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TIL Super Saiyan 2 Goku's hair is the same length of his normal hair, but when
he transforms into SSJ3, his hair starts growing and becomes pretty long.

Even if the hair grows while in SSJ3, it should not shrink back when he's
returns to normal. The growth could be the result of the pressure exerted from
his body, but shouldn't shrink back when he's normal.

Is there an explanation for that or is it just the way it is?


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How does Goku's hair grow longer when he becomes Super Saiyan 3?


**Before we begin an answer:**

I prefer honestly saying that there is no answer for this (or I personally
never saw something that answers that on the web), but we can use some
deductions from what we know and experienced from the long series of the
anime.

As we already know from Dragon Ball, the trademark characteristic of the
transformation is the user's hair, it goes golden yellow at the Super Saiyan 2
level as a representation of achieving a higher level of energy.

**I guess you could also ask:**

why does his hair goes golden yellow at the first place ?

For me I know no reason of getting hair color changed when rising the
energetic level, but by assuming that saiyans are a different race than
humans, we could explain it as a result of the rise in Ki consumption, for
example in SS3 :

> The rigid hair of the Super Saiyan 2 state becomes flowing and smooth again,
> and grows down to or sometimes passes the user's waist. The eyebrows vanish
> completely, making the forehead and eye ridges appear larger and revealing a
> more prominent brow ridge. A small increase in muscle mass is evident, and
> muscle tone is sharply defined. Energy radiation is so great that the aura
> pulses at an extremely high frequency, almost to the point where it seems
> static; the sound of the aura is also pitched even higher than that of Super
> Saiyan 2. Bio-electricity, like in the Super Saiyan 2 form, is again
> constant, and may reach further outward from the body than before. The
> Saiyan's voice may become slightly deeper, though this is obviously a
> feature only found in the anime. If the user of the Super Saiyan 3 form has
> a tail, it turns yellowish gold.

[Source](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Super_Saiyan_3#Appearance)

**So as a personal explanation:**

I can say that just like when you eat a lot you get fat (as a human), when you
open your body for a perfect Ki consumption (as in SS3 level) your hair will
grow as long golden yellow (as a Saiyan).

**And as a remark:**

The body must change the morphological shape to achieve a higher efficiency in
using the current level of energy for combat (for example largest muscles in
SS3, tallest in SS4 .. etc), and as one can deduce: hair has no effect on the
combat course, but personally again, I think the complete opposite: the hair
style may cause more effect than muscles, it have an impact on the moral and
psychic state of the enemy, to make it even clear:

Just like the lion is scary with large hair, so is the saiyan in SS3, he looks
stronger sometimes more than what he really is. Unlike what was the small evil
Boo, his physical appearance didn't show his strength therefore it had no
impact on his enemies (Goku and Vegeta).


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I have to say that the bulleted answer that I just read was incredible, and a
lot can be taken away from that to understand the Saiyan race. In my eyes, the
Saiyan's hair is a very key part of their ki control, their physical stature,
and their own understanding of themselves. I believe it was Vegeta who said to
Bulma that a Saiyan's hair never grows, it never changes (to paraphrase, of
course).

**Saiyan's hairstyles and strengths**

It does not seem that the length of a Saiyan's hair is immediately related to
the base power of the Saiyan. The Saiyan saga made it quite clear that Raditz
is weaker than Nappa is weaker than Vegeta, and the lengths of hair do not
grow shorter or longer in that sequence, as Nappa is bald and is stronger than
Raditz (according to Team Four Star, Nappa is 5Raditz, lol). It's possible
that I'm wrong, and Raditz had unrealized potential to be unrelentingly strong
but was too mentally weak to achieve it. However, I don't believe this to be
the case.

**Supers and their hair**

Now onto the relationship between the hairstyle and Super Saiyan abilities. To
make a note, all the Saiyans we know to have achieved a true Super Saiyan
form, had hair. This is minor, but makes the analysis a whole lot easier. Goku
and Bardock were the first two Saiyans in known history to transform and they
had the same fairly short, spiky hairstyle. Vegeta's early SS form was a bit
invalid in my opinion, as he forced his way in, like achieving full meditation
with help from drugs. However, his hairstyle is in many ways very similar to
Goku's, which I will comment on in my next point. Goten, same hairstyle as
Bardock and Goku, and as far as Trunks, that's just a different story, I'll
make a side point in the end for that.

**Goku vs. Vegeta**

So what is the difference between Goku's hairstyle and Vegeta's (in base
form)? If you look closely, their hairs are actually quite identical. I've
never counted the spikes, however. If Goku's hair was forced upward I feel
that they would be the same length and style. This opens up to my real idea of
what the hair represents. On Earth, martial artists have the ability to
suppress their power, not hide, but suppress. Vegeta learns this, proving he
never had this ability before coming to Earth. So while Goku spent his life
only bursting his power at the moment he needs it, Vegeta has always pushed
himself to the limits at all time. I believe their hairstyles resemble this.
Goku is always at peace and relaxed, so I believe his hair is relaxed and does
not flow as much ki. When Goku uses the Kaio-ken, his hair rushes up for just
a moment.

