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ShivaIndis Since: Aug, 2010
Jan 27th 2023 at 9:01:36 AM •••

This page is joyless enough that it could be replaced with a checklist.

Character name:______ Do they have long, straight hair: y/n Do they have straight bangs: y/n Sidelock length: cheek/jaw/shoulder/bra strap(????) Additional comments: ______

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MyFinalEdits (Ten years in the joint)
Jan 27th 2023 at 12:24:42 PM •••

And do you suggest to improve it? Because all I see in your comment is needless snark.

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ShivaIndis Since: Aug, 2010
Jan 27th 2023 at 2:22:08 PM •••

I don't have anything constructive other than to disambig this. Seems like we are bending over backwards here to avoid People Have Hair and sucked the fun out of it. But if the restictions are relaxed we are right back to People Have Hair.

If a character has to be a Aloof Dark-Haired Girl, Elegant Gothic Lolita, Lady of War, Miko, Ojou, royalty, or Yamato Nadeshiko AND have the specific hairstyle which must be described in every entry no matter how repetitive, maybe just being an Aloof Dark-Haired Girl, Elegant Gothic Lolita, Lady of War, Miko, Ojou, royalty, or Yamato Nadeshiko with mention of the hairstyle would work better.

SeptimusHeap MOD (Edited uphill both ways)
Mar 22nd 2021 at 3:50:09 AM •••

Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: So, basically, hair?, started by Chiletard on Aug 21st 2011 at 1:12:40 AM

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Zombie_Jack Since: May, 2019
Jul 5th 2019 at 9:11:13 AM •••

Does Princess Bubblegum's original haircut count? I thought she was listed here before but I'm not seeing her now so I wanted to know if she doesn't qualify before I add her back in.

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AkidaUmichi Since: Jan, 2012
Nov 19th 2012 at 4:59:52 PM •••

Shouldn't Stocking from Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt count? She is an Elegant Gothic Lolita and her hair is cut straight across. The only thing being is that her hair is longer than the 'standard' Hime Cut.

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shimaspawn MOD Since: May, 2010
Nov 19th 2012 at 6:13:56 PM •••

She doesn't have the right style at all. Her hair is only two tiered, not three. You need to actually have a Hime Cut to have a Hime Cut. Not just long hair and bangs.

Edited by shimaspawn Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
AkidaUmichi Since: Jan, 2012
Nov 21st 2012 at 2:17:55 PM •••

Two Tiered? What is it that she is missing? Is there a certain length that a hime cut cannot pass? (Such as the hair has to be back length and no longer, etc.)

shimaspawn MOD Since: May, 2010
Nov 21st 2012 at 8:21:56 PM •••

She's missing a third hair length with side locks that are shorter than the main length of the hair. She just has long hair and bangs. She is lacking the characteristic side locks that make a Hime Cut. It has nothing to do with overall length. You can have an ankle length Hime Cut, but as Stocking does not have the proper hair style, it's length is irrelevant.

Edited by shimaspawn Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
AkidaUmichi Since: Jan, 2012
ZMugg Since: Jun, 2018
Feb 18th 2013 at 11:10:57 AM •••

How about Twilight Sparkle from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic? The MLP Wiki entry for TS has her hair (mane) in a 'hime cut' and links to TV Tropes entry for 'hime cut'. If you count her behind the head mane as the 'intermediate' length, and her tail as the 'rest' of her hair, it could fit the mold. She is a Princess now, but her Element of Harmony is a tiara*, for Celestia's sake, so she was royalty-in-training from the very start.

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Madrugada MOD Since: Jan, 2001
Feb 18th 2013 at 11:49:09 AM •••

No. Her mane and tail are two different things, not one. A hime cut is the hair on the head.

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EchoWing Since: Apr, 2009
Jul 23rd 2013 at 7:31:05 PM •••

What about how she appears as a human in "Equestria Girls"? Her hairstyle in that form very closely resembles a Hime Cut.

bobtheducks Since: Jan, 2013
Aug 26th 2013 at 1:06:23 AM •••

Yeah. Her equestria girls do is 3 lengths. Bangs, locks, straight hair. It fits. It should go in.

LordXavius Since: Oct, 2010
Sep 2nd 2013 at 4:38:09 PM •••

Yeah, despite what the note says I agree it's an example of the cut itself. However, does she really have "at least one of the lifestyle or personality characteristics"? I guess you could make a case for royalty, but that's rather tenuous given how a) her pony self has the same mane/tail as she did at the start of the show (not to mention as a pre-faithful student filly) before princesshood and royalty-through-brother's-marriage and b) she's nothing more than a student in the Eq G reality.

Adannor Since: May, 2010
Sep 16th 2013 at 1:49:18 PM •••

Idunno. I don't watch EQG and don't know if she exhibits lady-like behaviour or not.

lu127 MOD PaperMaster Since: Sep, 2011
PaperMaster
May 13th 2012 at 1:36:36 AM •••

These two are Zero Context Examples. Need to be elaborated.

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FrodoGoofballCoTV Since: Jan, 2001
Mar 20th 2012 at 10:15:21 PM •••

Someone added Togome from Katanagatari. She has a perfect Hime Cut except that there are Princess Curls on the bottom of the sidetails.

Question: is that sufficient to make this one Not An Example?

TBeholder Our future is a madhouse Since: Jan, 2001
Our future is a madhouse
Mar 13th 2012 at 6:00:52 PM •••


11th Mar '12 9:30:14 AM lu127 Send lu127 a PM notification explaining the badness of natter: natter-fy Example cleanup. Changed line(s) 127,129 (click to see context) from:
  • Parley in Gunnerkrigg Court is a Western example, though her hair is auburn. In "official" situations she wears a ribbon leaving shoulder-level side locks free, but when she doesn't, three different lengths are clearly visible.

  • In Drowtales, Vidhi'yani, one of the Empress' overseers. The overseers are apparently all Ladies of War and represent tradition.

  • Another western example is little Akiko Kitsune in El Goonish Shive, presumably at the behest of her traditional Japanese mother. Nanase may have cut very close to this at least sometimes, but she wears her hair with bangs split to sides and covered with sidelocks instead of hanging straight (see the next page).
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  • In Drowtales, Vidhi'yani, one of the Empress's overseers. The overseers are apparently all Ladies of War and represent tradition.
  • Another western example is little Akiko Kitsune in El Goonish Shive, presumably at the behest of her traditional Japanese mother.

And why any of them doesn't fit?

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shimaspawn MOD Since: May, 2010
Mar 13th 2012 at 6:21:33 PM •••

Parley has the wrong personality.

Nanase has the wrong hair cut.

You need both to count as this trope.

Edited by shimaspawn Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
lu127 MOD Since: Sep, 2011
Mar 14th 2012 at 6:53:07 AM •••

To elaborate:

Parley's character sheet did not suggest any of the usual personality traits. She's listed as a Tsundere and a Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy. As such, without Yamato Nadeshiko, Ojou, or other traits, she doesn't fit.

Nanase's hair looks nothing like this cut. Her bangs are not cut straight, and there are no properly cut sidetails to speak off.

As Shima said, both personality and haircut are necessary.

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DoktorvonEurotrash Welcome, traveller, welcome to Omsk Since: Jan, 2001
Welcome, traveller, welcome to Omsk
Dec 13th 2010 at 3:48:58 PM •••

I removed the Jessica Lovejoy example (which I added): her hairstyle is similar, but doesn't have the shorter bangs on the sides.

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