Her tiered hair also has subtle Regal Ringlets.
"Give me a head with hair, long beautiful hair, shinin', gleamin', steamin', flaxen, waxen. Give me down to there hair, shoulder length or longer, here baby, there mama, everywhere, daddy, daddy, hair...
Flow it, show it, long as God can grow it, my hair..."
Flow it, show it, long as God can grow it, my hair..."
Hair is a good indicator of a character's social class, time period, clique, outlook, and even moral alignment. The following are some of the ways hair can provide nuance, as well as show character and plot turning points.
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Scalp hair
- '20s Bob Haircut: A 20s flapper bob
- '50s Hair: 1950s style hair
- '60s Hair: 1960s style hair
- '70s Hair: 1970s style hair
- '80s Hair: 1980s style hair
- '90s Hair: 1990s style hair
- Affair Hair: A strange hair on a coat means cheating.
- Afro Asskicker: A badass with an afro
- Alien Hair: Aliens have a very limited range of hairstyles
- The Barber: A Western charcater who cuts men's hair and shaves their faces. Usually talkative. Spear Counterpart to the Chatty Hairdresser.
- Bad Hair Day: A character suffers a bad hair day.
- Barbershop Episode: An episode where the characters go to the barbershop to get a haircut and/or shave.
- Barbarian Longhair: Barbarians don't do haircuts, and are still attractive thanks to their brawny physiques.
- Bedhead-itis: A character has messy hair when they are sick as a visual indicator of how messy they feel on the inside.
- Beehive Hairdo: Long hair piled on top of the head and cemented with plenty of hairspray.
- Blinding Bangs: A mop of hair that completely obscures the eyes
- Boyish Short Hair: Short hair on a girl that indicates tomboyishness
- Braids of Action: Action Girl with braided hair
- Braids of Barbarism: Barbarian Longhair braided
- By the Hair: Pulling someone by the hair
- Chatty Hairdresser: Cuts and styles women's hair, while being talkative and a gossip. Distaff Counterpart of The Barber.
- Childish Bangs: Short hair across the forehead, rest of the hair long
- Close-Call Haircut: A shot or cut so close to the head it cuts hair
- Compressed Hair: A large amount of hair is easily compressed into a smaller shape
- Covering Up Your Gray: Older people dyeing their gray hair to try and look younger.
- Curly Hair Is Ugly: Curly hair being seen as either unattractive or a source of mockery
- Delinquent Hair: Outrageous punk hair
- Devilish Hair Horns: Evil characters with hair reminiscent of horns
- Dodgy Toupee: An obviously fake toupee
- Dreadlock Rasta: Dreadlocks that signify rebellion, independence, spirituality, or quirkiness
- Dreadlock Warrior: A badass warrior with dreadlocks
- Dye or Die: Dying hair for the purpose of disguise
- Ears as Hair: Anthropomorphic animals using their ears like hair
- Einstein Hair: A scientist with Einstein-like hair
- Elemental Hair Composition: Hair made from natural elements as a symbol of magical, divine powers
- Expository Hairstyle Change: Hairstyle change signals a characterization change
- Expressive Hair: Hair that is independently mobile and responsive to mood
- Fake-Hair Drama: Drama over wigs, weaves and such
- Flaming Hair: Hair that is composed of flame
- Funny Afro: Funny afros
- Funny Flashback Haircut: Flashbacks (particularly in sitcoms) often give well-known characters a stupid-looking haircut for a quick visual gag.
- Gag Haircut: Someone gets a bad haircut which is played for laughs, and their normal hair is restored by the next episode
- Girlish Pigtails: Pigtails make young girls look even younger
- Glasses and Ponytail Coverup: Hair up (with spectacles) makes you look different than hair down (and eyes uncovered)
- Godiva Hair: Long hair drapes down a woman's chest and covers her breasts
- Good Hair, Evil Hair: How hair indicates moral alignment
- Gum In Hair: Chewing gum gets stuck in a character's hair
- Hair Antennae: Two strands of anime hair that stick up from the top of the head and curve forward like antennae
- Hair-Contrast Duo: A duo whose contrasting hair colors signify their opposing world-views
- Hair Flip: Someone flips their hair
- Hair Intakes: Anime hair with little "hoods"
- Hair Reboot: Seemingly destroyed hair can be returned to its proper shape and volume by merely shaking it
- Hair Wings: Hair that doubles as wings
- Hairstyle Inertia: A character's hair remains the same throughout their life
- Hammerspace Hair: A character pulls out something they were storing in their hair
- Helicopter Hair: Hair that works as a propeller, lifting the character into the air
- Hereditary Hairstyle: Family members with the same hairstyle
- Hime Cut: A proper, upper-class Japanese girl with a traditional haircut. It has three parts: long length in back, straight even bangs and sidelocks.
