Self portrait Thursday: fitting in

Not sure if I have mentioned previously but I live in a pretty Muslim neighbourhood in Sydney.  That is not the reason I am wearing my scarf on my head in this photo.  I had actually forgotten my umbrella and was trying to prevent my hair from getting wet and frizzy in the rain.  I was making the same 'fashion statement' dropping my kids at school one rainy morning and got a big grin from one of the Muslim mums who must have thought I looked pretty funny (or silly). 

Self portrait thursday

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Actually looking at the photo of myself makes me pretty glad not to be Muslim as I really don't have the face to carry the hijab off.  

Our local chemist looks gorgeous in hers.  She has a very round, cherubic face and the blue scarf she wears frames it beautifully.  Another friend who started wearing a scarf in her 30's has the wildest mop of curly hair you have ever seen and pretty funky at home clothes.  I have been at her house when she has been getting ready to go out and it has been amazing to see the tranformation from wild and crazy-looking at home F to neat and demure-looking going out F. 

The other confronting thing would be to have to forgo wearing make up.  I don't wear a lot but would feel very self-conscious going out without even my eyeliner on.  F was telling me about another woman she knew who had started wearing a scarf in her 30's only after having her eyeliner tattooed on.  That would be me, I think!