Am I ugly or is it just the hijab?

Help/Advice

Currently I’m 20 and I’ve been a hijabi since I was 14 and tbh not by choice. This isn’t an anti-hijab post by any means, I’m just saying I never had the privilege of being able to choose it for myself. So now I don’t know what life would be without it. No one notices me and I never get complimented, ever. The college I go to has a lot of hijabi women yet none of them are interested in being friends with me. I dress frumpy and honestly I just don’t look good. I’ve seen other hijabi girls get complimented so I don’t think it’s the hijab maybe I’m just ugly.

Plenty of women look beautiful with hijab so if I’m ugly with it then maybe it just means I’m plain ugly. Regardless the hijab makes me look uglier than without it although I’m ugly either way. I look ugly no matter how I style it. It has been a real hit to my self-esteem and I never got the chance to find myself. Other hijabis get to be stylish and pretty while I don’t. It’s not fair. Decisions were always made for me and it will be like that for a long time. I feel so depressed and lonely. I feel like I’m screaming into the void and losing my mind.

Posted Sep 10, 2026, 7:19 PM UTC

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