- Idiot Hair: Single strand of hair sticks up
- Important Haircut: A haircut symbolizing Character Development
- Improbable Hairstyle: Hair that shouldn't be possible, given the circumstances
- Improbable Hairstyle Sequence: A character goes through a series of apparently random hairstyles
- Intimate Hair Brushing: Brushing and fixing someone's hair as a sign of affection and closeness
- Intimate Haircut: Cutting someone's hair as a sign of mutual trust
- Letting Her Hair Down: A woman who loosens up will also loosen her hair
- Locked into Strangeness: Strange events do strange things to your hair
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Pretty boy with longish hair
- Long Hair Is Feminine: Long hair signifies femininity
- Magic Hair: Hair that has magical powers
- Mega Twintails: A pair of pigtails that, combined, are at least the size of the girl's head
- Memetic Hair: Hair that spawns memes
- Mermaid Arc Emergence: Character leaps out of the water bending backwards as far as possible, flipping most or all of their hair backwards in the process.
- Messy Hair: Someone has messy hair
- Mistaken for Dyed: A person's hair color is thought by their peers as not actually being their natural hair color when it is.
- Motherly Side Plait: Hair braided loosely and resting on the shoulder indicates motherhood
- My Hair Came Out Green: Someone tries to dye their hair a naturally-occurring color, but the resulting hair color is something ridiculous
- Never Trust a Hair Tonic: Hair tonic has unpleasant side effects and/or doesn't do what it's supposed to
- Nobody Touches the Hair: Touching their hair is their Berserk Button
- Non-Mammalian Hair: Anthropomorphic non-mammalian animals who have hair
- Ojou Ringlets: Two curls of hair by the ears that mark an Ojou woman as a member (or pretender) of high class
- Peek-a-Bangs: Hair that covers one eye
- Plant Hair: Foliage as hair
- Power Dyes Your Hair: A power boost that changes the user's hair color
- Power Hair: Short, neat hair worn by women in power
- Power Makes Your Hair Grow: Magical powers that cause hair growth
- Prehensile Hair: Tentacle-like hair
- Prim and Proper Bun: A bun worn by a woman who is neat, proper, organized and strict
- Quirky Curls: Frizzy curls on an eccentric or high-energy person
- Rapid Hair Growth: Hair growing faster than natural
- Rapunzel Hair: Impressively long hair
- Real Men Have Short Hair: When longer hair on males is seen as slovenly or unmanly
- Regal Ringlets: Finglets as a sign of aristocracy
- Robot Hair: Robots with hair (or something hair-like)
- Sailor's Ponytail: A sailor with longish but tamed hair
- Samurai Ponytail: A samurai who wears his hair in a topknot or ponytail
- Sci-Fi Bob Haircut: Bobs are the haircut of the future
- Shaking Her Hair Loose: A woman dramatically removes a hair-tie, -stick, or -clip
- Shonen Hair: Big messy spiky hair denoting a hotblooded rebel
- Short Hair with Tail: a short hair style paired with a long ponytail
- Slipknot Ponytail: Hair falls loose during fights
- Spiky Hair: Hair spiked with gel
- Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl: A common attribute of eastern ghost ladies.
- Stubborn Hair: Hair that resists styling
- Supernatural Floating Hair: Hair which moves in defiance of gravity due to otherworldly means.
- Tentacle Hair: Tentacles used as hair.
- Tomboyish Ponytail: Tomboy who wears her hair in a ponytail
- Traumatic Haircut: Anguish by forced haircut
- Villainous Widow's Peak: Widow's peaks signify evilness
- Wild Hair: Long, unbrushed hair that signifies wildness
Body hair
- The Bear: A burly, hairy, gay guy
- Carpet of Virility: A man with a hairy chest
- Painful Body Waxing: Men getting waxed and crying out in pain is funny
- Hairy Girl: A woman who doesn't shave
Baldness and lack of hair
- Bald Black Leader Guy: A bald black man in a position of power
- Bald Head of Toughness: Baldness (or a shaved head) is used as a visual short hand for physical and mental toughness.
- Bald Mystic: Magical or enlightened people tend to be bald
- Baldness Angst: Self-conscious about their baldness.
- Baldness Means Sickness: Baldness as a visual indicator of a severe illness such as cancer.
- Bald of Authority: Baldness associated with positions of authority and leadership
- Bald of Evil: Baldness is a sign of evilness
- Charlie Brown Baldness: Illustrated character is ostensibly not bald, but has only two or three visible strands of hair on their head
- Chrome Dome Psi: Bald and psychic
- Furry Baldness: Anthropomorphic animals with wisps of hair atop their head to make them look like a bald old man
- Hairstyle Malfunction: A woman's wig is removed and she is revealed to be bald
- Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: A bald character has thick hair in a flashback
- Ominous Hair Loss: Baldness as a sign of illness or worse.
- Prematurely Bald: A bald man much too young to be bald
Hair accessories
- Combat Haircomb: Ornamental comb or pin worn in a woman's hair that's also a weapon
- Important Hair Accessory: Someone gets (or gets rid of) a hair accessory symbolizing Character Development.
- Please Keep Your Hat On: Someone who is bald, doesn't like their hair, or something ugly on their head, has to perpetually wear a hat or wig to hide it
- Signature Headgear (hair decs version): Distinctive hair ornaments make a character stand out and tells you a little bit about their character.
