Dyed Hair

SweetLilRiceBall
Sun, 17 Jan 2016 00:47:36 +0000

I will be an incoming Freshman (Fall 2016) studying as a pre-med student majoring in Biochemistry and Cell Biology (maybe) and during the summer I plan to dye my hair pink. Light, cotton candy pink. Unnatural hair colors are typically associated with being unprofessional and “wild” or whatever, but I feel like thats such an incredibly rude and terrible assumption. I’m a hardworking person, I’m professional when I need to be, etc etc. But I just want pink hair because i’ve never dyed my hair before and I think it’d be really fun. Also because my favorite color is pink too. Would this give the wrong impression to some professors/students/faculty/anyone else about who I am? I would figure it’d be a good environment to do things like that because Rice is about intellect, diversity, and individuality. But i’m not too sure and I wouldn’t want to start the year with my professors giving me sour looks. Also I’m a guy, and I hope that doesn’t change anyones answers, but sometimes it factors in because our society is quite sexist (meaning unnatural hair color is typically a “feminine” thing to do, especially with the color pink but colors know no gender!)