Parallelism also finds expression in the hairstyles of the Tibetans. Women in northern Tibet mostly wear their hair in rows of braids. With some women, the rows of braids start from the center of the forehead, go round the head, and then end again in the center of the forehead. Other women interweave their tiny plaits into a row of thick braids, which are then collected and tied in the back with ornaments. Even the ornaments are arranged in rows or strings.

Another prominent feature concerning Tibetan costume and ornaments is that the colors used are in sharp contrast yet at the same time harmonious. The bold use of such contrasting colors as red and green, black and white, crimson and blue, and yellow and purple plus the ingenious employment of compound colors and gold and silver thread have produced the most lucid and harmonious artistic effects.

Many Tibetan robes of white pulu (a kind of plant-based fiber) have broad black cuffs, a collar, and a lower hem; to make the black edges more conspicuous, people wear white trousers. Red pulu and green pulu exist side by side on colored Tibetan boots. When women braid their hair, they use a woolen string of such contrasting colors as bright red and emerald, vermilion, and ultramarine, or pink and azure. Even the embroidery on songba (a kind of multi-colored Tibetan boots) is done with sharply contrasting colors. Contrastive colors are also applied to matching the robe with the girdle.

Gold and silver thread and compound colors are used alternatively to give the colors of the costume and ornaments an overall harmonious effect.

The disposition of contrasting and uniform colors on women's aprons is even more ingenious. Some aprons have broad colored stripes in sharp contrast, which produce a bold yet lucid style, while others have fine stripes of uniform colors that yield an elegant and mild effect. In some aprons, threads of a rather pure primary color or black and white colors are woven in between the laces of varied colors, and in some aprons the colored stripes are all based on one single color phase so as to form uniform colors of purple-red, black-gray, and so on.

In the selection of the width of the colored stripes, the density of the colors, the range of the color changes, and the proportion of the primary and secondary colors, one can see the boldness, ingenuity, and the painstaking efforts in the designs.