My First Attempt Balloon Mermaid

• A 160 to make mermaid’s hair. You can choose any colour you like.
• Make ten small bubbles. A sausage twist followed by two small pinch twists.

• Attach the pinch twists to the middle of ten bubbles.
• Inflate a skin colour 260 balloon half way. Make a small sausage twist as mermaid’s face.
  Tie the knot on the pinch twists;
• Gently push the big bubble through two orange sausage twists.
• Shape the rest of 160 orange hair in to the style you like.
• A pinch twist below the face to hold the head straight.

• Three small bubbles follow; The first one is slightly bigger. Pinch twist two smalls; Another bubble (no matter the size); make again two small bubbles turn them into pinch twists; then the slightly bigger one.
• Attach all seven bubbles to the pinch twist under the face. It should look like this.
• Use anything sharp to pup the middle bubble; now this is the look.

• Make two same sized sausage twists by 160 balloon for the mermaid’s gloves. Two pinch twists at the end to make her hands. Connect them onto the upper arms.

I know there are easier ways to make mermaid’s arms, but I simply can’t accept a mermaid has arms as thicker as her body. They suppose to have nice figure, aren’t they?

• Split a sausage twist into two small bubbles and tie it on mermaid’s body.

These are the steps were taken before I actually messed it up.

• One 160 blue and one 260 green were planned to be the tail.
• Made two small petal twists attached with the green pinch twist, which later would be sat at the back of mermaid.

Ideally the green would go on like this till the end of tail. Did not quite work, it popped when I finished her bottom…

• I wrapped the blue 160 around mermaid’s tummy, twisted at the front, then same way back. The green 260 went under the body; tied knot of the body onto the green one. Since this part will be all covered later, so no one would see the knot.

Then I made a lot of bubbles and pinch twists, until it looked like this.

Most balloon mermaids’ tails are bit dull in my opinion. I decided to create something different. That is when I started twisting, undoing, again and again; and two or three bursts...

Did not know how long it took, eventually… this came out.

I am quite happy about my mermaid. But definitely not suitable for selling; Don't think anyone would wait for that long :-D