There’s now a viral TikTok trend of a brand new strategy to put on the hijab. Extra particularly, “hijbobs.” If you happen to ever end up considering, every little thing’s been performed earlier than, give your self an opportunity to let a woman shock you.
A 26-year-old magnificence and magnificence creator from Michigan who goes by Zay took inspiration from a creator named Jocelyn Meiere, who posted a video of her slinking her bob forwards and backwards. Zay took a pair of scissors to one in every of her headscarves, and the algorithm went to work. Her first iteration of the pattern was cute, however the cloth wasn’t transferring how she needed. She did the identical on a extra flowy one and nailed it. The hijab model went viral—the video posted to an account with 200 followers blew up in a single day. “Low key excessive key, I take a look at the video and I’m like, ‘Dang. If I had identified it could go this viral, I might’ve made certain my make-up appeared cuter,’” Zay tells Teen Vogue, laughing.
Zay was doing her personal model of a video by the unique creator who was taking part within the age-old custom of hairography, which was dropped at trendy mainstream consciousness, because of that annoying little present we all know and love, Glee, together with her bob. It’s virtually inevitable {that a} hijabi would discover a strategy to take part. It’s not unusual that women who put on hijab innovate model and cultural tendencies to fulfill their very own wants, and the consequence finally ends up being one thing that didn’t actually exist earlier than. Zay sees a variety of posts replicating her hijbob, however she’s not significantly pressed to get credit score or say she invented it. “I nonetheless give credit score to the OG woman who posted it with the bob. Mine was a twist on hers. I truthfully give her essentially the most credit score.”
However the phrase “hijab” is contested amongst totally different individuals by way of what qualifies as modest sufficient to be a real hijab, and a variety of Muslims who publish model and sweetness content material get questions and feedback about their stage of modesty. So Zay is fast to make a disclaimer. Regardless that the hijbob is a portmanteau of hijab and bob, she’s not calling it a hijab. “Folks preserve asking me, is that this a correct hijab? I say, no, it isn’t. It’s a artistic strategy to put on a shawl. That is only a girly pop making an attempt to have some enjoyable and didn’t suppose a lot of it.”
