One of the major deterants right now with making female characters with long hair is the fact that they obviously do not render in helmets very well. Full helmet, but it comes out all over the place all up and around the helmet.

I'm no designer, programmer or anything of the sort, but there should be some work put into this to make it a little cleaner. It is distracting in cinematics to say the least. nevermind designing Xmog.