Little Mermaid 50 Day Challenge: DAY 8

DAY 8: BLONDE ARIEL

Originally, Ariel was going to have blonde hair. Why? Because Katzenberg said that since Daryl Hannah’s mermaid character in Splash was blonde, naturally, ALL mermaids are blonde. Ron & John realized, 1, who says they HAVE to be, 2, that’d be WAY too similar to Daryl Hannah, 3, red contrasted better with her green tail, & 4, red’s much easier to darken than yellow/dark yellow isn’t that much an appealing color. The only issue with her red hair, as many fans have pointed out, blends really badly with her pink dress; the dress looks nice, but it looks better in teal. Nonetheless, it’s better with Ariel & the Disney princesses having variety instead of looking WAY to similar; a perfect example is Ariel and her sisters, both in hair and tails. So here’s Ariel donning various hairstyles, at least one from each decade, in different shades of blonde. There’s her regular hair, a ‘50s beehive, the 1920s bob (or the Roxie Hart), the Rachel, victory curls, the Farrah Fawcett & 1980s perm.

Splash and Ariel (c) Disney
different hairstyles (c) whoever invented them