I am a makeup artist and mermaid tail maker living in Calgary, AB. About three years ago, I started to build these custom costumes. I have always loved the water, and with a background in special FX makeup and science, it just made sense to try to build a realistic mermaid tail.
The first mermaid costume took around six months to build, hand sculpting over 1500 individual scales and designing a unique fluke.
Today I have five different fluke designs and three types of scales for the real-life mermaids. Each tail is custom fit and painted. Some are rainbow mermaid tails and others in more realistic colors. Even with molds made and many improvements to design each tail still takes over 60 hours to build and paint.
When I started building tails there were no other tail makers in Canada, but the Merpeople community is great and supportive. I got the opportunity to meet many of them at Mermania in North Carolina this January. Since starting, I have sent many tails to the United States and around the world. I am so happy to be able to create dreams for other mermaids!
Feel free to contact me with mermaid dreams of your own.
Photos by Citrus Photography, Andras Schram Photography, through the looking glass photography. Models: Tracy Falukozi, Peyton Gastel, Nikki Abbott, Jason Mellor, Carolynne Scoffield.
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