Katy Perry sports long, purple hair for hair untensil company ad

Deborah Kim

Katy Perry appears backstage at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles on August 28, 2011. Perry won three MTV Moonmen awards including the biggest prize of the night for Video of the Year with "Fireworks" as well as honors for Best Collaboration and Best Special Effects. UPI/Jayne Kamin-Oncea

Katy Perrys hair is no stranger to bright-colored dyes, but this time shes getting paid.

Just Jared reported the Teenage Dream star sports long, purple strands for a print ad for GHD hair utensils, which is best known for their line of hair straighteners.

In the photo, Perry can be seen dressed as a mermaid, with a multi-colored bustier and green fishtail, resting on a wooden pole in the middle of the ocean in front of a bridge.

According to the UKs Daily Mail, Perry is promoting the companys Air hairdryer, which is supposedly the best on the market.

The photo was taken by famed photographed David LaChapelle.

Dave LaChappelle made the set amazing, she said of the photographer. It was fun. I got to have purple hair which foreshadowed the real purple hair I had last fall.

The 27-year-old, who recently split with her husband of two years, comedian Russell Brand, also compared the shoot to a popular Disney flick (its not too hard to guess which one).

Its as if Lisa Frank had done The Little Mermaid, she said.

You can next catch Perry at the Grammy Awards on Feb.12, where shell be performing along with Rihanna, Coldplay, Paul McCartney, Bruno Mars, Kelly Clarkson, Jason Aldean, and Nicki Minaj.