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 descriptor for 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
- '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 hair styles
- Baldness Angst: Self-concious about their baldness.
- Barbarian Longhair: Barbarians don't do haircuts
- 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
- 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
- Curly Hair Is Ugly: Curly hair being seen as either unattractive or a source of mockery
- Delinquent Hair: Outrageous punk hair
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 Today, Gone Tomorrow: A bald character has thick hair in a flashback
- Hair Wings: Hair that doubles as wings
- Hairstyle Inertia: A character's hair remains the same throughout their life
- Hairstyle Malfunction: A woman's wig is removed and she is revealed to be bald
- 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.
- Horned Hairdo: Evil characters with hair reminiscent of horns
- 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
- 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
- Messy Hair: Someone has messy hair
- 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
- Odango Hair: Two small buns, reminiscent of animal ears
- Ojou Ringlets: Ringlets that mark an Ojou as such
- 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
- 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 of 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.
- 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
Facial hair
- Animal Facial Hair: Animals with beards
- Badass Beard: Badass with a beard
- Badass Mustache: Badass with mustache
- Beard of Barbarism: Barbarians don't shave
- Beardness Protection Program: Growing (or shaving off) a beard for the purpose of disguise
- Beard of Sorrow: A guy who's too depressed to shave
- Beard of Evil: Evil guy with facial hair
- Dangerously Close Shave: Shaving someone with the threat of killing them
- Girls with Moustaches: Females with facial hair
- Hotblooded Sideburns: Hotblooded characters with big sideburns
- Magnificent Moustaches of Mexico: Mexican men with impressive mustaches
- Perma-Shave: A guy who's always clean-shaven, even when he seemingly lacks a razor
- Perma-Stubble: Beard stubble is badass
- Porn Stache: Style of mustache commonly associated with porn
- Seadog Beard: Sailor with a rustic beard
- Spontaneous Mustache: Instantly growing facial hair for comedy
- Stroke the Beard: Stroking one's beard to appear wise or thoughtful
- There Will Be Toilet Paper: Shaving cuts are always stanched with toilet paper
- Time Passage Beard: As a period of time passes, a man grows a beard to show it
- Weird Beard: A beard that's… strange
- Wizard Beard: WizardClassics don't shave
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 of Awesome: Baldness is a sign of awesomeness
- Bald of Evil: Baldness is a sign of evilness
- Bald Women: A woman without hair, and usually all the stronger for it
- 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
- 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
- Flower in Her Hair: Girls wearing flowers in their hair symbolize femininity and youth
- Hair Decorations: Any decoration a character wears in her hair to make herself look younger and cuter
- Important Hair Accessory: Someone gets (or gets ride of) a hair accessory symbolizing Character Development
