Ariel from The Little Mermaid - Daily Cosplay .com

Ariel is the youngest daughter of King Triton and Queen Athena, rulers of Atlantica, and has six older sisters. She is often seen in the company of Flounder, her best friend, and Sebastian, her father's advisor who is often assigned to watch over her. Ariel has a fascination with the human world and often goes off to find human artifacts that she displays in a secret grotto.

Ariel is cosplayed by Traci Hines. Traci is a singer/songwriter native to Southern California. She's known for her covers of popular hits on YouTube, and her more recently released original music.

Traci not only writes and performs her own music, but also has become known for her performances as classic fairytale princesses and characters. It started out as only a hobby for fun, creating costumes for photo shoots and video performances, but quickly became a dream job, as Traci became one of the most sought after children's entertainers in the United States. Traci's character performances, though always child-friendly, are not limited to young audiences. She often appears as iconic characters for a broad range of audiences. She has portrayed virtually every popular fairytale character, but The Little Mermaid is her most requested persona.

An artist in more ways than one, Traci loves designing costume pieces and photo shoot/performance items for herself, as well as for her customers, who commission her for couture wigs, and the unique costume-pieces and mermaid-inspired accessories she sells through her Etsy shop, the Siren's Grotto. Despite all her artistic multitasking tendencies, Traci's most fervent passion is music, and she hopes to touch hearts and lives through it.

See Traci's fantastic cosplays and more at TraciHines.com, Facebook.com/TraciHinesMusic and Twitter.com/TraciHines

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August 28, 2012