Women who have worn the hijab for many years and then make the decision to unveil face a set of new challenges when presenting, justifying, and adapting to their new selves to others. They would wear a range of head accessories and covering that appear to substitute the hijab before they transition to wearing their hair exposed and ‘free’. By making productive parallels with the transgender experience, my talk focuses on the liminal states of embodiment after women have made the decision to unveil. What are the hair and clothing practices chosen by these women and why? What new aesthetic decisions do they make? These questions are critically engaged with using in depth interviews and photographs annotated with commentary by research participants from Malaysia and Iran. My webinar discusses the conscious embodied reconfigurations of women who transition out from the ‘regimes of veiling’ through the practices of improvisational and tactical modesty.