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orlandobloom:
Leia Organa’s hair appreciation post
What really gets me is how much more hair she has than really could be on her head in most of these styles. Some of these are very similar to Victorian-era Euro/American fashions, and those were often achieved with the use of additional false hair. I’ve been happy in fic and such to just play along and pretend that’s really all growing from Leia’s head, but let’s be real for a second: center top at least has a bunch of extra hair in it.
The others… I mean, I can sit on my hair but it’s thin, so the fact that I couldn’t do a damn one of these as presented doesn’t mean much. My best friend has thick wavy hair as long as mine (actually about the same color as Leia’s, a little less red), and I’ve helped her do bottom right, top left, and center left. She has a lot of hair, and her braids still aren’t quite that thick.
I’ll give Leia plausible deniability for most of those hairstyles– sure, a woman could really have that much hair, especially if she pads out her braids with a same-colored ribbon in the middles. But top center is absolutely Leia’s Ceremonial Hair Extra Braid Extensions and you can’t talk me out of it. Somehow either those survived the fall of Alderaan or they have a Sally’s Beauty Supply store with a good weave/wig section on Yavin 4. (Or, I guess, the hairstyle is made around a form. A sock full of polyfill? Or three?)
orlandobloom:
Leia Organa’s hair appreciation post
What really gets me is how much more hair she has than really could be on her head in most of these styles. Some of these are very similar to Victorian-era Euro/American fashions, and those were often achieved with the use of additional false hair. I’ve been happy in fic and such to just play along and pretend that’s really all growing from Leia’s head, but let’s be real for a second: center top at least has a bunch of extra hair in it.
The others… I mean, I can sit on my hair but it’s thin, so the fact that I couldn’t do a damn one of these as presented doesn’t mean much. My best friend has thick wavy hair as long as mine (actually about the same color as Leia’s, a little less red), and I’ve helped her do bottom right, top left, and center left. She has a lot of hair, and her braids still aren’t quite that thick.
I’ll give Leia plausible deniability for most of those hairstyles– sure, a woman could really have that much hair, especially if she pads out her braids with a same-colored ribbon in the middles. But top center is absolutely Leia’s Ceremonial Hair Extra Braid Extensions and you can’t talk me out of it. Somehow either those survived the fall of Alderaan or they have a Sally’s Beauty Supply store with a good weave/wig section on Yavin 4. (Or, I guess, the hairstyle is made around a form. A sock full of polyfill? Or three?)
