See which characters brought more representation to the Disney Princess franchise by being portrayed with different hair types
Straight and straight strands, these were the only types of hair that the Disney princesses had as characteristic of their images, although the colors, lengths and hairstyles were used to better convey the personalities of each of these holders of the royal title, such as Snow White, from “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” (1937), who has short, dark hair; and Ariel, who has long, red locks in “The Little Mermaid” (1989).
Even so, new curves of threads began to arrive with the premiere of “The Princess and the Frog”, a film released in 2009, which features the character who dreamed of opening her own restaurant: Tiana.
In the film, the princess is seen with her hair tied up, making it impossible to define which classification her hair belongs to. But in “WiFi Ralph: Breaking the Internet”, Tiana appears with her locks free from hairstyles, showing the beauty of her natural strands, which are actually frizzy!
The information was confirmed in October 2023, when the hair products brand, Seda, launched the ‘Juntinhos’ line (which includes shampoo, conditioner and styling cream, suitable for children between 3 and 12 years old), where Tiana appears as a symbol to motivate little ones to take care of their curly hair in its most varied formats and textures.
That’s because, in the promotional video, Tiana, who was also the studio’s first black princess, was ready to make her classic bun. But after noticing a photo of her grandmother with her hair down, she gives up on the hairstyle and adopts her strands the way they are; remember!
Opening doors for more representation, after Tiana, Disney launched Merida, princess from the film “Brave” (2012) who has long, voluminous curly hair.
In the animation, the red-haired princess always appears with her locks loose, a detail that required enormous work for the animators, as for her hair to gain movement, exclusive technology was needed to animate the 11 thousand and 700 strands (among them, 1500 drawn one by one) of the character, as reported by Disney Brasil.
Finally, there’s Moana, a brave wavy girl. The daughter of the chief of a community of the Motonui ethnic group from Polynesia also shows off her unmoored waves in the animation “Moana – Um Mar de Aventuras”, released in 2016, where she becomes responsible for sailing across the ocean to return the Heart of Te Fiti , which had long ago been stolen by the demigod Maui.
Source: Recreio
