My grandmother had 2 doctors that stood out. One with bright red hair, tattoos, and strechings in her ears. And the other one had dreads. She loved them. :)
It's sad that some people don't understand society. I personally have hot pink hair, many piercings and quite a few tattoos. I work in a bakery and go to a catholic school. My boss is fine with my appearance, but i would have understood if she didn't because it's her company and she should choose how it is represented. My school is against the way i look and i have been threatened to be kicked out, but that's the way it is. I chose to go to that school and it's my fault, not theirs.
I went to a school were they thought they were posh and I literally got spent home or put in isolation every couple of days it was ridiculous. One time really annoyed me though, it was the day of an important test, I was about to go into the exam when my teacher decided my shoes were not appropriate and I was spent home. I had been wearing them all week, I never went back to school. I'm so glad now i'm at college and can dress how i want, have piercings/tattoos and dye my hair any color i want.
My best friend Katie has bright violet hair, an undercut and a 12mm plug. She is the smartest girl in my whole year and a teacher said she hated her hair and she shouldn't be allowed to have it like that. Also, the teacher doesn't help her in class just because of her looks.
I know it's not fair and I'm not for discrimination too but it's just the older generations who aren't used to seeing people with tattoos, coloured hair, etc. Our generation is a lot more used to it and most of us accept it so once we are the ones who I guess 'run the world' and are up there at the top it'll all change. Sadly the older generations tend to link tattoos etc to people who aren't professional just because that's what they were taught :/ Not right but that's just the way it is :(
This is why I love places like Hot Topic, where piercings and crazy hair colors are actually encouraged. At least I know that when I dye my hair the colors I want it to be, there's one place that I can walk in where they go, "AWESOME HAIR!" because their hair color is just as crazy as mine.
The other day at work this girl came in whose in highschool and a co worker of mine asked why she wasn't at the school and she said that she had gotten sent home because her harcolor was to bright (it was red ) I mean come on people are so retarded now a days that its getting rediculous!
In my school they allow us to have colored hair but we can only have a sertain amount dyed unless its a natural color. I think it fair enough but I reallt don't like the fact that we can't have piecings other than the ones on our ears....And well we can have tattoos as well but if they are going to be noticealbr the can't be to big
You are actually my favourite person ever, right now! All of this is so true, it's horrible when people discriminate others for their apperance. People are people, no matter what they look like, whether it's race, clothing, hair, tattoos, piercings etc. Their apperance doesn't change affect skills at somethings.
at my school in new zealand we are not allowed to have any colour in our hair my friend dyed her hair red she got kicked out until she was forced to dye her hair back to normal. i had stretched ears and they asked me to take my plugs out my hair covered them and they weren't even that big its so stupid.
I had a job interview for Loreal last semester and I went in with pink and red hair and my lip piercing (a stud) and I got asked straight out, how do you think you will fit in here with your hair and piercings? I responded that I didn't see how any of that made me less capable of doing anything and I was rejected for the job. Needless to say, my hair is now brown and I take out my lip piercing for interviews. I hate it so much.
i go to a catholic school and we have to wear uniforms im ok with that but we cant dye our hair unnatural colors or to many bracelets im even surpised i dont get in trouble for wearing knee high converse and the kids at my school are super judgemantal it annoys me so much we cant get any perieceings ethier unless there just one ear lob pierceing i almost got a rule about makeup changed at my school becuz i was wearing "to dark of make up" its so stupid we can still learn looking like that
People are always asking me "Why would you wear makeup like that?" "Why would you ever want hair like that? It's so weird." And I'm just like, "Why would you want hair or makeup like THAT?"
I get teased and made fun of everyday by the way my hair is. Right now I have a blueish purple on the top layer of my hair and purple and with the rest blond. People everyday tell me "You look dumb with your hair like that" "Why would you do that to your hair? It's so ugly" "It looks like you forgot to dye the rest of your hair" But a stupid preppy girl put pink in her hair and all she did is get good comments. Wtf? What is the world thinking now days?
Its worse here in Indian schools.we wear uniforms and they tell us there is 'a way' to wear uniforms. Your skirt should be of a specific length your hair tie should be of a specific color you cannot wear dangling ear rings your hair should be tied up properly and nobody can even think of coloring their hair. Its just so irritating
@Aparajita60 i go to school in australia and my schools exactly the same the only time i can wear make up and change my hair is in the summer hollidays
don't give a fuck about fucking people like that....you are who you are and you know that...!!!!!!! It dosen't matter how u look...it's the person that makes u not your outlook!! I'm heavy tattooed and pierced and it's no problem here in Germany, no problem in my job no problem with the people...cause i am what i am
when i was at school at around 14? i had my natural hair colour (medium brown) and i had blonde hight lights, but as my mum did the highlights they werent very even and there was quite a large block of blonde at the front also my roots had only just started to come through and the teachers told me that i was to dye it out as it was distracting to other students, the same day i was told that my hair band was too bright (baring in mind it was the same colour as the school tie). MY SCHOOL SUCKED!
It's too bad you don't live in America! at my school we have to wear a uniform but almost everyone dyes their hair a crazy colour and have gauges and piercings. I love my school :)
i had 2 little blonde streaks in the front of my head when i was 12 + my teacher made me stand up in front of my class of 25 or more + explain why i did it, she even asked me did my parents know????? "eh yeah obviously " but im 27 now + it still affects me i was singled out for the rest of my time in school but it didnt stop me dying my hair + although i was asked to get rid of the streaks i did not give in thanks to my mother who ran a muck.
we were doing a school production and i didnt get a certain part because the charterhad brown hair ad i used to dye mind black and it annoyed me because having black hair doesnt change how good or bad of a performed i am, so i didnt undestand why i couldnt have the part
completely agree with you! i know someone that had dyed her hair blonde and she dicided to go back to her natural colour which was brown, but she was sent home because it was such a change?! how ridiculous
I'm fourteen, I have a tattoo and a couple piercings, one of my teachers saw me showing my friend my tattoo a couple days after I got it and she looked at me and said "Do your parents know you have that?" I replied with the truth "yes, she paid for it." and she said "Idiots now a days" Honestly... I think it's my body not yours.
it's really messed up i rememer in fifth grade i had dyed my bottom layers bright blue and during our standardized testing which is huge in elementry school they kicked me out. i knew it was wrong so i didnt leave my chair so they called the cops and now i have a record for obstructing arrest just because my hair was blue
I agree with you, when I was at secondary school I dyed my hair BRIGHT red and then everyone else started dying their hair bright colours and it eventually got banned and we had to have natural colours >_< so I had to wait til I left school to dye my hair red again and get my septum pierced :/
It annoys me so much. In the Summer ( I can only have bright hair then because of school ) chavs would call me horrible names -.- ( I had orange hair ) I can't wear my septum down in school, I have 3 piercings on each ear and I'm even lucky I have them -_________- I want to go blonde soon. HOPEFULLY I won't get in trouble for that! I had a really dark red hair and I got in so much shit for it D:
It actually annoys me when teachers say that "Your hair is distracting to other students" if their looking at my hair that's not my problem it's on their own free will to look at it :L
I was getting shouted at because I have my nose pierced, I refused to take it out. But while this was happening another teacher walked past with a nose peircing, tattoos and LOADS of piercings in her ears!? :L
I discrimination on the streets like people shouting dirty goth and fucking emo I even get it from like 40 year old women. And completely off topic I love your Blink tattoo so much! Can I steal it? :P
I have this problem a lot at school, other students don't want to talk to me because i have piercings and it either makes them think im scary or a freak and it's bull shit
Hmm I don't think that it's so much the employer's/school's fault, I think that they're just going by the prejudice of the rest of the world because all they want is customers/students to come to their shop/school and they know that if the general public see someone who looks different going to that school or working in that shop then they may not shop there or send their kids there y'know? So I reckon it's more people in general's fault than the school or employer itself y'know?
Btw when I said 'you' I was speaking of the collective 'you' of all the commentators. You shouldn't get upset cause one person doesn't agree with you - maybe that's why you like can't get hired?
You spent over 8 minutes ranting about like how you don't understand why people who are hiring offend you by not hiring you due to your appearance Times aren't really changing as fast as you'd like did you ever think that 'the idiots' who like ask you why you do those things might like be genuinely interested to know the answer. Agree shouldnt judge sorely on appearances but not naive enough to think they don't when I go for interview
I used to have half my head shaved, purple hair and piercings and i got most of it done on the school holidays and when i went back to school i walked in and before i even got to my locker a teacher stoped me, sent me to the office they rang my mother, got her to pick me up from school, got her to take me home and said i wasn't aloud back to school untill i looked "acceptable" . so i took out my piercings, i dyed my hair brown and i want back to school. I ended up get kicked out of that school
Baffles me how people moan about this stuff. You obviously thought you were being 'different' and 'unique', wanted to get more attention and wanted to portray your own individuality and went outside the norm but if you want to be involved in society -i.e. get a job, deal with the public, etc. you shouldn't stand out if the public are to relate to you. If you don't care, you can do whatever the hell you want to your body but don't moan that people look at you funny Simples
@SuperEllieMc She isn't whining about being looked at funny she is upset that people would not allow you to work for them even if you were the only one who applied just because you had and odd color of hair
@SuperEllieMc I never "moaned" about people looking at me funny. In fact I hardly mentioned myself personally at all in this video if not for one or two examples. I was talking about the INDIVIDUAL person, who wants to work in a respect area or any area of work in fact but have to change their preferential appearance to suit the prejudice of others.
