Halle Bailey’s Hair Extensions and Locs for ‘The Little Mermaid’ Cost Over $150,000

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Halle Bailey’s Hair Extensions and Locs for ‘The Little Mermaid’ Cost Over $150,000
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If anyone knows how to get the right shade of red for Black hair, it’s Camille Friend. The Oscar-nominated hair department head, whose credits include “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” experimented…

Her challenge was taking Disney’s most famous redhead, Princess Ariel, and creating a look for Bailey that would work. On top of that, maintaining Bailey’s natural hair was an important requirement she needed to meet.

Friend was determined not to cut any of Bailey’s natural hair or use a wig. “I knew a wig just wasn’t going to work,” she says. She returned to playing with the red. “If we take hair and wrap it around her locs, we don’t have to cut them and we don’t have to color them. We can change her color without changing her internal hair structure. Her structure and her hair are her,” says Friend about her thought process.

Once she had figured that out, she had to deal with the water element. “Locs don’t float,” says Friend. And the hair needed to “dance” when Ariel was underwater. Her solution? Adding loose pieces of hair.When Ariel loses her voice and transitions to a human being, Friend switched her hair slightly, wanting to show Ariel’s vulnerability. “She doesn’t know what it’s like to be human.”

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