History Main / ShakingHerHairLoose

* In ''Film/AmericanBeauty'' when Jane strips for Ricky she unties her hair before taking off her bra and is more beautiful because of it.

* ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'' parodies this when Holly J shakes her hair out in a failed seduction attempt.

* The title character in ''Manga/NurseAngelRirikaSOS'' normally wears her hair in a ponytail. When she transforms into her MagicalGirlWarrior form, her hair ribbon comes undone to let her hair down.

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* Parodied in ''Fanfic/FarceOfTheThreeKingdoms'', when Guan Yu shakes his ''beard'' loose (to prove his identity).

--> He was on the point of doing something--he soon lost any idea as to what--when she unpinned her hair. Somehow, in spite of the state of dishevelment she was already in, this was more graphic, more erotic than anything she had done before. He watched her hair fall in waves down her back, realising he had not known until this point, even how long it was. He knew that whatever else happened he would see her hair fall like that every time he closed his eyes for the rest of his life. She had let him see her breasts but she had not let him see her with her hair loose.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}''
** Happens at the end of the "Reflection" song where Mulan slowly removes all traces of the makeover she got for her meeting with the Matchmaker.
** Chi Fu forcefully pulls Mulan's hair out of its bun [[spoiler: when he reveals she is a woman]].

* At the end of ''Film/TheMagdaleneSisters'' Bernadette sees two nuns watching her in the tunnel and, remembering when her hair was forcibly cut off, takes out the pin and shakes it loose before looking at them.
* At the end of ''Film/{{Twilight}}'', we see Victoria watching Edward and Bella through a window, all dressed up. As she walks away she pulls a pin out of her hair and lets it fall to her waist.

* In the Disney Channel movie ''Model Behaviour'', Alex always wears her hair up in a tight bun held in place with two chopsticks. When she and Janine switch the first part of her transformation is shaking her hair out. This then gets inverted when Janine changes to Alex as she puts her hair up.
* Parodied in ''Film/LoadedWeapon1'' where a plain dowdy woman unties her hair and when she looks up she's played by a completely different actress.

* In ''Film/MrAndMrsSmith2005'' Jane goes to see a mark pretending to be a prostitute with her hair pinned up. The first part of the seduction is shaking her hair out.
* Lena in ''Film/TheSisterhoodOfTheTravelingPants'' after she steps out to spend time with Kostas to show that she's now open to love.

* ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}''. Rose's hair is already partly loose, but she takes the rest down and shakes it out in preparation for her nude painting scene.
* In ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'', Agent Triple X tucked her hair up under a cap to try to hide from the villains--until one of the minions knocked the cap off and her hair swirled down around her.
** Carole Bouquet recreated this effect in her screen test for ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly''.

* ''Film/DarlingLili'' has a song called "I'll Give You Three Guesses", where the titular Lili sings sweetly about how she's falling in love. After discovering her beau may be cheating, it gets a DarkReprise to become a striptease - complete with Lili shaking her hair loose. It's notably symbolic of her cutting loose.

* Kumiko in ''Film/TheKarateKidPartII'' unpins her (very) long hair [[spoiler:before leaning in to kiss Daniel]] after conducting a private tea ceremony.

* In the poem ''The Highwayman'', Bess the landlord's daughter leans out over the window and undoes her hair, allowing it to fall down so her lover can touch it.
* Della from "Literature/TheGiftOfTheMagi" is said to have hair right down to her waist but keeps it pinned up all the time. She lets it down dramatically just before it gets cut off to be sold.
* Some versions of "Literature/{{Rapunzel}}" say that Rapunzel's long golden hair is braided 90% of the time, and it's only untied when Mother Gothel or the prince climb up it. [[WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}} The Disney version]] has Rapunzel's hair completely loose all the time, returning to being a braid only when she and Flynn briefly return to her home kingdom before Gothel captures her again.

* In ''The Famine Secret'', Fiona's long blonde hair is cut off when she enters the workhouse and when it grows longer she keeps it tied back so it won't get in the way. When she and her siblings escape the workhouse and go back to their home she unties her hair and allows the wind to blow it around her shoulders.

* Parodied in an episode of ''Tucker'' where Tucker imagines his parents getting together in a dramatic scene without dialogue. Jeannie first takes her hairclip out and shakes her hair loose before ripping off her waitress uniform to reveal a fancy dress underneath.
* Another parody in an episode of ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'' where Holly J shakes her hair out in a failed seduction attempt.
* In one of Barney's {{Imagine Spot}}s in an episode of ''Series/HowIMetYourMother,'' he seduces a female cop and she proceeds to shake her hair out of its bun and strip for him.
* A quasi-parody happens in the Murder Mystery episode of ''Series/LizzieMcGuire'' when Larry starts chatting up Veruca, both of them dressed in Edwardian-era clothes. Veruca shakes her hair down as some faux dramatic music plays.
* An episode of ''Series/{{Friends}}'' has Ross and Monica's cousin Cassie shaking her hair loose in slow motion, prompting a sagging jaw from Chandler, Ross forgetting he's related to her and [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer even Phoebe getting turned on]].
** And with Music/BarryWhite's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcBPPD1fuZY I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little Bit More, Baby]] playing in the background, no less.
* In ''Series/TrueBlood'', Bill asks Sookie to take the clip out of her hair and shake it free before their first kiss.
* This is also frequently used in feminine hair care product (shampoo, dye, etc.) commercials, usually enhanced with CGI to produce unnaturally perfect-looking shimmering cascades of flowing liquid beauty.

* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': In "Someone To Watch Over Me", the Emergency Medical Hologram encourages [[MsFanservice Seven of Nine]] to do this while [[PygmalionPlot preparing her for a date]]. He's visibly entranced by the results.

* ''Series/{{Community}}'': Annie starts the show as a rather prim schoolgirl with her hair pulled back by a hairband. In one scene, she leans over Jeff and asks him to look at something, at the same time she brushes her hair loose and unwittingly gives him an excellent view of her cleavage. He visibly reacts to her sudden transformation into a desirable woman. This is the first moment of sexual tension between the two.

* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Nanase [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1458 dramatically removing her hair tie]] underscores how Sarah sees Nanase as being more awesome than her at everything she knows of.

** Played straight in "Last Tap Dance in Springfield" with Lisabella, the [[HotLibrarian librarian.]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Road to Rhode Island", Lois convinces Peter to watch some couples counseling with her, hosted by a mousy relationship doctor named Dr. Amanda Rebecca. After a few seconds, Dr. Rebecca asks the women to leave the room, as the next part only pertains to the men. When Lois departs, Dr. Rebecca tells Peter to "make sure your wife is out of the room" in a slightly more forceful tone. She then [[TheGlassesComeOff removes her glasses]], shakes her [[PrimAndProperBun hair bun]] loose in a dramatic (but sexy) fashion, starts speaking in a huskier voice (with her first line being "So, you wanna talk, or do you want me to take my top off?"), and [[HiddenBuxom gives Peter quite the eyeful]] [[YouCanLeaveYourHatOn with a striptease]] as a {{Sexophone}} plays. Her eyes even (in a rare Western Animation example) shift from {{Tareme|Eyes}} to {{Tsurime|Eyes}}. It turns out that these "relationship videos" are merely a front for Amanda to distribute pornographic videos of herself. [[AllMenArePerverts Needless to say, Peter's on board with these videos.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries'' the witches cast a spell on their strict new Nanny who wears her hair in a prim and proper bun. When the spell turns her into a hippie, she unties the bun and reveals she has long long hair.

* ''Series/{{Mad TV}}'': Season 1 featured a skit starring German supermodel Claudia Schiffer as [[Film/JamesBond Jane Bond]]. While working undercover as an [[SexySecretary office temp]], she takes out the pin that was holding up her blonde hair (complete with a dramatic slow-motion shot as her hair cascades down) upon her introduction towards the villainous Dr. Boss and her assistant, Part-Time Job.

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This trope is usually part of a romantic scene or something dramatic, though it is also frequently parodied. The woman will usually be dressed up to the nines, and letting her hair out of its fancy updo is often the first step towards her undressing for her lover. Or attacking someone with the CombatHaircomb that held up her hair. A lot of the time this woman will have RapunzelHair, but the hair just needs to be long enough to tie up, so past the shoulders at the shortest.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries'' the witches cast a spell on their strict new Nanny who wears her hair in a prim and proper bun. When the spell turns her into a hippie, she unties the bun and reveals she has long RapunzelHair.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Road to Rhode Island", Lois convinces Peter to watch some couples counseling with her, hosted by a [[{{Meganekko}} mousy]] relationship doctor named Dr. Amanda Rebecca. After a few seconds, Dr. Rebecca asks the women to leave the room, as the next part only pertains to the men. When Lois departs, Dr. Rebecca tells Peter to "make sure your wife is out of the room" in a slightly more forceful tone. She then [[TheGlassesComeOff removes her glasses]], shakes her [[PrimAndProperBun hair bun]] loose in a dramatic (but sexy) fashion, starts speaking in a huskier voice (with her first line being "So, you wanna talk, or do you want me to take my top off?"), and [[HiddenBuxom gives Peter quite the eyeful]] [[YouCanLeaveYourHatOn with a striptease]] as a {{Sexophone}} plays. Her eyes even (in a rare Western Animation example) shift from {{Tareme|Eyes}} to {{Tsurime|Eyes}}. It turns out that these "relationship videos" are merely a front for Amanda to distribute pornographic videos of herself. [[AllMenArePerverts Needless to say, Peter's on board with these videos.]]