Before I posted anything, I wanted to see everyone else's views. I think that braids are ok as long as they are well kept. However my struggle comes in defining "well-kept" in a professional sense. We all know that we are referring to "lint balls, etc." but there is still a fine line (for instance, someone may disagree with a braided hairstyle and attempt to use the "well kept" rule as a guideline). I recently saw someone at work that sat down and while he worked
began to unbraid his hair, then proceeded to walk around all day with half of his head undone. This is the 2nd time that I've seen someone do this. I wanted to say something to him, but we currently do not have anything in our dresscode that prevents it (HR issue), although I feel it is totally unacceptable for several reasons:
1) It looks
very unprofessional.
2) It appeared to be very unhygenic. He was picking and rolling lint balls. I also have braids, but please...
It angered me because we have made great strides in this style being acceptable in corporate America and here he was confirming all of the misconceptions that people have.
Even though I didn't have the words to say, I still made sure to shoot him the evil eye
every now and again
. When he came in the next day, his hair was neatly rebraided.
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