by Campbell Key
Since last year, we’ve seen more students coming to school with colored hair. Because of this, I decided to investigate what the rules really say about colored hair, and if it really has been allowed this whole time, or if the teachers are just letting it slide.
If any of you are interested, the handbook is actually on mylion and it states all the dress code rules, not that anyone really follows them. So interestingly, the middle school rules and the high school rules are different for hair.
The middle school dress code states that: “no unnatural hair color or streaks are permitted. Designs may not be shaved or dyed in the hair.” The high school dress code only states that “designs may not be shaved or dyed into the hair.” So I went to talk to Mr Alig to ask him about the rules.
He said that because natural color hair was getting too hard to define, they just took it out of the rule book completely. So, if you want to dye half your head green and the other blue, go for it, as nothing in the rule book is stopping you.
But if you want to shave a number in the back of your head (just hypothetically), that isn’t with the rule book, so might need to wear a hoodie more often. As for all the football players who shaved the sides of their heads, that does fly in the book.
I talked to Stewart Key, who has blue hair, about why she got blue hair. She said that she didn’t really look into the rule book about having colored hair and was just prepared to have to cut it off as it was only on the tips of her hair. As the rule book allows it, she was pleasantly surprised when she didn’t have to cut it all off when she came back to school, as she dyed it over the summer.
I also talked to Lillian Turner, a junior. Lillian currently has blue hair, but says that she has had many different colors and has been dying her hair since she was 8 or 9. She says that it’s definitely weird to have colored hair at Lovett, but it’s fun because it makes her feel special and different. Especially because having colored hair is how she expresses herself.
She also said that she always dyes it herself (she has even had multiple colors at once), and she said that “sometimes it goes well, and sometimes it doesn’t.”
Sadly though, middle schoolers still have to stick with their natural colored hair, just proving even more how middle school isn’t great. I mean it’s ironic though, how in the upper school natural hair can’t be defined, but in middle school it can?
To make matters worse for our middle school counterparts, I’ve heard they’re having to wear gym shorts if their skirts are too short, so who knows what’s going on over there.
So, if you decide that having bubblegum pink hair is the style for you, go for it! But, make sure that if you get any designs put in your hair (maybe a big old Lion wrapped around the back of your head?) avoid Mr. Alig or anyone on A Team for a while.
