History Main / KaleidoscopeHair

* LetsPlay/{{LDShadowLady}}'s hair has gone from brown to pink to blue to pink to purple and back to pink.

* LetsPlay/{{DanTDM}} has dyed his hair several different shades of blue, blond, purple, and even pink at one point.
** This crosses over into a RunningGag in ''VideoGame/MinecraftStoryMode'', where [[AsHimself his character's]] hair can change colour in the time it takes to walk through a door. In that series, his hair has changed between brown (natural), cyan/turquoise/blue, red, purple, grey, and blond.

HairColors are an easy way to distinguish one person from another at a glance. At times, it might drive a person to dye or even bleach their own hair to change its color (blonde is a common goal, due to the {{stereotype}}s of it being [[EveryoneLovesBlondes more glamorous]]). But some people aren't satisfied with just one hair color, their hair has to keep changing colors frequently. The new shade can be common, [[ImplausibleHairColor implausible]], or even outright impossible. The changes must happen a number of times, and they may be justified by use of hair dye, or any sort of AppliedPhlebotinum -- up to and including actual {{magic}} (though it's not ''necessarily'' a case of MagicHair). It doesn't even have to happen to real hair, so characters who constantly swap wig colors come under this trope.

* Lead guitarist Mami Sasazaki of Music/{{SCANDAL|Band}} has had this in spades since about 2012 when the band ditched wearing school uniforms. Since then, her hair has featured blonde, aqua, green, orange, blue, violet, lavender, and silvery colours.

* Lead guitarist Mami Sasazaki of Music/{{Scandal}} has had this in spades since about 2012 when the band ditched wearing school uniforms. Since then, her hair has featured blonde, aqua, green, orange, blue, violet, lavender, and silvery colours.

* One FanficRecs/HarryPotter fanfic has [[TricksterTwins the twins]] pour potion in the Slytherins' food that makes their hair change color with a popping sound every few hours.

* ''WebAnimation/{{Anon}}'' character Dani has gone by most of the colors and hairstyles possible.

* Wrestling/{{Naomi}} on [[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT Season 3]] had different colour highlights in her hair every week. She stopped adding them altogether by the end of the season.

* ''Webcomic/{{Minus}}'': Minus's hair changes from strip to strip, ranging from red to blue and green without comment -- then again, she ''is'' omnipotent. It adds to her surreality.

* ''Fanfic/QueensOfMewni''': The future Queen Venus was born with latent magic that had everyone see Venus as their ideal beauty. As she grew older Venus was able to control her magic and allow her hair to reflect her mood. Most 'official' portraits of her show her with rainbow hair. [[spoiler: During the year after she {{Mercy Kill}}ed her mother, she had black hair.]]

* In ''{{VideoGame/Rosenkreuzstilette}}'', Spititia has a version of this which overlaps with PowerDyesYourHair: using different weapons from the other RKS members she'd fought will change her hair color corresponding to the hair color of the original user.

* Christine Nelson from ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'' dyes her black hair bleach blonde in season 8. In season 9 she inexplicably now has red and blonde hair. (To be fair, the character IS a hairdresser. It's likely that she frequently experiments with hairstyles.)

* Characters in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' are drawn with a variety of hair, eye, and clothing colors in official art, and WordOfGod says there is no canon color scheme for them. The anime depicts this by changing the color palette of characters and even the scene itself during many key moments, usually for dramatic effect.

This trope can occur in any medium, but some are more common than others (e.g. [[VideoGameTropes video game]] examples are near non-existent). Naturally, this includes RealLife, though due to the effects of repeated dyeing[[note]]that is, hair becoming rough, bleached, falling out, losing oils, breaking, and generally becoming a pain to care for and style,[[/note]] [[SimpleMindedWisdom most people don’t do it]]. Due to happening many times on a single person, it isn’t a type of ExpositoryHairstyleChange. Usually.

