History Main / AlienHair

* The titular ''Manga/SquidGirl'' has a series of prehensile tentacles for hair.
* Ika-chan from ''Manga/Oddman11'' has a pair of GirlishPigtails that are actually octopus tentacles, combined with two [[ExtraEyes googly eyes]] attached to the sides of her head that make it look like she's wearing an octopus on her head.

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* Mei's hair is replaced with squid tentacles [[spoiler:when she uses her Sage Mode]] in ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin''. The author makes a joke about her turning into [[Franchise/{{Splatoon}} an Inkling]] during the end of chapter omake after its reveal.

* In ''Literature/WhatMovesTheDead'', this is part of TheReveal: [[spoiler:Madeline Usher's white hair isn't DiseaseBleach, but part of the sapient fungus that's made her into a ParasiteZombie.]]

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragonsFourthEdition'': Genasi have crystals (Windsoul, Stormsoul) or fire (Firesoul) in place of hair, other are simply bald (Earthsoul, Watersoul).

* Cala Maria from ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'' is a mermaid with an ''octopus'' for hair, with the octopus's head vaguely resembling a bun. When she enters her gorgon phase, the octopus's tentacles become living snake heads.
* [[LizardFolk Argonians]], the most "alien" of the playable races in ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series, have just about everything ''but'' hair treated like hair. Horns, spikes (both flexible and rigid), scales, fins, feathers (particularly females), etc.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Hearthstone}}'', intelligent murlocs are shown wearing their distinctive crest of spikes like hair. One female murloc even has hers done up [[https://gamepedia.cursecdn.com/hearthstone_gamepedia/c/ca/Hydrologist_full.jpg?version=b74cba6510973300dfc614605536d7db in a ponytail]]. This is averted in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' proper, where murlocs always keep their spikes straight up even while wearing a hat (although, this is more likely due to model limitations, and the fact that non-hostile clothes-wearing murlocs are exceptionally rare in the canon game).

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* "[[Franchise/StarWars Wookiee]]" Hair--covers the entire body. Usually [[PeopleInRubberSuits a rubber suit alien]], but more increasingly represented by {{Muppet}}s or SerkisFolk. Can be expensive to pull off well. Usually varying shades of brown.

** Ferengi are also bald.

* ''Franchise/StarTrek'': Vulcans like Spock keep their hair in very simple, uniform styles with short straight hair and bangs cut straight across, as do most Romulans, who are descended from Vulcans.

** Humans who join the Romulan and Vulcan societies have been shown to have adopted a similar haircut, such as Ensign [=DeSeve=] on ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' and Michael Burnham in her childhood on ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery''.

* ''Franchise/StarTrek'': Vulcans like Spock keep their hair in very simple straight cut uniform styles, as do most Romulans, who are descended from Vulcans.
** The Mintakans from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' are a species of primitive "Vulcanoids"; remarkably, their genetic relationship to Vulcans extends as far as a preference for similar hairstyles!

** Humans who join the Romulan and Vulcan societies are often shown to have adopted a similar haircut, such as Stefan DeSeve on ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' and Michael Burnham in her childhood on ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery''.

* ''Franchise/StarTrek'': Vulcans like Spock keep their hair in very simple straight cut uniform styles.
%%* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': Romulans

* In ''Literature/WhatMovesTheDead'', this is part of TheReveal'': [[spoiler:Madeline Usher's white hair isn't DiseaseBleach, but part of the sapient fungus that's made her into a ParasiteZombie.]]

* Genasi from D&D 4th edition have crystals (Windsoul, Stormsoul) or fire (Firesoul) in place of hair, other are simply bald (Earthsoul, Watersoul)

* Mei's hair is replaced with squid tentacles [[spoiler:when she uses her Sage Mode]] in ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin''. The author makes a joke about her turning into [[VideoGame/{{Splatoon}} an Inkling]] during the end of chapter omake after its reveal.

* Most of the characters in ''Franchise/{{Splatoon}}'' are ApparentlyHumanMerfolk that retain their [[LittleBitBeastly beastly bits]] as hair resembling the aquatic creatures they take after.
** When the Inklings switch from squid to humanoid form, they retain part of their squid forms as their "hair". This is even more noticeable and alien with the Octolings, who have a mass of tentacles for hair styled in a bouffant.
** Annie, the shy anemone girl who runs the headgear shop, has a big anemone afro with Moe the clownfish inhabiting it.
** Spyke is a sea urchin (and street urchin) whose hair is a mass of spikes with only a [[PeekABangs sliver of his face]] showing through.

* Most of the characters in ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' are ApparentlyHumanMerfolk that retain their [[LittleBitBeastly beastly bits]] as hair resembling the aquatic creatures they take after.

* One of [[Characters/MortalKombatCetrion Cetrion]]'s skins in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'' turn her hair into a mess of prehensile tentacles, which are used in her YouWillNotEvadeMe attacks.

* An alien who otherwise looks nothing like [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Cthulhu]] might have tentacles, like the unnamed green-skinned Mulder and Scully analogs from the B5 spinoff ''Crusade.''

** [[ComicBook/{{Larfleeze}} Orange Lantern]] Clypta has two large smooth tentacles sprouting out the sides of her head rather than any hair.

* ComicBook/{{Wanderers}} team member Dartalg is a bipedal hair covered alien. He shows up in ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}} stories from time to time.

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* ''Franchise/StarWars'': Twi'leks (such as [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Bib Fortuna]], or [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars Aayla Secura]]) have two tentacles growing out of the back of their heads, called "lekku". A few other species have similar hair-substitutes, most notably the Togruta (such as [[Film/AttackOfTheClones Shaak Ti]] and [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars Ahsoka Tano]]), who have hollow horn-like "montrals" at the top of their heads and three lekku extending downward from them. In both species, rare individuals will have four lekku instead of the normal number. The amphibians Nautolans, such as fan favorite Kit Fisto, have several tentacles for hair.

* In ''VideoGame/FreedomPlanet'', Lilac's PrehensileHair is actually a pair of tendrils, which is best shown during her torture scene by Brevon, who severed her twin tails and left them to display, with bleeding wounds visible. Fortunately, they grow back later after one bath in the HealingSpring.