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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