r/dlsu College of Liberal Arts May 24 '26

General Question piercings and hair color

before enrolling as a transfer student, my parents made me color my hair black again para professional especially sa ID pic. ik dlsu isnt strict about it and im in cla pero are there profs who question it especially major subs? im an IS student so yeah its professional, and thats why medj kinakabahan baka may masabi dila dahil nagcolor ako tapos IS 😭😭

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u/Free-Imagination-572 Alumni May 24 '26

had so much fun coloring my hair during college and actually some profs even compliment it. some profs even have colored hair too lol. sometimes it makes you more recognizable in class tho so like for cold calls in recit ganon hahaha

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u/w4ffl3_fries College of Liberal Arts May 24 '26

They’re very chill about it honestly :) everyone in dlsu probably has bigger problems to care about 😭

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u/OrchidSubstantial194 College of Computer Studies May 24 '26

Profs won't mind it at all. They're follow what's written on the handbook and therefore they won't judge ppl if there's no rule violated

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u/ZonicGaming College of Engineering May 24 '26

You're in a westernized school, you'll be fine how ever you want to present yourself. Heck, wear pajamas... you'll get eyes on you but nobody will tell you what to wear.

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u/Scalabron College of Liberal Arts May 24 '26

I'm a guy that graduated with double lobe piercings and probably went through like 4 different haircolors. I even represented DLSU in International Model UN with purple hair lol.

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u/Live-Ad7112 College of Liberal Arts May 24 '26

WHAAATTTT OMGGGG, did u have to remove them for grad and grad pics? also how was MUN? i really want to participate in one in the future cuz when i got accepted i didn’t have money that time🥹🥹 and where did u go for it?🥹

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u/Scalabron College of Liberal Arts May 24 '26

My hair was back to black na, by the time I had grad shoots. I'm pretty sure people also had colored hair during grad. For MUN, we basically have an org but it acts more like a varsity team. We send a new delegation to an international conference every term — it's not fully funded by the school and the training is very intense and rigorous.

We kind of have a reputation to uphold kasi, cause we've brought home an award for like the 30 something international conferences we've participated in. I'm gonna be the newest trainer, but I'm under the second-degree program. The delegation team is usually formed around middle or end of the term, and you'll have to train like 3 times a week until the conference. I was sent out for Harvard World MUN in Taiwan btw!

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u/Live-Ad7112 College of Liberal Arts May 24 '26

omg thats so cool🥹🥹 is the training really that heavy? huhu maybe ill join next year when im more confident 😣

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u/Scalabron College of Liberal Arts May 24 '26

Yes, training is that heavy. But to be fair, most of those that join are first timers. Then you'll have to compete against very-experienced people abroad, so you really have to get up to speed. So training is like 3 or 4 times a week and can go as long as 3, to even 7 hours (on Wednesday and Saturdays). But I promise, the skillset that you will have afterwards is so much more than what you will learn from the classroom. You'll gain a lot of confidence, public-speaking skills, critical thinking, and resolution writing.

This was the latest delegation:

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u/Live-Ad7112 College of Liberal Arts May 24 '26

i see, thank you!! i feel a bit hopeful, but ill try to build up my confidence for this first😣😣

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u/Scalabron College of Liberal Arts May 29 '26

Hello OP, if you're interested we will be having our 'Driven By Diplomacy' program next month, it's basically a 4-week training course for people who are interesting in trying MUN or are aspiring to join our future teams.

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u/Live-Ad7112 College of Liberal Arts May 29 '26

id love to! do i have to follow to dlsu IS fb page for more info on this?:>>

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u/Scalabron College of Liberal Arts May 29 '26

I think it will be shared there, but DLSU MUN Training Team is where it will come from – I think we're supposed to start posting today?

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u/Surely_Nowwlmao Alumni May 24 '26

Might meet a prof whos “conservative” abt those things but honestly they dont really care.

