Mermaid Handbook The

Answer the enchanting siren call of the mermaid with this comprehensive lavishly illustrated and intricately designed oneofakind lifestyle compendium from the editor in chief of Faerie Magazine and author of The Faerie Handbook and globally published novel Mermaid packed with lore legends facts and trivia beautiful illustrations and numerous stepbystep projects and recipes. Beautiful seductive mysterious and potentially dangerous the mermaid is a global literary and pop culture icon whose roots date back to ancient sea goddesses and Greek mythology. From Homer’s Odyssey and Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale The Little Mermaid to T.S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and the Disney animated film The Little Mermaid this sea vixen has long seduced popular imagination. Cosmetic companies have drawn inspiration for their makeup lines from mermaids as have designers throughout fashion history from Jean Patou to Jean Paul Gaultier and Alexander McQueen. The fishtail dress is a perennial long redcarpet staple favored by the likes of Marion Cotillard Sofia Vergara and Blake Lively. Divided into four sections—Fashion and Beauty Arts and Culture Real Mermaids and Where to Find Them and Food Entertaining and Stories of the Sea—The Mermaid Handbook is a unique and sumptuous compilation filled with creative ideas for decorating and living inspired by these beauties from the deep. Learn to make a sailor’s valentine a mermaid comb and crown and a pearl and sequin paillette necklace. There are recipes for mermaidthemed poke bowls aquaticthemed honey gingerbread cookies and the official cocktail of the 1960sera mermaid attraction Aquarama. Folklore expert Carolyn Turgeon also includes profiles of true modern mermaids tail makers and mermaid bars visits mermaid attractions like Weeki Wachee Springs and provides tips on getting beachy mermaid hair and creating an alluring eye.