Posted on 05/14/2015 1:11:29 PM PDT by grundle
A redheaded high school student in England has been banned from classes for being too ginger, the devastated teen said.
Emily Reay, 17, of Cumbria, was scolded by teachers who told her she couldn't come back to the Trinity School in Carlisle until she gets rid of her natural bright auburn locks or "tones it down considerably," according to reports.
"I was very angry at first, and then burst into tears," she told The Telegraph. "I've had the same color for the past three years, and nobody at school has commented on it."
The burgeoning musician's hair, which has hints of orange, had been a "bone of contention" since the beginning of the school year, the news site said. It reportedly falls under the category of "unnatural" hair colors like blue or green.
But the Monday news still stunned the teen, who won an award for best hairstyle during prom.
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Good man.
:)
Hardwood floor, I bet...
Hey I survived a redhead. One. A miracle by normal human standards. I don’t think I could fend off an attack by the Red Army. So I’m Vischy on this issue ;)
True enough - in those regions, red hair is a sufficiently rare occurrence to be associated with some sort of dark magic or curse. Which is also very likely the reason that southern Britons originally formed a dislike for their northern cousins with the fiery locks.
These "beliefs" have been around for much longer than the knowledge of Neanderthal hair color.
My old boss (10+ years ago) was married to, then divorced from a redhead.
He made a poem about her:
"Roses are red,
So is your head,
I wish I was dead."
:)
Yeah, and so was Lucille Ball’s...
There’s an official army?
I’ve only been an Army Of One.
;D
People make way too much of the whole Redhead thing. If you treat them with the respect one gives a rabid honey badger, you’ll have no trouble at all...
One is most often all it takes...you know this ;)
yes “beard” the hair on my face I grow as a man ..it was that color untill I got older even though my hair my eyebrows and everything else was regular brown....what is your issue?
Good lord. Where do you people live that you’ve never seen people with red hair or you think all redhead are fake...you’re not familiar with people with Scandinavian or Scotch Irish ancestry and all the crazy shades of red hair end up with...good grief.
like I said when I was younger I had a Danish girlfriend her hair was virtually almost white with just a hint of yellow it was all natural
Yet most women would think her hair was fake but then again she had a build most women would also think was “obviously fake way oversize silicon” that was also all natural:)...gotta love those Danish Brickhouse blondes women ...she could walk into a bar at 16 and not get carded but then again I wasn’t getting carded after 15 either
And in her Danish family members, some had red hair that look like Raggedy Ann, Pippi Longstockings dyed red yarn fake.. that was also natural.
I don’t know what it is with women that they’re always calling other women fake when they look a little different
Heh.
Wish FR had a Like button.
yeah Ive spent a lot of time in a few biker bars myself....good times
You wouldn’t believe the other part of the test.
I'm pretty sure I know what you're hinting at. You may as well tell us, though - otherwise we'll just start guessing. ;-)
Jealousy mostly. My daughter was born with NEON red hair. And I mean neon. The doctors and nurses at the Hospital were amazed. Within a few months it got progressively more blond. She ended up sort of a golden/dishwater mix with red highlights before she dyed it. Red.
She has all the redhead features including the tude. Transparent, freckles, the works.
This article makes it clear bright red (orange) is not her natural color. Even her mom says her hair is naturally auburn.
It is fake because it is fake.
My cousin’s daughter has hair just this color. All of her kids are gingers, but that one is bright orange.
Incidentally, my cousin and I both had jet black eyebrows and light blonde hair until our late teens.
Nature has no rules.
It probably is. But there are indeed some insane natural reds out there with no dye in them. Not common, But it happens.
My eyebrows and lashes were jet black and I was a blonde until my late teens.
Then my hair turned ‘dishwater’.
Now it’s true caramel brown (with grey) and my eyebrows and lashes are still jet black.
No. You can’t always tell.
A ruddy redhead here (bright copper) says, “She’s probably a redhead, but that’s not quite natural.”
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