I know exactly how you feel. My school was the same way. I don't understand how being yourself and expressing who you are is a problem. People will learn when people want to learn. My hair being blue will not change that. I feel like it is discrimination against who i am.
*Okayy,My friends at school understand that I like then "Scene/emo" type style but my oldest friend Kate, doesnt know at all and I'm getting my hair dyed in a fee weeks and I'm getting my septum pierced and I'm frightened to tell her I like that type of thing but she's a typical girly girl so what do I say to her I just want to be my self, But my friends at school don't hang around with Kate because she thinks their "goths" and I really need some advice and Ellie your one of my role models, I
I hate people who judge by appearances and discriminate! Especially cause I'm not like that! I think that the world keeps on developing and inventing and growing! And older genrations just don't get it. Its not just them, there are also teenagers who think they "know it all" when its actually really disrespectful and low.I personally LOVE your hair and piercings :)
From my experience (I have a full sleeve of tattoos on my arm) it's EXCLUSIVELY the older generations who discriminate like this. I think it's because of the time they grew up in when piercing and tattoos were not as common and they strived to all be the same not to stand out from the crowd. As soon as they're gone from administrative positions, I think it will be much more acceptable.
A million times with you on this, I made a similar video a few months ago after moving to my new store (in the same company). I'm FORCED to wear a wig because I refuse to dye my hair, and they'd rather have me scratching my head and being uncomfortable and almost ill with the heat on shift than accept me as I am. I got a 'verbal' warning only a few weeks ago because I took it off on a day when I spent most of my shift in the kitchen and almost passed out because I was so hot. Shit's fucked up.
I love you, Ellie. You're so honest and spot-on. When I asked my mum if I could get a lip piercing in a few years, she said no. Why? Because piercings are only for "white trash". Mum, we're white. Quit discriminating. It's MY body, I'll "mess it up" if I want to. And my Spanish teacher always tells me to "stop messing with" my hair whenever I cut it or dye it. It's MY hair. I'll do what I want.
I'm so happy, that the most of my teachers love my orange hair (it's a really bright, dyed orange)... i'd freak out if the criticized me that way... o.o
I live here in Vegas of all places where you'd think that tats and piercings would be acceptable because damn near everything else is, but NOPE! I have hidden tats but I want blue-streaked hair, but it's not "professional" or "clean". Some employers here make it a requirement prior to filling out applications, "no tattoos and/or piercings" I can understand to a certain degree, but, freedom of expression shouldn't be limited to just artwork. Our bodies are OURS to do whatever we damn well please.
@EllieJayden You'd think so right? Prostitution, drugs, gang violence, parties, drinking.. but Tats and Piercings are "disgusting" and "horrible" to have UNLESS you're in the music industry or the party scene. For some jobs, I can understand why you can't have piercings (automation, manufacturing, engineering) because it could get caught on something.. but colored hair or tats?? I'm a software support engineer and I want blue hair! How will blue hair affect my job?!!
Oh my gosh! I think this is mostly in Europe because I didn't know that this was so bad in this modern time. I remember in Prague this summer, a 20 year old ish guy told me, "you like so sweet, but why do you wear that earring? It doesn't look good" I was wearing a frilly girly outfit with an shiny, edgy ear cuff. And I laughed at him like why should you care? I like this! I was so weirded out that someone would ask that. WTF. I'm grateful that Vancouver is quite open-minded.
I have purple hair and my vice principle picks on me about it. I have an accent and he picks me out about it too. I had my lip pierced there for awhile and my teachers would pick on me for that too! Now if you have "exotic" piercings (hip, collarbones) you get suspended! I have to hide my septum ring too! It's bullshit.
I COMPLETELY agree with you. I have my lip pierced, and plan on getting several tattoos and maybe a few more piercings. It's rediculous that people are descriminating for being self-expressive.
Wow i completely understand i have a few tattoos and i might be 15 but that doesnt mean they got to single me out or think of.me as a "delinquient" :\
i agree, i just got a new job and i am covered at work but the subject of tattoos and piercings came up and they did not think i would have any, i do not understand where people get this "idea" from..
I used to go to a catholic high school, and I had hot pink hair. Yes it was against the rules, but I did it anyway, especially as every other person had colour in their hair too. Of course, they wanted to make an example, so I got called down to see the VP and he told me that I was a "target for bullying" and that they were "worried about" me. Bullshit. Then he told me if I dyed my hair again I would be suspended. So I dyed my hair purple, and bought a brown wig to wear to school :)
Loads of teachers used to compliment my piercings but there was this ONE, every day she checked me too. One day I left my piercings in and she actually said "You cant come to this school with your face looking like THAT!" and LOADS of teachers always commented on my hair. Made me HATE school so so much.
Its so stupid! I dont find tattoos , piercings or hair dye "distracting" and who does? If I'm doing my schoolwork I wont be focused on the colour of the person beside me's hair?! I wont care if they have one piercing or 100 hundred piercings ! Its not my body and its not my choice , why dont schools and workplaces realise that?
there was this girl at my school who had bright pink hair she was told that if she diddnt dye it to a natural colour she wouldnt be allowed to sit her final exams (GCSE's) because it would be a distraction, if anything the girl sneezing all through the RE exam was more distracting then a hair colour
It's so sad how people react to coloured hair, piercings, tattoos, etc.. I dyed my hair purple-pinkish some days ago and I have stretched earlobes. The teachers at my school don't have any problems with that, neither the other students, but I'm quite scared about looking like this and trying to get a job in the future.. Cause I'm pretty sure it will affect my chances.. That's so ridiculous.. :/
I'm from Ireland too, I love tattoos, peircings and bright coloured hair. I came into school on the very last HALF day with purple hair and got sent home :/ it's getting ridiculous. People are always saying that we have freedom of expression and we can and should be ourselves and be an individual but society just won't allow it. There really ought to be some form of protest against people's idioticness :/
My teacher embarrassed me in class when she commented on my hair. I was so annoyed and at the time I was so shy... I didn't have the nerve to say anything to her. :/
You are so right! I hate those rules so much.. My yearheads told our year at the start of the year that they don't wana see girls with hair styled the way they want. And they don't wana see coloured hair. It's not like it's guna affect schoolwork. I just got away with having blue hair today surprisingly, and no teacher gave me a bad comment. But there are PRICKS in my school that give the sneer are unreal :/
I am in cometology school and well they will kick me out of school if I have piercings, I even have to get skin coloured plugs in so they wouldn't see it. It sucks, its total bullshit.
I have been waiting for a video like this!!Im from Cork and I have a green and purple fringe and the side of my hair is green and purple and Ive been told that I will be suspended if I dont take it out.I think its a disgrace.Every day I have to hide from the teachers!:P!Its not fair to single out somebody like they are.You are my idol Shona,thanks for making this video x')
I have been waiting so long for a video like this, I'm still a teenager and it annoys me how I am not allowed piercings or to dye my hair. In my school if you're even a teeney bit 'different' we get judged by teachers and other students, its horrible! I don't see how my appearance and the fact I want to be pierced and heavily tattooed involves them, or even distracts them. If only everyone had the same mindset as you Shona<3
there are people walking around my school with red 'rihanna' like hair and they see that as ok (which it is) but then if someone dyes their hair pink or any other colour just as bright as the red then there's a problem, its stupid. at least have set rules.
I totally agree, it is ridiculous. I have countless storeys of blatant discrimination, with basically the teachers picking on students, its obvious they don't like, for silly little things to do with their chosen appearance.
In Denmark it's not like that.. In school we are allowed to look like we want to. We are allowed to have green, blue, red, etc. hair, and piercings too. BTW, my doctor has tattoes and he is great at his work.
to an extent i can see why schools wouldn't want girls with unnaturally coloured hair walking around the school, it is distracting to be sitting there and see a flash of hot pink out of the corner of your eye and one of the girls in my class used to back comb her hair so much you couldn't see if you were sitting behind her, so that was a problem. and the orange girls used to get make up wipes if they were too orange. but in the end, clothes and physical appearance don't change the person inside.
Yeah when I was 14 I used to wear the mcr hoodys and all that jazz and people used to shout at me on the street telling me to go slit my wrists and all it's actually crazy how awful people are. And yeah I was threatened I wud be expelled last year I really don't understand it.and tell your friend those girls are crazy I'd say every girl I know say a guy that's inked is sexy.
