Review - Capsters Sports Hijab

Dear Lord, I have a big head. Usually I can squish it down somewhat with a long scarf but this fitted hijab just brings out the beast in my cranium. Whatevs. The thing works. That's the main thing. 

Big head it is...

So when Capsters emailed me about reviewing one of their sports specific hijabs I immediately said yes as I do with a good 99% of companies that come my way, but then I had to stop myself. Shit. I don't even do sports. I barely even move unless walking to the fridge counts. And that bothered me a bit because I like to consider myself as a genuine person and coming on here promoting a sports hijab when I am a couch potato seemed like the fakest, most ingenious thing I could offer up to you (my readers) or to myself.

Dilemma indeed. So instead of declining their offer on the basis of being self-deceitful I decided to use it as motivation to get off my couch and out into the big scary world of fitness. I'm pretty sure my body went into confusion as I slipped on the walking shoes. I might have even heard my feet frantically sigh "WTF are these?" as they raised a worried eyebrow to me. It's been that long. 

I threw the kids in the pram (not literally - that would constitute child abuse) and headed for the park where I walked the circuit of the reserve twice - a grand total of 3.2km. I felt so proud of myself and even continued the change by making a huge fruit smoothie from scratch when I got home. 

The next day I approached my treadmill. I turned it on. I ran. Not for long though. I got so bored. I'm running and going nowhere I thought to myself as I stared at a wall. I opted for the park circuit instead and have been going back every few days, eating better and so on... basically just introducing a little more health into my life.

Enter the hijab. I choose the Runner because it suited the activity I was doing more so than any other. They have hijabs dedicated to the surfer, swimmer, aerobiciser (word?), team player, etc. I am more of a walker than a runner at this moment but it did the job nicely. The material is very light, stretchy and enables your sweaty head to keep cool when exercising. A lot of careful thought has obviously gone into the design and structure of these hijabs. They are not a flimsy quick-fix sports hijab like the poorly made ones I have seen in the past. This has to be the best quality sports hijab line on the market. I only wish they would extend their services into sportswear and make full outfits for exercising in since they seem to have the hijab design down to a tee. 

I played around with it a bit and used the scarf Abaya Addict sent me recently to create an undercap/scarf look to fit the Capster piece more into my style. For this reason I chose the all black version (it comes in five different colour combos).

You do have to wear a high necked shirt of some sort because the hijab isn't very long at all mainly due to, I suppose, the fact that this isn't a fashion scarf; it is purely designed for athleticism and therefore needs to be short and fitted for safety reasons. You don't want someone accidentally choking you with your own scarf on the soccer field. That reminds me, I used to play soccer in high school. The whole time I played I only ever once scored a goal... for the other team. I was that hopeless and embarrassing. Worse still was having to keep running on the field listening to the people on the sidelines laugh, beep their parked car horns and jeer. Hence my long term couch potatoism. The couch never judged me. 

Sports hijab ~ Capsters

Scarf ~ Abaya Addict

Sunglasses ~ Bvlgari
Ring ~ San Stefano, Egypt