I personally have always loved when merfolk are depicted as having gills on their necks or rib cages. There are some great gill prosthetics out there, but I wonder at the practicality of using them when doing a lot of swimming or around curious kids.
Has any merperson ever done/considered doing temporary tattoo or henna gills? Obviously, they wouldn't be 3D, so they wouldn't have the same realism, but they'd probably stay on better and look fine from a distance.
I haven't found any commercial gill tattoos, but there are many sites that allow you to design your own and they'll make them for you. And henna, while also being more permanent (both a good and bad thing), can of course be drawn on in any design you want.
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