Talk:Princess Cadance/@comment-2066983-20130328200257

My Headcanon:

Cadence was a normal pegasus like Rainbow or Fluttershy before she was turned into an Alicorn, the gradients in her hair could either be natural or happened when she used her love spell for the first time, like how we all believe Celestia's multi-coloured hair comes from use of the elements.

The fact that she is the Crystal Princess could be Celestia's doing, knowing she had a great control over love spells (something that could be hard to master?) and knowin that the empire would re-appear, Celestia somehow made her the future Crystal Princess. The purple tint at the tip of her wings could be a side effect of her newfound magic abilities.