Mizuko's 2nd Silicone Tail- Ariel

Hi everyone!
I'm back with another tail project, lol!

I do a fair bit of entertaining work, both as my Mizuko self and as characters. One character I really love (obviously) is Ariel! She's quite easy to portray and I've always loved her growing up, hehe! The appearances I do as her are in 'walking' tails or dresses, but I have always wanted a realistic Ariel tail!!
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After everything I have learnt from my first silicone tail, I feel like I'm ready to tackle another one! :D

So, my biggest issue is how to translate this:
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Into real life. (sparkles and all, haha!)

I've seen Merbella's and Mermaid Melissa's takes on Ariel's tail, and although I love both designs, I would really like to make her fins transparent!

So my first step in ALL this, is to make a lexan monofin! :)
I'll be buying my sheet this weekend! I am also saving for more silicone- it takes a wee longer than I'd like because I also have to save an extra $200-300 for shipping to Australia! lol!

Anyways, cant wait to share my progress with you all! :D

I'm so excited! Judging on how absolutely gorgeous your ice cream tail was, this is probably going to blow us all out of the water! Can't wait!!

If you have some left over liquid silicone, I would test out a patch that has both some green pigment and a ton of glitter in it to see how well it sets up.

Thank you both! ^_^
I actually used a fair bit of glitter in my first silicone tail, and it works really well! :)

Good luck! I bet it's going to turn out amazing. :)

Yayy, another tail :D

So excited to see this! I love the classic Ariel tail.

Ooo I can't wait to see this!!! :D

So exciting!! You make a beautiful Ariel and I can't wait to see what you come up with!

Your going to look gorgeous!

That's exciting, Mizuko! :D can't wait to see this masterpiece!

I cant wait to see this! OMG so exciting! I do ariel appearances (in princess dress) too, and I'd love to have a silicon tail of hers. SO AWESOME!

what kind of glitter did you use?

I used normal craft glitter from the $2 store! hehe! It worked fine! :D

This is so exciting! I can't wait to see the transparent fins especially. After learning about the lexan monofin, I have been all about looking up transparent flukes... Not much luck yet, but perhaps that'll change soon! You make an adorable Ariel, by the way!

Awesome! If you are going to do the Ariel tail literally, are you going to use a monofin? Dottie's new tail has a photo with a Zoomer on top and it looks like you could do a super-flowy tail with a piece of Lexan that size.

I have found that doing a pigmented layer of silicone then overlaying a glitter layer works much better than trying to mix the two together.

Thank you everyone! :D
I purchased the lexan and Poly-Zap (glue) yesterday, so it should be here at the end of the week! ^_^ the sheet of lexan I got is about 10cm smaller than a competitor monofin, but I dont plan on making the monofin that big- probably more like a Finis Wave size.

I was considering doing a very small monofin like a zoomer, Pearlie! But because I would like to use this for childrens birthday parties I still want a nice amount of propulsion. I plan on making the fluke long, so there will be plenty of flow left after the monofin! :) And doing the glitter layer last is how I did my last tail, too! ^_^

I also plan on using Zoomers for the foot pockets XD the way I'm designing the fluke will HOPEFULLY cover the yellow of the zoomers with scales, but I will see how I go once I purchase them! hehe!

I literally just finished my lexan fin with zoomers! (About 6 hours ago:) you don't have to have a fancy plexiglass glass blade for a jigsaw to cut it. I used a fine wood cut blade with staggered short and long teeth on medium speed (the sending for plastic) and it cut perfectly!!! Just sanded the edges and voila! New fin!

good luck with your tail! Maybe instead of zoomers you could find a pair of white or even light green colored fins? Just a thought :P

ah, thank you Kishiko! My only option was to borrow someones jigsaw to cut it with, haha! Please let me know how it swims! :D
I've had a little look around for green fins previously, but in the end I still swayed to Zoomers. lol!