History Main / ElementalHair

* [[MakingASplash Water]] - [[WaterIsBlue Usually a bright blue]], especially if ice is also present as light blue. Hair is usually straight and of mid length, but it can also be wavy.

* [[PlayingWithFire Fire]] - Usually red hair, although sometimes, it will be more orange. Sometimes taken to the [[FlamingHair logical extreme]]. Hair will often be short and spiky.

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* The girls from ''MagicKnightRayearth''. Hikaru the redhead (fire), Umi with long, straight blue hair (water/ice), and Fuu with slightly curly blond hair (wind).

* ''ElHazard'': the three great priestesses of Mt. Muldoon: [[DarkSkinnedRedhead Shayla]] [[HotAmazon Shayla]] is easily identifed as the priestess of fire, thanks to her flaming red hair. [[ChristmasCake Miz Mishtal]], who presides over water, has lavender hair. And while Afura Mann's a BrainyBrunette, her blue/sea green attire shows she controls wind.

* [[LightEmUp Light/Holy]] - White or yellow, or on occasion, [[HairOfGold outright gold]]. Tends towards {{White Haired Pretty Boy}}s and [[WhiteHairedPrettyGirl Girls]] when white.
* [[CastingAShadow Dark]] - Nearly always ShinyMidnightBlack.

* [[GreenThumb Nature/Wood/Plant]] - Green. Often messy, and decorated with leaves or flowers.
* [[HeartBeatDown Love]] - Pink or blonde. Probably because the first is feminine, and the second is often considered [[HairOfGold pure and innocent]]. Expect HairDecorations. Rarely, if ever, found on a male character.

* [[DishingOutDirt Earth]] - Brown or green hair. More rarely, orange or yellow. Usually short hair on males. Females may have longer hair. Tends to wilder styles or dreadlocks.
* [[ShockAndAwe Lightning]] - Yellow or white. Hair will often be wild.

** [[AnIcePerson Ice]] - Light blue or white, and of a similar style to water.
* [[BlowYouAway Air]] - White or gray. Often wavy with lots of volume. It may defy gravity. May be [[WindIsGreen green]] in some cases.
* [[LightEmUp Light/Holy]] - White or yellow, or, on occasion, [[HairOfGold outright gold]]. Tends towards {{White Haired Pretty Boy}}s and [[WhiteHairedPrettyGirl Girls]] when white.
* [[CastingAShadow Dark]] - Black or deep purple.
* [[GreenThumb Nature/Wood/Plant]] - Green. Often messy.
* [[HeartBeatDown Love]] - Pink or blonde. Probably because the first is very feminine, and the second is often considered [[HairOfGold pure and innocent]]. Usually very elaborately done up and very feminine. This is rarely, if ever, found on a male character.

* The Panther Demon clan siblings in ''InuYasha'' have this: the redhead uses fire, the WhiteHairedPrettyGirl uses ice, the green-haired girl uses nature/illusions, and the blond uses lightning.

* Melisandre of ''ASongOfIceAndFire'' is strongly associated with red, and many people comment on how very red her hair is. Guess what element her god is associated with?

* The characters of VideoGame/GoldenSun tend to fit this: [[DishingOutDirt Venus adepts]] have brown hair, [[PlayingWithFire Mars adepts]] that aren't from the [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation Mars clan in Prox]], especially [[GoldenSunDarkDawn Tyrell]], have bright red hair, and [[MakingASplash Mercury adepts]] have [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair blue hair]]. Three of the five or so visible Jupiter adepts, which combine both ShockAndAwe and BlowYouAway, have the blonde or white hair associated with those motifs, but purple is more generally used as an indicator of Jupiter affinity. In addition, when Light Psynergy comes into existence at the end of Dark Dawn, it is shown to be strongly affiliated with gold. However, it seems to be averted with the [[CastingAShadow Umbra clan]]; neither of the two representatives whose hair is visible have black or purple hair.

* ''GunnerkriggCourt''. Antimony has very red (bordering on pink) hair and is associated with fire magic. [[spoiler:She's eventually revealed to be descended from a fire elemental.]] Marcia has green hair, and she's a [[spoiler:dryad]].

