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16Also known as drill hair, corkscrew curls, sausage curls, and tube curls, ringlets are a hairstyle which a woman creates by wrapping her hair tightly around a vertical curling iron or rollers.
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18Ringlets date to ancient Rome, where they were a popular hairstyle among the aristocracy. That regal feel is still retained today, and when chosen for a character, they indicate that she is upper class or an aristocrat, or at least sees herself that way. This makes it a subtle type of ErmineCapeEffect.
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20The hairstyle is also time-consuming to create and difficult to maintain, indicating that the wearer is concerned with her appearance and is very feminine. It's also usually a youthful style, rarely appearing on women older than middle age.
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22A SuperTrope to OjouRinglets, where a high-class character has two curls in front of or directly behind the ear. A SisterTrope to PrimAndProperBun.
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24Compare GirlishPigtails, which can overlap. Contrast TomboyishPonytail.
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31* In ''Manga/BlackButler'', Elizabeth "Lizzie" Middleford is born of the Aristocracy and has drill-like massive pigtails that are bigger than her head. She is also an ElegantGothicLolita.
32* Junko Hokaze in ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'' is an {{Ojou}} and has these in long hair past the waist form. They are small, thin and drill-shaped. She was even known as the Ringlet curl girl until her actual name was finally revealed.
33* In ''Manga/CesareIlCreatoreCheHaDistrutto'', almost all of the upper-class male characters wear this style. Basically, the Medici are the only men of status who don't. It's particularly noticeable in the scene in vol.s 6 and 7 where Cesare officiates in the Advent mass in the cathedral as bishop, [[HatOfAuthority mitre and everything]]. His curls are perfectly formed for the formal event.
34* ''Anime/{{Daimos}}'': The mother of [[ConqueringAlienPrince Richter]] and [[AlienPrincess Erika]] had thick, long, coil-shaped ringlets that hung above her shoulders and a small BeehiveHairdo.
35* Leona Morimoto from ''Discipline'' has two ringlets that start in front of her shoulders, being a RichBitch who ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney.
36* Erika Shindou from ''Literature/GonnaBeTheTwinTail'' has ringlets at the end of her twin loose ponytails. She is of BlueBlood and the StudentCouncilPresident. Her mother has the same hairstyle, as that particular hairstyle is part of their family tradition.
37* Reika Houjou in ''Literature/GoodLuckNinomiyaKun'' is the StudentCouncilPresident and heiress to her father's corporate empire. She has multiple ringlets at the end of her hair, with two of them in front of her armpits.
38* The GratuitousPrincess of ''Anime/HelloSandybell'' has thick, cymotrichous curls tied into braids and secured by a Gem-Encrusted headpiece.
39* ''Anime/IsabelleOfParis'': Isabelle was once a loud-mouthed {{Tomboy}} but at fifteen she's decided to leave that behind and become a proper Parisian Bourgeiosie woman. She dons [[https://hero.fandom.com/wiki/Isabelle_Laustin?file=Isabelleofparis-episode-4.png these]].
40* Nate Mitotsudaira from ''Literature/HorizonInTheMiddleOfNowhere'' has five ankle-length ringlets in the back and two thin ringlets at the sides of her cheeks.
41* In ''Literature/{{Katanagatari}}'', Togame has a HimeCut with ringlets at the end of her waist-length sidelocks. It's revealed early on that she's the daughter of a fallen feudal lord.
42* Angeline from ''Manga/KazeToKiNoUta'' has these, and they go past her shoulders. like most of the characters of ''Uta'', she is a rich noble and attends the school for the elite.
43* ''Manga/{{Lady}}'': Half-American half-British Charlotte is from a noble family. She has long, coily ringlet hair and is described as "looking like a Princess" by Lynn.
44* Selnia Flameheart from ''Literature/LadiesVersusButlers'' is an EnglishRose with two massive, thick blonde drizzly twintails on either side of the back of her head.
45* Touko from ''Literature/MariaWatchesOverUs'' combines this with GirlishPigtails.
46* Rosalie Claudel from ''Anime/MyOtome''. PluckyComicRelief character Shiho Huit has them in her [[GirlishPigtails twintails]], too.
47* Chizura Naba from ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' has straight hair with side curls in front of her armpits. It's revealed late in the series that her family is [[Fiction500 extremely wealthy]].
48* Dawn from ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' ups her fanciness game for the Grand Festival with a curled ponytail.
49* [[{{Ojou}} Adelicia]] in ''Literature/RentalMagica'' has multiple ringlets at the end of her hair, with two of them in front of her armpits and the rest in the back. They are so thick that they extend past her chest.
50* ''Manga/RozenMaiden'':
51** Kanaria has two ringlets that start in front of her shoulders, flower hair decoration and a ParasolOfPrettiness to emphasize her {{Ojou}} image.
52** Shinku has straight hair with two side curls in front of her armpits, and ''another'' pair of giant hair pigtails that curl this way. Her second pairs of hair are so long they nearly touch the ground.
53** Suiseiseki is doll with a Victorian era dress and long hair stylized into two massive curls.
