Today I want to talk about the hair a magical(?) girl who has appeared recently. She has her hair tied up on her sides, has two colors in her hair, and her socks are debatably silly. I can only be referring to one student, of course: Rena!
Rena has brown hair with yellow highlights that, if it wasn't tied up, would go down to her waist. She wears a lot of black bows in her hair, with at least one white one being visible. Said bows are all in her twintails, themselves being tied with black ribbons. She also has hairclips at her bangs, and her right hand actually holds her hair.
While I made a joke about Rena being a magical girl, Eri's hair analysis
and Kanoe when the wheel chooses her had me analyze Eri's hair in a magical context. Rena approaches the question of magicks differently, seeming to instead opt for bows and ribbons? I'm not nearly as well-versed on this as I am hair itself, but if I'm not mistaken, magical girls typically have ribbons in their style. Reisa's a good example of this, actually, since her outfit seems to be more ribbon-y, but I'm sure there's other examples in media. Suzumi's seems to incorporate how magical girl outfits are usually frilly. These alts definitely came at the right time for me, but I'm getting off-topic.
If it weren't for the skirt she wears looking a bit more sophisticated than the average Trinity skirt, Rena could pass as a Trinity student. She wears a serafuki of unknown sleeve length, the shirt and collar being white with a black ribbon tied to it. Over it all she wears a yellow jacket with black lines near the front opening of it, and the sleeves are a bit wide, with two brown stitch-like patterns, before the cuff of the sleeve shows a brown bow. The skirt has two yellow stitches on the top band, with a thin gold (could be yellow) stripe near the bottom, with slight frills. She carries a very tiny bag with her that's in a similar style to her coat, bows and stitches included. Knowing the old saying about a lady's bag, though, she has at least two rocket launchers in there! And a weird glowy rock that she is absolutely positive is the source of her magic! That last one might be made up, but the first one is probably true. Her socks are mismatched, the left one being in what I believe is a traditional loli style, and her right being a larger, baggier sock, almost like it's a legwarmer. It even comes with three black stitches on it. Both socks have a bow on the outer parts, the left one smaller than the right one. Her shoes have surprisingly thick soles on them. Now that I think about it, isn't her entire appearance representative of "loli"?
Rena's hair is taken care of, and looks almost like pieces of thread in and of itself. I don't know for sure, but she strikes me as a seamstress with how she dresses. As such, her hair likely smells not too dissimilar to a nice clean set of clothes. Rena's hair might be the simplest of the Occult Research Society to brush, but I would still brush it to better see how it all flows together, much like how one thread will move to the next.
Link to previous entries (assuming I don't forget):
https://rentry.org/hair_archive