**A channel for ki**

So all in all, my theory is that a Saiyan's hair has no cosmetic value, and is
a direct representation of their average ki consumption. When Goku and Vegeta
transform, their hair is passing far more ki than normal, and this causes it
to stand up and resemble their aura. For all known Super Saiyans, there is a
gold aura, however we do not know that this is always the case. Perhaps the SS
of legends, thousands of years ago, had a green or red aura. However, Goku and
Bardock have a golden spirit aura and Vegeta learned to transform by watching
Goku, resembling his technique and passing it to his son Trunks (again, not
getting into that little bastard). Broly's final transformation had more of a
green aura as well, but I'm not an expert on the movies.

**SSJ1-SSJ2-SSJ3**

The typical first transformation involves the hair turning from black to gold,
and the eyes turning bluish-green. The next transformation involves the hair
to flow even more forcefully upward, the aura to grow sometimes with
lightning, and muscle growth. Then the transformation to SSJ3, which I have
only seen done by Goku in the greatest scene ever, involves the obvious growth
of hair, more muscle growth, and some major facial changes.

**SSJ3 analysis**

Now I think I'll get to my opinion on the question that was asked. In the SSJ3
form, not only do the eyebrows disappear, but the entire forehead grows
severely. It seems to me that the top of the head and base of the hair is the
last biological point in the body which passes ki, and the growth of his
cranium is no doubt to accommodate the intense flow of ki. The eyebrows may
serve as an auxiliary port for key to enhance vision and the senses, or even
just to project ki in different directions. However, when the body must focus
enough energy to reach such a high level, such accessories are pointless,
therefore they vanish into the flow of ki. When I watch Goku transform for the
first time on Earth, I see him not only intensify his own energy, but taking
it in from the world, like a slowly expanding spirit bomb in a way. The clouds
fly towards him, the grasses bend his way and all the trees shake immensely.
His body is at that point holding far too much energy to handle and he must
adapt his physical body to survive and use that energy. This is where the hair
reacts and becomes much larger to allow him to hold the energy a little longer
and direct his power much more finely. _This doesn't answer the question how
hair could just grow and shrink, but the idea is, maybe instead of calcium and
proteins, a Saiyan's hair is made of raw ki._

**Trunks**

I promised to make a side note on how Trunks' hair works, so here it is.
Trunks can go screw because I don't want to think about the one hole in my
entire theory. Bulma is ruining it YET AGAIN and I'm sick of her s**t. SICK OF
IT!


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Maybe it is because a saiyan's eyebrows disappear due to the increase of
muscle around the eyes, there for increasing their sight ability furthermore.

The hair length though. I'd say it's half cosmetic just for intimidating
purposes but also because it has a deeper meaning. The hair styles with
saiyan's personally, going off human hair, means nothing. But the increase of
hair length of a Saiyan hair being that it increases in length through base
form - SSJ3 (yes it does increase slightly). This maybe a way of cooling the
body down or an outlet for excess energy that the body needs to exile or does
naturally. I don't believe it to be an energy channeler as there isn't any
evidence and it make no sense, but that's clearly my opinion.

As to the original question as to why the hair increases and why this change
is not permanent maybe due to the fact that the body undergoes mass physical
changes to adapt to the physical and physiological needs to the present form,
or even just a simple side effect of the transformation in which the changing
of the hair could all just be a coincidence and an unintentional
argumentation.

When the user "retreats" (and I use that term loosely) the side effects or the
augmentations due to the transformation are reversed due to the transformation
"retreating" and no longer in effect.

I.e. Like when a smoker starts after a while their lungs get worse but as they
start to quit, their lungs become better. Same theory applies. Not being in
that state returns the body back to its original form.

Hope that solves your question and others as well, I hope someone finds my
theory to be interesting.


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This isn't an answer, but rather a theory:

Just like when your hair becomes charged from static buildup and begins to
rise, when a Saiyan goes Super Saiyan, their hair becomes super charged with
Ki energy to such an extent that it literally begins to glow, resulting in a
blond appearance.

As this charge is pushed to greater extents, the focused charge pulsing from
root to tip not only glows outward from the shaft, but also fires a visible
laser like beam of light from the tip, resulting in the apparent lengthening
of the hair.

As this charge is pushed to EVEN greater extents, the visible distance of this
light is amplified, and the space around the hair begins to distort, further
"lengthening" the hair, as well as amplifying it's volume.


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