Mood Hair

Today, I want to talk, as it were, about hair and how it enhances facial expressions and, therefore, personality. Too often, writers of erotic fiction overlook this means of helping to characterize their shemale (and female) characters. However, when hair, whether blonde, brown, black, red, or some other, more exotic hue, and whether straight, wavy, or curly, long, medium, or short hair is an excellent means of suggesting thought, emotion, frame of mind, and much else that is or can (and should) be related to sexy looks and to sexuality per se.

In referencing characters for this purpose, I am considering male-to-female transsexuals, or shemales, because I find them irresistibly beautiful, but the same observations apply to lesser women, or females, as well.

Stereotypes apply unless a writer is careful to neutralize or subvert them, so, in general, blonde hair will suggest an idealist or a ditzy nature; brown or black hair, intelligence and responsibility; red hair, a fiery temperament.

Blonde hair coupled with dark eyes and dark eye makeup can accentuate the eyes and, therefore, both their gaze and their expressiveness, giving a shemale a joyous, a soulful, a grieved, a pained, a concentrated, a concerned (or any of a thousand other possible) appearance. The same is true of dark or red hair coupled with light eyes. Contrasts between hair color and eyes are useful in promoting character and nuances of personality.

Specific hairstyles and cuts, however, are important to consider, and a careful writer can make a shemale character's coiffure speak volumes about her. Hair restrained in a tight bun atop or behind the head suggests an equally tightly controlled personality. The way that she holds her head and the way that her hair falls are also important as means by which to imply various qualities--or can be, when a writer is an adept enough craftsman and a concerned enough artist to give these matters some thought before describing his or her shemale.

Likewise, some styles, such as ponytails and pigtails, reinforce a character's youthful appearance, and cornrows and braids can help to establish or reinforce a black shemale's ethnicity.