Celestia's hair color?

[PonyRocker95 106]

I don't know if anyone else is wondering this too or if its just me but why, when people make fan art of Celestia and Luna as fillys they always make Celestia s mane and tail pink? why is it not the respective rainbow color it should be?

 

SEE?

 

[LightRaider 148]

Because it looks nice. That is how i always saw it, and i like it.

Luna's used to look nice, But then it turned into the starry mane she has now, because it represents her duties.

We like to believe that celestia's also did this, but it changed to the rainbow it is now because it represents how the light gives everything color.

[Starshine 16,333]

Blame Hasbro and their pink Celestia toys

 

It's because a younger Celestia sometimes looks better with pink hair, instead of the Rainbow-y one. And don't forget that in the opening of the 1st episode, you can see Celestia depicted with pink hair.

[Discovery Dream 592]

I think it's because Luna had a solid blue mane in the first season, then it changed to starry-translucent in season two. I think people just built off of that and figured that alicorn manes start opaque, then grow translucent when they mature. That is the nature of fanon, after all.

[AnonBrony 1,468]

I guess when people saw Lunas hair style when she was younger they also assumed Celestia had a similar hairstyle when she was younger too. But then they matured and get their manes change. Why people chose pink... i have no idea why. But it suits her.

Edited October 20, 2012 by AnonBrony

[PonyRocker95 106]

Blame Hasbro and their pink Celestia toys

 

It's because a younger Celestia sometimes looks better with pink hair, instead of the Rainbow-y one. And don't forget that in the opening of the 1st episode, you can see Celestia depicted with pink hair.

 

you can? I seriously never saw or probably never noticed before. idk I personally thing it looks weird pink although I think Luna's looks good both ways.

 

I guess when people saw Lunas hair style when she was younger they also assumed Celestia had a similar hairstyle when she was younger too. But then they matured and get their manes change. Why people chose pink... i have no idea why. But it suits her.

 

I always kind of thought that the solid blue mane for Luna was an animation error, they realized their mistake then changed and/or fixed it in season 2.

[Starshine 16,333]

you can? I seriously never saw or probably never noticed before. idk I personally thing it looks weird pink although I think Luna's looks good both ways.

Here you go

 

 

Either she really is pink when she was younger, or the earlier painter doesn't have any rainbow colored pencils

[PonyRocker95 106]

Here you go

 

 

Either she really is pink when she was younger, or the earlier painter doesn't have any rainbow colored pencils

 

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! so that's what you meant! and lol it was probably option 2 knowing how Hasbro is when it comes to stuff like this.

[Yellow Diamond 7,565]

I find it hard to believe that the animators simply goofed when it came to pre-Night Mare Moon Celestia having a pink mane and tail. Granted, I have not found any canonical response to this apparent inconsistency; the best answer I could muster (and it is entirely speculative) is that Celestia's mane changed in accordance with her increased power and responsibility.

 

Luna's mane changing from the end of "Friendship is Magic" to "Luna Eclipsed" is probably just an inconsistency produced by DHX Media going in a slightly different creative direction. (Although I vaguely recall Lauren Faust mentioning Luna's appearance changing. She definitely made reference to Luna being younger and less mature than Celestia.)

[I used to be a stranger 7,993]

If put into realistic portrayal I seriously doubt the separate colours in Celstia's mane would be so hard-lined between each other. At strictest, her mane would look like it was very carefully dyed, and at most free-form she looks like she has an aurora borealis latched to the back of her skull.

[Why? 5]

My theory is that her mane didn't turn into rainbow shape until she realized that they must defeat Discord and forgot about the past, cuz now it´s what counting.

[Tao 7,452]

I think she might use a type of Glamor spell to make her

hair look all rainbows and flowing a bit.  I've come on

fimfics that touch on that a bit.  I mean when she sleeps, 

does it flow?  Keep all pretty and silky and how would

you even clean a mane like that?  