I always think the same thing. I get treated differently just because of my hair and tattoos. I mean it's super dumb. It's my body and I'm allowed to whatever I want. Yet others think its okay to try and change that. People really need to get their asses out of the past and realize body modifications doesn't change character. We're all still who we are even under the piercings and tattoos an hair colors.
I always thought it was unfair that people in school could dye their hair all shades of blonde, platnum to dark and it was fine, but any unnatural colour and you got sent home and a letter to parents saying when you come back to school you're hair must be natural. I used to want a lip piercing and a tattoo, i still kind of want the tattoo, but someone told me if you see a girl walking down the street like that you naturally think shes a slut...I actually think people with tattoos are hot/awesome
Great video. I don't see this happening that much anymore here in California but I definitely have in the past but ya i think people are a little more laid back now. Its important to be an individual and express your personal style. I work in a hospital and the other day I saw a newly hired nurse who has beautiful long dreadlocks and it makes me happy to see her :] we have a lot of people with facial piercing too. I only have my nose and ears but ya, i know what your saying!
I have a similar. I can't use my lip piercing at work. I work ata grocery store. The reason for this crap is, because I work with un packed food at times and apparently having a piercing on your face in unhygienic. Yet having earrings is totally fine. I've come to the conclusion that it someone's dumb ass rule just so you wouldn't "scare" people. Retarded I say.
I had black hair at the begining of the school year, then brown with bright red bangs. Finally, now I have black and turqoise bangs. I have teachers staring at me constantly and have been named a skipper, bad graded, trashy, and so much more. I have straight A's and I've never skipped a class in my life. People look down upon me as if I'm a two year old. Simply remarkable.
Ive had blue hair for about a year now, but a little while ago i tried wearing my hair in synthetic dreadlocks. i was forced to take them out because i couldnt handle the comments, staring and strangers actually grabbing at my hair. The state and colour of your hair has nothing to do with anyone else and it sucks that im actually too scared to wear it how i want to because im scared to "offend" people. And it pisses me off when people tell me that im "looking for the attention."
this one girl in grade four in America got sent home for having red highlight and the school staff asked for to dye her hair back to normal. I think that is so ignorant of people. I have blue and purple hair stretched ears and my lip pierced and I'm not changing for any one.
It's like when my dad was giving me a lecture about my stretched ears and he said "you can't be a surgeon with stretched ears" and I said yes I can, I said what's the difference between me with a medical degree, or me with a medical degree and stretchers, there's no difference.People are people regardless of what they look like, everything is still about image and stereotypical people!
I used to get teased every day for having a heavy fringe, people would always say "Can you see?" and i woul dget the same repeated question by repeated people EVERY DAY! -_-
Thank you soooooo much!!!! I see it as whatever someone wants to do with their body, is their decision, it doesnt effect anyone what so ever. And you worded this so perfectly. It pisses me off because it is illegal to discriminate the color of skin, but it isnt illegal to discriminate colors on your skin. stupid.
this is SO true, there are two stores i know of here in australia which only employ typically good looking people. one of which you have to send a full length body shot in your application, and the other only have workers which all look the same with the same hair/body etc. so stupid, i can't stand prejudice against body mods or anything that sets them apart from others. i thought we were meant to be individual? xo
I'm going to nursing school,and one day I was in a book store picking up a few things for class. I was having trouble finding a book and I asked for help from the cashier, and she was like"Oh hunny these books are for nursing students". I told her that Iam a nursing student and she gave me a look up and and said "Oh my bad you just don't look like one" I asked her what one should look like,and she just walked away.
I LOVE everything you said, as I often think these things myself. A good friend of mine had to trade in her vibrant red hair to become a brunette just to get a job. Truly ridiculous
I completely agree with you, In my old school I was forced to dye my hair back to black, and take out my piercings. Even one of my teachers called one of my friends "emo" because of her hair and she had a lip piercing. People always bother me about my piercings and my stretched lobes.
Its way more accepted NOW then it was before, but its still bad. im lucky my school lets me have whatever tattoos, makeup, peircings, hair i want. but i live in a farm town so a lot of people look at me weird. like i went to a farmer's market and the owner was like "what message are you trying to send looking like this?" like, what an ignorant asshole. there are so many ignorant people.
This happens to me everyday..but what hurts most is that my parents do this to me..they say they are ashamed of me and that i disgrace them O.O WTF rights?? how would my outward appearance offend them..that one of the reasons im moving out...!!! thanx soo much for posting this ..this needed to be said <33
Hell, I don't have any facial piercings, tattoos, or dyed hair, and I still get comments on my appearance, mainly when I had short hair. Apparently, people are seriously still on the whole girls=long hair and boys=short hair bullshit. It's ridiculous. Short hair on girls is so in right now, and I'm still getting asked "Why do you have short hair?" like I've just cut my arm off or something. I just don't understand why any of it matters. -.-
When I was in sec school over 10 years ago my headmaster pulled me out of class and start screaming at me in the hall all becoz I had braids in my hair.i was told it would distract other students,but what took the biscuit was he also said ''it wasn't my religion to have the braids in my hair '' Racist or Wat! They should be more focused on teaching the students then worrying bout Wat they're wearing
Last year I dyed half of my head bright red and the rest was brown and my teachers all kinda stared at me a bit in class except my gym teacher told me she loved it c:
Catholic grammar schools in NI are horrific. No nail polish, no unnatural hair colour, no makeup, no jewellery, no colours hair bands unless they're black, white or navy, no badges on your uniform..
My brother's school prohibits any hair style for boys that's less than a number 2 cut with a razor and no longer than ear length..
I doubt the appearance prevents them from learning. I have an industrial, 4 lobe piercings, tragus, septum, a tattoo on my wrist and it doesn't effect anyone's education.
I get that all the time ):I have two piercings on my face and often color my hair. People tell me that my piercings destroyed my pretty face and it is pointless to have them. Why don't people it its your own body and you should be able to do what you want to it? The way I look should not effect other people because I am the one wearing it, not them.
When i was in school, i had blonde hair and i dyed the under layers bright red. after about 3 days i saw my head teacher and she told me i needed to wash it out or re-dye it as it was not allowed and if i didnt i would be suspended. when i asked why she said it was destracting. its just pathetic.
Last year when I first got my eptum pierced I walked in to Science class and my teaches said whats that in your nose, so I said I got it pierced and she said Why would you do that to your face..
I work in an office and had a fuschia stripe in my fringe for 2 years and one day they called me into HR & told me I had to get rid of it. I also have to put a clear retainer in my lip piercing & every morning I hole punch a band-aid to put over my nose stud & also cut out a larger circle of band-aid to cover my monroe piercing bc it can't be changed yet. You can't tell me that having 2 band-aids on my face is better looking than the small cubic zirconia studs! Ridiculous.
@bolekjen I totally agree! They used to make people do that in our school. I remember the first person I ever saw with a piercing when I joined secondary school, she had her monroe done also and they tried to take her stud out with a pliers!! I kid you not. They couldn't get it off and they spent ages trying to which wasted time and the girl was made leave class so they could try get it out of her lip. Then they made her put a small square of a plaster over it for the rest of the day.
Totally agree with you, a few years ago when I was at uni i went to do a hospital placement, it was only for an hour and a half, just a visit basically, and at that time i had a single pink streak in my hair. When I went in the guy in charge told me it was totally unacceptable and sent me home! I was furious, what's more he said all this in front of my class which was embarrassing and then emailed my tutor to tell him i had 'dressed in an unacceptable manner'!
I totally agree with you! This behaviour can even be compared to racism! I just dyed the tips of my blonde hair blue and pink and hope no one bothers me about it, but yeah no one has the right.
I think i wrote too much in the kast comment, it didnt all send. Cont.. Visible forearm tattoos. I get away with it for some reason, even when the head/regional bosses come down. It must be because I do my job well. Which just proves that no matter what you look like, if u are good at the job, then you shouldn't be discriminated against.
I got in trouble all the time in secondary school for my hair and having my lip pierced. Teachers would stop me in the hall and just say "your hair". Like you, I took the ball off my lip bar but this one teacher always came right up to my face so she could slightly see the bar and tell me to take it out. So annoying. I actually asked my class one time if my hair was distracting their education. They of course said no. I have a job with my hair now being orange and red, and my piercings and visi
I always take out my piercings for job interviews, and I cover my tattoos! I hate having to do it, but because of society, that't what I have to do. It never helps anyway, I never get the job... =/
I always wanted to dye my hair bright purple, but the school system is so shit you get suspended and have to wear a hat if you have an unatural colours in your hair. And then part time work won't let me dye it fully purple. But i did have 2 weeks off work in the holidays and i dyed it! WEW!!
i had my hair pink for most of high school. it was probably the only thing i wasn't bullied over>_< and the higher ups in school seemed to be cool with it but thats just my school'.'
I agree with everything you say on this video. I've dyed my hair bright colours since I was about 13 and I'm sick of the discrimination because of it!
