History Main / ShakingHerHairLoose

* A quasi-parody happens in the Murder Mystery episode of ''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 ''{{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 BarryWhite's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcBPPD1fuZY I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little Bit More, Baby]] playing in the background, no less.
* In ''TrueBlood'', Bill asks Sookie to take the clip out of her hair and shake it free before their first kiss.

* Cheers got Frasier and Lilith together with this trope. Diane asked Sam, then Dr. Sternin, for something to unstick the refrigerator door — like a hairpin. "Don't you see what these two people — who are such geniuses at romance - are trying to do is to get you to take your hair down thinking that it will stimulate me like some Pavlovian dog. So why don't you just oblige them get this silliness over with so we can get on with our lives," says Dr. Crane. Lilith unpins the tightest hairbun in professional psychology. "You mean like this?" Beat. "Precisely."

* In ''[[Disney/TheLittleMermaid The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea]]'', Ariel wears her hair tied up in a bun whenever she is on dry land, symbolizing how much more stern and strict she is. When Triton transforms her back into a mermaid, her hair comes undone and falls loose freely. After the ordeal is over, Ariel is shown wearing her hair down as a human to reflect her change in character.

* [[Literature/{{Discworld}} Granny Weatherwax]] takes out the pins securing her long silver hair in a tight bun and shakes it out, underlining her [[qualifications VirginPower]] before taking on a unicorn.

* [[Literature/{{Discworld}} Granny Weatherwax]] takes out the pins securing her long silver hair in a tight bun and shakes it out, underlining her 'maidenhood' before taking on a unicorn.

* [[Literature/{{Discworld}} Granny Weatherwax takes out the pins securing her long silver hair in a tight bun and shakes it out before taking on a unicorn.

* Gen takes the IcePrincess, Casey, to a party without telling her where they were going. Gen tells her that it's okay that she's not dressed for a party as long as she shakes the hair loose.

* Sophie of ''LastExile'' is prim and proper with her hair tied up in a bun all the time. But when she is revealed to be the princess and returns to claim the throne she removes the bun and lets down her hair, resulting in a shift of behaviour as well.

* In ''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.

* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'':
** Homura Akemi opens her braided twintails during a {{Flashback}} when she [[spoiler:undergoes a major and extended CynicismCatalyst, transforming her into TheStoic {{Determinator}} she is in the present timeline]].
** Kyouko pulls out her ribbon, letting her hair loose during the fight against Oktavia ([[spoiler:Sayaka's Witch form]]) in Episode 9. [[spoiler:She does so to get her religious token, which was hidden in her hair, [[JapaneseChristian so she can pray]] [[HeroicSacrifice briefly before she sacrifices herself]]]].
** Madoka herself does this in the final episode, pulling out her iconic red ribbons [[spoiler:[[TragicKeepsake to give to Homura]], before she ceases to exist as a physical person]].

* Homura Akemi in ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', opens her braided twintails.

Imagine this picture: a woman with her hair tied up in a bun, held in place only with a pin or some kind of stick. She pulls it out of her hair and shakes it out, allowing it to fall down freely. This is sometimes accompanied by a DramaticWind.

* At the end of ''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.

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

* Parodied in ''LoadedWeapon'' where a plain dowdy woman unties her hair and when she looks up she's played by a completely different actress.
* A variation in ''{{Heartbreakers}}'' when Paige/Wendy is revealed to be Max's daughter she pulls off her red wig and shakes her natural brown hair loose.
* In ''MrAndMrsSmith'' 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 TheSisterhoodOfTheTravelingPants after she steps out to spend time with Kostas to show that she's now open to love.

* {{Titanic}}. Rose's hair is already partly loose, but she takes the rest of down and shakes it out in preparation for her nude painting scene.

* 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. [[{{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.

* Happens to ''Disney/{{Cinderella}}'' during the scene where the FairyGodmother's magic spell is wearing off during the return trip from the ball.

* In CallTheMidwife, when the young nurses go off to a dance in the first series Sister Bernadette wistfully watches them go, then returns to her room, removes her veil and cap and unpins her hair, letting it fall around her shoulders, obviously reflecting on the sacrifices she's made for her calling and wondering what might have been if she'd not taken holy orders. [[spoiler: This is very early foreshadowing (the fourth episode of the programme!) of her storyline in the second series, where she's torn between her vows and her love for Dr Turner.]]

* In the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "Go Fish", Buffy pulls a stake out of her hair and shakes it loose as she prepares to fight a vampire.

* Homura Akemi in ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', opens her braided twintails, followed by [[TookALevelInBadass taking]] [[OverNineThousand over 9000 levels]] [[TookALevelInBadass in badass.]]