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* When [[The World God Only Knows|Mari Katsuragi]] lets her hair down, someone will get hurt very badly (and she'll look good at it}. [[Cute Monster Girl|E]][[Cute Witch|l]][[The Ditz|s]][[The Watson|i]][[Moe Moe|e]] on the other hand just gets prettier.
* No-nonsense Dr. Chiba in ''[[Paprika]]'' wears her hair in a neat bun; we only see it down when she's asleep or {{spoiler|in the process of transforming into her free-spirited dream avatar Paprika.}}
* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!
* Miranda Lotto from ''[[D
** Lenalee has done this several times, too, before she gets an [[Important Haircut]].
* ''[[After War Gundam X
* Misty/Kasumi from ''[[Pokémon (
* In ''[[
* Played very unusually in ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]''. Originally, {{spoiler|Homura}} has her hair done up in twin braids, but eventually lets it down. This doesn't signify her becoming more relaxed in the slightest, though; in fact, it marks her transition ''into'' being serious. So you could say it's inverted, only it's also played straight, because the character was previously shy, so it signals a growth in confidence. On the other hand, it also seems to represent the loss of her innocence. So it's hard to classify where this one lands.
* {{spoiler|Ringo Noyamano}} from [[
== Comic Books ==
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== Fan Fic ==
* Virtually universal in any romance fic involving [[Harry Potter (
== Film ==
* The silent classic ''[[Sunrise (
* In ''[[Loaded Weapon 1]]'', Destiny Demeanor is introduced wearing glasses and her hair up in a bun. When she lets her hair down, she is replaced with an obviously different actress. Colt's reaction? "You should always wear your hair down."
* Lee the masochistic heroine of ''[[Secretary]]'' mostly wears her hair braided across her head to begin with. As she enters a, well, ''unconventional'' romance with her boss, she starts to wear it down, especially at moments when she clearly feels most confident. She reverts to updos somewhat as the relationship founders, but her reunion with her lover culminates in a scene in which he tenderly and sensually ''washes'' her hair, which is of course down for the purpose.
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* Done by serious librarian Evy in ''[[The Mummy Trilogy|The Mummy]]''. She is played by Rachel Weisz, so also a [[Hot Librarian]].
* Played in reverse in ''[[Pleasantville]]'': Jennifer starts out with her hair down, but becomes ''more'' serious as the movie goes on, and pulls her hair back at about the same time as she discovers literature.
* In ''[[The Big Sleep (
* A variant is seen in ''[[The Incredibles]]'' with Violet. She hides behind her hair for most of the movie, but when she gains confidence in herself and her powers, begins to wear it back.
* The heroine of the German film ''Mostly Martha'' (and its American remake ''No Reservations'') wears her hair up for most of the movie, finally letting it down after the first time she spends the night with her love interest.
* Jennifer Lopez's character in ''The Wedding Planner''.
* Dr. Susan Calvin in ''[[I, Robot (
* Angela Drake in ''[[
* Inverted in ''[[Cloudy
* Saavik, in ''[[Star Trek II:
* ''[[Our Man Flint]]''. After she's lured Flint to her apartment, Gila does this to signal to him that she's in the mood for love.
* In ''[[
* In the beginning of ''[[The Invisible]]'', Annie goes the full tilt and has her hair in a tight ponytail, combined with a hoodie with the hood up. As the story progresses, and she becomes more sympathetic of a character, the hood comes off, and her hair comes down.
* Lena in [[The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants]] after she steps out to spend time with Kostas to show that she's now open to love.
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* Twice inverted in [[Tangled]], since it was after a long time with Flynn that she put her hair up, and let it back down {{spoiler|after returning to Mother Gothel}}.
* Other Disney examples include:
** Rare villain example: [[God Save Us From the Queen|the Queen]] in ''[[Snow White
** [[Cinderella (Disney film)|Cinderella]], when the effects of the [[Fairy Godmother]]'s magic spell start to wear off.
** ''[[101 Dalmatians
** ''[[
** [[The Little Mermaid
** Esmeralda, when she is wearing the white dress at the end of ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]''.
** [[Mulan]], when she finishes singing [["I Want" Song|"Reflection."]]
*** Also, at the end of the sequel, the crown Mulan wore to her wedding to Prince Ji Ki actually falls off her head when she kisses Shang.
** Jane Porter from ''[[Tarzan (Disney film)|Tarzan]]'', when she starts to abandon her high-class nature in favor of an animal-like lifestyle.
** Kida from ''[[Atlantis:
** When Belle treats Beast's wound in ''[[Beauty and
* Aunt Polly in [[Pollyanna]].
* Mitsuyo in ''[[
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Cursed (2005 film)]]'' we are introduced to Ellie with her hair tied up in a bun. After being bitten by the werewolf and thus gaining a natural sexual aura she is always shown with her hair down with the men gawking appropriately. One of her co-workers mentions how much nicer she looks with her hair down.
== Literature ==
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== Live Action TV ==
* Captain Janeway wore the [[Fan Nickname|Bun of Steel]] the first few seasons of ''[[Star Trek: Voyager
** Seven of Nine also wore her hair down in later episodes when she was doing social experiments in the holodeck. She'd immediately pin it back up when reporting for duty.
