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veiledsentiments
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BTW ladies... no one is going to check to make sure that your full body hair care matches theirs. 
Yes, they don't use wax, but make their own from sugar. Personally I never tried it. Here is recipe in case you want to try it.
http://www.beauty-fitness-savvy.com/sugaring-hair-removal.html
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reneebcc
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| Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 4:03 pm Post subject: Waxing |
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| Wow interesting. I'd probably just bring a couple bottles of Nair or Veet and call it a day! |
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Mia Xanthi
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| I assume the usual range of personal treatments are available such as leg waxing, facials and massage. |
In a country where women often have little to do other than paint their nails, every kind of beauty treatment imaginable is available in every price range. The Saudis tend to hire Filipinas for these jobs, and many of them are highly trained and skilled.
You can also hire a private masseuse to come to your home. On our compound, one female colleage actually had a male masseuse come to her home with no problem, but there seemed to be a number of female masseuses available as well.
The high-end hotels in major cities have spas with Turkish baths and other treatments. I was told that Saudi women tend to avoid the hotels, though, because they are afraid that there might be hidden cameras. That was enough to put me off. |
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Cleopatra
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A male masseuse??? Sounds interesting...
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| I was told that Saudi women tend to avoid the hotels, though, because they are afraid that there might be hidden cameras. That was enough to put me off. |
Some Saudi women believe there are hidden cameras everywhere. That's why some of them have the - very annoying - habit of leaving their veils on even in women only malls and banks. Sounds utterly paranoid to me, but what do I know? |
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haqiqah
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If women are frowned upon for wearing an abaya, what about male (almost wrote 'mail') instructors wearing a jalabaya or dishdasha?
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Mia Xanthi
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| Women are only frowned upon for wearing the abaya under inappropriate circumstances. Western men who wear the thobe, dishdasha, and other Arab gear are roundly ridiculed because there is no appropriate circumstance for this. A man who is not an Arab will be considered ridiculous if he dresses like one. |
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BillCowher
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| Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 1:16 am Post subject: jalabaya or dishdasha? |
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| jalabaya or dishdasha??? I only spent 4 months in KSA but I think one of those things is probably the hat with ring to hold it on & the other thing must be the white dress the men wear. If so, teachers are usually, if not always, required to wear western clothing with a tie when teaching. |
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trapezius
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| Among npn-Arab professional expats in Saudi, if you spot one with a thobe on, chances are near 100% that it will be a Western convert to Islam. And some wear them to work as well. |
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veiledsentiments
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| Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 1:53 am Post subject: Re: jalabaya or dishdasha? |
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| jalabaya or dishdasha??? I only spent 4 months in KSA but I think one of those things is probably the hat with ring to hold it on & the other thing must be the white dress the men wear. |
Actually Bill... a dishdasha is the term used in the rest of the Gulf rather than the Saudi term, thobe. Each country has a slightly different style, but almost always white. A jalabaya or jalaba or in Egypt, a galabeya, is the traditional male dress in North Africa... a much looser style in various colors, but rarely white.
Non-convert Westerners wearing any of the above are looked at as a bit eccentric.
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Stephen Jones
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It's fairly rare for westerners to wear the Saudi headdress, though we do have a colleague who has been doing it for years.
It is much more common for western converts to Islam to wear a thob.
Everybody advises non-Muslims against wearing Arabic dress in Saudi; it will send the message you are a Muslim.
Oh, and I did have an British/Egyptian colleague who occasionally would wear Saudi dress. I queried him about it once. "Well," he said, "there are some days when I just don't feel like doing very much work, and it seems the appropriate thing to wear." |
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