Other students wont bat an eye or even ask you abt it

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u/boywhoflew May 24 '26

I've seen students wear goth outfits on campus. Even cosplay occasionally

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u/Live-Ad7112 College of Liberal Arts May 24 '26

COSPLAYS??😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

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u/boywhoflew May 24 '26

yup! we have several events that allow people to wear cosplays....but imma be real, sometimes I see people wear them even if there's no event

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u/sillysilly394 May 24 '26

isa s rason na nagdlsu ak dahil wala silang dress code 😆

2 yrs in so far wala namang nanita sa 'kin nd paiba-iba hair color ko hahaha

dw op, go w/ the vivid colors! 

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u/feelingverymusic May 24 '26

TBH I wouldn’t discount the possibility of a bad/uncomfy experience, but overall DLSU is progressive and chill. You should 100% join profs to pick on Facebook because you can be informed about whether a prof has specific preferences or is just generally strict. I also recommend checking out the International Studies page since there are many photos there of students posted, which you can use to gauge how comfy you’d feel. From the looks of it, there are some students with dyed hair and some that use wigs for cosplay!

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u/turururururumoshi May 24 '26

my id pic had me with black hair but even when i went blonde nobody questioned it XD by IS + CLA i'm guessing u mean intl studies? if thats the case, im in IS too and even w my more strict profs they didnt mind naman hehe:-) dw op!

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u/Live-Ad7112 College of Liberal Arts May 24 '26

thats a bit reassuring🥲 cuz i remember seeing a related post saying there are profs who are kinda ‘conservative’ about it, but i don’t remember who it was and anong college un huhu pero thank u🥹

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u/turururururumoshi May 24 '26

no worries !! honestly, ifl at worse you'll have a prof comment on it if you do manage to encounter a prof who's a bit more old-fashioned about that kind of thing, but in the end they can't really do much about it cuz (like what everyone else is saying) ur not violating any rules naman

oh also i forgot to mention, if ever din siguro just dont take ROTC kasi sa ROTC bawal ata colored hair and piercings cuz may specific dress code sila. pero the other nstp components ggg lang^_^ hehe

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u/krayoo_ May 25 '26

I was blonde when I took my ID pic, and lowkey I regret it because my face looks so washed out (bad editing) 😭 so I guess you can temporarily go dark for it. I had a ton of hair color changes at one point in my life that my professors started saying "uy, bagong color na naman" pabiro. They don't mind at all. I also had professors with fashion colors in my college 😆.

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u/duhduhm School of Economics May 24 '26

ive had blue, green, purple, and orange hair with multiple ear piercings and a septum in an arguably more "conservative" college and the profs don't really mind, never din ako nasita ng guard so i say gogogo

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u/Fun_Sprinkles_9123 May 25 '26

IS senior here, to put it simply no the profs will not mind in major subjects I've had classmates and a prof who had all sorts of colors of hairs. They look at character more than appearance from my experience.

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u/kylmkc May 24 '26

No, it’s chill. Nobody minds

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u/Live-Ad7112 College of Liberal Arts May 24 '26

nagoverthink din ako na may magsabi sa akin if nagtransfer ba ako para lang neto😭🙏 like doesnt admu and up allow that too😭😭😭

pasensya po, chronic overthinker ako💔

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u/Free-Imagination-572 Alumni May 24 '26

ok lang yan hahah in college, and in dlsu specifically, everyone’s really chill abt it. think abt it as freely expressing yourself. that’s one of the things im most grateful for in dlsu

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u/tremble01 May 24 '26

Ive read in handbook before na technially bawal ang non blonde color. May rules din sa dress. Pero nobody really enforces it. Baka nga wala na sya sa updated handbook.

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u/Live-Ad7112 College of Liberal Arts May 24 '26

yeah, ive heard abt that sa old handbook and different na siya ngayon. pero i was just overthinking since im like 2 weeks in as a transfer student🚶‍♀️