* Pam Beesly in the later seasons of [[The Office]] when she finally gets together with Jim
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* In [[The BBC]]'s recent adaptation of ''Ballet Shoes'', Emilia Fox's frail Sylvia always has her hair up in a scraped-and-elaborate-yet-somehow-also-messy-and-careworn bun until she's shown beginning to fall for her lodger, Simpson, when suddenly her hair is in a loose plait. When Sylvia finally marries him, her long hair is down altogether under her veil.
* Chlo Granger briefly goes "high-bunny" in ''[[Waterloo Road]]''.
* [[Playing
* In ''[[Cheers]]'', Lilith letting her hair down led to Frasier kissing her for the first time.
* ''[[
* Parodied in an episode of ''[[That 70s Show]]''. At the start of an episode, Kelso gets a ticket from a beautiful female cop who wore her hair down. Later that same episode, he meets the same female cop, this time with her hair in a tight bun, and does not recognize her at all. (Averted somewhat however, as he attributes her previous sexiness to the uniform instead of her hair).
* Det. Dani Reese from ''[[Life]]'' wore her hair pulled back in Season 1. In Season 2, she wears it down, reflecting her new, considerably more relaxed, attitude towards Crews.
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* Invoked in an episode of ''[[Better Off Ted]]''. When Veronica is told that she is too intimidating, she starts wearing her hair down as part of an attempt to be more approachable, and hates it. When told that Phil is falling in love with her new, more positive self, she even sighs and says something like, "This is why I keep my hair up. It maintains distance."
* In ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'' episode "The Maternal Congruence", Leonard's mother Beverly, who is generally cold and emotionless, does this after she gets drunk and starts to feel sexual attraction.
* Subverted in an episode of ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'' where during GOB's seduction attempt, secretary Kitty undoes her bun and removes her glasses to reveal horribly frizzy hair and severely crossed eyes.
* ''[[Degrassi]]'' character Holly J starts out with her hair in a tight ponytail at all times, letting her hair down once in a failed seduction technique on resident hottie Blue. As she becomes more comfortable with people, and stops being the [[Alpha Bitch]], she slowly moves to less uptight hairstyles. Season 9 she wears a series of cute functional hairbands, finally in Season 10 she moved to her hair being unadorned unless for practical reasons for whatever activity is going on. Other characters have done the switch to hair down for [[Beautiful All Along]] reasons.
* In ''[[Glee]]'', head cheerleader and the [[Alpha Bitch]] Quinn wears her hair in a tight ponytail for most of season 1, until her teen pregnancy is revealed and she is forced to quit the cheerleading team. She starts wearing her hair loose and becomes a more compassionate person. At the start of season 2, having given up her baby for adoption, she goes back to her original tight ponytail hairstyle. (Her more relaxed personality is also reflected in a change in wardrobe-- from the sharp cheerleader uniform to more casual clothes.)
* When [[Elvira, Mistress of the Dark]] lets her [[Beehive Hairdo]] down, she ''really'' lets it down! You wouldn't expect such a small beehive to have so much hair in it.
* Annie in ''[[
* Inverted on ''[[NCIS]]''. When we meet Ziva, she's a wild, seductive, crazy, Israeli, ninja assassin. Her hair is also absolutely wild. As she becomes more friendly, open, and relaxed, her hair is also tamed somewhat. She's no less badass with her hair in a ponytail, but a little less . . . crazy.
* ''[[Modern Family]]'' Alex does this in the Season 3 episode, "After The Fire" to appear sexy to a group of nerds giving Luke and Manny a hard time and make them stop.
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* In ''The Rainmaker'', it takes a [[Con Man]] to convince Lizzie that she's beautiful with the pins taken out of her hair. (Her joyful exclamation of "is it really me?" became the title of one of the songs in the musical adaptation, ,''110 In The Shade''.)
* Played with a man, and in a completely different meaning, in ''[[Les Misérables (
* Magda in ''[[Tanz
* Ilse in ''[[Spring Awakening]]'' (when played by an actress with long hair). In the first act, when she is living with her strict family, she wears her hair in two braids. In act two, after she runs away to live in an artist colony, her hair is down.
* One community-theatre production of ''[[Ragtime]]'' had Mother wearing her hair up in a very staid sort of style in Act I, then wearing it loose in Act II after moving to Atlantic City (and meeting Tateh, whom she falls in love with {{spoiler|and eventually marries [[Death of the Hypotenuse|after her husband dies]]}}).
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* The uptight Necr... sorry, Croakamancer Wanda Firebaugh in ''Erfworld'' becomes a lot sexier (and much more open towards the protagonist) when she does this late in the comic.
* In one ''[[Least I Could Do]]'' storyline, Rayne pursues a woman simply because she wears glasses and he wants to complete a mental "Sex Bingo" card. Issa demonstrates how pathetic Rayne is by getting the woman to [http://leasticoulddo.com/comic/20040122 do this], completely infatuating him. After beating up his friend Mick to try and impress her, Mick is upset...[http://leasticoulddo.com/comic/20040130 until she does it again].
* A sort of reverse example happens with Vaarsuvius in ''[[
* In ''[[
== Web Original ==
* Dana in ''[[Echo Chamber
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