I dye my hair a lot of different colour and i get a lot of attention but is good attention younger students think thats it really cool and what to copy me, and my teacher look forward to seeing my new colours when i decide to change it and they are happy when they see me and they encourage me cause i am able to show that i am comfortable with who i am and the embrace my colourful character
My friend is Sikh, she had one of those bracelets on (excuse me for not knowing the name) and she was asked to take it off by her teacher, she replied to the teacher saying but this is precious to me and the teacher confiscated it. I think the education system is outrageous and I am 13! ox
In my school we're only allowed one small stud piercing in our ears, otherwise we're sent home and not allowed back to school unless it's taken out but I'm going in tomorrow with fake stretchers in (my mom won't let me get real ones) cos I don't give a crap what they think.
I go to a secondary school in dublin and a teacher in first year once asked me to take my bandana off because it was too colourful? Im in third year now and sometimes wear those clip in coloured extensions and a few weeks ago I had a green one in and was laughed at because it wasnt "normal" . But who has the right to define what normal is?
A girl in my school died her hair orange/ginger and she got permanently excluded from school and it went into the school paper. It's pathetic how the schools say to express ourselves and when we do we get punished for it!
This is the reason I'm hesitant about getting the jolly roger tattooed on my wrist like I want because i know it would keep me from getting a job if seen.
However through middle school i always had crazy hair colors like you do now. Most of my teachers would shake their heads at me but none of them ever did anything. It was also at my high school not have unnatural hair color but nearly half the students did it. it wasn't distracting at all and i think most of my teachers realized that.
We have a organization out here in the US to bring acceptance to body art within the professional workforce. It's called ATOPP ( Alliance of Tattooed and pierced professionals ) I see more acceptance in the future.
Then you should do something about it if it bothers you, I bet more people were you are from would have the same views. Protests and get signatures, and things will change. It doesn't have to be this way, things can change and if someone starts people will follow and things will change.
I have stretched ears , my nose pierced twice and 9 ear piercings , I wear quite a bit of eye liner and i have black and purple hair....i get so singled out at school for it! i've been threatened with being excluded or isolated because of the way i look....i really don't understand what me or my appearance is doing wrong? it's not hurting and one of effecting my learning. It's so stupid.
We can have our hair however we want at our school and in 9th and 10th grade we could have had 30 facial piercings and no one would care but we got a new principal and simply because she doesn't think they look good, we can't have them. It's ridiculous really. I know straight A students with many piercings and tattoos.
We aren't able to dye are hair in the school I go to because apparently its too distracting... But alot of people do... Like I have orange in my hair... N I'm thinking of putting more ( but need to buy bleach ).. I agree with you 100%
last year i put pink streaks in my hair and they wouldnt let me go to class. i had to sit in detention for 3 days for the whole day until i died my hair back. they also said that it would cause a distraction to the other students. i don't understand how my hair with maybe 5 pink streaks would distract someone so much to were they weren't capable of learning anything.
I'm medical student with chest and back tattoos have my monroe and nose stud..they told me first day to cover everything and take my peircings out.Quite frustrating and I'm also sick of the old fashion conservatives...have to hide who I'am to be able to go to class . -__-
Yeah. I can't even get a job because I have fucking 17 piercings and a few tattoos. It's so dumb. I've had teachers tell me I'm gonna look ugly when I'm old. And I'm I'll "we'll obviously ? Who isn't gonna look ugly" but shit man. I hate it. It really sucks you can't be treated like the "regular" person because of the kind of person you want to me.
This reminds me of my cousin telling me I was a whore coz I had pink hair and wore crazy clothing (just like the pics on my fb if you remember) and I thinks it's totally sad that this world is STILL so damn stuck into such things (don't even know how to call it). My trainee teacher would have tattoo on his hand if this wasn't such a big deal (he told me). that's just... *agh* no words left -___-
i think as the world becomes more accepting of the old prejudices (good lord women in the workplace lol) ect people feel the need to divert there prejudices to other things. we are now getting so pathetically nit picky we now decide to discriminate against people with different colored hair and piercings and other silly nonsense. and to teachers who do this especially in front of the class should be fired since they are only fueling the fire teaching that it's ok to do this. it's sad really.
Yeah I thought they ban mad hair colours/piercings and all cos they dont want that , lets say, 'rebellious image' to like 'represent' the school, and also, like you said, to have employment opportunities..even though people are gonna dress however the feck they want when they leave school anyway obviously, haha1yeah It's annoying alright. Unfortunately image means a lot as to how it represents the business/shop and whatnot
I agree with your stance that you shouldn't have discrimination from society because you are physically just as capable as anyone else. However because of the actions of few in the past there has been much of the discrimination to many now. I would offer that the most important thing to do with someone who discriminates is to kindly educate that your choice of appearance is an expression of you. I had watched this video by another youtuber talking about the goth lifestyle and dealing with posers
My grandmother had 2 doctors that stood out. One with bright red hair, tattoos, and strechings in her ears. And the other one had dreads. She loved them. :)
StarringPalun 6 days ago
It's sad that some people don't understand society. I personally have hot pink hair, many piercings and quite a few tattoos. I work in a bakery and go to a catholic school. My boss is fine with my appearance, but i would have understood if she didn't because it's her company and she should choose how it is represented. My school is against the way i look and i have been threatened to be kicked out, but that's the way it is. I chose to go to that school and it's my fault, not theirs.
BananaZombies 2 weeks ago
I went to a school were they thought they were posh and I literally got spent home or put in isolation every couple of days it was ridiculous. One time really annoyed me though, it was the day of an important test, I was about to go into the exam when my teacher decided my shoes were not appropriate and I was spent home. I had been wearing them all week, I never went back to school. I'm so glad now i'm at college and can dress how i want, have piercings/tattoos and dye my hair any color i want.
SerheiDragomir 3 weeks ago
My whole school is that 'idiot' :L
DerpinRainbowz 4 weeks ago
My best friend Katie has bright violet hair, an undercut and a 12mm plug. She is the smartest girl in my whole year and a teacher said she hated her hair and she shouldn't be allowed to have it like that. Also, the teacher doesn't help her in class just because of her looks.
UrteGrauslyte 1 month ago
I know it's not fair and I'm not for discrimination too but it's just the older generations who aren't used to seeing people with tattoos, coloured hair, etc. Our generation is a lot more used to it and most of us accept it so once we are the ones who I guess 'run the world' and are up there at the top it'll all change. Sadly the older generations tend to link tattoos etc to people who aren't professional just because that's what they were taught :/ Not right but that's just the way it is :(
RKRKRK898 1 month ago
This is why I love places like Hot Topic, where piercings and crazy hair colors are actually encouraged. At least I know that when I dye my hair the colors I want it to be, there's one place that I can walk in where they go, "AWESOME HAIR!" because their hair color is just as crazy as mine.
SkitzophrenicNerd 1 month ago
The other day at work this girl came in whose in highschool and a co worker of mine asked why she wasn't at the school and she said that she had gotten sent home because her harcolor was to bright (it was red ) I mean come on people are so retarded now a days that its getting rediculous!
Silverstorm1991 1 month ago
In my school they allow us to have colored hair but we can only have a sertain amount dyed unless its a natural color. I think it fair enough but I reallt don't like the fact that we can't have piecings other than the ones on our ears....And well we can have tattoos as well but if they are going to be noticealbr the can't be to big
xXalmostammyXx 1 month ago
You are actually my favourite person ever, right now! All of this is so true, it's horrible when people discriminate others for their apperance. People are people, no matter what they look like, whether it's race, clothing, hair, tattoos, piercings etc. Their apperance doesn't change affect skills at somethings.
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at my school in new zealand we are not allowed to have any colour in our hair my friend dyed her hair red she got kicked out until she was forced to dye her hair back to normal. i had stretched ears and they asked me to take my plugs out my hair covered them and they weren't even that big its so stupid.
perfectionkills1 1 month ago
I had a job interview for Loreal last semester and I went in with pink and red hair and my lip piercing (a stud) and I got asked straight out, how do you think you will fit in here with your hair and piercings? I responded that I didn't see how any of that made me less capable of doing anything and I was rejected for the job. Needless to say, my hair is now brown and I take out my lip piercing for interviews. I hate it so much.
Abztractness 1 month ago
i go to a catholic school and we have to wear uniforms im ok with that but we cant dye our hair unnatural colors or to many bracelets im even surpised i dont get in trouble for wearing knee high converse and the kids at my school are super judgemantal it annoys me so much we cant get any perieceings ethier unless there just one ear lob pierceing i almost got a rule about makeup changed at my school becuz i was wearing "to dark of make up" its so stupid we can still learn looking like that
whateverhappens98 1 month ago
People are always asking me "Why would you wear makeup like that?" "Why would you ever want hair like that? It's so weird." And I'm just like, "Why would you want hair or makeup like THAT?"
XxAlexSkylarxX 1 month ago
I get teased and made fun of everyday by the way my hair is. Right now I have a blueish purple on the top layer of my hair and purple and with the rest blond. People everyday tell me "You look dumb with your hair like that" "Why would you do that to your hair? It's so ugly" "It looks like you forgot to dye the rest of your hair" But a stupid preppy girl put pink in her hair and all she did is get good comments. Wtf? What is the world thinking now days?
