- Hairstylist Camille Buddy mentioned Halle Bailey’s “The Little Mermaid” transformation with Selection.
- Buddy defined how she wrapped Bailey’s pure locs with artificial crimson hair to create the look.
- In response to Buddy, the method took 12 to 14 hours and value greater than $150,000.
Oscar-nominated hairstylist Camille Buddy spoke to Selection on Friday about how “The Little Mermaid” star Halle Bailey was remodeled into the beloved Disney princess. Buddy, who most lately labored on “Black Panther: Wakanda Endlessly,” defined how she introduced the primary Black live-action Disney princess’s look to life.
In response to Selection, Bailey had an essential requirement for Buddy: to maintain her pure hair in tact. Bailey has been vocal about holding her locs for the film, a nod to illustration and her id.
“There was a time once we’d barely see locs — and now we’ve a Disney princess with them, which has by no means occurred earlier than,” Bailey advised Ebony in Could. “It was tremendous essential for me to have my pure hair on this movie.”
Halle Bailey as Ariel in “The Little Mermaid.”
Disney
To start out the transformation, Buddy started by assembly with Bailey’s household, she advised Selection.
“I began to know who she was and why the pure hair aspect was essential to maintain,” Buddy mentioned. As soon as she understood what Bailey needed, she knew a wig wouldn’t be attainable.
“Halle’s locs are right down to her waist, over 24 inches,” Buddy mentioned. “And placing her in a wig was going to look loopy.”
“If we take hair and wrap it round her locs, we don’t have to chop them and we don’t have to paint them. We will change her shade with out altering her inner hair construction. Her construction and her hair are her,” she continued.
Buddy’s course of labored, however it took time and care to create Ariel’s new look.
“It’s three shades of crimson,” Buddy mentioned. “I’m not guesstimating, however we most likely spent not less than $150,000 as a result of we needed to redo it and take it out. You couldn’t use it and we’d have to start out once more. It was a course of.”
The subsequent hurdle was determining the way to create motion with Bailey’s hair whereas she was underwater. “Locs don’t float,” Buddy mentioned, however she wanted the hair to “dance.” Buddy integrated free strands of hair all through the locs look to offer quantity and motion.
Bailey and her sister and musical accomplice Chloe Bailey are recognized for his or her waist-length dreadlocks and the artistic styling achieved with the protecting model. In 2016, the sisters’ mom, Courtney, advised The Minimize that casting brokers begged them to chop their locs to e book extra roles.
“They needed to vary their hair!” Courtney mentioned. “It’s who they’re! They had been like, ‘We love our locks, mommy!’”