Hair

This article focuses on hair connected with magic, and not on every instance of hair.

Hair
Physical Description
Type:	Hair
Usage Information
Possessed by:	Belle † Jafar Mother Superior Pinocchio Prince Charming Rapunzel Rapunzel Tremaine † Red Queen Robert † Rumplestiltskin † Snow White
Used by:	Jafar Mother Superior Prince Charming Rapunzel Rapunzel Tremaine † Rumplestiltskin †
Used on:	Magic globe Prince Charming
Used for:	Creating a lethal storm cloud Memory potions Scaling towers True love potion Tying up Prince Charming
Show Information
First appearance:	"7:15 A.M."
Latest appearance:	"One Little Tear"
Relevant Pages

“

I could be persuaded to help you in exchange for one hair off your head. Small things can have great power.

”

—Rumplestiltskin to Robert ^src

Hair is a magical ingredient featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time and Once Upon a Time in Wonderland. It first appears in the tenth episode of the first season.

History

Before First Curse

Rumplestiltskin is visited by Robert, who needs his help finding a kidnapped James. Robert offers nothing in return, but states that he is willing to do anything to see his son again and apologize for his actions. This sentiment touches a nerve with Rumplestiltskin and he asks for a strand of Robert's hair as payment because "small things have great power". After using his crystal ball to locate the boy on Pleasure Island, he plucks a hair from the man's head. Once Robert is gone, however, Rumplestiltskin giggles about his own made-up reason for taking the hair before disposing of it. ("Murder Most Foul")

Rumplestiltskin becomes highly invested in creating a bottle of the ever elusive physical form of true love. Through one deal with Snow White, he creates what she desires, a potion of forgetfulness, and takes some strands of her hair, which he dips in the potion to tune it to her needs. He then accepts the hair that he took, as payment. ("7:15 A.M.")

Prince Charming is ensnared into a deal with Rumplestiltskin in exchange for information on Snow White's whereabouts. Rumplestiltskin takes Prince Charming's cloak as payment, but in truth, he picks off a strand of the man's hair. He places the strand with Snow White's hair in a bottle and watch as they entwine and glow. With that, he succeeds in creating the elusive and rare form of true love in a bottle. ("Heart of Darkness")

After First Curse

Seeking revenge, Jafar ransacks the Red Queen's chambers and takes a strand of her hair from a hairbrush. Then, he goes back to his lair to make a storm cloud with the hair, which he then releases into the air to track down and kill the Red Queen. Later, outside his lair window, he watches with satisfaction as the storm cloud begin to close in on the Red Queen's location. ("Home")

Mother Superior is working on a memory potion to restore Mr. Clark's Enchanted Forest memories, but lacks the final ingredient, the hair of someone who is living their past life. By using a strand of Pinocchio's hair, she is able to finish the potion. ("And Straight On 'Til Morning")

Before Second Curse

Rapunzel has been trapped inside a tower by a mysterious witch who is actually a manifestation of herself as her own greatest fear, as a consequence of consuming night root. During her captivity, her hair grows unnaturally long. One day, Prince Charming hears her cries for help and climbs up the tower using her long, braided hair as a scaling rope. Suddenly, the witch begins ascending up the tower using Rapunzel's hair. After revealing herself as Rapunzel's doppelganger, the witch telekinetically ties up the prince with Rapunzel's hair. Advised by Prince Charming to fend off the fear or risk dying alone, Rapunzel severs the length of her hair; causing the witch to fall from the tower and dissipate. ("The Tower")

After Third Curse

Combining strands of both his hair and Belle's hair, Mr. Gold uses it on the magic globe to search for their son. The globe, at first, forms a dark shape of the continent, before losing its form and dissolving completely. This perplexes Mr. Gold, who realizes that his son cannot be found because he's in the Dark Realm. ("Wish You Were Here")

After Fourth Curse

In the New Enchanted Forest, Rapunzel Tremaine is locked inside a tower by a witch named Gothel. After being imprisoned for six years, Rapunzel's hair has grown unnaturally long and she uses her hair to her benefit by cutting it off and strapping it to a hook so she can scale down the tower to escape. ("One Little Tear")

Trivia

• Set Notes

Props Notes

• The strands of hair that Rumplestiltskin pulls from Snow White's head in "7:15 A.M.", were rigged into Ginnifer Goodwin's own hair so the strands could be yanked out repeatedly.

