Fan Casting Ariel in Disney Princesses (Official and a few Unofficial)

Ariel is a beautiful adolescent mermaid with an hourglass figure, fair skin, red lips and large, deep aqua blue eyes. Ariel is drawn with somewhat semi-neotenous human features, with larger eyes and with a head more similar to a child's than an adult's in proportion to her body, giving her an appearance of youth rather than maturity. This suggests the combination of youthful innocence and physical maturity which Ariel represented.