Hijab Colour Combination: 7 Essential Tips for Hijab Colour Matching

Finding the right hijab colour combination can be a daunting task. You can spend hours in front of the mirror with the wardrobe wide open, trying to find the perfect match, but there’s always something that seems to be missing.

You don’t know whether it’s the hijab’s colour, the choice of accessories, or the entire colour combination of the outfit, but something’s off, and you don’t like it.

Well, there’s a high chance that you chose colours that don’t go well together. Those purple and green shades may have looked good in your head, but our imagination tends to mess with us!

To help you choose your outfits effortlessly, here are 7 essential tips for hijab colour matching, along with 8 colour pairings that rock!

7 Essential Tips for Hijab Colour Matching

Colour matching can be a pain if you don’t know enough about the colour wheel and its ins and outs. When you learn about complementary and triadic colours, it becomes much easier to put an outfit together.

Here are 7 tips for matching colours according to the colour wheel: 

Go Monochromatic

A monochromatic palette is a pairing of light and dark shades of the same colour. So, instead of wearing two or three colours at once, you only wear one colour, but in style.

While doing that, you’ll want to wear darker shades on areas that you don’t want to attract attention to. For example, if you want your legs to appear thinner, wear a dark pair of pants and keep the light shades for your upper body. Generally, it’s better to wear the hijab in a shade lighter than your outfit.

EMMA’s Mink Elegance is an excellent choice for monochromatic outfits—it goes well with pretty much everything!

A monochromatic palette also looks exceptionally good when you pair different textures together, like a knit sweater with a formal pair of pants.

Choose Complementary Colours

Complementary colours are the colours opposite to each other on the colour wheel. When these colours are combined, they create a contrast, which is why they look good together and are often paired in outfits.

You have green and pink, purple and yellow, and blue and orange as the most popular complementary pairings. When certain shades of these colours are worn together, you get a perfectly balanced outfit. Here are three examples of EMMA scarves that apply these pairings:

For the best results, choose one shade for most of your outfit, and include the other shade in only one piece, like the hijab. Try not to include both colours in equal amounts because the outfit may look too symmetrical.

Keep the Colours Limited

Wearing too many colours can cause the outfit to go from stunning to chaotic in a blink. That’s why we recommend keeping your outfit’s colour limited to two or three colours max. Anything more than that, and you’ll find it harder to get matching accessories and wear a matching hijab colour.

Outfits with too many colours are difficult to manage, and they often look unbalanced because there aren’t four colours that go well together, no matter how hard you try. 

It’s better to style your outfit with two colours and one neutral shade, or two shades of the same colour and a different colour. Here are a couple of outfit ideas from EMMA with limited colours:

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Choose Triadic Colours

Do you know what the colour wheel looks like? Well, triadic colours are the ones evenly spaced out from each other. Meaning, if you draw an equilateral triangle on the wheel, the three colours touching the edges are triadic, and this means that they go well together and look easy on the eye.

An example of triadic colours is the pairing of pink, blue, and amber. EMMA’s Indian Spice is a perfect example of this triadic pairing:

When styling an outfit with a triadic palette, it’s better to choose one dominant colour to cover most of the outfit, and the two others can serve as accents.

For example, you can wear a blue dress with a printed scarf that contains both pink and amber colours, and choose your accessories, shoes, and purse, to be either pink or amber. That way, you can have a balanced outfit with one dominant colour. 

If you want, you can add white to the palette to add some balance. For example, you may wear a blue skirt with a white blouse, then wear a printed scarf that included blue, pink, and amber, and match the accessories with these colours.

Balance Warm and Cool Shades

It’s essential to take warm and cool shades into account when styling your outfit. Some colours are purely warm or cool, while other colours appear in both ways depending on how you style them.

For example, red is a warm colour, blue is a cool colour, and purple is the meeting point between both. This means that if you style it with blue, it’ll appear cool, and if you style it with red or any warm colour, it’ll give you a warm aura. 

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Some shades of it are on the warm side, like magenta, and other shades like violet are cool. 

To create a coherent outfit with a balanced colour palette, pair cool colours with cool shades, and vice versa. Here’s a warm-color outfit idea from EMMA’s suggestions:

You can get away with a palette of both colours, but depending on how you style it, it may either look bright and fun or out of harmony. For example, a pairing of tan and navy blue never fails. It looks stylish and trendy, although both colours are from opposite sides of the scale. Take a look at how we’d style this idea:

When In Doubt, Wear Earth Tones

Earth tones are neutral colours that aren’t on the colour wheel with their real shades. These colours are mostly manmade for fashion purposes, and most of them are found in natural elements like sand and rocks. That’s why they’re called earth tones.

Earth colours include beige, off-white, grey, cream, vanilla, brown, tan, and khaki. 

The best thing about earth colours is that they go well with any other colour if they’re worn alone. Take off-white for example; you can wear it with any colour on the wheel, and it’ll look stunning and well-balanced. 