TheeKenzie 1 month ago
Its worse here in Indian schools.we wear uniforms and they tell us there is 'a way' to wear uniforms. Your skirt should be of a specific length your hair tie should be of a specific color you cannot wear dangling ear rings your hair should be tied up properly and nobody can even think of coloring their hair. Its just so irritating
Aparajita60 1 month ago 5
@Aparajita60 that sounds like the way they used to run catholic schools here back in the day. really backwards D:
EllieJayden 1 month ago
@Aparajita60 i go to school in australia and my schools exactly the same the only time i can wear make up and change my hair is in the summer hollidays
EveyEverlasting 1 month ago
don't give a fuck about fucking people like that....you are who you are and you know that...!!!!!!! It dosen't matter how u look...it's the person that makes u not your outlook!! I'm heavy tattooed and pierced and it's no problem here in Germany, no problem in my job no problem with the people...cause i am what i am
SkadiDivine 1 month ago
@SkadiDivine thats awsome :)
EllieJayden 1 month ago
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xEmmaRawrs 1 month ago
Yes!! This is so true!! I can't wait till this discrimination is abolished x
ladyannabanana 1 month ago
So true words. <3
CookiemonstersDarlin 1 month ago
when i was at school at around 14? i had my natural hair colour (medium brown) and i had blonde hight lights, but as my mum did the highlights they werent very even and there was quite a large block of blonde at the front also my roots had only just started to come through and the teachers told me that i was to dye it out as it was distracting to other students, the same day i was told that my hair band was too bright (baring in mind it was the same colour as the school tie). MY SCHOOL SUCKED!
pinkystarrr 1 month ago
It's too bad you don't live in America! at my school we have to wear a uniform but almost everyone dyes their hair a crazy colour and have gauges and piercings. I love my school :)
RainbowRia69 1 month ago
i had 2 little blonde streaks in the front of my head when i was 12 + my teacher made me stand up in front of my class of 25 or more + explain why i did it, she even asked me did my parents know????? "eh yeah obviously " but im 27 now + it still affects me i was singled out for the rest of my time in school but it didnt stop me dying my hair + although i was asked to get rid of the streaks i did not give in thanks to my mother who ran a muck.
sueh85 1 month ago
we were doing a school production and i didnt get a certain part because the charterhad brown hair ad i used to dye mind black and it annoyed me because having black hair doesnt change how good or bad of a performed i am, so i didnt undestand why i couldnt have the part
Shann8828 1 month ago
@Shann8828 thats so shit );
EllieJayden 1 month ago
this is the life and people ;[
hellokittyislovexDD 1 month ago
completely agree with you! i know someone that had dyed her hair blonde and she dicided to go back to her natural colour which was brown, but she was sent home because it was such a change?! how ridiculous
pinklemon97 1 month ago
the best that you can do is to ignore them D: fck them D:
merespartan 1 month ago
i love your accent <3
CookieMonster5542 1 month ago
I'm fourteen, I have a tattoo and a couple piercings, one of my teachers saw me showing my friend my tattoo a couple days after I got it and she looked at me and said "Do your parents know you have that?" I replied with the truth "yes, she paid for it." and she said "Idiots now a days" Honestly... I think it's my body not yours.
iloveyoukeshia1994 1 month ago
I couldn't agree with you more! The ignorance of some people amazes me.
fatFRIESareAWESOME 1 month ago
it's really messed up i rememer in fifth grade i had dyed my bottom layers bright blue and during our standardized testing which is huge in elementry school they kicked me out. i knew it was wrong so i didnt leave my chair so they called the cops and now i have a record for obstructing arrest just because my hair was blue
xXxNIKKIHEXoOo 1 month ago
u kno whts freakin mess up!tht were supposet 2 have these certain colurs for r hair like wtf!?
lavigne8075 1 month ago
I agree with you, when I was at secondary school I dyed my hair BRIGHT red and then everyone else started dying their hair bright colours and it eventually got banned and we had to have natural colours >_< so I had to wait til I left school to dye my hair red again and get my septum pierced :/
MindenRose95 1 month ago
Bitches be faux fringing.
xD
ugforthewin 1 month ago
It annoys me so much. In the Summer ( I can only have bright hair then because of school ) chavs would call me horrible names -.- ( I had orange hair ) I can't wear my septum down in school, I have 3 piercings on each ear and I'm even lucky I have them -_________- I want to go blonde soon. HOPEFULLY I won't get in trouble for that! I had a really dark red hair and I got in so much shit for it D:
RIOTGirl360 1 month ago
It actually annoys me when teachers say that "Your hair is distracting to other students" if their looking at my hair that's not my problem it's on their own free will to look at it :L
kayleighbombshell 1 month ago
I was getting shouted at because I have my nose pierced, I refused to take it out. But while this was happening another teacher walked past with a nose peircing, tattoos and LOADS of piercings in her ears!? :L
LaurenElizabethXP 1 month ago
I discrimination on the streets like people shouting dirty goth and fucking emo I even get it from like 40 year old women. And completely off topic I love your Blink tattoo so much! Can I steal it? :P
TheNecroRaven 1 month ago 2
agree [:
15yve 1 month ago
I have this problem a lot at school, other students don't want to talk to me because i have piercings and it either makes them think im scary or a freak and it's bull shit
DarkAndHollowKisses 1 month ago
I KNOWWW!! THANK YOU SOO MUCH!!! i say the samething. people piss me off soo bad. you cant judge people by how they look!
bloodrebel1 1 month ago
the shaved hair wouldnt distract me but blue hair etc does ... but like its up to them ... but it doesnt look the best ...
TaylorSwiftGleek 1 month ago
Hmm I don't think that it's so much the employer's/school's fault, I think that they're just going by the prejudice of the rest of the world because all they want is customers/students to come to their shop/school and they know that if the general public see someone who looks different going to that school or working in that shop then they may not shop there or send their kids there y'know? So I reckon it's more people in general's fault than the school or employer itself y'know?
DanniiG12i 1 month ago
Btw when I said 'you' I was speaking of the collective 'you' of all the commentators. You shouldn't get upset cause one person doesn't agree with you - maybe that's why you like can't get hired?
SuperEllieMc 1 month ago
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SuperEllieMc 1 month ago
You spent over 8 minutes ranting about like how you don't understand why people who are hiring offend you by not hiring you due to your appearance Times aren't really changing as fast as you'd like did you ever think that 'the idiots' who like ask you why you do those things might like be genuinely interested to know the answer. Agree shouldnt judge sorely on appearances but not naive enough to think they don't when I go for interview
SuperEllieMc 1 month ago
i got a detention for having darker roots than the rest of my blonde hair!
chaaarleyB 1 month ago
your faux fringe and short blonde hair look amazing on you!
inspireMEkk 1 month ago
@inspireMEkk Thank you so much!
EllieJayden 1 month ago
I used to have half my head shaved, purple hair and piercings and i got most of it done on the school holidays and when i went back to school i walked in and before i even got to my locker a teacher stoped me, sent me to the office they rang my mother, got her to pick me up from school, got her to take me home and said i wasn't aloud back to school untill i looked "acceptable" . so i took out my piercings, i dyed my hair brown and i want back to school. I ended up get kicked out of that school
LasagnesReady 1 month ago
am i the only one that loves guys that have colored hair, tattoos, and piercings?
i think tattoos and piercings are sexy :3
ieffinglovemuse 1 month ago
Baffles me how people moan about this stuff. You obviously thought you were being 'different' and 'unique', wanted to get more attention and wanted to portray your own individuality and went outside the norm but if you want to be involved in society -i.e. get a job, deal with the public, etc. you shouldn't stand out if the public are to relate to you. If you don't care, you can do whatever the hell you want to your body but don't moan that people look at you funny Simples
SuperEllieMc 1 month ago
@SuperEllieMc She isn't whining about being looked at funny she is upset that people would not allow you to work for them even if you were the only one who applied just because you had and odd color of hair
unicornponykid 1 month ago
@SuperEllieMc I never "moaned" about people looking at me funny. In fact I hardly mentioned myself personally at all in this video if not for one or two examples. I was talking about the INDIVIDUAL person, who wants to work in a respect area or any area of work in fact but have to change their preferential appearance to suit the prejudice of others.
EllieJayden 1 month ago 10
I know exactly how you feel. My school was the same way. I don't understand how being yourself and expressing who you are is a problem. People will learn when people want to learn. My hair being blue will not change that. I feel like it is discrimination against who i am.
Cassandrahope1 1 month ago
Couldn't agree more, my thoughts of the situation exactly, it's wrong people should have to get singled out for being.
