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Let down your hair: New Army rules for ponytails, nail color

by Lolita C. Baldor
| January 27, 2021 12:09 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Female soldiers can let their hair down, and flash a little nail color under new rules being approved by the Army. But male soldiers will still have to shave.

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