I’ve seen a few young women on college campuses with white/gray hair. Apparently it is a trendy thing. See this pinterest site.
Sorry Paul. Love your music, hate your hair.
On the other hand, let’s say you’re getting into your 30s and 40s. You start to notice a few gray hairs. Is it vain to dye your hair? Have you seen some bad dye jobs?
And since we’re talking about hair, have you heard that BYU-Idaho has banned the “man bun”? The Boise Weekly reports,
According to the BYU-I Honor Code, hairstyles for males should be “clean and neat, avoiding extreme styles of colors and trimmed above the collar leaving the ear uncovered.”
The man bun, said school officials, is considered “extreme.”
“It’s just something that deviates from the norm,” said Tyler Barton, of the BYU-Idaho Student Honor Administration. Any other uncommon hairstyle would also fall under this category, receiving the same disciplinary action.
man buns are out at BYU-Idaho
What are your thoughts of the man bun? Would BYU-Idaho ban this your lady for her extremely white hair (with shades of blue)?
You gotta see a Spanish man do the man bun thing, oh so sexy.
That’s gotta be why it’s banned.
BYU-I will eventually ban the most common mode of dress or grooming for whatever reason they want to. Like maybe pants that are not quite long enough. I know that many students will never have even thought about their choice as being wrong, immodest, or extreme. Outside of BYU-I they would be correct.
This is part of the ‘cost’ of a subsidized education at a good school with low academic entrance requirements. Let’s just hope that week night youth activities do not get this picky. Let the man buns into mutual.
BYU-I is just channeling Binckley.
I confess, we did laugh at the choir during conference, and how very few women have grey hair compared to the men.
I don’t really judge others who dye their hair. Everyone’s story is different and if I was laid off, I would dye mine if I thought it would get hired, for example.
But I find it sad that we even have to ask the question.
The Sikh boys at my kids school are right on trend then.
I’m really not fussed about any of it. Just tired of the policing that goes on.
I haven’t dyed my own hair, though my daughter regularly tries to count how many white hairs I have. I’m hoping my hair will just fade to white and skip the grey, and it seems to be doing that, so perhaps I got that from my Dad. My younger sister, on the other hand, started going grey a good few years ago now (even though our hair was always much the same colour most of our lives), which I’m assuming she must get from our Mum, and she dyes it. What I am finding difficult to deal with is the waviness that seems to be developing when my hair has always been very very straight!
We certainly couldn’t have people deviating from the norm (defined as how General authorities and their wives dress and groom themselves). The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.
Joel, I am not sure that is the experience everywhere in the church.
When I was called as RS president, I argued with the bishop that I did not shave my legs. He was insistent that it was not a requirement.
The RS president who was called two after me wore pants to church on a regular basis.
Shave your legs?!
The man has an opinion? And gets to express it? And you stayed to listen?
And you’re telling us about it?
I cringe.
And we’re are not like the Pharisees.. .. yeah…right.
My parents and their other children left the church over hair and dress. A male child was verbally attacked by a stake president over hair length and was not allowed to pass Sacrament. Meanwhile another young man with very short hair had a can of chewing tobacco in his back pocket, at church, and was allowed to pass Sacrament.
As long as a person has clean hair, kept nice regardless of length what does it matter. As long as clothes are clean and not ratty what does it matter. I never understood the church leadership mindset about what we are supposed to look like.
How we act, treat others and be honest and godly is what matters.
Ted Bundy was well groomed and well dressed and look what he did!
I don’t want to tell my age. I am well over fifty and do not have gray hair. I have never dyed my hair. People don’t believe me, and don’t believe I don’t have any gray hair. If my hair goes silver instead of gray or white I will keep it. If I go gray or white I will definitely dye my hair.
In our stupid vain society men with gray hair are called distinguished…..women with gray hair are called old.
A member of the EQ presidency in the ward sports a man bun. Seems to work for him. According to his wife, when he wears his hair down the primary kids keep thinking he looks just like Jesus.
The man bun either really really works for you or it really really doesn’t. Mostly in a big fan when it works. Even though my husband is bald.
As a resident rexburgian, we truly are the worst.
It wasn’t all that long ago that a shaved head was considered extreme. Not it seems not.
Wheat & Tares 
The man bun is extreme?!?
LDS Church educational institutions are extreme.
You gotta see a Spanish man do the man bun thing, oh so sexy.
That’s gotta be why it’s banned.
BYU-I will eventually ban the most common mode of dress or grooming for whatever reason they want to. Like maybe pants that are not quite long enough. I know that many students will never have even thought about their choice as being wrong, immodest, or extreme. Outside of BYU-I they would be correct.
This is part of the ‘cost’ of a subsidized education at a good school with low academic entrance requirements. Let’s just hope that week night youth activities do not get this picky. Let the man buns into mutual.
BYU-I is just channeling Binckley.
I confess, we did laugh at the choir during conference, and how very few women have grey hair compared to the men.
I don’t really judge others who dye their hair. Everyone’s story is different and if I was laid off, I would dye mine if I thought it would get hired, for example.
But I find it sad that we even have to ask the question.
The Sikh boys at my kids school are right on trend then.
I’m really not fussed about any of it. Just tired of the policing that goes on.
I haven’t dyed my own hair, though my daughter regularly tries to count how many white hairs I have. I’m hoping my hair will just fade to white and skip the grey, and it seems to be doing that, so perhaps I got that from my Dad. My younger sister, on the other hand, started going grey a good few years ago now (even though our hair was always much the same colour most of our lives), which I’m assuming she must get from our Mum, and she dyes it. What I am finding difficult to deal with is the waviness that seems to be developing when my hair has always been very very straight!
We certainly couldn’t have people deviating from the norm (defined as how General authorities and their wives dress and groom themselves). The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.
Joel, I am not sure that is the experience everywhere in the church.
When I was called as RS president, I argued with the bishop that I did not shave my legs. He was insistent that it was not a requirement.
The RS president who was called two after me wore pants to church on a regular basis.
Shave your legs?!
The man has an opinion? And gets to express it? And you stayed to listen?
And you’re telling us about it?
I cringe.
And we’re are not like the Pharisees.. .. yeah…right.
My parents and their other children left the church over hair and dress. A male child was verbally attacked by a stake president over hair length and was not allowed to pass Sacrament. Meanwhile another young man with very short hair had a can of chewing tobacco in his back pocket, at church, and was allowed to pass Sacrament.
As long as a person has clean hair, kept nice regardless of length what does it matter. As long as clothes are clean and not ratty what does it matter. I never understood the church leadership mindset about what we are supposed to look like.
How we act, treat others and be honest and godly is what matters.
Ted Bundy was well groomed and well dressed and look what he did!
I don’t want to tell my age. I am well over fifty and do not have gray hair. I have never dyed my hair. People don’t believe me, and don’t believe I don’t have any gray hair. If my hair goes silver instead of gray or white I will keep it. If I go gray or white I will definitely dye my hair.
In our stupid vain society men with gray hair are called distinguished…..women with gray hair are called old.
A member of the EQ presidency in the ward sports a man bun. Seems to work for him. According to his wife, when he wears his hair down the primary kids keep thinking he looks just like Jesus.
The man bun either really really works for you or it really really doesn’t. Mostly in a big fan when it works. Even though my husband is bald.
As a resident rexburgian, we truly are the worst.
It wasn’t all that long ago that a shaved head was considered extreme. Not it seems not.
I find the man bun just stupid looking.
And BYU-I standards to be utterly ridiculous.