EDIT: Actually it looks even more similar to Ai-chan's hair, but she's probably too unknown yet to be a good alternative.
completely agree on both points. ^^; as I was taking the ribbonless pictures I realized it looks more like Ai, but the problem being she's brandy new and we don't know all too much about her yet... granted that would give me a lot of room improv-wise, but then when we do find out the details I'd prolly have to change stuff around.
Also, if you guys think it would look more like Haruka with a flip outwards, that's honestly an easy thing to do and undo (if I wear my chie cosplay again). Just a hair dryer + holding the ends in the curl. It IS plastic after all, a little heat and then some cooling can give it another shape. I can try to find a time to do the outward flip before I go to college, but I can totally guarantee a time after I get there.
heck, I could prolly just use heat from anything + holding it in the flip/partial curl. xDD
edit: But I suppose this means you guys are interested? xDDD