“Halle’s locs are down to her waist, over 24 inches. And putting her in a wig was going to look crazy,” hair department head Camille Friend revealed.
movie cost a whopping six figures to create.“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
— wanted to keep Bailey’s long locs natural and healthy while recreating Princess Ariel’s famous red hair and declared, “I knew a wig just wasn’t going to work. Halle’s locs are down to her waist, over 24 inches. And putting her in a wig was going to look crazy,” Friend“I’m not guesstimating, but we probably spent at least $150,000 because we had to redo it and take it out. You couldn’t use it and we’d have to start again. It was a process,” she continued.Custom colored red hair was wrapped around the singer’s locs to help create a sense of motion underwater.
Despite the high price tag and laborious process, fans on social media took issue with the shade not being quite red enough for Ariel.with a picture of Bailey with bolder hued hair. “Fr even if they wanted to be natural it could’ve been this instead of ginger-brown,” another commenter agreed.
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