Hair Tropes



"Give me a head with hair, long beautiful hair, shinin', gleamin', steamin', flaxen, waxin'. Give me down to there hair, shoulder length or longer, here baby, there mama, everywhere..."

- Hair: the Musical

"''Bangs

''Are that on which the world hangs

''I'm only holding your hand

So I can look at your bangs"

- They Might Be Giants, "Bangs"

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.

Related:
 * Cranium Coverings
 * Who Was That Masked Index

Categories


 * Anime Hair
 * Hair Colors
 * Expository Hairstyles

Tropes

 * Afro Asskicker
 * Alien Hair
 * Badass Long Hair
 * Badass Beard
 * Badass Mustache
 * The Bear
 * Beardness Protection Program
 * Beard of Barbarism
 * Beard of Sorrow
 * Beard of Evil
 * Beehive Hairdo
 * Blinding Bangs
 * Bob Haircut
 * Boyish Short Hair
 * Braids of Action
 * Braids of Barbarism
 * By the Hair
 * Captain Color Beard
 * Carpet of Virility
 * Close Call Haircut
 * Combat Haircomb
 * Compressed Hair
 * Curtains Match the Window
 * Delinquent Hair
 * Disease Bleach
 * Dodgy Toupee
 * Dreadlock Rasta
 * Dye or Die
 * Eighties Hair
 * Einstein Hair
 * Elemental Hair
 * Expository Hairstyles
 * Expository Hairstyle Change
 * Expressive Hair
 * First Gray Hair
 * Flaming Hair
 * Flower in Her Hair
 * Funny Afro
 * Furry Baldness
 * Gag Haircut
 * Girlish Pigtails
 * Girls With Moustaches
 * Godiva Hair
 * Good Hair, Evil Hair
 * Hair Antennae
 * Hair Contrast Duo
 * Hair Decorations
 * Hair Flip
 * Hair of Gold
 * Hair Reboot
 * Hair Today Gone Tomorrow
 * Hair Wings
 * Hairstyle Inertia
 * Hairstyle Malfunction
 * Hammerspace Hair
 * Helicopter Hair
 * Hereditary Hairstyle
 * Heroes Want Redheads
 * Hime Cut
 * Horned Hairdo
 * Hotblooded Sideburns
 * Idiot Hair
 * Important Hair Accessory
 * Important Haircut
 * Improbable Hairstyle
 * Intimate Haircut
 * Kaleidoscope Hair
 * Letting Her Hair Down
 * Light-Haired Swimmer
 * Locked Into Strangeness
 * Long Hair Is Feminine
 * Magic Hair
 * Magnificent Moustaches of Mexico
 * Mega Twintails
 * Memetic Hair
 * Messy Hair
 * My Hair Came Out Green
 * Never Trust a Hair Tonic
 * Nobody Touches the Hair
 * Non-Mammalian Hair
 * Odango Hair
 * Peek-a-Bangs
 * Perma Shave
 * Perma Stubble
 * Porn Stache
 * Power Dyes Your Hair
 * Power Hair
 * Prehensile Hair
 * Prematurely Bald
 * Prim and Proper Bun
 * Princess Curls
 * Quirky Curls
 * Rapunzel Hair
 * Long Haired Pretty Boy
 * Regal Ringlets
 * Round Bushy Hair
 * Seadog Beard
 * Seventies Hair
 * Shaking Her Hair Loose
 * Short Hairwith Tail
 * Showthe Forehead
 * Slashers Prefer Blondes
 * Slipknot Ponytail
 * Spiky Hair
 * Split Hair
 * Stroke the Beard
 * There Will Be Toilet Paper
 * Tomboyish Ponytail
 * Tomboyish Sidetails
 * Traumatic Haircut
 * Villainous Widows Peak
 * Wax On Wax Scream
 * Weird Beard
 * Wild Hair
 * Wizard Beard