Well, I might not be a real life princess (never say never!), but at least I can dress like a cartoon one, right? I love taking fashion inspiration from the on-screen heroines who were my role models growing up. And you can dress like them, too! No, that doesn’t mean getting decked out in ball gowns every day… it means using their Disney outfits as inspiration for some cute outfits you can wear any day of the week. Check out these 10 looks based on 10 of the best Disney characters ever, and don’t forget to click on the picture if you want to find out more info on the clothing!

Ariel from The Little Mermaid

Pocahontas from Pocahontas

Aurora from Sleeping Beauty

Belle from Beauty and The Beast

Mulan from Mulan

Cinderella from Cinderella

Jasmine from Aladdin

Snow White from Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs

Tiana from The Princess and The Frog

Rapunzel from Tangled

Which of these outfits is your favorite? Are you going to try any of them? What did we miss? Who do you want to dress like? Tell me in the comments!

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Sofia the First is the first Latina Disney princess. Or is she? Who knows? | Source: YouTube

A Latina Disney princess is on the horizon, and she’s making headlines before anyone has seen her show.

We’re all familiar with Disney princesses, and until relatively recently–with the additions of Jasmine, Mulan, Pocahontas, and Tiana–they’ve been pretty consistently white. And people are complaining that the new Latina Disney princess, Sofia, actually isn’t Latina enough.

Sofia, of Sofia the First, has fair skin, blue eyes, and brown hair, and she’s pretty adorable, isn’t she? Disney has announced her as being Latina, but they admit that they never call it out on the show (the only other hint besides her name is that her mom in the series appears to be olive-skinned).

Critics who think Sofia doesn’t look Latina enough are saying that Disney is only calling Sofia Latina to make themselves look good. But this is tricky in itself, and here’s why: Who’s to say what a Latina looks like? There are plenty of Latina women with light eyes and skin, so it’s almost as if Disney’s critics expect them to promote a stereotype.

What’s more, the fact that Disney never explicitly calls Sofia out on her Latina heritage on the show–that we know of, considering, you know, it hasn’t aired yet–may also not be so bad. How often do you and your parents walk around being like, “Hey, you’re still Japanese/German/Nigerian/Moroccan/Polish/etc. today? How’s that going? You’re good?” You probably don’t, right? Because it’s part of you, and something constant. You likely acknowledge it in unspoken ways–the foods you eat, the way you may pronounce certain words, or sometimes in the way you dress. That may well go down on the show somehow, but we don’t know for sure.

In fairness to the critics who say Sofia is only the first Latina Disney princess in title alone, her ethnicity in the show is described as “half-Enchancian and half-Galdizian.” We can’t find those on our map of Latin America, either. Additionally, in a lot of Latin television, the fairer-haired and lighter-eyed Latina actresses often get the most screen time, so we can see how this may be frustrating for anyone who looks like a darker Latina and doesn’t feel represented adequately.

But. Here’s the big but: Until we’ve seen the show, it’s really hard to make a judgment on whether Sofia of Sofia the First is depicted as “Latina” enough. And it’s also really hard to even narrow down what that even means. At the end of the day, everything offends someone. At least get a good look at it before judging, because otherwise it presents an irony: We’re prejudging others and assuming they’re prejudiced. All we know about the show so far is in this little preview:

Do you think Sofia the First is only a Latina Disney princess in title alone? What do you think a Latina Disney princess should look like? Who’s your favorite Disney princess? What ethnicities do you think Disney princesses should represent next? Tell us in the comments!

Did Ariel go under the knife?!

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Maybe we just want to remember our childhood fantasies as just that–fantasies. Although now that I am a bit older I am starting to think long and hard about the messages some Disney movies tried to send. Why did Ariel give up her voice for some guy she barely new? Her voice. Think about what that means. Your voice is the tool you use to express yourself, communicate your ideas, to speak out against harm and injustice. She gave that up for a dude? Belle wasn’t much different. She hung around this mean guy in hopes that he may change and because he may “really” love her. Sounds like abuse to me.

Watch this video and see if you’ve changed your position on Disney movie couples.

Do you think Disney can send the wrong message sometimes? Let us know in the comments!

If you said pretty, you’re right. And if you said blonde, you’re not alone–but you’re wrong. Yes, all the recent Disney Princess merchandise (which holy wow there’s a ton of!) depicts her with bright yellow blonde hair, but if you take a peek at the original Disney movie of Cinderella, girlfriend’s a certified red head!

Don’t believe me? Watch this remastered clip from the new DVD and Blu-Ray rerelease of Cinderella that came out yesterday:

If that hair isn’t pumpkin orange, well then, I’m blind. I watched Cinderella at least once a week when I was little, just because I loved that she was a red head like me (The Little Mermaid, with her less-realistic candy red hair, didn’t come out until I was in fifth grade). So what gives? Why did Cinderella effectively bleach her hair blonde to be part of the Disney Princess gang?

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I don’t think it’s too late. The clock hasn’t struck midnight. Nothing is impossible. Cinderella should go back to her natural red head roots, and hold her head high. Being a red head isn’t something to hide, it’s something that makes you shine.

What do you think? Is Cinderella even more awesome as a blonde or should she go back to her natural red head hair color? Tell us in the comments!

Is This Disney Princess Game . . . RACIST?!

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So . . . WHY are the white princesses so much bigger again?!

All that said, I’m pretty pissed about the new Disney Princess Candy Land game that’s coming out this winter. I got a preview of the cover art in the mail yesterday, and um, there’s something pretty disturbing about it. Rapunzel and Ariel are featured super-prominently in the left corner, looking all princessey and stuff. Cool. Whatever. But then when you look closely, on the right side, you see a super tiny Tiana and equally minuscule Jasmine peering out from the balcony of a tower. Wait. What? Why can’t they party up front with Rapunzel and Ariel?

I love that half of the princesses included are minority princesses (such a huge improvement from the ’80s when there weren’t even any princesses of color at all!), but why are they like–an eighth of the size of the white girls? Couldn’t they have had four big pictures of princesses and made them all the same size? As it is now, it’s like they just included Jasmine and Tiana as an afterthought. A kind of crappy, half-done, not so great afterthought at that.

Obviously a ton of you are going to say that I’m overreacting to something that’s just meant to be fun and cute, but really guys, stuff like this reinforces the stupid thought that women of color aren’t as important as white women. That they’re supporting characters and not the stars. It sucks, it’s sad, and It bums me out.

What do you think about the Disney Princess Candy Land box? Do you think it’s racist or do you think it’s fine? Sound off in the comments!

Have You Seen The Real Life Disney Princesses?

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These girls are talented makeup artists so be sure to visit their pages and check out all their imaginative transformations. You won’t want to miss Kandee Johnson’s Malificent or Tamang Phan’s Barbie!

Snow White

Mulan

 

Pocahontas

 

Cinderella

 

Belle

 

Ariel

 

Jasmine

 

Tiana

Which is your favorite Disney Princess transformation? Let us know in the comments!