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Hair color is an easy visual shorthand for getting information about a character to the audience. Most often, hair color will tell you something about the character's personality, but sometimes, its meaning is far more obvious: this character has an [[Elemental Powers]] and the [[Color Coded Elements|hair color to match the element]]. Quite often, their personality will also be tied to their element and thus their hair color.

Hair color is an easy visual shorthand for getting information about a character to the audience. Most often, hair color will tell you something about the character's personality, but sometimes, its meaning is far more obvious: this character has an [[Elemental Powers]] and the [[Color-Coded Elements|hair color to match the element]]. Quite often, their personality will also be tied to their element and thus their hair color.

* [[Playing With Fire|Fire]] - Usually red hair, although sometimes, it will be more orange. Sometimes taken to the [[Flaming Hair|logical extreme]]. Hair will often be short and spiky.

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** [[An Ice Person|Ice]] - Light blue or white, and of a similar style to water, though probably less flowing.

* [[Blow You Away|Air]] - White or gray. Often wavy with lots of volume. It may defy gravity. Can be [[Wind Is Green|green]] in some cases.

* [[Light Em Up|Light/Holy]] - White or yellow, or [[Hair of Gold|outright gold]]. Tends towards [[White Haired Pretty Boy|White Haired Pretty Boys]] and [[White Haired Pretty Girl|Girls]] when white.

* [[Light'Em Up|Light/Holy]] - White or yellow, or [[Hair of Gold|outright gold]]. Tends towards [[White-Haired Pretty Boy|White Haired Pretty Boys]] and [[White-Haired Pretty Girl|Girls]] when white.

* [[Casting a Shadow|Dark]] - Nearly always [[Shiny Midnight Black]], occasionally more purple.

* [[Green Thumb|Nature/Wood/Plant]] - Green. Often messy, and decorated with leaves or [[Flower in Her Hair|flowers]].

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This is less common in Live-Action media than in animation, video games, comic books, or manga, for obvious reasons.

Sister trope to [[Elemental Eye Colors]]. Subtrope of [[Color Coded Elements]], [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]], and [[Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance]]. Often overlaps with [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]. Compare [[Flaming Hair]], which is this trope for fire elemental users taken [[Up to Eleven]].

Sister trope to [[Elemental Eye Colors]]. Subtrope of [[Color-Coded Elements]], [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]], and [[Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance]]. Often overlaps with [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]. Compare [[Flaming Hair]], which is this trope for fire elemental users taken [[Up to Eleven]].

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== Anime & Manga ==

* The Panther Demon clan siblings in ''[[Inuyasha (Manga)|Inuyasha]]'' have this: the redhead uses fire, the [[White Haired Pretty Girl]] uses ice, the green-haired girl uses nature/illusions, and the blond uses lightning.

* The Panther Demon clan siblings in ''[[Inuyasha (Manga)|Inuyasha]]'' have this: the redhead uses fire, the [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]] uses ice, the green-haired girl uses nature/illusions, and the blond uses lightning.

* ''[[Yes Pretty Cure 5 (Anime)|Yes Pretty Cure 5]]''

* ''[[Yes! Pretty Cure 5 (Anime)|Yes Pretty Cure 5]]''

** {{color|deeppink|Cure Dream}} → [[Heart Beat Down|Heart]]

** {{color|orangered|Cure Rouge}} → [[Playing With Fire|Fire]]

** {{color|gold|Cure Lemonade}} → [[Light Em Up|Light]]

** {{color|gold|Cure Lemonade}} → [[Light'Em Up|Light]]

** {{color|forestgreen|Cure Mint}} → [[Green Thumb|Earth]]

** {{color|blue|Cure Aqua}} → [[Making a Splash|Water]]

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* ''[[Heartcatch Pretty Cure (Anime)|Heartcatch Pretty Cure]]'' plays it straight with Cures Marine, Sunshine, and Moonlight, but subverts it with Cure Blossom, who controls [[Green Thumb|nature]] but has pink hair.

* ''[[Smile Pretty Cure (Anime)|Smile Pretty Cure]]''

** {{color|fuchsia|Cure Happy}} → [[Light Em Up|Light]] ''(subversion)''

** {{color|fuchsia|Cure Happy}} → [[Light'Em Up|Light]] ''(subversion)''

** {{color|tomato|Cure Sunny}} → [[Playing With Fire|Fire]]

** {{color|gold|Cure Peace}} → [[Shock and Awe|Electricity]]

** {{color|forestgreen|Cure March}} → [[Blow You Away|Air]]

** {{color|blue|Cure Beauty}} → [[Making a Splash|Water]] + [[An Ice Person|Ice]]

* ''[[Sailor Moon (Manga)|Sailor Moon]]'' has Blue Haired Sailor Mercury with the elements of [[Making a Splash|Water]] and [[An Ice Person|Ice]], Blonde Sailor Venus using [[Light Em Up]], and ocean blue haired Sailor Neptune having the power of [[Making a Splash|Deep Water]].

