# Muslim women, makeup and veils **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [June 7, 2003, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muslim-women-makeup-and-veils/180261 "2003-06-07T06:19:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![medstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@medstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medstar)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2003, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muslim-women-makeup-and-veils/180261/81 "2003-06-15T21:07:16Z")
Collounsbury says: > [@](#): > > You know a unique subset. Hey!! Most of the time, you guys pontificate about earth shattering, monolithic themes; I just wanna get smooth, shiny, frizz-free hair. Yes, I concentrate on the important things in life. ---
**Author:** ![istara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e79b87/32.png) [@istara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/istara)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2003, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muslim-women-makeup-and-veils/180261/82 "2003-06-15T21:32:26Z")
Many Arab women I know have very curly, even frizzy hair. Often still beautiful though. Except when it’s all Shakira-ed, brassy dried out fake bouffant bleached not-quite-blonde with roots as dark and deep as the cracsk in Mount Doom. ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2003, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muslim-women-makeup-and-veils/180261/83 "2003-06-15T21:53:15Z")
Yeah, \*\*medstar, \*\* if you ever figure it out, please let me know. I’m definitely one of those women of long-ago Middle Eastern origins with very frequent Ethnic Hair Days. ---
**Author:** ![Testy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@Testy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Testy)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muslim-women-makeup-and-veils/180261/84 "2003-06-16T05:01:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by medstar \* > \*\* > Hey!! Most of the time, you guys pontificate about earth shattering, monolithic themes; I just wanna get smooth, shiny, frizz-free hair. Yes, I concentrate on the important things in life. \*\* There are some local herbal things around here. My wife and daughter a local soap a few weeks ago and like it. As far as shampoo or the like, I have no idea what it does, if anything. If you like, I’ll ask around about the details but have no idea what it will do. It probably won’t make your hair fall out or anything drastic but that’s ALL I’ll promise. _S_ All the best Testy ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muslim-women-makeup-and-veils/180261/85 "2003-06-16T07:11:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by medstar \* > Collounsbury says: > > Hey!! Most of the time, you guys pontificate about earth shattering, monolithic themes; I just wanna get smooth, shiny, frizz-free hair. Yes, I concentrate on the important things in life. I believe that’s a IMHO topic at best. However, I can report your impression of MENA hair is not accurate, you know a unique subset. ---
**Author:** ![medstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@medstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medstar)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muslim-women-makeup-and-veils/180261/86 "2003-06-17T23:14:18Z")
Oh well, I guess frizzy hair is a universal problem. But I tell you, the person who eliminates _this_ problem is gonna win the Nobel peace prize. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muslim-women-makeup-and-veils/180261/87 "2003-06-18T05:23:22Z")
**medstar** , to me frizzy hair is very beautiful. I recommend you give it the treatment that Indian women use. In India, women have the longest, thickest, shiniest, beautifullest hair in the world. Even though it is so thick and wavy, they keep it under control. They wash it with _shikakai_. Before bed at night, they oil it with coconut oil, also with _amla_ oil and _bhringaraj_ oil. They brush and comb it, and get scalp massages with these oils and sleep like that, and wash in the morning. You can find these products at the Worldgate Nutrition Center in Herndon. E-mail me for details. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muslim-women-makeup-and-veils/180261/88 "2003-06-18T11:54:02Z")
**medstar** , have you tried rosemary oil for its antifrizz effect? ---
**Author:** ![medstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@medstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medstar)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muslim-women-makeup-and-veils/180261/89 "2003-06-18T22:55:57Z")
Thanks, Jomo Mojo, I have several of these products at home and use them with great results. I hope you don’t think I’m suicidal about the state of my hair. It’s just that in Great Debates, solemn issues are beaten to death and it’s refreshing to participate in a thread about hair and makeup. This is a lot of fun. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muslim-women-makeup-and-veils/180261.md?page=4)