Halle Bailey's Little Mermaid Hair Cost A Staggering Amount Of Money

"The Little Mermaid" remake made global headlines when Halle Bailey, one half of the sister musical duo, Chloe x Halle was picked for the role. While plenty of the talk surrounding this casting decision centered on Bailey's being Black, other people were wondering how Ariel's red hair would come into play with the actor's dreadlocks. Well, if there's one thing Disney will do, it's the seemingly impossible. When you are a multi-billion-dollar mega-corporation, you have the financial leeway to go a little crazy now and then. "The Little Mermaid" cost a whopping $250 million to make and now we know where a sizable chunk of that money went.

Camille Friend is one of the hair stylists that helped transform Bailey's locs into Ariel's new hair and she revealed to Variety that styling the star's hair for the role set Disney back at least $150,000. If that sounds like the most expensive hairdo ever, it's because of how many times they had to redo it.

Because of the star's attachment to her hair, Friend decided it would be better to add three shades of red extensions around her dreadlocks rather than using a wig. "If we take hair and wrap it around her locs, we don't have to cut them and we don't have to color them," Friend explained. "We can change her color without changing her internal hair structure. Her structure and her hair are her."