His pale eyebrows [were] bristling and stiff and round like the little
vegetable brushes the Fuller Brush man gives away.
-- Raymond Chandler. The Big Sleep (1939) Chapter 18.
And her silk-black hair hung like sleeping bats
-- Gregory Corso.
"An Old Man Said He Once Saw Emily Dickinson"
His hair was very short, but it didn't look like it had been cut that
way. It looked like that was as long as it would grow.
-- Larry McMurtry. All My Friends Are Going To Be
Strangers (1972) p.177
Her hair has been combed or styled in a way that makes it look like a
certain cut of meat.
-- Thomas Pynchon. Gravity's Rainbow (1973) p.463
... it was in one of those groovy modern art galleries, you know the
kind of place, all grey paint and grey steel chairs with big holes
where you're supposed to sit and a grey-jacketed assistant whose
haircut seems to be part of the exhibit...
-- Richard Rayner "A Discourse on the Elephant"
Granta 28 (autumn 1989) p.87
Between the bar and the entranceway there was a flurry of bodies and
arms, maybe four guys including Jack who were physically propelling a
man who looked like he combed his hair with firecrackers.
-- Don DeLillo Libra (1988) p.264
And the locks of his reddish hair, crinkled by nature but glued to his
head by brilliantine, were treated broadly as they are in that Greek
sculpture which the Mantuan painter never ceased to study, and which,
if in its creator's purpose it represents but man, manages at least to
extract from man's simple outlines such a variety of richness,
borrowed, as it were, from the whole of animate nature, that a head of
hair, by the glossy undulation and beak-like points of its curls, or in
the superimposition of the florid triple diadem of its tresses, can
suggest at once a bunch of seaweed, a brood of fledgling doves, a bed
of hyacinths and a coil of snakes.
-- Marcel Proust. Swann's Way (1913) p.461
(tr. C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin
revised by D. J. Enright -- 1992)
The fine cotton of her blouse was sticking like grime to her skin. Her
hair felt as if she'd bought it at a fairground, on a stick.
-- Douglas Adams Mostly Harmless. 1992. p21
... his translucently short black hair looking like something sprayed from a nozzle...
-- William Gibson. Zero History. (2010)
...a formidable lady of about sixty, with a toothy smile
and the sort of compressed permanent wave that fitted like a
rubber swimming hat...
Len Deighton. Berlin Game (1983), Chapter 11.
The manager was a small man with a happy mouth and patent-leather hair.
-- Len Deighton. Close-Up (novel, 1972), p277.
...hair styled by somebody who was trying to give up smoking...
-- Thomas Pynchon. Inherent Vice. (novel)
New York: The Penguin Press, 2012. (p282)
Her hair... was like the pelt of some nocturnal animal that had fed on
peroxide and Vaseline.
-- William Gibson. Virtual Light (1993) chapter 14.
His hair was laid carefully upon itself like the wings of a bird.
-- John le Carré The Looking Glass War (1965)
Chapter 10.
... with stiff gray hair that looks as though it was styled with a meat
cleaver.
-- Elaine Ford. Monkey Bay, New York, Viking (1989). page 47.
her varnished hair
trussed up like a termite's nest.
-- William Carlos Williams. Paterson Book One. II
New York: New Directions (1946) page 21.
Felix Boïngueaux tonight is sporting a strange do, which is either a
triple-digit power haircut, carefully designed to lull observers into
false complacency with their own appearance till it's too late, or
else he cut it himself and fucked up.
Thomas Pynchon. Bleeding Edge (novel) Penguin, 2013.
Chapter 14.
His little black moustache was like an evening tie.
-- Graham Greene. "The Third Man" (1950) (chapter 6).
His hair was brown and dry and dead, blowing around his head like a
poor toupee about to fly loose.
-- Richard Stark
[Donald E. Westlake]. The Hunter ("A Parker Novel") Chapter 1. (1962)
Her coarse-grained coppery blond hair was not ugly in itself,
but it was drawn back so tightly over her narrow head that
it almost lost the effect of being hair at all.
-- Raymond Chandler. The High Window. (novel, 1942).
..a full head of fluffy white hair that looked highly flammable.
-- Charles Portis. Masters of Atlantis (novel, 1985).
Her hair is the colour of a radioactive energy drink.
-- Richard Ayoade. Ayoade On Top. Faber & Faber (2019).
...there was only one person who regularly entered the kitchen looking as if
her head had been used for extracting metal oxides from industrial waste...
-- Douglas Adams. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (novel, 1988) p.22.
...her hair was so thin it looked like ham gravy trickling over her skull.
-- Flannery O'Connor. Wise Blood (novel, 1952).
Antipholus of Syracuse: Why, but there's many a man hath more hair
than wit.
-- William Shakespeare. Comedy of Errors (1589)
Act 2, Scene 2.
And absurd hair. Like a bird's nest soaked in oil.
-- Jonathan Buckley. The Great Concert of the Night.
"October." New York: New York Review Books (2020).
... his haircut had been performed by someone who must have been
trying to give up smoking.
-- Thomas Pynchon. Vineland. Boston: LIttle,
Brown, 1990. p. 138.
I assume he began his haircuts by asking the stylist to make it look
like he had never received a haircut.
-- Hank Green. An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
(novel, 2018), p.6.