* ''[[Sailor Moon (Manga)|Sailor Moon]]'' has Blue Haired Sailor Mercury with the elements of [[Making a Splash|Water]] and [[An Ice Person|Ice]], Blonde Sailor Venus using [[Light'Em Up]], and ocean blue haired Sailor Neptune having the power of [[Making a Splash|Deep Water]].

* ''[[Negima]]'''s [[Fiery Redhead]] Anya is [[Playing With Fire|literal]]. Red/orange Haired Mei Sakura uses [[Playing With Fire|fire]] as well.

* ''[[Zero no Tsukaima (Light Novel)|Zero no Tsukaima]]'' sometimes plays this trope straight and sometimes averts it.

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* The girls from ''[[Magic Knight Rayearth]]''. Hikaru the redhead (fire), Umi with long, straight blue hair (water/ice), and Fuu with slightly curly blond hair (wind).

* ''[[Pokémon (Anime)|Pokémon]]'' does this twice: once with the Eevee brothers (the yellow-haired one having a Jolteon, the redhead a Flareon, the blue-haired one a Vaporeon, and the one with brown hair has an unevolved Eevee) and once with brothers Cilan (green hair, grass), Chili (red hair, fire), and Cress (blue hair, water).

* ''[[El Hazard]]'': the three great priestesses of Mt. Muldoon: [[Dark Skinned Redhead|Shayla]] [[Hot Amazon|Shayla]] is easily identifed as the priestess of fire, thanks to her flaming red hair. [[Christmas Cake|Miz Mishtal]], who presides over water, has lavender hair. And while Afura Mann's a [[Brainy Brunette]], her blue/sea green attire shows she controls wind.

* ''[[El Hazard]]'': the three great priestesses of Mt. Muldoon: [[Dark-Skinned Redhead|Shayla]] [[Hot Amazon|Shayla]] is easily identifed as the priestess of fire, thanks to her flaming red hair. [[Christmas Cake|Miz Mishtal]], who presides over water, has lavender hair. And while Afura Mann's a [[Brainy Brunette]], her blue/sea green attire shows she controls wind.

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* ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' gives us fire user Axel with spiky red hair, lightning user Larxene with blonde hair, brown haired Lexaeus uses earth, pink haired Marluxia uses flower, and blond haired Roxas uses Light. Outside the Organization, there's the three heroes of ''Birth by Sleep'', brown haired Terra uses Earth and Darkness, blue haired Aqua uses Water and Light, and blond haired Ventus uses wind and light.

* ''[[Pokémon Black and White (Video Game)|Pokémon Black and White]]'' gives us Pansage, Pansear, and Panpour, which evolve into Simisage, Simisear, and Simipour. Pan/Simisage's hair is shaped like a bush, resembling the grass element. Pan/Simisear's hair is shaped like a flame, resembling the fire element. Panpour's hair resembles a water spout, and Simipour's hair has long, wavy hair, resembling the water element.

** Gym Leaders Cilan, Chilli and Cress have similar hairstyles with their respective monkeys too. Cilan has green hair shaped into a grass patch, Chilli has red hair shaped into a flame and Cress has blur hair with a wavey [[Peek a Bangs]] style.

** Gym Leaders Cilan, Chilli and Cress have similar hairstyles with their respective monkeys too. Cilan has green hair shaped into a grass patch, Chilli has red hair shaped into a flame and Cress has blur hair with a wavey [[Peek-a-Bangs]] style.

* Kula Diamond from ''[[The King of Fighters (Video Game)|The King of Fighters]]'' normally has brown hair, but [[Power Dyes Your Hair|it turns light blue when she activates]] [[An Ice Person|her cyrokinetic powers]]. On top of this, a few of her attacks suggest that [[Prehensile Hair|her hair]] actually ''becomes'' ice, or at least takes on its properties.

* ''[[Gaia Online]]'' released an item by the name of [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|Elemental Hair]] to apply to the owner's avatar with choices of fire, wind (and the softer, curlier breeze), earth, ice, water, and life - if you fancy the symbolic bird's nest and nest for hair.

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