A wise man once said that beauty was in the eye of the beholder. I was unaware of the meaning of this statement until the other day in my third period yearbook class.

Me and my friend Stormy were looking at many different hairstyles. We soon came across a “scene” girl posing with a beautiful array of neon highlights in her dark hair.

As we stared at this hair that could only be described as a piece of artwork, a boy rolled his chair over and when we asked him his opinion he said it wouldn’t be a good hairstyle to have in Huntsville.

What could that possibly mean? I’m saying is there some unspoken rule that tells us what is acceptable in a small town? I would have killed to have hair like that! Stormy agreed.

But why would that question rise in the first place? On the T.V we find and are entertained by people who sport absolutely crazy looks. But in are small town if one of us dares to were different clothes or die are hair a different color we are automatically dubbed the weird kid.

So in my mind there pops up another question: what would we do if a girl like this moved to our tiny town? Would we reject her? Would the teacher call her a “class distraction” and make her change her hair? Or would we take the time to get to know her? Would we be able to look under the piercings, makeup and hair dye to figure out what type of person she is? Or would you automatically stereotype her as weird?