Hair Texture

Hair Texture 

1. Dead-looking hair..as if it had been glued on —Willa Cather
2. Frizzy brown hair like short feathers —Marianne Hauser
3. A grand shock of hair, like the best type of sheepskin rug —Phyllis Bottome

   The Point of Vantage, from which this is taken, leads off with a simile. Here it is in full context: “Teobaldo Kurt Dubrik was a large stout man with a grand shock of hair, like the best type of sheepskin rug.”

4. Hair and mustache fluffy as down —Mark Helprin

   See Also: MUSTACHES

5. Hair as glossy as a blooded chestnut’s coat —Elizabeth Spencer
6. Hair as sleek as a seal’s fur —Sarah Bird
7. Hair … black and dense and glossy, like boot polish —Maeve Brennan
8. Hair … coarse and slightly wavy, with just a trace of oil all over it, like a well-tossed salad —Roald Dahl
9. Hair, frizzy like unravelled rope —D. H. Lawrence
10. Hair … like a coiled piece of copper —Laurie Colwin
11. Hair like a frizzled yellow sponge —Phyllis Bottome
12. Hair like blown-up gold and finer than gold —Joyce Carol Oates
13. Hair like dirty cotton —Loren D. Estleman
14. Hair like fuzz on a tennis ball —Jean Thompson
15. Hair like moth-eaten fur —Ellen Glasgow
16. Hair like Persian lambs’ fur —Saul Bellow
17. Hair like porcupine quills —Elizabeth Tallent
18. Hair … like the raffia you had to soak before you could weave with it in a basket class —Saul Bellow
19. Hair … matted and dry, like that of a sick animal —W. P. Kinsella
20. Hair … tough as a rocking horse’s —Penelope Gilliatt
21. Hair rich and dark, clustering thick as grapes or hyacinths —Elizabeth Spencer
22. Hair … rough, like a mongrel dog’s —Frank Tuohy
23. (Black,) shiny hair, hard as bristles —Ivan Turgenev
24. (His curly straw) hair shone like frail golden wires on his head —James Stern
25. Hair smooth as a cat’s —Jayne Anne Phillips
26. Hair … soft as milkweed silk —McKinlay Kantor
27. Hair … straight as a string —Dorothy Canfield Fisher

    In her story Married Children, Fisher expands on this with, “She looks like a squaw.”

28. Hair … texture like damp thread —Anthony Powell
29. (A mane of black) hair that was as thick as a tow rope —Sumner Locke Elliott
30. Hair, thick and coarse as dune grass —Marge Piercy
31. Hair thick and glossy like fur —Martin Cruz Smith
32. Hair, thick as a cushion —Helen Hudson
33. Hair tough as a rocking horse’s —Penelope Gilliatt
34. (Her pale red) hair was wispy and stuck out from her head like duckling down —Tama Janowitz
35. Her hair, after all the combing, shone like something Marco Polo might have brought back from Far Cathay to show the peasants —William Dieter
36. Her locks had been so frequently and drastically brightened and curled that to caress them … would be rather like running one’s fingers through julienne potatoes —Dorothy Parker
37. His fine dark hair looked more like a shadow than like real hair —Katherine Mansfield
38. Long coarse hair, like a mop —Rosa Guy
39. Straight shining hair like smooth straw —James Stern
40. Thick, bulging hair, like a bear’s fur —Albert Moravia