Livethedreams1 1 month ago
*Okayy,My friends at school understand that I like then "Scene/emo" type style but my oldest friend Kate, doesnt know at all and I'm getting my hair dyed in a fee weeks and I'm getting my septum pierced and I'm frightened to tell her I like that type of thing but she's a typical girly girl so what do I say to her I just want to be my self, But my friends at school don't hang around with Kate because she thinks their "goths" and I really need some advice and Ellie your one of my role models, I
supergirloxo20 1 month ago
Okayy, My friends at school understand the
supergirloxo20 1 month ago
I hate people who judge by appearances and discriminate! Especially cause I'm not like that! I think that the world keeps on developing and inventing and growing! And older genrations just don't get it. Its not just them, there are also teenagers who think they "know it all" when its actually really disrespectful and low.I personally LOVE your hair and piercings :)
Cookiyo 1 month ago
From my experience (I have a full sleeve of tattoos on my arm) it's EXCLUSIVELY the older generations who discriminate like this. I think it's because of the time they grew up in when piercing and tattoos were not as common and they strived to all be the same not to stand out from the crowd. As soon as they're gone from administrative positions, I think it will be much more acceptable.
xZombiePinUpGirlx 1 month ago
A million times with you on this, I made a similar video a few months ago after moving to my new store (in the same company). I'm FORCED to wear a wig because I refuse to dye my hair, and they'd rather have me scratching my head and being uncomfortable and almost ill with the heat on shift than accept me as I am. I got a 'verbal' warning only a few weeks ago because I took it off on a day when I spent most of my shift in the kitchen and almost passed out because I was so hot. Shit's fucked up.
MissLiqueur 1 month ago
I love you, Ellie. You're so honest and spot-on. When I asked my mum if I could get a lip piercing in a few years, she said no. Why? Because piercings are only for "white trash". Mum, we're white. Quit discriminating. It's MY body, I'll "mess it up" if I want to. And my Spanish teacher always tells me to "stop messing with" my hair whenever I cut it or dye it. It's MY hair. I'll do what I want.
PerfectionInLoss 1 month ago
what the fuck is this thing on your head? o_O
aicota 1 month ago
@aicota It's called a faux fringe. What the fuck is with you being so rude!?
EllieJayden 1 month ago 19
I'm so happy, that the most of my teachers love my orange hair (it's a really bright, dyed orange)... i'd freak out if the criticized me that way... o.o
LittlePigedy 1 month ago
See this is what I don't get.
If its so good to express yourself,
Why are people hating on others with piercings and dyed hair?
Isn't it a form of expressing yourself?
XxMonsterLover24xX 1 month ago
AMEN. <3
FrannyPokesZombies 1 month ago
I live here in Vegas of all places where you'd think that tats and piercings would be acceptable because damn near everything else is, but NOPE! I have hidden tats but I want blue-streaked hair, but it's not "professional" or "clean". Some employers here make it a requirement prior to filling out applications, "no tattoos and/or piercings" I can understand to a certain degree, but, freedom of expression shouldn't be limited to just artwork. Our bodies are OURS to do whatever we damn well please.
bunny511 1 month ago 11
@bunny511 wow really!? I thought Vegas would be a very accepting place.
EllieJayden 1 month ago
@EllieJayden You'd think so right? Prostitution, drugs, gang violence, parties, drinking.. but Tats and Piercings are "disgusting" and "horrible" to have UNLESS you're in the music industry or the party scene. For some jobs, I can understand why you can't have piercings (automation, manufacturing, engineering) because it could get caught on something.. but colored hair or tats?? I'm a software support engineer and I want blue hair! How will blue hair affect my job?!!
bunny511 1 month ago 2
Oh my gosh! I think this is mostly in Europe because I didn't know that this was so bad in this modern time. I remember in Prague this summer, a 20 year old ish guy told me, "you like so sweet, but why do you wear that earring? It doesn't look good" I was wearing a frilly girly outfit with an shiny, edgy ear cuff. And I laughed at him like why should you care? I like this! I was so weirded out that someone would ask that. WTF. I'm grateful that Vancouver is quite open-minded.
peacebalanceloveart 1 month ago
@peacebalanceloveart Yeah I hear Canada is an awsome place!
EllieJayden 1 month ago
@EllieJayden It's very diverse and friendly! Ever since I was born here I've never really noticed a person's ethnicity very much. Just the person.
peacebalanceloveart 1 month ago
i agree with you
lover14ful 1 month ago
I have purple hair and my vice principle picks on me about it. I have an accent and he picks me out about it too. I had my lip pierced there for awhile and my teachers would pick on me for that too! Now if you have "exotic" piercings (hip, collarbones) you get suspended! I have to hide my septum ring too! It's bullshit.
AbbeeAttitude 1 month ago
I COMPLETELY agree with you. I have my lip pierced, and plan on getting several tattoos and maybe a few more piercings. It's rediculous that people are descriminating for being self-expressive.
DanikaJadeee 1 month ago
Wow i completely understand i have a few tattoos and i might be 15 but that doesnt mean they got to single me out or think of.me as a "delinquient" :\
Waldo2128 1 month ago
i agree, i just got a new job and i am covered at work but the subject of tattoos and piercings came up and they did not think i would have any, i do not understand where people get this "idea" from..
kiraal0ne 1 month ago
I used to go to a catholic high school, and I had hot pink hair. Yes it was against the rules, but I did it anyway, especially as every other person had colour in their hair too. Of course, they wanted to make an example, so I got called down to see the VP and he told me that I was a "target for bullying" and that they were "worried about" me. Bullshit. Then he told me if I dyed my hair again I would be suspended. So I dyed my hair purple, and bought a brown wig to wear to school :)
JadedBurnout 1 month ago
Loads of teachers used to compliment my piercings but there was this ONE, every day she checked me too. One day I left my piercings in and she actually said "You cant come to this school with your face looking like THAT!" and LOADS of teachers always commented on my hair. Made me HATE school so so much.
Roissinn 1 month ago
Its so stupid! I dont find tattoos , piercings or hair dye "distracting" and who does? If I'm doing my schoolwork I wont be focused on the colour of the person beside me's hair?! I wont care if they have one piercing or 100 hundred piercings ! Its not my body and its not my choice , why dont schools and workplaces realise that?
222poptarts 1 month ago
Shona...just wow. Thank you so much for summing up my feelings :) <3
dybim 1 month ago
funny you might say about the guy with a green mohawk, considering my shop keeper has a purple one..xD he looks amazing!
msmonkeymusic 1 month ago
I started dying my hair in middle school (7th grade) and I never got in trouble. :3 Ive also had facial piercings, ect.
xxxCJChaosxxx 1 month ago
there was this girl at my school who had bright pink hair she was told that if she diddnt dye it to a natural colour she wouldnt be allowed to sit her final exams (GCSE's) because it would be a distraction, if anything the girl sneezing all through the RE exam was more distracting then a hair colour
Criggy94 1 month ago
Where do you currently work? And what was the interview process like for you?
scissorsandsailboats 1 month ago
It's so sad how people react to coloured hair, piercings, tattoos, etc.. I dyed my hair purple-pinkish some days ago and I have stretched earlobes. The teachers at my school don't have any problems with that, neither the other students, but I'm quite scared about looking like this and trying to get a job in the future.. Cause I'm pretty sure it will affect my chances.. That's so ridiculous.. :/
14UreMyHeroine14 1 month ago
I'm from Ireland too, I love tattoos, peircings and bright coloured hair. I came into school on the very last HALF day with purple hair and got sent home :/ it's getting ridiculous. People are always saying that we have freedom of expression and we can and should be ourselves and be an individual but society just won't allow it. There really ought to be some form of protest against people's idioticness :/
IL0veAllTimeLow 1 month ago
My teacher embarrassed me in class when she commented on my hair. I was so annoyed and at the time I was so shy... I didn't have the nerve to say anything to her. :/
DefyingDeb 1 month ago
You are so right! I hate those rules so much.. My yearheads told our year at the start of the year that they don't wana see girls with hair styled the way they want. And they don't wana see coloured hair. It's not like it's guna affect schoolwork. I just got away with having blue hair today surprisingly, and no teacher gave me a bad comment. But there are PRICKS in my school that give the sneer are unreal :/
MusicLover5472 1 month ago
I am in cometology school and well they will kick me out of school if I have piercings, I even have to get skin coloured plugs in so they wouldn't see it. It sucks, its total bullshit.
