Hello There,
Everybody loves lists, and everybody loves Princesses (or at least everybody should!), so this should be a fun read for all! I'm here today to list my top five favorite princesses! Choosing which lovely lady falls on #1 was pretty difficult, but I thinks I've made my decision! So which royal wonder will be my favorite, let's count them down to find out!
Honorable Mention: Princess Ariel
I've decided to include an honorable mention because there's a non-Disney princess on this list, and you all know how I'm ride or die with my Disney Princesses, so I felt a little bad about leaving Ariel off of my list! I never watched little mermaid as a kid like many, so I have no nostalgia associated with her character, but she's still enjoyable to watch none the less. She falls down compared to the other princesses on this list because her wardrobe is a bit lacking. Sure the pink dress is fine, and her wedding dress is fun, but what I'd consider her best dress, the sea foam green ball gown, is worn only in marketing material and in the Disney theme parks! So while yes the dress is incredible, it's not even in her movie! Lame!
5. Princess Rapunzel
At number five I've got Rapunzel. Like Ariel I've only recently become attached to Rapunzel. Her infectious glee, and free spiritedness are just to endearing to ignore. Funnily enough however, initially I HATED Rapunzel's dress, it was just way too busy and peasant-ish to me. It has since grown on me however, and has far and away become one of my favorite dresses of all time!! So Rapunzel really has it all, the look, the personality and her movie is great too, she was an easy choice for my list!
4. Princess Cinderella
At number four I've got Disney's most iconic princess: Cinderella. Strangely enough I'm really not that big a fan of Cinderella's movie or even Cinderella herself! What draws me to her is what she represents: Transformation. Makes total sense coming from someone who regularly transforms their gender doesn't it? Yes I love how the idea of how anyone can transform themselves into a beauty like Cinderella. It's not just the characteristic of transformation that draws me to Cinderella, you just can not go wrong with that iconic dress! Sparkly blue, puff sleeves, the ball gown silhouette, just amazing! Lastly as I mentioned earlier she's THE quintessential Disney Princess, how could she not hold a special place in my heart. So although she's not my favorite character or in my favorite movie, there's more than enough to love about Cinderella to warrant her inclusion on my list!
3. Princess Peach
Here we are at our only non-Disney Princess on this list, at number three I've chosen Princess Peach! She's the video game industries most iconic princess (get out of town Zelda!), and with her recent appearance in the Super Mario Bros Movie, she has taken her place among cinema's greatest princesses. I have a long history with Princess Peach, which you can read all about in her dedicated blog post. So much about Peach appeals to me, there was no way she was gonna not make my list.
2. Princess Belle
The next choice of princess was a really tough one, but at number two I've chosen princess belle. I know what you're thinking, the princess behind your namesake is only number two?!?! Things change, and new frontrunner has moved past my beloved Belle. But we'll talk about that other princess in a minute, right now it's all about Belle! Belle is everything you'd want from a princess, intelligent, kind, graceful, AND WHAT A DRESS!!! Yeah her dress is just ridiculously amazing, there was nothing else I desired to wear more as a child than Belle's iconic dress. Belle really is perfect in pretty much everyway, and honestly is probably interchangeable with the number one choice on this list. That being said I had to make a choice and I've recently found myself enjoying...
1. Princess Aurora
Make it Pink! At number one we have Princess Aurora! Like I mentioned earlier for the longest time Belle was my favorite Princess but as I dived deeper and deeper into princess culture I found myself being drawn more and more to Aurora. I think she just encapsulates all the stereotypical qualities of femininity that draw me to it: Beauty (she's literally called sleeping beauty LOL), grace, charm, kindness. While belle certainly embodies modern femininity with her intelligence and strong will, Aurora embodies the aspects of femininity that I find to be missing during my time as male.
Also that dress though!! We all know pink is my favorite color, so how could I not choose the Disney Princess with an iconic pink dress. Sure the dress is blue some of the time, but Disney itself seems to prefer Pink as the color for the dress since it is the color predominately featured on all of its marking material as well as worn by Aurora in the Disney parks. Sure it's not a ball gown with a full wide skirt like most other dresses on this list, but it's sleek and feminine, and matches Aurora's grace.
Is Sleeping Beauty the best Disney Princess movie? No. But it does still have some really redeeming characteristics that make it an enjoyable watch. Prince Phillip is a bad ass, and not only is Maleficent Disney's greatest villain, but she also turns into a freaken dragon! All that surrounding the lovely Aurora makes her story a fun one. Aurora really has every thing that draws me to princesses: femininity's stereotypical characteristics, an amazing dress, and a dragon! She's stolen my heart and sits atop the throne of my favorite Disney Princess!
-Carly