I was wondering that when I saw the King last week. I worked with a gal years ago and asked he (probably not PC, but...) “Man - how long does it take to do your hair like that?”
I forget how long it took, but she said with the braids like that she could go a long time between dealing with it (iirc it was awhile between hair-washings as well). But I thought, upon seeing the King - “Well, it can’t last THAT long!”
I saw the actor that plays the king and it is a wig of some sort. He looks very different without the hair (which I think looks cool because the top braids swirl into a crown of sorts). :) When he was holding Shiva’s chain... so sad. I miss that stupid cat.