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BEDFORD - Most women have their hair horror stories - dyes and perms gone horribly wrong.

But for one Texas student, her hair mistake is getting her more than second looks. She's facing punishment from her school.

Rosemary Kryska was born with platinum blonde hair.

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Rosemary Kryska

But while some girls envied what nature blessed her with, Rosemary only wanted what it gave the rest of her family - rich red hair.

"I really just got bored with the blonde hair and I'm the only one in my family that has blonde hair," she said.

So this week, her mother gave in, helping her apply a bright red color. It's supposed to be temporary.

"We researched it. It said eight or ten shampoos," Kryska said.

Friends loved it but an administrator at her school, Bedford Junior High, was less impressed.

"She was like your hair is inappropriate for school and I was like why and she was like there are pink spots in there," Kryska said.

"She basically said it had to be fixed by Monday, or Rosie could not come back to school," said Rosemary's mother, Evelyn Kryska.

Mother and daughter tried applying a blonde hair color. That made the problem worse, creating a stubborn color that's resisted multiple washings. And now, what might have become a funny family story is no laughing matter.

"They're probably going to call my mom and come and get me [on Monday," the eighth grader said.

Evelyn Kryska's afraid to add any more color to her daughter's hair and doesn't think she should have to.

"I think hair is like the least of their problems," she said.

A district spokesman declined an on-camera interview but in a statement calls Rosemary Kryska's hair orange-slash-pink.

She confirms the student has been given a Monday deadline to make her hair a "natural" color and says consequences for this kind of violation "include warnings, parent conferences, in school suspension, or suspension."

She cannot say, however, how far the school will take Rosemary Kryska's case.

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