[cmarston1 5,959]

While I do like her rainbow mane over the pink mane she is sometimes associated with, how do we know if that is her real mane?

For all we know that this:

could be canon.  I kind of would like to say that happen to be honest. It would be hilarious.

[sweetolebob18 728]

Well, it's canon she likes cake.  I think she turned her hair the color of tutti fruitti sherbet because that's what she likes with her cake

[MysticShine 529]

A lot of it has to do with how Luna's mane looked in the first episode. A lot of people assume that Celestia's was similar when she was younger / weaker.

[UnknownFry 169]

Celestia's mane was depicted as her current color in the Reflections Comic Arc, and that is an example of a younger Celestia as far as any official materials are concerned outside the show. I don't  think her mane has changed colors at all truth be told. and the whole pink mane is just an oversimplified depiction her mane

 

Flowing manes on the other hand may have something to with a magical energy as Twilight seemingly almost got one in Twilight's Kingdom after the whole power transfer.

Edited March 8, 2015 by UnknownFry

[Unikitty 1,212]

I like to think that, as their powers grew so did their bodies. We've seen form Cadence and Twilight that Alicorns can have different bodytypes, so it's easy to imagine they change as they grow more powerful.

Their manes are just a culmination of all their built up magical prowess. Like an ascension of sorts.

Edited March 8, 2015 by Unikitty

[HereComesTom 2,259]

 

 

Celestia's mane was depicted as her current color in the Reflections Comic Arc, and that is an example of a younger Celestia as far as any official materials are concerned outside the show.

 

Was she a filly, or a young adult in that comic?

 

My headcanon has always been that, if an alicorn grows enough in power and age, they get the flowing mane with multiple colors.  But I don't know if that's what the writers think.

 

I also feel like the pre-NMM Celestia from the flashbacks in the S4 opening should've had a different-colored mane, but they just grabbed her current graphics and used those instead to save time.

[UnknownFry 169]

Was she a filly, or a young adult in that comic?

 

My headcanon has always been that, if an alicorn grows enough in power and age, they get the flowing mane with multiple colors.  But I don't know if that's what the writers think.

 

I also feel like the pre-NMM Celestia from the flashbacks in the S4 opening should've had a different-colored mane, but they just grabbed her current graphics and used those instead to save time.

 

Young Adult.

 

I suppose it is possible that that her mane could have changed with time with an increase in magical growth though.

[Prince Firemane 309]

It's mainly because, as has been said, the narrative opening of the first episode depicted Celestia with a pink mane. When Luna was returned, she had the solid blue mane that mostly matched the one given to her drawing in the narrative opening. Not to mention, in Twilight's Kingdom, the same narrative style was used to give a bit of backstory on Tirek, Celestia was again shown with a pink mane. Flowing manes and tails on Celestia and Luna seems to me to be a reflection of their power and their Patrons, as their manes and tails stopped flowing when they transferred their magic to Twilight. Though why they retained their translucence and multiple colors; I'm not sure. If this is the case, it seems that Cadance and Twilight will both eventually have flowing manes and tails as well.

[Fluttershutter 2,386]

 

 

While I do like her rainbow mane over the pink mane she is sometimes associated with, how do we know if that is her real mane?

For all we know that this:

could be canon.  I kind of would like to say that happen to be honest. It would be hilarious.

 

 

Notice she doesn't have a tail at all. 

[ArcheoPony 76]

Journal of the Two Sisters hint that there's an alicorn race. The mane thing could possibly be a thing attributed to them. Probably something that happens as they're maturing into adulthood or have an increase in magical power.

[Spikey-Wikey 378]

If they ever show her Filly version, I hope it's not a pink mane...

 

Not everything fanon should become canon. Otherwise there would be no fun with fanon.

[Chronamut 355]

I love celestias toothpaste coloured mane

[cider float 2,537]

By fanon Celestia's mane turned to multi colors after she used the Elements of Harmony but apparently that isn't canon when there was a flashback of her fighting Luna.