Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak

Time to throw the silk gloves away and unveil the steel fist, eh?

According to fiction, some Tomboys will have girlier sides that are either an embarrassment or a soft spot for them. Can the Inverted Trope happen, or more exactly: can Girly Girls have hidden or explicit tomboy sides?

Of course they can.

This girl is feminine to the hilt, looks dainty and maybe a bit frail, but will surprise her peers via showing a more tomboyish disposition from time to time. Whether it's a distaste for pink, a willingness to get down and dirty (sports or otherwise), or a knack for troublesome power tools, she can be a Lady of War or a Girly Bruiser (among other things). She may be a grown-up tomboy who didn't throw away this side after her Girliness Upgrade (or if she did, she decided to re-embrace it). She may be a girly girl Raised by Dudes who picked up some quirks from the guys around her. She may have a more tomboyish friend (maybe a Tomboy with a Girly Streak) and picked up cues from her. She may, well, simply be a feminine girl who likes more boyish stuff. There are as many reasons as girls and women are in the world, after all.

Sister Trope to Real Men Wear Pink. Logically, Truth in Television.

Examples of Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak include:

Anime

• Azumanga Daioh has none other than Sakaki. Her friends initially believe she's a delinquent, due to frequently showing up with her hands or face bandaged, creating the impression she often gets into fights. Plus, she's very tall and the best athlete at the school. So Chiyo and Kagura are surprised when they eventually learn Sakaki's the opposite of what they were expecting, and prefers cute things over being cool. In fact, some of the bandages on her face come from her trying to pet mean cats.
• Bleach:
  • Orihime Inoue is a very nurturing and gentle Genki Girl, with Barrier Warrior and Healing Hands powers that she summons through her hairpins and her Fairy Companions. However, she also likes karate and robots, and she and her male friends read and comment on shonen manga. This offers quite the nice contrast with her two best friends, the bonafide Tomboy Tatsuki and the Tomboy with a Girly Streak Rukia.
  • Rangiku Matsumoto is a very beautiful lady with massive breasts that she's unafraid to show off, and she takes a Cool Big Sis attitude towards younger girls like Momo and Orihime. At the same time, she's a very proficient and heavy drinker and considered as One of the Boys..
• Captain Tsubasa: Machiko Machida is implied to be this in the original TV series. She's a dainty-looking Meganekko and Team Mom, but she gets pretty aggressive in the rare times she's crossed and tries to encourage her Girly Girl bestie Yoshiko to be straightforward with her feelings.
• Cardcaptor Sakura: Sakura Kinomoto is a very feminine girl overall, but has short hair and loves sports and even video games. She can also sew and knit if needed, even if nowhere at the level of Tomoyo.
• Grimm's Fairy Tales Classics portrays Snow White, of all people, as this. She is extremely girly-looking and learns to handle herself competently with housework when she lives with the Dwarves, but she also likes climbing up trees to get her beloved apples and explicitly says she'd rather do these things all day long than sew and knit.
• Minako "Sailor Venus" Aino from Codename wa Sailor V and Sailor Moon. She's a very girly-looking girl who near always wears dresses and skirts, has long blond hair tied with a red ribbon, considers herself a Goddess of Love, plays volleyball (a sport often associated with girly girls in JPN media) and wants to be a singer... but she's also very straightforward about her feelings and quite the Gamer Chick.

Live-Action TV

• Leverage: Sophie the Grifter is normally associated with conning people, usually with Honey Traps, or being Pretty in Mink on the con. As the series progressed, she became an increasingly competent physical combatant (especially against the hired gun in "The Reunion Job").

Video Games

• In the Fire Emblem Gaiden remake, the Pegasus Knight Clair is rewritten as one. She has the looks, the speech patterns and the attitude of a Proper Lady, but is a natural at fighting (much to the surprise of her older brother's rather old fashioned friend) and is completely unafraid of speaking her mind.
• Yukiko Amagi from Persona 4. She's a traditionally feminine and well-mannered Yamato Nadeshiko, but is also a Nightmare Fetishist and Lethal Chef.

Visual Novels

• In School Days, one of the first hints about Kotonoha Katsura's more... complex side is that, despite being a very shy Girly Girl, she does NOT abide by the Girls Are Really Scared of Horror Movies cliché. She also proves herself to be quite handy at using knives in the Bad Ends, and one particular ending in Shiny Days has her fearlessly using a katana to kill Makoto and Kyouichi, who have been sexually abusing her little sister Kokoro. Then she sets fire to the building this happens into and escapes with the little girl to safety.
• Rin Tohsaka from Fate Stay Night is an Ojou who wears her hair in Girlish Pigtails, collects jewelry, cooks Chinese food to perfection and is very sensitive in spite of herself... and also happens to be a sarcastic, Tsundere Action Girl prone to Brutal Honesty.

Western Animation

• Pictured above: The Legend of Korra has Korra's best friend and eventual girlfriend, Asami Sato. She is an absolutely gorgeous Proper Lady with a Girly Bruiser side (and whose favorite weapon is an electric gauntlet) and a knack for mechanics.
• The Voltron: Legendary Defender incarnation of Princess Allura looks like a very feminine Princess Classic, and does have very girly traits like her love of animals and sparkly stuff. But she also has Super Strength and can show a Hot-Blooded side when angry. Her introduction leaves it pretty clear: at one moment she near passes out in Lance's arms, the other has her pining him to the floor as she mistakes him for an invader.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic has Rarity, an extremely dainty Girly Girl and The Fashionista who is also pretty aggressive when it's time to fight.
• Star Butterfly from Star vs. the Forces of Evil is an Action Girl who brutally fights monsters. But she loves anything cute, is very girly-looking, wears a plethora of different dresses, and tends to blast very cutesy (but dangerous) rays from her wand.