54* ''Franchise/SailorMoon'':
55** Some depictions of Sailor Moon suggest that her overly long GirlishPigtails are two giant barrel curls.
56** Sailor Iron Mouse wears two pigtails styled into ringlets.
57* In ''Anime/VoltesV'', many noble Boazanian women don this hairstyle, most notably Katherine and Lozaria. Katherine has thin ones alongside a French braid and a ponytail, and Lozaria has a BeehiveHairdo and braid-like ringlets.
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61* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'': Hera is queen of Olympus and wears her hair in tight ringlets that get relaxed into waves at the ends.
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65* Clara of ''WesternAnimation/BarbieInTheNutcracker'' has her hair magically turned into ringlets upon being revealed to be the Sugarplum Princess, complete with a [[GorgeousGarmentGeneration sparkly pink dress]] and crown.
66* ''WesternAnimation/BarbieAsThePrincessAndThePauper'': Anneliese is a princess and wears her hair in long ringlets (though they're only visible at the back).
67* In ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'', Wendy wears her hair in ringlets pulled back with a bow. While she isn't a "regal" character, the hairstyle does lend her a dignity that suits the [[TeamMom motherly]] role she plays to the boys – not to mention setting her visually apart from [[WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland Alice]], who was also voiced by and modeled after Kathryn Beaumont.
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71* In the 2005 film of ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'', Veruca Salt, the spoiled little rich girl, wears her hair this way.
72* Emma in ''Film/Emma2020'', the "handsome, clever and rich" leader of Highbury society, always has tight corkscrew curls framing her head. Harriet follows Emma's lead by wearing her hair similarly.
73* The daughter of a French marquis, Simone from the 1927 film ''Film/GetYourMan'' wears her hair this way.
74* Scarlett O'Hara of ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'' sports these from time to time. America has never had an aristocracy or royalty, but the antebellum Southern gentry came pretty damn close, and it wouldn't be surprising if she chose the hairstyle deliberately.
75* Creator/MaryPickford, who spent most of her wildly successful silent movie career playing innocent young girls and [[TheIngenue ingenues]], wore her hair in long ringlets as a symbol of her innocence. ''Film/ThePoorLittleRichGirl'' and ''Film/TessOfTheStormCountry'' are just two of many, many examples. In her prime, she was known as "the girl with the curls".[[note]]Ironically, she herself hated curls, but her mother loved them. After her mother died, she cut her hair into a fashionable bob, which shocked audiences.[[/note]]
76* In the movie ''Film/MusicFromAnotherRoom'', Anna wears her hair like this. She is the love interest of Jude Law's character Danny but sees herself and her family as above him since they are well educated and he works as a delivery boy.
77* Esther Coleman from ''Film/{{Orphan}}'' wears her hair in loose ringlets, often decorated with a bow.
78* Pickford's hairstyle was cited as an influence to child actress Creator/ShirleyTemple, who became famous for this. She wore her hair in this style in almost all of her movies, where she was typecast as a sunshine and rainbows girly girl. One of her films was even titled ''Film/CurlyTop''.
79* Milady de Winter in ''Film/TheThreeMusketeers2011''.
80* In ''Film/WhatEverHappenedToBabyJane'', Jane has this hairstyle, even as an adult, when not only has it long gone out of fashion, but also looks age inappropriate and creepy.
81* [[UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria Princess Victoria]] and other noblewomen in ''Film/TheYoungVictoria''.
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85* In ''Literature/{{Corsair}}'', both Aura and Katarina Angraat have voluminous ringlet hairstyles.
86* Gender Inverted with Feyd-Rautha, heir apparent to Baron Harkonnen. He is described as wearing his hair in ringlets in the original ''Literature/{{Dune}}'' books. The film version went with his actor, [[Music/ThePolice Sting]]'s EightiesHair, however and most subsequent adaptations have followed suit.
87* ''Literature/EndoAndKobayashiLive The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte'': Aside from her OjouRinglets, closer shots of Lieselotte's hair shows half of her hair is in curls. She is from one of the most {{blue blood}}ed families in the setting and is the fiancee of the crown prince, so it fits.
88* Belinda in Alexander Pope's ''Literature/TheRapeOfTheLock'' has symmetrical ringlets that fall down the back of her neck. [[BerserkButton And then one day they get cut...]]
89* ''Literature/AscendanceOfABookworm'': When the protagonist gets AdoptedIntoRoyalty (technically nobility), her new family includes a younger sister whose hair is arranged into thick ringlets that start about where the bottoms of her eyes are and have their tips resting on her shoulders.
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93* ''Series/{{Degrassi|TheNextGeneration}}'''s Fiona Coyne wears her hair like this, as she is from a very wealthy family, for most of her time on the show.
94* Princess Violet from ''Series/LegendOfTheSeeker'' sports these. As the name would suggest, she is very much an aristocrat.
95* The original RichBitch Nellie Olson from ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'' has hair styled into ringlets that frame her face and cascade down her shoulders with a large bow at the crown. Karin Kanzuki of ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' fame is supposedly based on Nellie.
96* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "The Nth Degree", Dr. Crusher styles her hair into sausage curls to play Roxanne in a production of ''Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac''.