I love you Shona ! <3
hanniibo 1 month ago
I have been waiting for a video like this!!Im from Cork and I have a green and purple fringe and the side of my hair is green and purple and Ive been told that I will be suspended if I dont take it out.I think its a disgrace.Every day I have to hide from the teachers!:P!Its not fair to single out somebody like they are.You are my idol Shona,thanks for making this video x')
XxFabulousKilljoyxX1 1 month ago
I have been waiting so long for a video like this, I'm still a teenager and it annoys me how I am not allowed piercings or to dye my hair. In my school if you're even a teeney bit 'different' we get judged by teachers and other students, its horrible! I don't see how my appearance and the fact I want to be pierced and heavily tattooed involves them, or even distracts them. If only everyone had the same mindset as you Shona<3
MCRforeverr 1 month ago
there are people walking around my school with red 'rihanna' like hair and they see that as ok (which it is) but then if someone dyes their hair pink or any other colour just as bright as the red then there's a problem, its stupid. at least have set rules.
dinobubbles 1 month ago 4
I totally agree, it is ridiculous. I have countless storeys of blatant discrimination, with basically the teachers picking on students, its obvious they don't like, for silly little things to do with their chosen appearance.
dinobubbles 1 month ago
what i don't understand though is the guys with shaved heads not being allowed to do the leaving...what even???
swilsey89 1 month ago
In Denmark it's not like that.. In school we are allowed to look like we want to. We are allowed to have green, blue, red, etc. hair, and piercings too. BTW, my doctor has tattoes and he is great at his work.
awesomeanine 1 month ago 2
to an extent i can see why schools wouldn't want girls with unnaturally coloured hair walking around the school, it is distracting to be sitting there and see a flash of hot pink out of the corner of your eye and one of the girls in my class used to back comb her hair so much you couldn't see if you were sitting behind her, so that was a problem. and the orange girls used to get make up wipes if they were too orange. but in the end, clothes and physical appearance don't change the person inside.
swilsey89 1 month ago
Yeah when I was 14 I used to wear the mcr hoodys and all that jazz and people used to shout at me on the street telling me to go slit my wrists and all it's actually crazy how awful people are. And yeah I was threatened I wud be expelled last year I really don't understand it.and tell your friend those girls are crazy I'd say every girl I know say a guy that's inked is sexy.
wellendore 1 month ago
I always think the same thing. I get treated differently just because of my hair and tattoos. I mean it's super dumb. It's my body and I'm allowed to whatever I want. Yet others think its okay to try and change that. People really need to get their asses out of the past and realize body modifications doesn't change character. We're all still who we are even under the piercings and tattoos an hair colors.
Aggie920 1 month ago
I always thought it was unfair that people in school could dye their hair all shades of blonde, platnum to dark and it was fine, but any unnatural colour and you got sent home and a letter to parents saying when you come back to school you're hair must be natural. I used to want a lip piercing and a tattoo, i still kind of want the tattoo, but someone told me if you see a girl walking down the street like that you naturally think shes a slut...I actually think people with tattoos are hot/awesome
Christine6 1 month ago
Great video. I don't see this happening that much anymore here in California but I definitely have in the past but ya i think people are a little more laid back now. Its important to be an individual and express your personal style. I work in a hospital and the other day I saw a newly hired nurse who has beautiful long dreadlocks and it makes me happy to see her :] we have a lot of people with facial piercing too. I only have my nose and ears but ya, i know what your saying!
ApricotArtLover 1 month ago
I have a similar. I can't use my lip piercing at work. I work ata grocery store. The reason for this crap is, because I work with un packed food at times and apparently having a piercing on your face in unhygienic. Yet having earrings is totally fine. I've come to the conclusion that it someone's dumb ass rule just so you wouldn't "scare" people. Retarded I say.
Norayah 1 month ago
I had black hair at the begining of the school year, then brown with bright red bangs. Finally, now I have black and turqoise bangs. I have teachers staring at me constantly and have been named a skipper, bad graded, trashy, and so much more. I have straight A's and I've never skipped a class in my life. People look down upon me as if I'm a two year old. Simply remarkable.
SierraSweetheartx3 1 month ago
Ive had blue hair for about a year now, but a little while ago i tried wearing my hair in synthetic dreadlocks. i was forced to take them out because i couldnt handle the comments, staring and strangers actually grabbing at my hair. The state and colour of your hair has nothing to do with anyone else and it sucks that im actually too scared to wear it how i want to because im scared to "offend" people. And it pisses me off when people tell me that im "looking for the attention."
FPKissrProductions 1 month ago
I liek to be the forst to disliek it x
AgentJuice007 1 month ago
this one girl in grade four in America got sent home for having red highlight and the school staff asked for to dye her hair back to normal. I think that is so ignorant of people. I have blue and purple hair stretched ears and my lip pierced and I'm not changing for any one.
gloomykittynightmare 1 month ago
It's like when my dad was giving me a lecture about my stretched ears and he said "you can't be a surgeon with stretched ears" and I said yes I can, I said what's the difference between me with a medical degree, or me with a medical degree and stretchers, there's no difference.People are people regardless of what they look like, everything is still about image and stereotypical people!
xgraceyloufreebushx 1 month ago
I used to get teased every day for having a heavy fringe, people would always say "Can you see?" and i woul dget the same repeated question by repeated people EVERY DAY! -_-
PaulaPanic136 1 month ago
Thank you soooooo much!!!! I see it as whatever someone wants to do with their body, is their decision, it doesnt effect anyone what so ever. And you worded this so perfectly. It pisses me off because it is illegal to discriminate the color of skin, but it isnt illegal to discriminate colors on your skin. stupid.
RachLiefde 1 month ago
i saw a nurse with a bunch of tattoos =D
XtoxicXskullX 1 month ago
this is SO true, there are two stores i know of here in australia which only employ typically good looking people. one of which you have to send a full length body shot in your application, and the other only have workers which all look the same with the same hair/body etc. so stupid, i can't stand prejudice against body mods or anything that sets them apart from others. i thought we were meant to be individual? xo
rekkaaz 1 month ago
Come to my town? C: please? People here just DON'T like to have anyone stand out from the crowd... :D you should have your own show. Like Oprah :DD
hopelessdreamer121 1 month ago
I'm going to nursing school,and one day I was in a book store picking up a few things for class. I was having trouble finding a book and I asked for help from the cashier, and she was like"Oh hunny these books are for nursing students". I told her that Iam a nursing student and she gave me a look up and and said "Oh my bad you just don't look like one" I asked her what one should look like,and she just walked away.
autumnmarieification 1 month ago
my doctor is heavily tattooed ! its awesome !
Blytheee321 1 month ago
@Blytheee321 That is awesome as hell XD More doctors should be like that 8)
LelaLullaby 1 month ago
I LOVE everything you said, as I often think these things myself. A good friend of mine had to trade in her vibrant red hair to become a brunette just to get a job. Truly ridiculous
NsomniaksDream 1 month ago
I completely agree with you, In my old school I was forced to dye my hair back to black, and take out my piercings. Even one of my teachers called one of my friends "emo" because of her hair and she had a lip piercing. People always bother me about my piercings and my stretched lobes.
InvisibleBaarbie 1 month ago
Its way more accepted NOW then it was before, but its still bad. im lucky my school lets me have whatever tattoos, makeup, peircings, hair i want. but i live in a farm town so a lot of people look at me weird. like i went to a farmer's market and the owner was like "what message are you trying to send looking like this?" like, what an ignorant asshole. there are so many ignorant people.
TheKillingofMandee 1 month ago
This happens to me everyday..but what hurts most is that my parents do this to me..they say they are ashamed of me and that i disgrace them O.O WTF rights?? how would my outward appearance offend them..that one of the reasons im moving out...!!! thanx soo much for posting this ..this needed to be said <33
Artist4life100 1 month ago
Hell, I don't have any facial piercings, tattoos, or dyed hair, and I still get comments on my appearance, mainly when I had short hair. Apparently, people are seriously still on the whole girls=long hair and boys=short hair bullshit. It's ridiculous. Short hair on girls is so in right now, and I'm still getting asked "Why do you have short hair?" like I've just cut my arm off or something. I just don't understand why any of it matters. -.-
Usasati 1 month ago
When I was in sec school over 10 years ago my headmaster pulled me out of class and start screaming at me in the hall all becoz I had braids in my hair.i was told it would distract other students,but what took the biscuit was he also said ''it wasn't my religion to have the braids in my hair '' Racist or Wat! They should be more focused on teaching the students then worrying bout Wat they're wearing
quinnerl1984 1 month ago
Last year I dyed half of my head bright red and the rest was brown and my teachers all kinda stared at me a bit in class except my gym teacher told me she loved it c:
rekftw 1 month ago
Catholic grammar schools in NI are horrific. No nail polish, no unnatural hair colour, no makeup, no jewellery, no colours hair bands unless they're black, white or navy, no badges on your uniform..
My brother's school prohibits any hair style for boys that's less than a number 2 cut with a razor and no longer than ear length..
I doubt the appearance prevents them from learning. I have an industrial, 4 lobe piercings, tragus, septum, a tattoo on my wrist and it doesn't effect anyone's education.
EmiGoesRawrr 1 month ago
I get that all the time ):I have two piercings on my face and often color my hair. People tell me that my piercings destroyed my pretty face and it is pointless to have them. Why don't people it its your own body and you should be able to do what you want to it? The way I look should not effect other people because I am the one wearing it, not them.
keeleyteslo 1 month ago
When i was in school, i had blonde hair and i dyed the under layers bright red. after about 3 days i saw my head teacher and she told me i needed to wash it out or re-dye it as it was not allowed and if i didnt i would be suspended. when i asked why she said it was destracting. its just pathetic.
AnaBaybii 1 month ago
I can't even express how much I love you for this
TurtleandAlmond 1 month ago
Last year when I first got my eptum pierced I walked in to Science class and my teaches said whats that in your nose, so I said I got it pierced and she said Why would you do that to your face..
