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Blonds Have More Fun at Southfield High

Breanah Boyd, Staff Writer|September 22, 2015

Breanah Boyd
Senior Terrence Boyd wears blond-tipped dread locks. He is one of several students who dyed his black hair blond.

A new fashion trend for males is popping at Southfield High. Boys are dying their black hair blond.
Junior U’jimm “Jimmy” Boudreaux claims he was the start of the school’s new hair trend for African Americans. Boudreaux said he originally got the idea to try the look from the rapper Fetty Wap.
Others who have gone blond say they were inspired by pro athletes who sport golden locks.
While the trend is not as widespread as the Jheri Curl was in the late ‘80s, the boys gone blond look is growing like . . . hair.
Junior Reme Tolbert said he and his friend Brandon Cook, who is also a junior, noticed Boudreaux’s blond hair but got the idea to dye their hair from NFL safety Tyrann Mathieu of the Arizona Cardinals.
Blond senior Robert McFarlin said, “My barber dyed my hair, and yes, girls like it.” McFarlin said he got the idea from NFL wide-receiver Odell Beckham of the New York Giants.
Junior Brendann Brown, who dyed his hair blond, too, said he was also inspired by Beckham.
Brown said he had been contemplating dying his hair for years, and this year he finally got the courage. “My mom really did not like it at first,” Brown said, “but now she is okay with it.”
Female blondes through the ages from blonde bombshell Marilyn Monroe to Legally Blonde actress Reese Witherspoon have been the subject of much fashion press. But boys gone blond is a whole new twist on the fashion trend formerly cornered by women.
Junior Mario Durant says, “I’ve never seen a teenage boy dye his hair any color before. Seeing this is all new to me.”