How to Wear Hijab With Scrubs: 5 Ways to Look Stylish While Doing Your Job!

Spending 10–12 hour shifts running through the hospital and tending to patients isn’t easy, is it? Well, it’s even more tedious when your hijab keeps going loose and moving around.

If you don’t know how to wear hijab with scrubs correctly, you’re likely fed up with the way your hijab keeps going off your head. Add to that the fact that your hands will get all dirty while working, and you don’t want to keep touching your face with it.

Well, when you wear a hijab for a long time, you need to keep it secure, make sure that it’s comfortable, and choose a convenient wrap to prevent it from getting in your way.

Here, we’ll tell you how to wear hijab with scrubs, how to choose the right hijab, and how to look stylish while doing your job!

How to Wear a Hijab With Scrubs

To wear a hijab with scrubs, you need to prioritize comfort and convenience. No one wants a thick, loose hijab on for a 12-hour shift.

Here are some tips for wearing a hijab with scrubs and staying stylish while doing it.

Wear an Undercap

Wearing an undercap is essential if you’re going to wear your hijab for a long time. For one, it’ll provide coverage, so you don’t have to worry about your hair showing every five minutes.

On top of that, it’ll keep the hijab in place if its material is slippy, and it’ll allow you to go for easy wraps. You can even secure the hijab to the cap without using pins, which is more convenient for long shifts.

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Choose the Right Material

There are only a few materials comfortable enough to keep wearing for the whole day. Those include jersey and cotton, with jersey being the most popular choice. Other materials like chiffon and silk aren’t practical to wear with scrubs.

For starters, they’re more suited to formal wear, so they’ll look odd with scrubs. In addition to that, they’re a bit slippery, and you don’t want your hijab to keep going loose all the time. 

One more thing to keep in mind when choosing your hijab is to avoid synthetic blends. Materials like nylon can irritate your skin and make it go itchy, and they don’t absorb sweat, so your hair will probably turn greasy.

Choose the Right Color

Along with comfort, you have to prioritize style as well. If you’re going to be saving lives, you have to look stylish doing so!

Choosing the hijab color is easy; all you have to do is choose a color that complements the color of your scrubs.

Some colors are highly versatile, so they’ll look good on all scrubs. These include blush pink and white. You can also wear a shade lighter than the shade of your scrubs.

For example, if your scrubs are navy blue, you can wear a baby blue hijab. Or, if your scrubs are deep red, you can wear blush pink, which is essentially a lighter shade of the same color.

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Try Slip-on Hijabs

Slip-on hijabs are highly convenient to wear with scrubs, but that’s only if you can manage to find them in your area since they’re not commonly available.

You don’t have to use pins or wear an under cap; all you have to do is pull your hair in a pun, slip the hijab on, and voila!

That also means you won’t have to find a stylish wrap for it or worry about the dangling sides. You can tuck it inside your scrubs and go about your day.

Keep From Using Pins

Although using pins is an excellent way to secure your hijab, they can prove inconvenient while you’re working long shifts. For one, they can keep poking into your skin if you try to take a nape amid word. On top of that, they may keep moving around and getting out of their place while you’re working, which is a hassle.

Instead, you can attempt to wrap your hijab without using pins. You can pin the undercap, then secure the hijab using its edges. Or, you can go for a loose wrap that doesn’t need any pins. Hijabs made of cotton and jersey mostly stay in place without slipping, making them suitable for wrapping without pins.

To Wrap Up

Now that you know how to wear hijab with scrubs, we’re waiting for your pictures in the comments below!

Although long shifts are hard, you can still look stylish during them. All you have to do is choose the right hijab color to go with your scrub.

As for comfort, you can try slip-on hijabs; they don’t need any pins or undercaps, so they’re highly convenient.

If you can’t find them in your area, you can choose a regular jersey hijab and wrap it without pins.