Annie Barrett sizes up beloved animated royals, from unbeweaveable to wet-and-wild

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Rapunzel, Tangled

Oh my God.

Princess Snow White, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Snooze.

Tangled | Oh my God. MANAGE THIS MESS. Unbeweaveable.

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Also, turn 6, like.

The Cinderella-esque transformation from day to night is remarkable, but not as good as…

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Cinderella, Cinderella

…Cinderelly’s!

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | Snooze. Wake me up when you lose the dog-cone collar and your hair has a fighting chance of making a statement. Also, turn 6, please.

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Princess Anna, Frozen

‘‘She wishes,’’ redheaded dream queen Princess Ariel might scoff.

Excellent hair-as-plot quotient forFrozenall-around, though.

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The Princess and the Frog | It took Disney eight billion years to finally give us an African-American princess, and this is her hair? Boooo-riiiiiing . The Cinderella-esque transformation from day

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Mulan, Mulan

She just samurai’d it off (in a perfect line!)

to achieve ultimate fun-girl-non-fake-man hair.

A crucial element of good hair has always been ballsy styles.

Cinderella (Movie - 1950) | …Cinderelly’s! The lowly maid’s typically rage-inducing bangs somehow develop an almost stately character once the rest of her follicular baggage has been swept into an

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Get it, girl!

And it never gets singed by Lumiere!

Who else could make ‘‘platinum grey’’ this glamorous?

Frozen | ‘‘She wishes,’’ redheaded dream queen Princess Ariel might scoff. You just wanted to paint over Anna’s chic/annoying platinum blonde streak — a childhood ‘‘gift’’ from

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Merida, Brave

The Scottish princess can’t be pinned down and neither can her hair!

Merida’s 1,500 (!)

Easter grass curls represent her wild spirit along with the movie’s wild digital art budget.

Mulan | She just samurai’d it off (in a perfect line!) to achieve ultimate fun-girl-non-fake-man hair. A crucial element of good hair has always been ballsy styles.

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Princess Pocahontas, Pocahontas

This ain’t no Tyra-inflicted wind machine.

This is REAL WIND.

With all the colors!

Beauty and the Beast | Sure, it’s plain, but I always admired how the unnecessarily dramatic contours of Belle’s non-bangs combine with the shape of her face to create one

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The wind is her brush and her deep conditioner.

Good eating habits, Jasmine!

Her hair’s almost sexier when it’s all shackled into those two napkin rings.

Elsa metaphorically ‘‘lets her hair down’’ as she belts out ‘‘Let It Go’’ in the chilly breeze of her private ice palace — yet it’s

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Once let loose, the sheer volume and mass threaten to eat her alive.

Princess Aurora, Sleeping Beauty

This is aspirational hair.

Ugh, it’s all just so luscious.

Brave | The Scottish princess can’t be pinned down and neither can her hair! Merida’s 1,500 (!) Easter grass curls represent her wild spirit along with the

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Look at that tree!

This entire movie is just beautiful.

Princess Ariel, The Little Mermaid

Underwater Ariel wins.

Pocahontas | This ain’t no Tyra-inflicted wind machine. This is REAL WIND. With all the colors! The wind is her brush and her deep conditioner. It’s also

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Here she is underwater!

And even if this weren’t a no-brainer … the girl combs her hair with a fork.

Aladdin | You know you’re doing something right when your tiny waist is no match for the tremendous girth of your ponytail. Good eating habits, Jasmine! Her

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Sleeping Beauty | This is aspirational hair. Exquisite paintings of the ferocious surf have not come close to approximating the perfect waves of Princess Aurora’s hair. Its softness

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The Little Mermaid | Underwater Ariel wins. No contest. I refuse to factor in the soul-crushing wall of bangs that oppressed her, and viewers, while Ariel tried her luck

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