Shalisha the Legendary Mermaid was drawn by Megan when she was 7 years-old. I very recently made a photobook of some of her artwork, which is what you see in the video. My family doesn’t need a toxic system like Hollywood for representation; however, we still look forward to seeing such a beautiful, talented, sweet, amazing young lady like Halle Bailey cast as the Live Action Ariel!
I’m also elated to see the happiness from all of the precious Black girls and boys out there!
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Transcript of the video above; Note: I wasn’t feeling or sounding too well. The transcript is put together from YouTube. It can be a little hard to follow. I’ve just pasted this here for search engine purposes; however, it’s a lot easier for you to just watch the video! :+)
Okay, hello, happy Thursday.
Halle Bailey she is absolutely her voice and everything is absolutely amazing. But beyond amazing, she has
a one in a million voice
0:25 like Whitney Houston who’s one
of my favorites. When I saw the
0:32 teaser trailer I
was like let me just
0:39 go ahead and start paying a little bit
0:41 more attention to
0:43 the movie because at first I was like
0:45 you know
0:46 I never really saw the little mermaid
0:48 when I was um little. uh I think
0:51 we watched it in school and
0:54 um but you know I wasn’t a big fan or
0:56 anything but anyway
1:08 I made a photo book of some of my daughter’s
1:11 drawings. We’re calling
1:14 her business M Chantel art and we’re
1:18 going to be selling we’re going to be
1:21 for a limited time only one
1:24 design
1:28 it’s right here, Zuri.
1:31 This is the artwork that I’ll be talking
1:34 a lot more about that’s what we’re going
1:35 to be offering
1:40 and these are her hands. Say hello Megan.
1:46 These are the beautiful hands
1:49 that drew this artwork.
1:54 briefly speaking of mermaids
2:00 Megan drew this when she was seven
2:03 and she is called Shalisha.
2:07 Shalisha the legendary mermaid. When
2:10 Megan drew her before she started doing the
2:13 digital drawings when she did her pencil
2:16 and paper drawings and things.
2:19 It was always a story behind the
2:22 characters and a story behind
2:25 the artwork and everything so we have
2:28 a whole lot of drawings and everything.
2:33 And she said that Shalisha is legendary
2:37 because she has multiple fins.
2:39 As you can see right there
2:43 absolutely
2:45 phenomenal. Megan is now 11. And so this
2:49 is from when she was seven let’s go back
2:50 to one of her drawings when she was five
2:52 years old. It was also a mermaid
3:01 right here our other mermaid drawing.
3:05 she drew this when she was five years-old.
Megan & Mom’s Mermaid Cove
Ideas to celebrate a beautiful, brown live action Ariel:
More to come!! Galleries, party ideas, art prints, books, coloring pages, gift ideas and more!