Stick to grey or black hair for Mykad
BY CATHERINE CHONGPENANG: Coloured hair may be trendy but stick to grey or black if you want to apply for MyKad at the National Registration Department (NRD).
Applicants sporting coloured hair such as red or blue will be asked to come back again after they have dyed their hair back to the original colours.
State NRD director Muhammad Pauzi Abdullah said photographs in MyKad should reflect the true physical features of the applicants to avoid any future inconvenience.
“Problems will arise if the police cannot recognise the bearer from the photograph in his identity card if he changed his hair colour later on,” he said yesterday.
He said applicants with white hair or those bald headed can however have their photographs taken while Muslims with such features were advised to wear songkok.
Male applicants, he added, were not allowed to wear earrings or nose studs.
Deputy Home Minister Datuk Chor Chee Heung said the ruling on retaining the original hair colour was not something new.
“This issue is being highlighted now due to the rising popularity of coloured hair over the last two years.
“There are some people who have multi-coloured hair and are beyond recognition if compared to the photograph in
their old identity cards,” he said.
Designer Denise Tan, 35, was upset when told that she had to dye her red hair back to black if she wanted to apply for MyKad.
“We are no longer living in the dinosaur age. The NRD has to learn to move with the times,” she said.
Hairstylist Jerry Toh, 27, who sports purple hair, said the NRD staff would not be any wiser if she were to wear a black wig for the photo shoot.
“Are they going to check every applicant’s hair to see whether it is their real tresses or wigs?” she asked.
Secretary Ng Lai Quin, 30, another “redhead,” said she did not mind changing back to her original colour since she did her own dyeing which did not cost much.
“It is only right that we look our true selves in our identity cards,” she reasoned.
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