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7 Subtle Ways to Live Your Best Mermaid Life

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These subtle ways to live your best mermaid life are the only ways to team mermaid style with your normal grown-up life, without people staring at your outlandish mermaid ways!

The mermaid trend caught on quickly and is pretty unrelenting. Mermaid blankets hit the shops first, then came the sequined backpacks, mermaid hair and pretty much all any other mermaid merch you could think of. Some of it was more overtly mermaid-y than others, but when you’re a grown up, people expect you to be a bit more subtle *sigh*.

This list involves all the ways I stealthily live my best mermaid life!

Subtle Ways to Live Your Best Mermaid Life

Start the day right

Live Your Best Mermaid Life

Drink your morning coffee from this lush Mermaid Hair, Don’t Care mug. It’s definitely grown-up enough, because only grown ups drink coffee! I suppose it also makes a nice gift for someone else, but why give it away when you can keep such a beautiful product!

Get the look

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I love this Mermaids vs Unicorns palette so much it’s ridiculous. It has light and dark shades, as well as bright and subtle, so you really can create a look for any occasion. It’s currently on offer for £4 so you’d be totally foolish to miss out!

Here I am living my best mermaid life with a look I’ve created with this palette.

Live Your Best Mermaid Life

I’m also claiming this photo as two more subtle ways to live your best mermaid life, first you’ll notice the fishtail plait and I’m sure by now you’ve noticed my opalescent lippie! The lipstick is actually lipgloss from Amazon (less than £3 and it stays on!) If you’re not great at hair, search YouTube for a far better fishtail than mine!

Click here to read about the foundation I’m wearing in this post.

Mermaid nails

Live Your Best Mermaid Life

Barry M are my go-to budget nail paint people. They’re cheap and cheerful and usually have have a 3 for 2 offer on their colours. The shades are really striking compared to other brands around that price, but you do need 2-3 coats. I’ve heard people complain they chip easily but I always use a strong top coat and haven’t had any problems, so maybe that’s the answer? You might also like to read about these nail trends.

Mermaid makeup brushes

Live Your Best Mermaid Life

Spectrum are well-known for their high quality brushes. They do a mermaid range, but I think their traditional range is mermaid-y enough if I’m honest! Pinks, blues, under the sea hues, what’s more mermaidish than that? Their normal range is a bit cheaper too. (If you’re a boyfriend/husband reading this and buying the brushes as a gift, definitely splash out and get the mermaid gift set, the mermaidiness of these brushes is still pretty subtle and your lady-friend will probably want the case they come in!)

Mermaid hair ties

Live Your Best Mermaid Life

If your mermaid hair keeps falling in your mermaid eyes (or you want something to secure your fishtail plait with) then these grown-up mermaid hair ties are for you! They’re £1.49 plus £1 P&P which I think we can all agree is frankly ridiculous (I’d pay at least £4 for these!) so get them while there’s still some left!

If you’re a new mum, you might like to read about my fave low-effort beauty essentials.

 

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These mermaid makeup and mermaid styling ideas are a great way to low-key live your best mermaid life! Combining all of the girly pinks, purples and blues of the ocean, some of these mermaid items will make the perfect mermaid gifts for yourself or a girlfriend #mermaid #mermaidmakeup

 

 

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  1. Helen newton says

    Love the Barry M Mermaid Nails such gorgeous colours would love to experiment with the colours and would also look lovely on the toes with sandals xxx

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  2. Hayley Colburn says

    I love the mermaids v unicorns palette, the colours are so bold and bright (and sparkly too) just gorgeous

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  3. Anneka Avery says

    It has to be the eyeshadow palette – I’m amazed with what you have done and you look fantastic! I think with those bold pigments and a good brush you can create all kinds of looks! Well done! Also the mug too lol gotta love that!

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  9. Susan B says

    What a lovely post. Love your mermaid fishtail plait and my favourite item is the Mermaids vs Unicorns palette.

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  10. Karen Hughes says

    I like the mermaid brush set, but I think my daughter who is obsessed with mermaids would be happy with any of that. Will get her the hair bands. Can’t believe how cheap they are

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  20. amanda walsh says

    I love the makeup revolution palettes, they offer such a wide variety of colour options and are fab priced

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  32. Sophie James says

    Eyeshadow palette is definitely my fave! Such a fan of Revolution beauty, they’re cruelty free, and affordable!

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  39. Katrina Adams says

    These products are all fantastic and has given me a great idea for my Goddaughter’s birthday, who is mermaid mad, but I think my favourite is the mug. It’s so pretty.

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  48. Susan Willshee says

    I love the mermaid make up brushes. It makes such a difference if you have the right brush for the right job. Makes applying make up so much easier!

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