Share your mermaid hair pics!

[Sabrina the Selkie]

Sorry if this is huge, just took the photo.
I have naturally curly hair that is growing out from a buzz cut I got two years ago, when my grandmother was first diagnosed with cancer. (She's in remission, now)

So I just got my first trim, which took off a lot of hair because it had to even everything out.

But, here is my hair.




Edit: somehow, the picture went sideways. Sorry!

[Sabrina the Selkie]

Aaaaand, one more.

[Elodea the Mermaid]

Everybody has such beautiful hair! I have a short mop, but it's me, heehee!

[Vrindavana Starfish]

It just feels like it's taking a long time to grow since I'm impatient lol

Mine felt like it took FOREVER to get to my waist, then it seemed like a month later it was at my hips, then I kind of forgot about it until I started sitting on it all the time. If you can distract yourself from checking the length, it'll feel like less time. I devoted the obsessive length-checking energy to learning all kinds of crazy braids.

[OceanRose]

You look amaaazing!!!

[Sabrina the Selkie]

Everyone here has awesome hair.

[Mermaid Caspiana]

I would do more of a loose perm. But it's just a though. As well as the bleach. I don't know if we want or will do either.

[Mermaid Strega]

I plan on keeping it simple. I have natural red hair I brighten with henna. It's naturally wavy and goes down to a couple inches below my bra strap. I have it cut about 2 inches and thinned every 6 weeks or so. Unfortunately the amazing colors you guys have (like that beautiful blue up there!!) don't last on my hair unless I use koolaid. I'm going to rely on braids and plants and such details for that mer look.

[Sabrina the Selkie]

You have really pretty hair, Strega. Beware the Ariel jokes. Lol.

[Mermaid Strega]

You have really pretty hair, Strega. Beware the Ariel jokes. Lol.

<3 thank you ^_^

Bring on the Ariel jokes haha

[Sabrina the Selkie]

Yush!

[Celaeno]

My mermaid hair before I cut most of it off. After I have my baby, I'll be bleaching my short bob and going dark turquoise/aqua green.

[XMermaidMarinaX]

[Celaeno]

Omg, I love your color!

[Ariel-Starfish]

Omg all those pretty haido's ! Here is my mermaid hair. Wishing I had more and thicker hair

[Mermaid Abigail]

I've pretty much got the same hair as Ariel Starfish Thin, straight, but beautifully red from Henna ^^ My hair is so much stronger and healthier now that I've been using Henna other then chemical hair dye. But my hair still is very fragile. If I use conditioner, it's very soft and shiny, but it's also pretty useless because then I can't do ánything with it. So I usually don't use any conditioner. I give my hair a coconut oil mask every now and then.


My hair 2 months back, before I cut it.


This is when I cut my own hair a while back. Left is before, right is after.


One of the most recent pictures, trying on my make-up for a Celtic festival. This is what my hair looks like when I try to get some curls into it..and fail miserably :P

[Aisling]

I decided to just make a singular image of multiple little images. I felt it'd be easier. x.x These are mostly collected from my personal and mermaid tumblr. They're timelined (new -> old). In April I was challenged by a friend of mine to grow my hair longer (details). The first picture was taken today to update that challenge. I try to take advantage of the length I've achieved with my hair. I throw it into various, not-at-all consistent styles. I like braids quite a bit so my "casual" styles tend to include them. Crimps and curls are more common (because they take far less time than straightening my hair). The streaks are consistent with my tail's color.

♥ YUP! That's my hair. ♥
-dives back under rock-

[MermaidAine]

For those of you that like to have the fun mermaid colors, I just discovered this line. I just ordered a sample bottle of the extreme red to see if it will help hold my red in a bit longer, and maybe keep it bright. I will let you all know how it works on me!

http://overtone.co/products/daily-co...ner-sample-set

[Ashe]

My hair is very pink!

[AniaR]

OK so I've got a couple of different hair things going on right now I wanted to update on:

Right now I've got a bob. it has grown out multiple times, but on the advice of my master stylist I have been getting 2 inches cut off it everytime I go in. Because my hair was just so dead, you can't fix totally dead hair! I have noticed a huge improvement in it since we started this routine, even though it's really sad to cut it off.



I still keep my hair short in the pool so far. I just tried to pretty it up with my head dress. It's sad to have gone from the long, but it was breaking off in giant patches everytime I swam. Even falling out at gigs.



To help me cope with cutting off my hair, she made me a hair extension halo. It's all one piece, and sits on your head and comes out underneath your real hair. You can add accent pieces if you like (which I do for a fuller look) It's REAL human hair, just dyed to match my own. I think you could use it underwater but because I added extra colours in mine- I don't. As repeated water use will drain the colour. it also took quite a bit to get it to match my natural hair, so this halo was more a learning experience and it's a bit fried lol










So moving on, the halo is great for photoshoots and dry gigs but I wanted something I could wear in the water so I started researching lace front wigs and they seemed the best option. I picked up a cheap one on the advice of a friend and after watching a bunch of online videos about people using lacefront wigs for underwater filming. The general consensus is that it's good to own multiple ones, and they take a lot of work to maintain, and it takes a lot of practice to get the wig on just right. I figured since my wig was cheap it would be great to try out.

The wig got here... I was not expecting it to look... so gosh darn real and beautiful. This is me wearing it without even having glued it on yet








I have yet to try it in water. I love this damn wig so much I just want to wear it forever. I have been reading lots of tutorials out of how to make synthetic lacefront wigs last a long time and wear them everyday. THIS IS MY DREAM HAIR. What I've always wanted. SO I BOUGHT A SECOND ONE. Haha. The second one is on it's way. I will test one in the water and if I like it, use it for water gigs OR at the very least, photoshoots and videoshoots. And keep one for everyday use and dry gigs.

*haven't tested it underwater yet, will soon, will keep you posted**

My master stylist just made me a second, stronger, longer halo just in time for my trip to Florida. She sent me a WIP pic of it, here's how it's going to look:



I decided to go with blue and purple as a homage to the blue and purple hair I had as a teenager.

So now, I have multiple options to hold me over while we keep cutting my real hair and growing it back healthier.

if you haven't seen it yet I did a whole interview with my master stylist about my damaged hair, mermaid hair in general, halos, and her talking a lot of science about hair!



If you're curious how halos work, it shows you there. My halos are custom made by my stylist.