Haleyyyyyyyyyyyyy 1 month ago
I work in an office and had a fuschia stripe in my fringe for 2 years and one day they called me into HR & told me I had to get rid of it. I also have to put a clear retainer in my lip piercing & every morning I hole punch a band-aid to put over my nose stud & also cut out a larger circle of band-aid to cover my monroe piercing bc it can't be changed yet. You can't tell me that having 2 band-aids on my face is better looking than the small cubic zirconia studs! Ridiculous.
bolekjen 1 month ago 24
@bolekjen I totally agree! They used to make people do that in our school. I remember the first person I ever saw with a piercing when I joined secondary school, she had her monroe done also and they tried to take her stud out with a pliers!! I kid you not. They couldn't get it off and they spent ages trying to which wasted time and the girl was made leave class so they could try get it out of her lip. Then they made her put a small square of a plaster over it for the rest of the day.
EllieJayden 1 month ago 13
Totally agree with you, a few years ago when I was at uni i went to do a hospital placement, it was only for an hour and a half, just a visit basically, and at that time i had a single pink streak in my hair. When I went in the guy in charge told me it was totally unacceptable and sent me home! I was furious, what's more he said all this in front of my class which was embarrassing and then emailed my tutor to tell him i had 'dressed in an unacceptable manner'!
Noodles275 1 month ago
I totally agree with you! This behaviour can even be compared to racism! I just dyed the tips of my blonde hair blue and pink and hope no one bothers me about it, but yeah no one has the right.
MoggyMegs 1 month ago
I think i wrote too much in the kast comment, it didnt all send. Cont.. Visible forearm tattoos. I get away with it for some reason, even when the head/regional bosses come down. It must be because I do my job well. Which just proves that no matter what you look like, if u are good at the job, then you shouldn't be discriminated against.
xAisCorriganx 1 month ago
I got in trouble all the time in secondary school for my hair and having my lip pierced. Teachers would stop me in the hall and just say "your hair". Like you, I took the ball off my lip bar but this one teacher always came right up to my face so she could slightly see the bar and tell me to take it out. So annoying. I actually asked my class one time if my hair was distracting their education. They of course said no. I have a job with my hair now being orange and red, and my piercings and visi
xAisCorriganx 1 month ago
I always take out my piercings for job interviews, and I cover my tattoos! I hate having to do it, but because of society, that't what I have to do. It never helps anyway, I never get the job... =/
Lazytownbaby 1 month ago
I always wanted to dye my hair bright purple, but the school system is so shit you get suspended and have to wear a hat if you have an unatural colours in your hair. And then part time work won't let me dye it fully purple. But i did have 2 weeks off work in the holidays and i dyed it! WEW!!
Zertech101 1 month ago
i had my hair pink for most of high school. it was probably the only thing i wasn't bullied over>_< and the higher ups in school seemed to be cool with it but thats just my school'.'
Lolikooly 1 month ago
I agree with you and I am one of the older people.
ironbith 1 month ago
I agree with everything you say on this video. I've dyed my hair bright colours since I was about 13 and I'm sick of the discrimination because of it!
FoundOnFilm 1 month ago
I dye my hair a lot of different colour and i get a lot of attention but is good attention younger students think thats it really cool and what to copy me, and my teacher look forward to seeing my new colours when i decide to change it and they are happy when they see me and they encourage me cause i am able to show that i am comfortable with who i am and the embrace my colourful character
weedollybird4 1 month ago
My friend is Sikh, she had one of those bracelets on (excuse me for not knowing the name) and she was asked to take it off by her teacher, she replied to the teacher saying but this is precious to me and the teacher confiscated it. I think the education system is outrageous and I am 13! ox
XlickleeXgeorgiaaaX 1 month ago
In my school we're only allowed one small stud piercing in our ears, otherwise we're sent home and not allowed back to school unless it's taken out but I'm going in tomorrow with fake stretchers in (my mom won't let me get real ones) cos I don't give a crap what they think.
UpsideDownLoveX 1 month ago
I go to a secondary school in dublin and a teacher in first year once asked me to take my bandana off because it was too colourful? Im in third year now and sometimes wear those clip in coloured extensions and a few weeks ago I had a green one in and was laughed at because it wasnt "normal" . But who has the right to define what normal is?
222poptarts 1 month ago
@222poptarts That is so stupid, TOO COLOURFUL!? Excuse you for being vibrant! That is so silly. ughhhhhhh. xo
EllieJayden 1 month ago
A girl in my school died her hair orange/ginger and she got permanently excluded from school and it went into the school paper. It's pathetic how the schools say to express ourselves and when we do we get punished for it!
goodgirltasha 1 month ago
This is the reason I'm hesitant about getting the jolly roger tattooed on my wrist like I want because i know it would keep me from getting a job if seen.
However through middle school i always had crazy hair colors like you do now. Most of my teachers would shake their heads at me but none of them ever did anything. It was also at my high school not have unnatural hair color but nearly half the students did it. it wasn't distracting at all and i think most of my teachers realized that.
Babhionn 1 month ago
We have a organization out here in the US to bring acceptance to body art within the professional workforce. It's called ATOPP ( Alliance of Tattooed and pierced professionals ) I see more acceptance in the future.
karaseen 1 month ago 7
@karaseen That's great!! xx
EllieJayden 1 month ago
Then you should do something about it if it bothers you, I bet more people were you are from would have the same views. Protests and get signatures, and things will change. It doesn't have to be this way, things can change and if someone starts people will follow and things will change.
Topso100 1 month ago
I have stretched ears , my nose pierced twice and 9 ear piercings , I wear quite a bit of eye liner and i have black and purple hair....i get so singled out at school for it! i've been threatened with being excluded or isolated because of the way i look....i really don't understand what me or my appearance is doing wrong? it's not hurting and one of effecting my learning. It's so stupid.
JasmineGoesRawrrr 1 month ago
We can have our hair however we want at our school and in 9th and 10th grade we could have had 30 facial piercings and no one would care but we got a new principal and simply because she doesn't think they look good, we can't have them. It's ridiculous really. I know straight A students with many piercings and tattoos.
DaisyFangs 1 month ago
Shona, you are amazing.
WeenieJordison 1 month ago 7
@WeenieJordison Ohyou<3333
EllieJayden 1 month ago
We aren't able to dye are hair in the school I go to because apparently its too distracting... But alot of people do... Like I have orange in my hair... N I'm thinking of putting more ( but need to buy bleach ).. I agree with you 100%
hyp0crit3 1 month ago
last year i put pink streaks in my hair and they wouldnt let me go to class. i had to sit in detention for 3 days for the whole day until i died my hair back. they also said that it would cause a distraction to the other students. i don't understand how my hair with maybe 5 pink streaks would distract someone so much to were they weren't capable of learning anything.
kellecatastrophy 1 month ago
I'm medical student with chest and back tattoos have my monroe and nose stud..they told me first day to cover everything and take my peircings out.Quite frustrating and I'm also sick of the old fashion conservatives...have to hide who I'am to be able to go to class . -__-
MsHillyV 1 month ago
Yeah. I can't even get a job because I have fucking 17 piercings and a few tattoos. It's so dumb. I've had teachers tell me I'm gonna look ugly when I'm old. And I'm I'll "we'll obviously ? Who isn't gonna look ugly" but shit man. I hate it. It really sucks you can't be treated like the "regular" person because of the kind of person you want to me.
BOTDFobbsessed 1 month ago
This reminds me of my cousin telling me I was a whore coz I had pink hair and wore crazy clothing (just like the pics on my fb if you remember) and I thinks it's totally sad that this world is STILL so damn stuck into such things (don't even know how to call it). My trainee teacher would have tattoo on his hand if this wasn't such a big deal (he told me). that's just... *agh* no words left -___-
GillianScott23 1 month ago
i think as the world becomes more accepting of the old prejudices (good lord women in the workplace lol) ect people feel the need to divert there prejudices to other things. we are now getting so pathetically nit picky we now decide to discriminate against people with different colored hair and piercings and other silly nonsense. and to teachers who do this especially in front of the class should be fired since they are only fueling the fire teaching that it's ok to do this. it's sad really.
surfergal17011 1 month ago
Yeah I thought they ban mad hair colours/piercings and all cos they dont want that , lets say, 'rebellious image' to like 'represent' the school, and also, like you said, to have employment opportunities..even though people are gonna dress however the feck they want when they leave school anyway obviously, haha1yeah It's annoying alright. Unfortunately image means a lot as to how it represents the business/shop and whatnot
CD2kay7 1 month ago
I agree with your stance that you shouldn't have discrimination from society because you are physically just as capable as anyone else. However because of the actions of few in the past there has been much of the discrimination to many now. I would offer that the most important thing to do with someone who discriminates is to kindly educate that your choice of appearance is an expression of you. I had watched this video by another youtuber talking about the goth lifestyle and dealing with posers
18Soma 1 month ago