I love doing mermaids for several reasons - one, the technical challenge of getting a curly tail, two, because I have an amazing tube that makes curly hair, and three because they are such strong representations of the female - alluring, joyful, dangerous, mysterious, sexy but seemingly lacking in the aspect of the female that makes them vulnerable - the 'hole'. And, finally practically everyone I speak to about them has an idea of what they look like, and yet no one has actually seen one...
Below: in progress