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Mermaid 🏳️‍🌈🧜🏾‍♀️ vs GHOSTFACE 👻🔪 Featuring @newvillagebraid 💆🏽‍♀️

🧜🏾‍♀️ What happens when one of the most infamous Halloween figures, GHOSTFACE, calls @themermaidrayshell during Halloween 😂👻

💆🏽‍♀️ As soon as @newvillagebraid sent their Non Toxic, Anti Itch, Anti Bacterial and Pre Stretched braid hair in different colors to @themermaidrayshell, I knew she was in trouble! The person behind this GHOSTFACE mask won’t stop until they get their hands on it… or Mermaid RayShell first!!! Make sure y’all hit them for some amazing hair!

🩸I might be fighting for my life, but at least my braids are giving EVERYTHING they’re supposed to give! 😂💁🏾‍♀️

🧜🏾‍♀️✨Shoutout to @newvillagebraid for keeping this mermaid looking good, even in a horror movie! 🧜🏾‍♀️✨

🥤 And I love how my favorite @drinkolipop survived!

Starring:
🧜🏾‍♀️✨ @themermaidrayshell as Gay Mermaid Final Girl
🔪👻 @realdeangelique as GHOSTFACE
☎️🤳🏾 MEEEE as the voice of GHOSTFACE

ART DEPARTMENT:

💆🏽‍♀️✨Hair braided by: @jett.doingjett
💆🏽‍♀️✨Hair provided by: @newvillagebraid
👕🧜🏾‍♀️Shirt by: @deangelique.art

#newvillagebraid #ghostface #mermaidlife #mermaidhair #horrorfilm by @themermaidrayshell

🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Trying to celebrate the G’OAT @aja22wilson FIIIIIIFTH MVP and here coming my momma being a referee! @sexyangela81

🧜🏾‍♀️✨ Why can’t I celebrate in peace?! Going back to the ocean until the game tonight. This why I don’t be swimming here to visit now! 😒

🏀 Anyways, the mermaids love you A! Congrats again and again and again! You are the G’oat! ACES IN ✋🏽

#comedy #mermaid #basketballislife #goat #mermaidlife by @themermaidrayshell

Black Women & Diving: DeDe Hardeman on Cost, Hair & Fear of the Water ✨🧜🏾‍♀️ Interview & Article Write up with @sevenseas_media 🦈

🧜🏾‍♀️✨ Y’all… honestly, when I first started diving, it was to cure my anxiety. And because I’m DeDe 😂 I like to do crazy things! I want to swim with sharks, listen to dolphins talk and apparently keep finding new ways to get myself in the water. 🌊😂

🧜🏾‍♀️✨ I NEVER imagined diving would start changing my life the way it has.

📖 @sevenseas_media did this beautiful piece on me talking about how I got into diving, the disparity of swimming in our communities, the fear of the water, and something I don’t think we talk about enough: Black hair and getting in the water.

🤿 We talked about what it costs to learn, what it takes to get certified, why so many Black women never get the opportunity to dive, and my journey from to becoming a freediver, scuba diver AND a mermaid. 🧜🏾‍♀️

📕 And yes… they also gave y’all a little HINT about my new book:

📚 GET IN THE D*MN WATER. 🌊

🏊🏾‍♀️ I’m also building something in the aquatics space. 👀Something that I hope gets more people in the water, around the water and experiencing the water in completely different ways. I can’t say too much yet…

🌊 But GET IN is about to mean a whole lot more than a book. 👀🌊

🦈 Thank you soooo much @sevenseas_media for telling this part of my story so beautifully. ❤️

➡️Swipe through for a few pages from the article → then read the full story at the link in my bio!

Organized by: @berrydynamicagency

#interview #mermaids #diving #representation #article by @themermaidrayshell

🧜🏾‍♀️✨ Always be yourself. Unless you can be a MERMAID! Then always be a MERMAID! @themermaidrayshell ✨🧜🏾‍♀️

🧜🏾‍♀️ ✨ Thank you to the best MERMAID ever @mermaidsirenity for teaching us the Mermaid Ways! You’re the most amazing MERMAID ever, in and out of the water! Keep swimming and inspiring! Ready to make some Mermaid Magic!