Appearances

Once Upon a Time: Season One
"Pilot":	"The Thing You Love Most":	"Snow Falls":	"The Price of Gold":	"That Still Small Voice":	"The Shepherd":	"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter":	"Desperate Souls":	"True North":	"7:15 A.M.":	"Fruit of the Poisonous Tree":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Appears	Absent
"Skin Deep":	"What Happened to Frederick":	"Dreamy":	"Red-Handed":	"Heart of Darkness":	"Hat Trick":	"The Stable Boy":	"The Return":	"The Stranger":	"An Apple Red as Blood":	"A Land Without Magic":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Appears	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent

Once Upon a Time: Season Two
"Broken":	"We Are Both":	"Lady of the Lake":	"The Crocodile":	"The Doctor":	"Tallahassee":	"Child of the Moon":	"Into the Deep":	"Queen of Hearts":	"The Cricket Game":	"The Outsider":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"In the Name of the Brother":	"Tiny":	"Manhattan":	"The Queen Is Dead":	"The Miller's Daughter":	"Welcome to Storybrooke":	"Selfless, Brave and True":	"Lacey":	"The Evil Queen":	"Second Star to the Right":	"And Straight On 'Til Morning":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Mentioned

Once Upon a Time: Season Three
"The Heart of the Truest Believer":	"Lost Girl":	"Quite a Common Fairy":	"Nasty Habits":	"Good Form":	"Ariel":	"Dark Hollow":	"Think Lovely Thoughts":	"Save Henry":	"The New Neverland":	"Going Home":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"New York City Serenade":	"Witch Hunt":	"The Tower":	"Quiet Minds":	"It's Not Easy Being Green":	"The Jolly Roger":	"Bleeding Through":	"A Curious Thing":	"Kansas":	"Snow Drifts":	"There's No Place Like Home":
Absent	Absent	Appears	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent

Once Upon a Time: Season Six
"The Savior":	"A Bitter Draught":	"The Other Shoe":	"Strange Case":	"Street Rats":	"Dark Waters":	"Heartless":	"I'll Be Your Mirror":	"Changelings":	"Wish You Were Here":	"Tougher Than the Rest":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Appears	Absent
"Murder Most Foul":	"Ill-Boding Patterns":	"Page 23":	"A Wondrous Place":	"Mother's Little Helper":	"Awake":	"Where Bluebirds Fly":	"The Black Fairy":	"The Song in Your Heart":	"The Final Battle Part 1":	"The Final Battle Part 2":
Appears	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent

Once Upon a Time: Season Seven
"Hyperion Heights":	"A Pirate's Life":	"The Garden of Forking Paths":	"Beauty":	"Greenbacks":	"Wake Up Call":	"Eloise Gardener":	"Pretty in Blue":	"One Little Tear":	"The Eighth Witch":	"Secret Garden":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Appears	Absent	Absent
"A Taste of the Heights":	"Knightfall":	"The Girl in the Tower":	"Sisterhood":	"Breadcrumbs":	"Chosen":	"The Guardian":	"Flower Child":	"Is This Henry Mills?":	"Homecoming":	"Leaving Storybrooke":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent

Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
"Down the Rabbit Hole":	"Trust Me":	"Forget Me Not":	"The Serpent":	"Heart of Stone":	"Who's Alice":	"Bad Blood":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Home":	"Nothing to Fear":	"Dirty Little Secrets":	"Heart of the Matter":	"To Catch a Thief":	"And They Lived...":
Appears	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent

Other Appearances

Rapunzel Tremaine's hair appears in the second storybook in "One Little Tear".