* ''Anime/UruseiYatsura'': In the manga, Lum had full-blown rainbow-colored hair that shifted colors. As the manga progressed, Creator/RumikoTakahashi changed Lum's hair color to green to match the anime, since it was changed there for ease of drawing. Green hair has been the standard for Lum ever since, even after the emergence of digital animation made it feasible to depict her original rainbow hair.
* This happens for no fathomable reason in ''VisualNovel/QuestTwilightPrinceProphecyChronicals''. Donna's hair keeps changing from a grayish brown to full-blown pink, while Ebert's can be green or brown.
* In color chapters of the ''Manga/DragonBall'' manga, Karin's fur is never the same color twice. This is never commented upon. (For what it's worth, he was based on a ''black'' cat...)
** Bulma's hair also repeatedly changed color. The first few color chapters have her with purple hair, while later ones go back to the turquoise color that the anime used most of the time. For what it's worth, ''Anime/DragonBallThePathToPower'' and the manga's official full-color reprint both consistently depict Bulma with her original purple hair, indicating that this was what was originally envisioned for the character before Creator/ToeiAnimation pulled out their typical AdaptationDyeJob.
* In ''Manga/SaintSeiya'' and its various spinoffs, Gemini Saints subject to dual personality issues, such as Saga or Paradox, have this happen whenever the personality in charge changes. It also happens to [[spoiler: Shun]] during the Hades Saga when [[spoiler: Hades]] takes over his body.

* Rick Hunter of ''ComicBook/BoosterGold'' has this and KaleidoscopeEyes.

* Midnighter of ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'' supposedly constantly changes his hair colour. This is a mixture of AscendedFanon and AscendedGlitch: because he was so rarely seen without his cowl, different colourists kept colouring his hair random colours in the very few panels where it was visible, and fans came up with the idea that he keeps redying it.

* One [[FanficRecs/HarryPotter Harry Potter fanfic]] has [[TricksterTwins the twins]] pour potion in the Slytherins' food that makes their hair change color with a popping sound every few hours.

* ''Fanfic/QueensOfMewni''': The future Queen Venus was born with latent magic that had everyone see Venus as their ideal beauty. As she grew older Venus was able to control her magic and allow her hair to reflect her mood. Most 'official' portraits of her show her with rainbow hair. [[spoiler: During the year after she {{Mercy Kill}}ed her mother, she had black hair.]]

* ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'' - when Bond first meets Tiffany at her apartment, he's perplexed to see her change from a blonde to a brunette to a redhead in quick order. It turns out that she just likes wigs.
* Talia of ''Film/The6thDay'' has a different hair color (usually something bright) each time she comes back in a new body. She even gripes about having to constantly redye it.
* Natalia Tena's portrayal of Tonks (see below) doesn't change her hair quite as much as her book counterpart but is still shown with purple, red, white, brown and blonde hair across four ''Film/HarryPotter'' films.
* ''Film/TenInchHero'' has Priestly, whose mohawk changes color changes in every scene. At one point, it's even two different colors.

* ''Literature/HarryPotter'':
** Tonks often changes her hair color; it is usually a shade of bubblegum, but can turn [[FieryRedhead ginger]] when she’s angry, gray for a disguise, or any number of other colors at her every whim. {{Justified|Trope}} as she is a [[VoluntaryShapeShifter metamorphmagus]].
** [[spoiler:Her son]], Teddy, is also a metamorphmagus. [[spoiler:Lupin]] mentions that Teddy had black hair when he was born, and it turned ginger by the time he'd left. Later in the book, he shows someone a picture of Teddy with turquoise hair.
* Shifting hair colors is a genetic trait shared by members of Idris' royal family in ''Literature/{{Warbreaker}}''. Hair changes color depending on the person's mood; it turns white when they are scared or nervous, black when they are calm or feeling confident, red when they are angry, and blonde when they are happy. As shown by [[RebelliousPrincess Siri's]] character development, it takes a lot of maturity and restraint to keep one's hair the same color for a long period of time.

* One possible power in ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'' is changing your hair color.
* ''Literature/MySweetAudrina'' by Creator/VCAndrews notes that the women of the Adare (except Vera, a redhead) are born with what they call "chameleon hair", which appears to change colours according to the light.
* In ''Literature/ChildrenOfTheRedKing'', Olivia frequently dies her hair blue, green, purple, etc. In fact, it's a shock when the characters see her with normal brown hair.
* Snorkmaiden from ''Literature/TheMoomins'' can change fur color according to her mood, but this is downplayed in the books and left out of most adaptations altogether.
* Molly Carpenter of ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' dyes the ends of her hair during her teenage years, changing colours frequently. Later in the series, she goes back to her natural blond hair.
* Susan, IntrepidReporter, from the ''Literature/ArchieSheridan'' series, changes her hair color with each book.

* Commander Christine Vale in ''Literature/StarTrekTitan'' often redyes her hair. In ''Over a Torrent Sea'', set on an [[SingleBiomePlanet ocean world]], it's specifically mentioned she dyed it sea-blue to match the mission.

