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When you go to the barber shop/salon, you often get your hair cut in public, and by somebody who isn't really close to you. In other media, cutting hair can become very sexual, as well as reliving the pesky Will They or Won't They? feeling. Often, a woman is cutting a man's hair and is very intimate. Sometimes, it leads to more than intended, but definitely is one of the many intimate acts between two people.
Examples of Intimate Haircut include:
Anime & Manga[]
- Nothing sexual happens, but in Full Metal Panic: The Second Raid, Kaname giving Sousuke a haircut is played as a very intimate scene because of the level of trust it shows that Sousuke has in Kaname — enough that he falls asleep while she's cutting his hair.
- In Gurren Lagann, Nia asks Yoko to cut her ruined hair after they share a powerful bonding experience - Nia was taken hostage and Yoko, the team's sniper, had to shoot her kidnapper to get her free. Even when Nia is in her way to become Simon's girlfriend and Yoko lost her boyfriend Kamina few ago, the Les Yay subtext in that scene is staggering.
- In Kannazuki no Miko, Chikane is the only one who can so much as touch her lover Himeko's hair without making her freak out (caused by the latter's traumatic experiences in the past).
- In The Tyrant Falls in Love, Morinaga finds out that Souichi doesn't like going to salons, and offers to trim Souichi's hair for him. As he's cutting it, he realizes that Souichi has several erogenous zones on his scalp, hence why Souichi doesn't want a stranger touching his head. Morinaga being Morinaga, he tries to take advantage of it and gets immediately pummeled by Souichi as a result.
- The first Fullmetal Alchemist anime gives us a variation: At one point Winry offers to braid the titular alchemist's hair; at first Ed waves it off, thinking nothing of it other than convenience, but her uncharacteristic insistence clues him in. It ends up as a rather heart-harming and promising little scene.
- Pandora Hearts: Vincent Nightray and his valet Leo Baskerville have a lot of Ho Yay together. It's especially evident in one scene where Vincent cuts Leo's bangs for him and then touches his face.
- Pictured above: Not quite a cut, but Usagi and Minako's hair brushing scene in the first Sailor Moon anime as they discuss the possibility of Usagi getting an Important Haircut marks one of the first moments showcasing their borderline Romantic Two-Girl Friendship.
- Again not quite a cut and nothing sexual happens, but one important point in Miyo and Kiyoka's budding relationship in My Happy Marriage takes place when she gives him a lovely silk hair tie that she made for him. Kiyoka is very pleased and asks her to put it on him, then promises to take good care of it.
- Much later, when Kiyoka is imprisoned thanks to the machinations of the Gifted Communion and Miyo decides to do what she can to help him, Kiyoka's Rich Bitch -> Defrosting Ice Queen mother Fuyu encourages her via coming her hair, giving her one of her favorite hair ties, and telling her to keep her head up as the wife of the future clan leader.
- In a familiar sorta of way, Jujutsu Kaisen has Nanako Hasaba cutting and combing her protector Suguru Geto's long hair as he tells her and her sister Mimiko about himself and his best friend Satoru Gojo.
Film[]
- Phenomenon does it with George and Lace. Subverted, as they didn't do anything until much later in the movie.
- The Incredible Hulk does it with Betty and Bruce.
- Edward Scissorhands averts the trope when Joyce tries to seduce Edward as he cuts her hair.
- Bourne cutting and dyeing Marie's hair in the 2002 film of The Bourne Identity.
- Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 1 has a scene where Hermione cuts Harry's hair; while their affection is brotherly and sisterly, Ron thinks it's this trope.
- The Pierce Brosnan indie film The Nephew does this, overlapping with Important Haircut. Aishling cuts off Chad's dreadlocks in a very intimate scene.
- Pretty much the whole point of Le Mari de la coiffeuse
- Fergus and Dil from The Crying Game - in the beginning, it's Fergus getting a cut from Dil, with soft lighting and all that entails. After the infamous reveal he cuts her hair in a manner that is depicted as violent and distressing for Dil, even though it's to protect her from the IRA.
Literature[]
- In Ru Emerson's The Princess of Flames, Archbishop Gespry is shaved regularly by his longtime lover Fialla; various people comment on the trust this implies.
Live-Action TV[]
- On The Drew Carey Show, Drew's female barber (Jamie Lee Curtis) straddles him while cutting his hair. They have a thing for an episode or two.
- In one episode of Friends, Joey's girlfriend (on whom Chandler has a huge crush) offers to cut Chandler's hair. It becomes quite intimate, particularly when she runs her fingers through it to check whether it's even, and they end up kissing.
- Beard version on CSI: the "Do you trust me" scene between Sara and Grissom where she shaves him.
Video Games[]
- There's a Street Fighter artwork piece that has Chun Li brushing her friend and frequent fighting partner Cammy's Rapunzel Hair.
Real Life[]
- This trope is inverted in Real Life by people who have a haircut fetish/kaldari. Unnoticed in Western culture, as to such people haircutting is erotic rather than leading to possible arousal.