Jamil says, “Taking care of your appearance can be a way to show respect to others, but also a source of joy for yourself. There’s a lot to it,” and when told that he puts a lot of effort into his appearance Jamil says, “Some say you’ll give a better impression if you put effort into how you look. It can’t hurt to look presentable, right?”
On the day of Kalim’s debut as Housewarden Jamil cautions him with, “Your personal appearance matters,” and he has a voice line of, “I’d mind my appearance if I were you. It would be folly to lose respect over poor grooming.”
While he says it would be easier to not have to bother with things such as doing his hair, “Looking presentable is just basic manners. I certainly wouldn’t want to present myself in an unflattering way.”
When asked how long he spends on his hair in the morning Jamil says, “With magic, it barely takes me five minutes. But it used to take a lot longer when I was still figuring things out. Half an hour, even up to two hours sometimes…Now, I’ve mastered it to the point that I can change up the type of braid whenever the mood strikes me.”
We see an example of Jamil’s haircare routine in a vignette where he says he would have brought his own triple mirror if he’d known their dorm rooms would not have one, as it is “tricky not being able to see the back of (his) hair when (he is) arranging it in the morning,” but he then decides against requesting one, as “it’d clutter up the room for my roommate. And I don’t like the idea of others using it. I prefer not to share personal possessions.”
We see Jamil dry his hair at night in his dorm room despite the presence of his roommate, saying, “I can’t exactly take my time drying my hair in a communal washroom. Especially when mine takes so long to dry.” He then applies hair oil and gets up early in the morning to prepare for the day, adding hair oil for moisturizing. He says, “It’s nice not waking up with bed head since I started growing my hair out, but I wasn’t expecting it to be so high-maintenance.”
Jamil might wake up earlier than others in the morning, saying, “No one will be in the washroom at this hour. I’ll wash my face there while it’s free,” and applying his makeup as his roommate sleeps. He describes his “regular look” as consisting of sunscreen, lip gloss, and eyeliner, saying, “It was nerve-wracking when the eyeliner brand I use got super popular on Magicam and wound up sold out everywhere. It’s always a pain when the makeup you like suddenly becomes unavailable. I wish brands would focus on maintaining stable supplies of their staple products instead of putting out new colors every season. I should look up other eyeliners sometime. Something waterproof that doesn’t run when working up a sweat from running or cooking.”
During Tapis Rouge Jamil considers purchasing waterproof eyeliner to use during basketball practice, and Vil recommends a black or dark brown from a brand he recommends.
Jamil says that taking care of his hair takes a lot of work but he likes having it long, and that he has been growing it out since middle school, getting the ends evened out once every few months at most.
He says, “My hair tangles easily with repeat washes, so l use hair oil…but I don’t put anything extra on my skin.
In Book 6 Leona throws one of Jamil’s hair accessories into Tartarus. When asked if he buys them himself or usually receives them as gifts Jamil says it is a little of both, but most of what he wears he has picked out himself.
Jamil explains, “I bought the ones I’ve been wearing lately. They’re bells. If you listen closely enough…there, you hear it? A little jingle. You can find all sorts of bracelets and anklets with bells in the Scalding Sands, but hair accessories? Not so much. After all, you’ll hear constant jingling if you toss your head around too much. You have to be careful with how you carry yourself.”
In a voice line Jamil says, “My hair ornaments? Oh, I just buy them and get them as gifts from time to time. I’m not terribly particular about them.”
Vil has a voice line about Jamil wearing a “delightfully distinctive” scarf but the context is a little unclear, so it is difficult to tell if he means Jamil wears “distinctive” scarves to class as a part of his everyday wardrobe or if it was something he’d incorporated into an ensemble composed of his personal clothes to wear off-campus.