#onlyfins #fin #mermaidparty #swimmingisfun #mermaidvibes by @themermaidrayshell

Black MERMAID Alert ‼️ @themermaidrayshell 🧜🏾‍♀️✨

🧜🏾‍♀️✨ So y’all, I had two experiences this week. The first was a young black girl while I was at dinner who was talking to me. We had the same hair. She says, “Did you know I was a Mermaid?” And everyone I was sitting at the table with goes, “She’s a Mermaid!” So her parents let me show her my pics and videos! Y’all she was so infatuated to see someone that looked like her (Besides our little mermaid Halle Bailey of course) in the water! Now she wants to be a mermaid for real to swim with me!

🧜🏾‍♀️✨ The second one seems simple but I went to a watch party yesterday! The founder was introducing herself and she stops and goes, “Wait, you’re the Mermaid Lady!” I go, “Yes I’m the Mermaid Lady!” And that made everyone around us go Mermaid? So I got to show them my pics and videos too!

🥹 I really am out here jumping in the water wihh to a Mermaid tail y’all! Soon I’m going to teach y’all how to swim and be mermaids too! I’m working on it! Because I want everyone to Get in the D*mn Water 👀🧜🏾‍♀️✨

🧜🏾‍♀️✨ So showcasing where it all started, In Italy! I love Slide 2! That’s going on my mama’s refrigerator! 😍✨

#mermaidfun #mermaidsarereal #mermaidlife #travelingtheworld #underwaterphoto by @themermaidrayshell

Meet @dedehardeman ✨ The #Houstonactress and creator behind @themermaidrayshell is building a new chapter around diving, travel, representation and the freedom she found beneath the surface.

Mermaid RayShell is the most visible expression of that discovery, but the woman beneath the fin remains an actress, writer, producer and storyteller. Hardeman has simply found a new environment in which to tell those stories. These days, some of her most interesting ones happen to begin beneath the surface.

Read more: https://famoustimes.com/from-screen-to-sea-and-how-dede-hardeman-is-making-space-for-black-women-in-the-water/

#mermaid #onlyfinz #houseofhardeman #media by @themermaidrayshell

FORGOT MY LUBE! Now I can’t get it on! 🧜🏾‍♀️

🧜🏾‍♀️✨Decided to get some MERMAID practice in MY FIRST TAIL! Went down to this beautiful pool at THE YARD Hotel and realized I forgot my LUBE…🫣😱

🧜🏾‍♀️ Listen! Getting this tail on is NOT easy! Especially when you’re by yourself 😂 I learned that we can use some lubricant to rub on our *non existent human legs* to get our tails on! However, I forgot mine 😂

🧜🏾‍♀️ But once I get my tail on, we swim!!! Watch til the end! I’m getting better! 🥹

🏨 One of my favorite things about @littlebighotels THE YARD is their Indoor Pool! Sitting right under a Sunroof, this pool can be used until 10pm! You can come in here no matter the weather outside! It feels so good! And this area also comes equipped with a sauna and showers! Talk about super relaxation!!!

🧜🏾‍♀️✨ What do you guys think? You like my new tail?! How about how it looks in the pool? We just have to figure out a way to get this on faster before they realize I actually have legs! 😭🫣🧜🏾‍♀️✨

#mermaidtail #mermaidstyle #comedy #swimmingpooltime #mermaidvibes by @themermaidrayshell

Berry Dynamic Agency is proud to welcome @dedehardeman to the family. 🌊✨ An actress, writer, producer, bestselling author, aquatic storyteller, and Founder of House of Hardeman, DeDe is building a powerful creative ecosystem at the intersection of entertainment, travel, water, culture, sports, and immersive storytelling.

From the screen to the sea, she is creating cinematic Story Worlds, expanding representation through @themermaidrayshell , and opening the door to bold new partnerships across tourism, hospitality, lifestyle, entertainment, and beyond.