* Christine Nelson (from ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'') dyes her black hair bleach blonde in season 8. In season 9 she inexplicably now has red and blonde hair. (To be fair, the character IS a hairdresser. It's likely that she frequently experiments with hairstyles.)
* Jool in ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' is a ParodySue with hair that changes color depending on her mood.
* {{Enforced}} in ''Series/TheManyLovesOfDobieGillis''. Dobie's actor (Dwayne Hickman) was made to dye his hair blonde in order to distance him from a previous role. When the show was well established, he was allowed to return to his natural brown hair color; however, at times he had to go blonde again.

* You'd be hard-pressed to name two episodes where Lillian of ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire'' has the same hair color and style.
* Lucretia from ''Series/SpartacusBloodAndSand'' rotates between her natural hair color and various colored wigs. Later we find out she wears them to honor her old friend Gaia, whose wigs they originally were. TruthInTelevision as the hair fashions were constantly changing in Rome so most noblewomen used wigs and hairpieces to keep up with them.
* Claudia from ''Series/{{Warehouse13}}'' likes to dye her skunk stripe in various colors.

* ''Series/TheMrPotatoHeadShow'': In the reality TV episode, Queenie starts trying on various wigs, experimenting with different looks. One of them is neon orange!

* In ''VideoGame/NBAJam''[='=]s SpiritualSuccessor ''NBA Hangtime'', if you pick the Chicago Bulls, you can actually choose which hair color Dennis Rodman will play with. The game actually gives you a small rainbow of options.
* Moxie of the ''VideoGame/LonelyWolfTreat'' series has white hair in the winter and brown hair in the summer, just like real-life arctic foxes.

* This happens to Nanase (whose hair turns black when her magic burns out) and Susan (when she goes through an angst-induced awakening) in ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive''.
* Ping from ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo'' can change her appearance in response to user feedback. The most obvious changes are to her hair. So far, she's had pale grey, hot pink, and turquoise.
* Katrina, from ''Webcomic/TheNoordegraafFiles'' changes her hair every two weeks in -- comic or so.
* For a long time, Peejee from ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'' would have constantly changing hair, until Randy got tired of changing it.
* Webcomic/{{Minus}}: Minus's hair changes from strip to strip, ranging from red to blue and green without comment -- then again, she ''is'' omnipotent. It adds to her surreality.

* ''Webcomic/{{Zoophobia}}'': Jestine's (already multi-colored) hair constantly changes with every scene.
* In ''Shinkutokimekisempukaku'' (or just ''Shinku!'' for short), Leroy is drawn with a different hair color in every panel. In the first strip where this is evident, the author commentary explains that this is an exaggeration of the real Leroy's habit of frequently dyeing his hair. Similarly, Cary's hat shows a different icon on the front in every panel.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Subnormality}}'', the pink-haired girl switches between neon pink and brown, once in the middle of a conversation with another character. Her explanation: 'I do this a lot'.
* K from ''Webcomic/{{Blip}}'' has hair that varies from brunette to black to pink-ish over the course of the story. At first, it just seems like ArtEvolution, until the other characters comment on it. The color seems to correspond to her long-term mood--the worse she feels, the darker her hair gets--but there's no explanation for how it changes.

* Newter of ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' is an orange lizard with AnimalEyes and oft-changing dyed hair.
* Starting with Estevan Marshall [=LancRose=]'s TraumaticHaircut in the first round of the WebOriginal/TrinityTourneyOCT, the hair he is [[InTouchWithHisFeminineSide so obsessed with]] ends up changing with each day over the course of events in the tournament.

* [[MeaningfulName Not surprisingly]], Professor Crazyhair in ''WesternAnimation/YakkityYak''.
* ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'': When out looking for Wu Kimiko's hair is never the same style twice and comes in many shades from normal like blond to unnatural such as ocean green.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'': Sabine changes her hair color every season.

* Mrs. Slocumbe, from ''Series/AreYouBeingServed'', has hair that switches colors frequently. Originally, actress Mollie Sugden dyed her hair different colors, but when it damaged her hair she began to wear varying wigs instead.

* Delirium from ''ComicBook/TheSandman''; her hair color changes depending on her mood. It's also multicolored at any given time.

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'': Circe is a witch who often tweaks her appearance and hair color, though in different periods has kept a certain color as her go to, such as in the [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Post-]][[ComicBook/WonderWoman2006 Crisis]] era when her hair was normally purple but she also tried out blonde, black, magenta and pink. [[ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth These days]] she usually keeps it red.

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