97* In ''Series/YoungBlades'', Queen Anne wears her hair like this since she's a young widow.
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101%%* Margaret from ''ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUS'' wears her hair like this, both in the TV show and in the comics.
102%%* Lulu Moppet from ''ComicStrip/LittleLulu''.
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106* The original incarnation of the Archer [[PlayerMooks unit]] in ''VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness'' and ''VideoGame/PhantomBrave'' sported these. She was later upgraded to twintails, more suiting of her combination of girliness and ActionGirl.
107** King Krichevskoy in the first ''Disgaea'' game had two HairAntennae, [[HereditaryHairstyle like his protagonist son]], but his ended in curls that evoked this trope.
108* Princess Pride from ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'' and its adaptation, ''Anime/MegaManNTWarrior'', has two sidelocks that curl like lightning in front of her shoulders.
109* In recent cartoonier games of ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'', Princess Zelda has sidelocks that curl like lightning at the sides of her chin. Naturally, this includes [[spoiler:Tetra]].
110* In a flashback in ''VideoGame/Persona3 [[UpdatedRerelease FES]]'''s The Answer, Mitsuru has GirlishPigtails that carry [[{{Ojou}} regal]] curls.
111* In ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2'', the female main character, Rosa, has them when she plays a princess in the "Mystery Doors of the Magical Land" movie trilogy.
112%%* Ginrei from ''VideoGame/SenranKagura: New Wave'' has large grey ones.
113* The Fairlions of ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration 2'' are ''HumongousMecha'' with these. They were custom-built for an actual princess and her [[PseudoRomanticFriendship best friend]], but ''come on''. Oh, and the curls [[EnergyWeapon fire lasers]].
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117* Elodie, the main character from ''VisualNovel/LongLiveTheQueen'', has her [[RoseHairedSweetie pink hair]] styled in this fashion. Fitting for the 'regal' part of this trope name, too, given her status as the Crown Princess of the land of Nova (where your job is to ensure she survives to her formal coronation as Queen).
118* Regina Berry from ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyJusticeForAll'', suitable for someone with a name that means "queen".
119%%* While not in any real position of power herself, nor is she portrayed as being particularly concerned about keeping up appearances, Misha from ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'' has multiple large ringlets, with two of them starting at the sides of her chin, throughout the game (unless you pursue her friend [[StudentCouncilPresident Shizune]]'s path, in which case [[ImportantHaircut she'll cut her hair short]] late into it).
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123%%* ''Webcomic/BadMoonRising'' shows Chloe sporting these in her youth.
124* ''Webcomic/CursedPrincessClub'': Suzanna Winchester has poofy curls in her bangs and sideburns. They fit well with her snooty personality and disdain for lower-class people and anyone who cannot best her in fencing matches -- in fact, she's much snootier than most of the actual regal characters.
125* The titular character of ''Webcomic/SwordPrincessAmaltea'' has her hair styled with ringlets, and she's a princess. However, her temperamental nature and [[GenkiGirl easy-going, energetic personality]] makes her resemble more QuirkyCurls.
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129* Nanette Manoir of ''WesternAnimation/AngelaAnaconda'' wears her long blonde hair in multiple ringlets, speaks with a stereotypically "rich girl" French accent, and is a complete snob. She's very obsessed with her looks and considers herself extremely beautiful.
130%%* Eden and Catherine in ''WesternAnimation/BarbieInAChristmasCarol'' wear ringlet hair, plus one of the girls in the orphanage.
131* Darla Dimple from ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'' wears her hair this way as part of her [[BitchInSheepsClothing sugary public image]]. She makes great use of her electric curling chair during her VillainSong.
132%%* It's more evident on the boxart and the toys than it is in the cartoon, but this is how the Flutter Ponies' manes are in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePony''.
133* [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicRarity Rarity]] from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' sports this style, at least as close as a mane and tail can approximate it. Her tail is one giant ringlet.
134%%* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Taffy in the "Homer Scissorhands" subplot.
135* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': [[Characters/StevenUniverseRoseQuartz Rose Quartz]] hair consists of long, beautiful pink ringlets that reach all the way down to the backs of her legs.
136* Diaspro from ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' has these and is a princess. Bloom's biological mother, Queen Marion, has a much bigger and poofier version of these to go with her crown.
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140* Many depictions of UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette (fictional likenesses and official portraits) show her with this hairstyle.
141* Already in use while the Flavians were the emperors of Rome (69-96 AD). The women would have loads of ringlets that were piled upon her forehead, not unlike a crown. This was, naturally, only something the wealthy could afford. Experimental archaeology has determined that to achieve some styles as depicted in Roman art (and the Romans were sticklers for realism), the hair would be ''sewn'' into place with thread, possibly made from the person's own hair to ensure the thread is invisible.
142* It was quite common for the upper class and royalty in Europe from the 17th century to try sport this hairstyle, either by using hot rollers or wigs depending on the fashion.
143* This was Music/TaylorSwift's preferred hairstyle during her ''Music/{{Fearless}}'' and ''Music/SpeakNow'' eras, possibly {{Invoked}} as she often used fairy tale and princess imagery in her lyrics.
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