Marinette's hair color is a homage to old comic books that would use blue highlights on black hair. [145] Currently, ten characters know that Marinette is Ladybug: Plagg, Alya Césaire/Rena Rouge, Su-Han, Luka Couffaine/Viperion, Alix Kubdel/Bunnyx, Marinette's counterpart from a parallel universe and that same universe's version of Adrien. The most significant feature of Ladybugs is their black, blue tinted hair, which is often seen in Asian characters.
Gabriel's hair changes color from grey to blond all the time due to hair dye. Marinette's hair is canonically black, but it does look blue in some shots due to the way 3D animation works. 38 votes, 19 comments.
trueMarinette's hair is black in universe. One of the reasons why they make it look blue is bc 1. The show is very animesque, it it common for anime's to give their MCs vibrant hair colors/styles so they pop out in the crowd and your eyes are drawn to them.
2. the creators intentionally made marinette and adriens color scheme exact opposites (inverted) of each other. What Color is Marinette's Hair? According to Thomas Astruc (on twitter), it is officially black, and turns a slightly different color when she transforms.
Now if we look at this nerd she obvs doesn't look like she has some straight up jet black hair: Exhibit A: It's as blue as these uniforms. In the animated series Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir and Miraculous World, Marinette Dupain-Cheng's hair is intended to be black with a blue tint. yeah cause would you imagine a post asking "is colored hair natural in miraculous ladybug" and i just showed characters with natural hair colors like blonde brown or black or red.
ALL POSTS Workerq 3/22/2025in Spoilers Marinette's hair color Turns out it wasn't the lighting AT ALL! Her hair is completely black now! What do y'all think of it? Marinette Dupain. Find and save ideas about ladybug hairstyles on Pinterest. Because to the other characters, her hair it still considered black-even as Ladybug, whose "blue shine" is supposed to be stronger/more saturated than Marinette's.
We know this because we only have one place where her hair color is explicitly mentioned by another character, and it's this. Marinette's hair is supposed to be black, but it is navy blue for the animators' sake. Black hair is difficult to animate due to its dark color, so they used blue instead.