The same goes for grey, cream, and beige. Some colours are a bit limiting, like brown and tan, but they still go well with most colours on the wheel. Luckily for you, EMMA has a wide range of earth-toned hijabs in a soft modal fabric, including Greige, Cafe, Nude, and Mink shades.

When you’re in doubt about what colour hijab to wear with your outfit, you can always choose an earth one. It’s the safe choice, and it’ll always look good. However, you’ll need to choose wisely and consider cool and warm shades while doing so.

For example, if your outfit is entirely warm, choose warm earth tones, like beige or tan. Meanwhile, if your outfit is on the cold side, you can go for grey as your earth tone.

Match Prints Correctly

Matching different prints together can either look ultra fashionable and elegant or end up looking like a mismatched outfit from the ‘80s. It’s always better to stick to the safe side and wear your prints with solid colours because not a lot of prints look well together.

For example, a subtle striped pattern will look good with a paisley pattern. Meanwhile, a polka-dot print will just look messy if you match it with a paisley pattern.

The best thing to do is to wear a solid colour hijab with a printed blouse/dress, and vice versa. If you’re wearing a printed dress, choose one of the neutral colours on it and wear your hijab in the same colour.

If you’re wearing a dress or two pieces with solid colours, you can match them with a printed scarf that features both colours for the best results.

8 Hijab Colour Combinations That Rock!

Now that we’re done with the technicalities, let’s take a look at some colour combinations that’ll rock any outfit if you style them correctly. 

Blue and Pink

Blue and pink are treated as opposites in fashion. Despite that, they’re visually good together because they’re close to each other on the colour wheel. Plus, blue is a cool colour, while pink stands on the edge between cool and warm families, making it a good colour to match both.

For a bright summery look, you can match an aqua-blue dress with a soft pink hijab. Or, do the opposite and match a pink outfit with a baby blue scarf.

These two colours look good when they’re worn alone without any extra colours to break the magic.

Black and Tan

It’s a common misconception that you can’t match two neutrals together, or else they’d look boring. We beg to differ!

A powerful neutral colour like black looks nothing short of magical when matched with an earthy tone like tan. The pairing is ideal for winter and fall outfits because they send off a warm vibe. You can wear a black dress with a tan leather coat, and for a balanced look, wear a beige or another neutral colour for your hijab.

Beige and Red

Beige and red are warm, classic, and as elegant as colours get. Both colours create a lovely combination for a hijab outfit because they’re complementary, with the earthy tone of beige toning down the brightness of red.

If any piece of your outfit is red, whether it’s a dress or a blouse, you match it with a beige hijab. Or, if you have a beige dress, you can wear it with a printed scarf that features both beige and red, like Emma’s Valerie scarf.

Grey and Pink

Grey and pink form a beautiful pairing that never goes out of fashion. Grey is a neutral colour, while pink is on the warm side. Both are soft colours that go easy on the eye; you can use them to create your outfit’s palette.

For the best results, wear two shades of pink with a grey scarf. Or, wear a grey dress with a soft pink hijab.

White and Blush

Blush is one of the medium shades of pink, and it looks good on almost anyone because it goes well with all skin tones. If you pair it with white, you’ll create a lovely, soft, and balanced look. You can even add another shade of pink to the outfit, preferably darker.

These colours are ideal for summer and spring outfits, and you can wear them to beach outings because they create a bright pairing.

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Beige and Deep Green

Deep green and beige create a timeless pairing, and nature seems to agree. Both colours are commonly used together in interior design, especially in rustic and biophilic interiors. Green is also widely used in luxurious settings because it’s often associated with prosperity and royalty.

For the perfect fall outfit, you can match a beige sweater with a deep green hijab or a printed hijab that includes green shades. 

Blue and Cream

Pairing neutral colours with cool colours is a guaranteed success; blue and cream are excellent examples of that. Cream is a neutral, earthy tone that looks good with any colour you can think of. 

Pairing it with blue creates a harmonic, elegant palette that screams luxury, and it’s perfect for the winter because it’s a cool palette.

If you want to add a third colour, you can wear tan, brown, or any slightly dark neutral tone. It’s better to leave blue to dominate the look, so you don’t lose its cool aura.

Green and Brown

Green and brown are a classic pairing in nature, depicted vividly in trees, forests, and trails. If you want to create an earthly look in the winter, you can use both colours in your outfit. You can also wear a hijab that features the two colours, like Emma’s Isabella.

Final Thoughts on the Best Hijab Colour Combination

Did you find your perfect hijab colour combination yet? As you can see, there are plenty of combinations that’d rock any outfit. Our personal favourite is cream and blue, but all the other pairings we listed would look stunning as well.

Remember to be wise when choosing your outfit’s colours. Don’t wear different prints together, and preferably keep warm and cool colours separated for the best results. And don’t forget to show us your outfit in the comments afterwards!