* ''{{Negima}}'''s FieryRedHead Anya is [[PlayingWithFire literal]]. Red/orange Haired Mei {{Sakura| Girl}} uses [[PlayingWithFire fire]] as well.

* ''HeartcatchPrettyCure'' plays it straight with Cures Marine, Sunshine, and Moonlight, but subverts it with Cure Blossom, who controls [[GreenThumb nature]] but has pink hair.
* ''SmilePrettyCure''

* ''KingdomHearts'' gives us [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8Cg2ol6gOds/S-3N-8s68yI/AAAAAAAAASw/cMN4nEjEFu4/s1600/axel.jpg Axel]], [[http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/092/2/a/larxene_lightning_wallpaper_by_miescha-d3d1x8e.jpg Larxene]], [[http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs37/i/2008/243/3/7/KH_CoM__V_Lexaeus_by_CrimsonskyR.jpg Lexaeus]], and [[http://pictures.fanart-central.net/s/silverstar/497558.png Marluxia]]. Marluxia is the Flower type, the opposite of the Leaf type, which is healing, meaning Flower means Death.

Hair color is an easy visual shorthand for getting information about a character to the audience. Most often, hair color will tell you something about the character's personality, but sometimes its meaning is far more obvious: this character has an {{Elemental Power|s}}, and the [[ColorCodedElements the hair color to match the element]]. Quite often, their personality will also be tied to their element and thus their hair color, as well.

* [[PlayingWithFire Fire]] - Usually red hair, although sometimes it will be more orange. Sometimes taken to the [[FlamingHair logical extreme]]. Hair will often be short and spiky.

* [[MakingASplash Water]] - [[WaterIsBlue Blue, usually a bright blue]], especially if ice is also present as light blue. Hair is usually straight and of mid length, but it can also be wavy.

* [[LightEmUp Light/Holy]] - White or yellow, or on occasion [[HairOfGold outright gold]]. Tends towards {{White Haired Pretty Boy}}s and [[WhiteHairedPrettyGirl Girls]] when white.

* ''HeartcatchPrettyCure'' plays it straight with Cures Marine, Sunshine and Moonlight, but subverts it with Cure Blossom, who controls [[GreenThumb nature]] but has pink hair.

* ''Manga/SailorMoon'' has Blue Haired Sailor Mercury with the elements of [[MakingASplash Water]], and [[AnIcePerson Ice]], Blonde Sailor Venus using LightEmUp, and ocean blue haired Sailor Neptune having the power of [[MakingASplash Deep Water]].

** On the PlayedStraight side, we've got FieryRedHead Kirche (fire affinity), ReiAyanamiExpy Tabitha (wind), Mme. Chevreuse (brown / Earth), and Miss Longueville (green / Earth).
** On the [[AvertedTrope other hand]], ShanaClone Louise, IllGirl Cattleya, and their mother Karin all have pink hair, but all have a different affinity (Void, Earth, and Wind, respectively).

* ''ElHazard'': The three great priestesses of Mt. Muldoon: [[DarkSkinnedRedhead Shayla]] [[HotAmazon Shayla]] is easily identifed as the priestess of fire, thanks to her flaming red hair. [[ChristmasCake Miz Mishtal]], who presides over water, has lavender hair. And while Afura Mann's a BrainyBrunette, her blue/sea green attire shows she controls wind.

* Pyro in many of the ''ComicBook/{{X-men}}'' continuities will have red, spiky hair. Storm has her long, white hair that defies gravity (except for the brief period where she had a white Mohawk).

* ''EnchantedForestChronicles'': Fire witches invariably have red hair (which tends to burst into flames when they get angry enough.)

* ''GaiaOnline'' released an item by the name [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Elemental Hair]] to apply to the owner's avatar with choices from; fire, wind (and the softer, curlier breeze), earth, ice, water and life - if you fancy the symbolic bird's nest and nest for hair.

* In ''{{Drowtales}}'', there's a bit of this with the clan colors: Sarghress (red / shapeshifting (blood element)), Sharen (purple / summoning (supernatural element)), Beldrobbaen (black / flesh & darkness elements), Nal'Sarkoth (green / wood element), and so on.

* ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'' [[color:deeppink:Cure Dream]] [[PowerOfLove Heart]] and hope, [[color:orangered:Cure Rouge]] [[PlayingWithFire Fire]], [[color:gold:Cure Lemonade]] [[LightEmUp Light]], [[color:forestgreen:Cure Mint]] [[GreenThumb Earth]], [[color:blue:Cure Aqua]] [[MakingASplash Water]], and [[AnIcePerson Ice]], [[color:mediumorchid:Milky Rose]] [[BlowYouAway Air]].
* ''Anime/HeartcatchPrecure'': The four girls all are coded to their element, Cure Blossom Pink hair for with CherryBlossom PetalPower / GreenThumb and [[ThePowerOfLove The Power Of Heart]] (In the work every person has a flower inside their heart.), Cure Marine Blue Hair with the power of water, Cure Sunshine ThePowerOfTheSun with HairOfGold, Cure Moonlight with {{Lunacy}} color codes the element and hair with a silver-purple.
* ''SmilePrettyCure'' is looking to be following this as well with one being quite odd with Pink being [[LightEmUp light]] (which follows the MagicalGirl rule that the heroines do pink.) [[color:fuchsia:Cure Happy]] [[LightEmUp light]] , [[color:tomato:Cure Sunny]] [[PlayingWithFire fire]], [[color:goldenrod:Cure Peace]] [[ShockAndAwe electricity]], [[color:green:Cure March]] [[BlowYouAway wind]], [[color:blue:Cure Beauty]] [[MakingASplash water]]/[[AnIcePerson ice]].

* [[MakingASplash Water]] - Blue, usually a bright blue, especially if ice is also present as light blue. Hair is usually straight and of mid length, but it can also be wavy.

* [[BlowYouAway Air]] - White or gray. Often wavy with lots of volume. It may defy gravity.

* Pyro in many of the ''ComicBook/{{X-men}}'' continuities will have red, spiky hair. Storm has her long, white hair that defies gravity (except for the brief period where she had a white Mohawk, but fans tend to purposely forget that arc).

* [[BlowYouAway Air]] - White or grey. Often wavy with lots of volume. It may defy gravity.

This is less common in Live Action media than in animation, video games, comic books, or manga, for obvious reasons.

Hair color is an easy visual shorthand for getting information about a character to the audience. Most often, hair color will tell you something about the character's personality, but sometimes its meaning is far more obvious: this character has an {{Elemental Power|s}}, and the [[ColorCodedElements the hair color to match the element.]] Quite often, their personality will also be tied to their element and thus their hair color, as well.

* [[DishingOutDirt Earth]]- Brown or green hair. More rarely, orange or yellow. Usually short hair on males. Females may have longer hair. Tends to wilder styles or dreadlocks.

Sister trope to ElementalEyeColors. Subtrope of ColorCodedElements, ColorCodedForYourConvenience, and AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance. Often overlaps with YouGottaHaveBlueHair. Compare FlamingHair, which is this trope for fire elemental users taken UpToEleven.

* ''{{Negima}}'''s FieryRedHead Anya is [[PlayingWithFire literal]]. Red/orange Haired Mei [[SakuraGirl Sakura]] uses [[PlayingWithFire fire]] as well.

* ''ElHazard'': The three great priestesses of Mt. Muldoon: [[DarkSkinnedRedhead Shayla]] [[HotAmazon Shayla]] is easily identifed as the priestess of fire, thanks to her flaming red hair. [[ChristmasCake Miz Mishtal]], who presides over water, has lavender hair. And while [[BrainyBrunette Afura Mann's]] a brunette, her blue/sea green attire shows she controls wind.

