Basic Trope: The three lead women in a work will be a blonde, a brunette (or black haired), and a redhead.
- Straight: Alice is blonde, Belinda is brunette, and Claire is a redhead.
- Exaggerated:
- They are the Freudian Trio and have stereotypes that go along with their hair color - Alice a Dumb Blonde, Belinda a Brainy Brunette, and Claire a Fiery Redhead.
- The Geodesic Cast has a blonde, a brunette, and a redheaded woman in every team.
- Every character in the show is either blonde, brunette, or a redhead.
- Downplayed:
- The group of women is Daphne, an Ambiguously Brown blonde, Ellie, a Token Minority (brunette), and Francesca, a clearly dyed crimson redhead.
- Alice is blonde, Belinda is brunette, and Claire is a redhead, but they interact with each other not so frequently.
- Alice has light golden brown hair, Belinda has dark brown hair (or black hair), and Claire has medium brown hair.
- Justified:
- The girls have a uniform and/or similar overall physical appearances, so their only form of self-expression is their hair.
- It Runs in the Family, the genetics cause their hair to look different.
- Inverted: Everyone in the cast has every possible fancy hair color, except blonde, brunette, and redhead.
- Gender Inverted: Aaron is blond, Bob is a brunet, and Charles is a redhead.
- Subverted:
- Belinda appears in an episode with red hair.
- Due to a heated argument, the group disbands.
- Alice is a blonde, Belinda's a brunette, and Claire is a, bluehead?
- Double Subverted:
- She's dressing up as Little Orphan Annie for a costume party.
- It was a Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure, and they get back together in the next episode.
- Claire's actual hair color is red, she appears with blue hair due to her rebellious status.
- Alternatively, Claire becomes friends with Daisy, a blonde, and Ebony, a brunette, and they become the new main characters.
- Parodied: Their signature ice creams at the local Malt Shop are Alice's vanilla, Belinda's chocolate, and Claire's strawberry.
- Zig-zagged:
- The team sometimes includes Daphne, Ellie, and Francesca in their adventures.
- It's Adaptation Dye-Job and their hair colors are vary through different adaptations.
- They frequently change their hair colors.
- Averted: Alice, Belinda, and Claire are identical triplets, all with blonde hair.
- Enforced: The producers want the girls to look distinctive. Possibly they are sisters, and they have similar facial features.
- Lampshaded: "Isn't it cool that I'm blonde, you're a redhead, and you're brunette? We're like a perfect team!"
- Invoked: They are put together on a team so people could tell them apart.
- Exploited: Big Bad Gregory sets up an evil team of blonde Hannah, brunette Imogen, and redhead Jolene to trick Aaron, Bob, and Charles into thinking they're Alice, Belinda, and Claire.
- Defied:
- They are portrayed as identical triplets - their only differences are the colors of their clothing.
- All of them decide to dye their hair red.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Played For Laughs: Alice, a blonde and Belinda, a brunette, are choosing someone to add to their team. They automatically decide to choose Claire over Catherine because Claire is a redhead and Catherine isn't.
- Played For Drama: The hair colors are portrayed as Phenotype Stereotype and each girl must face with racial prejudice bases on hair colors.
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