For media and partnership inquiries: connect@berrydynamicagency.com

#DeDeHardeman #HouseOfHardeman #BerryDynamicAgency #AquaticStorytelling #CreativeEntrepreneurship by @themermaidrayshell

Just got back from Italy to become a Mermaid but will my family believe me? Am I no longer a gay mermaid? Is my sister mad because I went to the store again? Will I turn into a mermaid? Find out on this episode of:

✨🧜🏾‍♀️ HOUSE OF THE MERMAID 🧜🏾‍♀️✨

✨🧜🏾‍♀️ Once again, @realdeangelique has had to watch the babies because I went to the store. I NEVER said the store was in the US!

✨🧜🏾‍♀️ Will she believe I’m really a Mermaid tho? 💦

✨🧜🏾‍♀️ The water 😂😂😭 The saxophones were getting LOUD 🎷

#parttwo #mermaidtales #comedy #funnyreelsvideo #travelholic by @themermaidrayshell

From UNDERWATER FITNESS to PUTTING ON MY TAIL FOR THE FIRST TIME… Come with me to BECOME A MERMAID aka @themermaidrayshell for @sirenes_mermaidexperience in Ischia, Italy 🧜🏾‍♀️✨❤️

🧜🏾‍♀️✨ PART ONE ✨🧜🏾‍♀️

🧜🏾‍♀️✨ Yall I’m cracking up because I get THE MOST auditions when I’m out of town. I think that’s the secret weapon lmao

🧜🏾‍♀️✨ Underwater Fitness is Heaven! Shoutout to @calmwaterco_ for preparing me for this! I was able to be the teacher’s pet…fish 😂 Soon I’ll be able to do a backflip in my tail!

🧜🏾‍♀️✨ Love all My Mersisters! Miss them so muuuuch!!!!! Days 3 & 4 we get down to the Mermaid Nitty Gritty! Stay tuned!!!

#BecomingAMermaid #MermaidClass #mermaidatheart #italy #travelling by @themermaidrayshell

Watch til the end!!! Of course we had to do this @theestallion trend BECAUSE transforming into a mermaid is a PROCESS!!! Ahahaha and of course we had my veautiful twerking mermaids @norikomatsuki & @kathleen.paige killing it in their mermaid tails! 😍🧜🏾‍♀️✨ We gotta be in the next video!

🧜🏾‍♀️✨ From our fins to having lube to pull up our tails to underwater makeup to crowns, it’s amazing how we can swim underwater with all of this! Stay tuned to my mermaid series as I discover all the amazing things I learned at @sirenes_mermaidexperience

🧜🏾‍♀️✨ Shoutout to my mermaidsisters who were killing EVERY LOOK!!! Oooweeee 😍 Our ONLY FINS gonna go up! 😂😂

@mermaidsirenity @amina.dancermermaid @miaa.mckenziee @mermaidsirenella @elisespillekom @yulyachai.live @mermaidunmasked @adelicate_ @daniella.arata @rain_dropletz @norikomatsuki @sirenalinaofficial @mmash75 @kathleen.paige

#dance #twerking #mermaidtails #vacayvibes #mermaidstyle by @themermaidrayshell

And so…I went to Ischia, Italy to become a MERMAID with @sirenes_mermaidexperience 🧜🏾‍♀️✨ and @themermaidrayshell was born 🥹😍

🧜🏾‍♀️✨ I took a trip to Italy to learn from my FAVORITE MERMAID, @mermaidsirenity and a group of amazing Mermaids on how to become this mythical underwater creature

🧜🏾‍♀️✨ Those 4 days were so amazing!!! Putting on my first mermaid tail was Euphoric! Performing and swimming in front of a castle in front of a live audience? Yes please!!!

🧜🏾‍♀️✨ just a first glimpse at my mermaid persona. @themermaidrayshell and I can’t wait to share more with you all!!!!

🧜🏾‍♀️✨ Also I officially became the first African American to go through the @sirenes_mermaidexperience so I can’t wait to help create and inspire more black mermaids because liiiiiiike Black People swim! Duh!!!!

🧜🏾‍♀️✨ More coming soon

#italy #mermaidexperience #mermaidswim #travels #underwater by @themermaidrayshell