Thursday, November 26th 2009

By unknown

Alex Steiner

OPINION

Look around campus at the tops of the crowd. Chances are you’ll see
 one of four colours; blond, brown, black and the occasional ginger.
 Hair colour, while one of the more trivial subjects I’ve looked at,
 has been bugging me for some time now. Look around again at the people
 walking past, specifically the blondes this time.

How many are natural
 blondes? For an easy tell look at the colour of the eyebrows. This
 will lead you to the observation that natural blonds are few and far 
between on campus. In fact, the blond gene has been said to be 
decreasing for some time now. The actual study proving this was proved 
to be a hoax though, as it was based on the recessive nature of the 
blonde allele. Yet looking around campus it looks to be true.

If so much dye is used to make all these synthetic blondes then it begs 
the question, why blonde? Is it years of stereotyping and media
 representation that has caused such a boom? Or is it just that other 
less natural colours – a phrase that seems redundant, as the blondes in
 question aren’t natural – scare people away?

I remember a girl living in the Edwards residence last year who had fluorescent pink hair. It looked 
stunning. It was something that drew the eye better then any peroxide
 or platinum and it looked marvelous.

Synthetic colours that are normally only seen in cartoons should become more 
popular. Bring out the blues and the greens. Bring out the vibrant reds and the 
deep purples. If you’re going to dye your hair anyway, then dye it
 something new. There are more than half a dozen colours to choose
 from. Open up paint or Photoshop and play with the colour palette 
until you find something you like.

Then when you go to get your hair
 dyed, tell the stylist to go for the rainbow shades instead of turning your hair into one of 
the many fake natural colours.