Kaleidoscope Hair/Playing With

Basic Trope: A character's hair color changes frequently.

• Straight: Alice's hair changes color often.
• Exaggerated:
  • Alice's hair never stops changing color, going to something new every few seconds.
  • Alice's hair changes between neon colors and patterns.
• Downplayed:
  • Every few weeks or months, Alice's hair changes color.
  • Alice's hair changes color regularly, but the difference is almost unnoticeable.
• Justified:
  • Alice dyes her hair a new color every Saturday.
  • Alice's hair is magically enchanted to change color at will, or in response to her mood.
  • Alice's body has Nanomachines, which she can use to change her hair color within a short period of time.
• Inverted: Everyone in Alice's world has ever-changing hair color, but Alice's remains constant.
• Subverted:
  • Alice isn't changing her actual hair color, she is swapping a collection of wigs around.
  • Alice is actually changing which of her many bodies she is using; they are all identical, apart from hair color.
• Double Subverted:
  • Alice has undyed hair beneath the wigs, except there's only one wig after all, which she was dying; her scalp is too sensitive to use such chemicals.
  • Alice frequently swaps which body she uses, but they do all have the same hair color; in each body, she has to dye her hair to a different hue to make it seem like her hair is changing colors when she switches body.
• Parodied: ???
• Deconstructed:
  • Alice's unpredictable hair color means she can't get a job because her employer thinks she's immature.
  • Alice is only recognised by her hair, so when it changes nobody knows who she is.
• Reconstructed:
  • Alice finds an employer who doesn't care about her quirky hair.
  • People learn to tell who Alice is by other features that don't change.
• Zig Zagged: ???
• Averted: Alice has lasting hair color.
• Enforced: The person illustrating the story keeps running out of paints and isn't good at getting the same hue twice, so Alice's hair changes color.
• Lampshaded: Alice notices her hair color changing a lot and wonders why it happens.
• Invoked: Bob sends Alice many shades of hair dye because he doesn't like her current brown hair.
• Exploited: Bob notices that Alice's hair changes color depending on her mood, and uses this to understand and talk to her better.
• Defied: Alice doesn't want her hair to change color, and gets a wig and permanent dye to prevent it.
• Discussed: Bob and Charlie talk about how Alice just got many shades of hair dye and will probably begin dying it a lot soon.
• Conversed: "In a cheap story like this, a way to make a character more interesting is to give them randomly changing hair colors."
• Played For Laughs: Alice's hair changes color at the most inappropriate times, with a loud bang.
• Played For Drama: Alice is desperate to find a way to stop her hair changing color because she feels it is ruining her life.
• Plotted A Good Waste: ???

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