Headscarf Styles for Long Hair and Short Hair – For African Women

Bandana scarf tied to the chin is a an easy way to comfortably pull that hair backwards. This is a perfect headscarf for summer. All you need to do is to fold the headscarf into a triangular shape, place the front end of the scarf at the front of your hairline while the triangular part will be at the back. Bring the two edges from the two sides of your head and tie it under your chin. This is a beautiful style for long hair.
 

2. Double Head wrap with bow

 This head wrap style is a perfect style for various forms of dressing. You can leave your hair free flowing or fold it. To achieve this style, you can make use of a long, square or turban headscarf. All you need to do is to fold the scarf, place it at the back of nape of your neck and make sure that it covers your ear, bring the two ends together and tie it as a bow either by the side of your hair or at the front.

3. Bandana Cap

 This is stylish and a perfect style for long hair. Leaving your hair as a free flowing style will give you a more beautiful look. Just fold your bandana scarf to form a triangle, place the front part of the folded scarf at your hairline, the triangular part should be at the back of your hair. Tie the free ends together to hold the scarf on top of your hair.

 4. Wrapped Up do

 

This style gives you a Royal look. To make this style look fabulous, you will need to get a thick headscarf, starting from the nape of your neck, bring the two ends together at the front, tie the two ends as a double knot, and use the remaining ends to wrap the knot and tuck in the remaining ends at the base of the knot.

5. Twisted Headband

 

 This headscarf style gives you a pretty girl look. You can decide to tie it under or over your hair. All you need to do is to get a skinny headscarf, fold it to two, from the bback of your hair, bring the two ends to the front and use it to make a “U” turn on both sides creating a small knot. Take the two edges to the back and tuck in beneath the scarf.

6. Turban with front Bun

 This is an elegant and fun head wrap style. To achieve this style, lay the headscarf at the back of your hair, bring both of the ends of the headscarf to the front and twist them together to form a tight cord, then, start wrapping the twisted cords at the base of the twist, make it to be tight and tuck the remaining ends under wrapped twist.

7. Pony Tie

 This is among the simple headscarf styles. Fold you hair and make a bun or even ponytail at the center of your hair, then, use the folded headscarf to tie in between the bun and your hair just the way that you attach a fancy headband. Wrap it twice at the base of the bun and leave the two edges to be flowing freely.

8. Headwrap with side Pony tie

This is a beautiful style that will give you a pretty look. First, you need a large horizontal headscarf to achieve this style, fold you hair backwards and use the headscarf  to cover the whole of your hair, then, pull the two ends at the center of your hair and tie it by the side leaving the loose ends as free flowing.

9.Bandana with centre Knot

 Bandana can also be used to get a twisted knot at the front or the back, just put the triangular side at the front after folding and tie the free ends together at the front to create a knot. Tie it tightly so that it will hold the triangular part that is in the front and tuck in the loose ends that may come out from it.

  10. All back Bandana style

This is another simple bandana scarf style, just fold the bandana into a triangular shape, bring the front of the bandana to your hairline and tie the two ends together under your hair. You can make it to be loose or tight.

11.Full wrapped to the back with hair down

To achieve this style, pull your hair backwards, fold the horizontal or triangular headscarf, place it at your hairline, and tie the free ends under or on top of your hair.

12. Short Hijab Headwrap

 13.Twisted turban

 

 Turban headscarf styles are perfect for both short and long hair. To achieve this style, fold the turban,  start from the bback of your hair and bring the two ends to the front to create a “U” shape at both ends. You can decide to repeat this process if you wish to have multiple “U” shape at the front. Tuck in the ends of the scarf neatly under the back of the headscarf.

14.Vintage style headscarf

 This style is also a simple and cool style. You need a large rectangular or triangle shaped head wrap to achieve this style. For the triangular headscarf, fold into two also having a triangle shape and place it at the center of your hair, bring the two ends together and tie it under your chin and pull it backwards.

 15.Twisted crown

 Twisted crown or headband can be achieved by placing the middle of the headscarf at the back of the nape of your neck, bring the two ends to the front, twist them around each other and tuck it inside your head wrap at one of the sides.

 16.Cotton Hair Bandana

This style is simple you can achieve it the same way with your all back bandana style.