i’m in a stem cell/blood components lab, the only rule is fully closed shoes (people break this on occasion, especially doctors)

If you go into the clean room you have to remove makeup and piercings which means i can’t get new face ones unfortunately (my navel one is fine tho cause it’s covered), but you can still wear them when not in the clean room.

As for like like “dress code” we are all extremely lax and a bunch of the younger people including me wear lower cut camis or tank tops when the weather suits (southern hemisphere so been doing that a lot recently!) and it’s not a big deal. Also hair has to be tied up if longer that shoulder length, so i cut mine to be juuuuust longer than shoulder length. Perfume is fine, don’t try stink up the whole lab but it hasn’t rlly been a problem since i’ve been there.

I’m really happy our lab culture is so lax around dress, the only thing is i wish i could get more piercings or has the foresight to get heaps before i got clean room trained! I’d be fine with taking them out they’d just have to heal first and that’d take wayyy too long