Swahili Cultural decorations for Women

The greatest charm of Swahili women decoration lays within not only the beauty of the woman but the combination of her make ups,fragile and jewels worn especial during different occasions like wedding and other ceremonial events, regardless of wearing a buibui which is well known as veil in English, still these kind of seductive cultural decorations of a Swahili woman can steal the eyes of many around a place.
                                                                         

Hina is one of a must use for Swahili women to decorates there hands and legs with different styles and colours such that it creates a nice combination with dresses and jewels worn by a certain woman, though it needs time and expertise for our mothers and sister better they stay behind if they will miss these services.

Jewels are something special and symbolises someone status in Swahili community, as a sense of pride and shows that the particular woman is well taken care by the husband or coming from a wealthy family. One can put on bungles made of gold, silver or other kind of make up, same with nickles and earrings made of  gold is the most favoured jewel here in Swahili world.

Dresses of high quality design is another must worn item for Swahili women and these started long time ago even during the Indian ocean trade whereby ivory and hides used to be exchanged with cloths and materials from as far as Indian, China and other areas of trade.

Colouring and hair making also is common as most of coastal women are blessed with black long beautiful hairs, oiling the hair and making them with different style contributes a lot on the outer beauty of a Swahili woman and in many occasions women normal celebrate separately with men's but these can be a good opportunity for some women to select the most charming women for there sons for a hand in marriage.

Here in east of Africa the culture of these women is respected and has spread into the hinter land, as majority are Muslim followers they to strictly following Islamic way of living and wearing like covering there heads with hijab and also the legs .when one visiting the coastal area he or she should take time to explore the culture of the people as well.

Kanga is also one of the greatest clothing used by Swahili woman and many other women in eastern and central Africa, these piece of cloths is to used in some events and coastal women mostly a long Tanzania coast like to used it in some traditional dancing and for daily used, it is well preserved for cultural used that many tourist and visitors especially womens adopt it so easily as it is good to wear it in tropical warm climate.