As it turns out, Hans Christian Andersen never specified a hair color for the little mermaid in his original tale. She's described as having "skin ... as clear and delicate as a rose-leaf, and ... eyes as blue as the deepest sea; but, like [her sisters], she had no feet, and her body ended in a fish's tail."
“With Rob, he's so amazing and just saying, 'I see you and I want to bring you into the character,'” she said, adding that “it was a beautiful thing.” Part of this involved incorporating her locs into the animated Ariel's famous red hair.
In terms of famous redheads, there's something sweetly nostalgic about the lobster red hue of The Little Mermaid's hair.
Her skin was as soft and tender as a rose petal, and her eyes were as blue as the deep sea, but like all the others she had no feet. Her body ended in a fish tail. The whole day long they used to play in the palace, down in the great halls where live flowers grew on the walls.
The Little Mermaid, a not-so-fairy story
In the original tale, the Little Mermaid fell under the spell of a human whom she saves from drowning, but unlike Disney's adaptation, she was not driven to wish for legs out of curiosity for life on earth, or her love for the princes.
Mermaids are mythical creatures, and Ariel's 'race' is arbitrarily white, but nothing about her character or experiences hinges upon her whiteness; as such, this story can warrant color-blind casting and allow the representation of the actor not to be undercut by intertextuality.
Her classic red hair is now a common staple, but it wasn't always like that. We all know redheads are real-life mermaids and we have Ariel to thank for this. When most people think of a mermaid, they most likely think of her character from the famous Disney movie released in 1989.
A redhead is a person with red hair. Although sometimes it looks more like orange, “orangehead” isn't a thing. Only about one percent of the entire population is a real redhead. In England, a redhead is “ginger” haired.
Mermaid Tears is a midtone, pure, honey dew green with a lime undertone. It is a perfect paint color for a laundry room or powder room. Pair it with brown tones and white trim.
In her initial film, Ariel is referred to as having a “most beautiful voice” multiple times. She is known throughout Atlantica for her immense vocal prowess. Her temporary disability of muteness is more noticed by characters later.
Disney has had only one prominent Black princess. A new version of “The Little Mermaid” starring Halle Bailey is changing that, much to the delight of Black children and their parents.
Ariel, is a fictional character, with no defined skin color in her original material. She was originally written by a Danish author in the 1800s. She has been portrayed in ballet and movies by Asian, Russian, and mixed-race individuals, her cartoon depictions are typically pale.
Why do Ariel's sisters all have different colored hair? It has to do with the fact that they are mermaids, and how mermaids reproduce. Mer-folk have their human parts on top and their fishy parts on the bottom, this is obvious. It follows that their reproductive organs are among the fishy parts below their waist.
Red Hair Really Scared Toymakers
According to Cinemablend, the Tyco Toys company was terrified of a redheaded Disney princess. The company tried to argue with Disney that its research had shown redheaded dolls didn't sell.
Ariel Winter Is a Natural Blonde and More Things We Learned from the Hair Chameleon.
Redheads probably won't go grey. That's because the pigment just fades over time. So they will probably go blonde and even white, but not grey.
Most (natural) redheads will have brown eyes, followed by hazel or green shades.
Previous studies had shown that redheads inherit two versions of the MC1R gene that leads to red hair – one from their mum and one from their dad. Although almost everyone with red hair has two copies of the red-haired version of MC1R, not everyone carrying two red-haired versions is a redhead.
Since most of the Disney princesses were white, ethnic watchers struggled to look up to them because they did not identify with them.
In Anderson's telling and the original Disney film, the mermaid possessed white skin. In Disney's upcoming live action version of the story, Ariel will be portrayed by black actress and singer Halle Bailey.
Cinderella's hair is a beautiful strawberry-blonde (light strawberry-blonde in her childhood) and medium-length with soft bangs.
Since Ariel in The Little Mermaid is Triton's daughter, and according to Greek mythology, Triton is the son of Poseidon, this makes Ariel the granddaughter of Poseidon. And who else is on that family tree? None other than Hercules's father Zeus, who is the brother of Poseidon.
Tiana is notable for being Disney's first black princess.