* {{Kingdom Hearts}} gives us [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8Cg2ol6gOds/S-3N-8s68yI/AAAAAAAAASw/cMN4nEjEFu4/s1600/axel.jpg Axel]], [[http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/092/2/a/larxene_lightning_wallpaper_by_miescha-d3d1x8e.jpg Larxene]], [[http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs37/i/2008/243/3/7/KH_CoM__V_Lexaeus_by_CrimsonskyR.jpg Lexaeus]], and [[http://pictures.fanart-central.net/s/silverstar/497558.png Marluxia]]. Marluxia is the Flower type, the opposite of the Leaf type, which is healing, meaning Flower means Death.
* ''VideoGame/{{Pokemon Black and White}}'' gives us Pansage, Pansear, and Panpour, which evolve into Simisage, Simisear, and Simipour. Pan/Simisage's hair is shaped like a bush, resembling the grass element. Pan/Simisear's hair is shaped like a flame, resembling the fire element. Panpour's hair resembles a water spout, and Simipour's hair has long, wavy hair, resembling the water element.
* Kula Diamond from ''VideoGame/{{The King of Fighters}}'' normally has brown hair, but [[PowerDyesYourHair it turns light blue when she activates]] [[AnIcePerson her cyrokinetic powers]]. On top of this, a few of her attacks suggest that [[PrehensileHair her hair]] actually ''becomes'' ice, or at least takes on its properties.

* The Galilean Satellites of the webcomic ''{{Webcomic/Zap}}'' have this, with Io having literal FlamingHair, Callisto (water/ice) having bright blue hair cut in a bob, Europa (wind) having long, white, [[{{X-men}} Storm-esque]] wavy hair, and Ganymede (earth) having messy green hair.

* [[LightTheWay Light/Holy]] - White or yellow, or on occasion [[HairOfGold outright gold]]. Tends towards {{White Haired Pretty Boy}}s and [[WhiteHairedPrettyGirl Girls]] when white.

* Pyro in many of the ''ComicBook/{{X-men}}'' continuities will have red, spiky hair.

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* ''YesPrettyCure5'' [[color:deeppink:Cure Dream]] [[PowerOfLove Heart]] and hope, [[color:orangered:Cure Rouge]] [[PlayingWithFire Fire]], [[color:gold:Cure Lemonade]] [[LightEmUp Light]], [[color:forestgreen:Cure Mint]] [[GreenThumb Earth]], [[color:blue:Cure Aqua]] [[MakingASplash Water]], and [[AnIcePerson Ice]], [[color:mediumorchid:Milky Rose]] [[BlowYouAway Air]].
* ''HeartcatchPrecure'': The four girls all are coded to their element, Cure Blossom Pink hair for with CherryBlossom PetalPower / GreenThumb and [[ThePowerOfLove The Power Of Heart]] (In the work every person has a flower inside their heart.), Cure Marine Blue Hair with the power of water, Cure Sunshine ThePowerOfTheSun with HairOfGold, Cure Moonlight with {{Lunacy}} color codes the element and hair with a silver-purple.

* ''SailorMoon'' has Blue Haired Sailor Mercury with the elements of [[MakingASplash Water]], and [[AnIcePerson Ice]], Blonde Sailor Venus using LightEmUp, and ocean blue haired Sailor Neptune having the power of [[MakingASplash Deep Water]].

* ''ZeroNoTsukaima'' sometimes plays this trope straight and sometimes averts it.

* Pyro in many of the ''{{X-men}}'' continuities will have red, spiky hair.

* The characters of GoldenSun tend to fit this: [[DishingOutDirt Venus adepts]] have brown hair, [[PlayingWithFire Mars adepts]] that aren't from the [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation Mars clan in Prox]], especially [[GoldenSunDarkDawn Tyrell]], have bright red hair, and [[MakingASplash Mercury adepts]] have [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair blue hair]]. Three of the five or so visible Jupiter adepts, which combine both ShockAndAwe and BlowYouAway, have the blonde or white hair associated with those motifs, but purple is more generally used as an indicator of Jupiter affinity. In addition, when Light Psynergy comes into existence at the end of Dark Dawn, it is shown to be strongly affiliated with gold. However, it seems to be averted with the [[CastingAShadow Umbra clan]]; neither of the two representatives whose hair is visible have black or purple hair.

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Sister trope to ElementalEyeColors. Subtrope of ColorCodedElements, ColorCodedForYourConvenience, AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance, and YouGottaHaveBlueHair. Compare FlamingHair, which is this trope for fire elemental users taken UpToEleven.