautiful video will help you to understand better what i have wrote above.

my random fashion ideas for the summer

Khaleejia said:
summer 2009 - colors+white & black and you look fabulouse!

Before i had a flight i spent couple of hours in front of the mirror to unerstand what i can
dress over the seas. Defenatly my abayas should be taken off and hidden deeply in my wordrobe. And the same time i need to look gorgeous-stylish&glam. on my own choice i did this dress-menu where i included white jeans and black jeans that nice to mix with pink,light green,white,black or cheetah colors. but this is only 1% of the rest ideas. my own notes-its great for not too hot but windy and cloudy weather among 15-25 degree.




one of the most important thing to complete the look is nice fashionable shoes and accessories-belts,bags,necklaces,huge rings, bracelets and sunglasses.

black is always in ! during my travelling i descovered that my color choice was precisely same as the european dress tends for this sumer.

and finaly is make-up "smokey eyes"

1.eye-shadows Eyestudio Smoky Glam maybeline

2.make-up smokey eyes from gucci for the summer 2009

3.chanel smokey eyes set
smokey eyes from Carolina Herrera summer 2009

hope you liked it:)

about "camel humps"

Khaleejia said:
everything new is just well forgotten past,isn't it?!
let us open one more time this discussion that has already become the top topic among muslims and hijabis around the world. Preparing this post i decided to find out back in history since what time women started covering their heads with tall,hump-looking hats or up do's. and now u can see what i have found
So the most antient and famous presenter of this style was the most beautiful Egyptian queen Nefertiti.
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May be those stories that are well known to everyone about her unbelievable beauty and her splendour as a queen came deeply to the world's mind as a perfect sample of the Royal Beauty. Till nowadays i hear some people compare beautiful women they see with Nefertiti.
the youngest faraon - king Ramthes II look at his crone it makes sence!
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Then i was pretty surprised to see this photo of one greek lady statue that made of clay. look at her head she certainly had some kind of hump. probably it was just her hair that she made on her head top but also it could be fashionable trick of those times
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then i found those funny looking real conehats that definatly had some meaning for those who wear them:
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also that ball-looking hair up-do's as i know now likeness of german kugelhaube or haarhaube(personally don't have idea what is that) were maden only for the adult and married women living in sixteen centure.
5.The material they used for such head covers was firm and tightly covered with colored satin. also that white head&sholders cover(pic.6) looking like modern hijab,was so-called Barbette women took from men who dress such kind of cloth under their helmets to protect the skin from oxidation. Only later this kind of cover was taken by cristian chirch as nun's head-cover.
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All these head-cover styles are met in national costumes of different nations from the east to west since faraonic time.It had different shapes and defenitions but there was someting common that was pursued two objects that was modesty and dignity of that woman who wore it. And of cause it had meaning that woman is from high level and rich;)
next pic.represents slovenian woman dressed for wedding:
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9. Muslim women (arab and non-arab)

European women XVIII-XIX centures

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11. Kazakh woman wedding hats so-called saukule

12. men and women head-covers XIV-XVI centures

13. Austrian woman's head-cover
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European fest head covers

12. eastern europe woman fashion XVIII-XIX
13. old russian head cover of a bride
14. present time celebrities
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16. back to egyptian royal style

17. turkish hijab style (is very popular over there)

18. glam up-do wonder how you could do the same check out this link
https://www.bumpits.com/Default.aspx?mid=537220

But it's not all! Have you noticed that casual woman hat has so clear "camel hump" look?! Just look at them!

kazakh man's hat

hat-bag

this last hat is from collection for summer 2009 designers suggest to dress it with swimm suit on the beach.

So as we see high up-do's exist over 5 thousand years. And till now this feature of head-cover fashion appears everywhere accross the whole world. In ever hairdresser salon you ll get your hair backcombed for almost any up-do.Why?! first-high up do's give some kind of chic & self-confident, some believe that it gives feeling that woman has a good health as people think that she possesses strong and long hair. well for me it is gorgeous and cosy if you don't want to look worse than those who spend hours in the hairdressers and salons. yes i use huge flower clip and feel nice with it that my hair will not go outside my shailah and my shaylah will not slide to the sides. also in case i take my shaylah off i ll still have nice up-do. the only one thing i care is that it should not be too big&too high. i took that opinion as someones thick hair could make same bump. also i do not like when shaylah is too tight to the head that reveal everythng that under it (like turkish hijab in this post) . P.S. plz plz plz whatever i've said over here please consider as it was my private opinion that could bring no use or harm inshallah.

also choosing this style you should know that not everyone in gulf like it. Some locals see it vulgar and funny. I understand them really cause sometimes i myself felt the same when saw over done bun. You can read about such reaction in this bahranian blog the author brought out this problem for open discussion and got a lot of responses. http://erzulie1985.blogspot.com/2007/06/guessing-game-whats-in-her-hijab.html

Also you can check out next link that was written as a rsponse to the same post on hijab fashion

in gulf.http://muslimmedianetwork.com/mmn/?p=2436

i am On vacation

Khaleejia said: me and my family on vacation
This is the second week of the my trip around baltic sea countries. i am so excited from all those places i have visited! People!!! they are so different but nice! also i found out what could muslim girl dress living in such countries where people have rather limited knowledge of islamic culture. I beg you all forgive me for the delay with new posts i just need some quiet time to gather all my new experience and may be use it in my further posts.
p.s. answer in adwance now i don't dress abaya, mostly european style but with khaleeji shaylah wrap. colors that i use for my dress are preferably mix black with rose white or light green or cheetah print,plus lots of huge accesories and i can't avoid my henna colored hands that became so attractive over here like nothing else!!!!but elhandlillah this "strange look" is loved by most of ppl i have met during the trip.