Shirley

* Live-Action
* Animated
* Movies

* 2008
* The Mystery Note
* Ao (Doll)

* RHS
* MD
* FM

* The Movie
* Princess Camellia

* Zhan Yaqing (Rainbow Heart Stone(Taiwanese Dub), Miracle Dance(Taiwanese Dub))

## Character Information

### Hair color

Black (Human)
Golden yellow (Fairy)

### Friends

Maggie Lin
 Michelle Lin
Green Fairy
Lily Yan (sometimes)
Luna (formerly)
Sara
Emma
Prince Noah
Prince Omar (sometimes)

### Enemies

Luna (formerly)
 Shaman Dragon
Fire Spirit
Earth Spirit
Water Spirit
Queen Halle
Sirius Wolf
Sirius Snake
Prince Omar (sometimes)
Voiceless
Dola
Mila
Rela

## Shirley

* Animated
* Movies

The Movie

**Shirley** is the main character of *Balala the Fairies*. She is the Guardian Fairy of Fairy Castle. She caused the loss of the colored stones due to negligence. At the order of the Fairy Queen, she came to the human world to make up.

## Appearance

As a human, Shirley has fair skin and black hair. She wears an indigo top along with denim pants and squared glasses.
As a fairy, Shirley now has long golden blond hair and white eye makeup. She wears an orange headband with butterfly wings and a white dress with an orange skirt. She also has long white gloves with orange frills and golden boots with orange bows and butterfly emblems. She is always seen carrying her magic wand.

In Rainbow Heart Stone, As a human, Shirley has brown hair and eyes and wears a yellow dress.
As a Fairy, Shirley's hair turns blonde. Her outfit is almost the same as that of the first season, except it has the Rainbow Flower emblem at the center, an orange skirt, white arm warmers with orange frills, and golden yellow boots with orange ribbons.

In Miracle Dance, As a human, Shirley has brown hair and eyes, and wears a yellow dress.
As a fairy, her hair turns blonde, decorated with an orange ribbon with a golden star. She wears a yellow dress with a heart and star, with wings at the chest, and buttoned sleeves with white feather rims. The chest part of the dress has white rims as well. She wears yellow fingerless gloves, an orange skirt, and orange boots.

In The Mystery Note, As a human, Shirley has black, straight hair that goes up to her shoulders. She wears an X-shaped yellow hair clip on her left side. She wears an orange shirt, a yellow skirt, white socks, and orange ankle-length converses and wears her brooch as a pendant.
As a fairy, Shirley's hair turns yellow and becomes longer. Her dress remains the same as that of *Finding Melody*. Her gloves and her boots changed a little. She wears her yellow headset with a microphone.

In Finding Melody, As a human, Shirley is a tall person with brunette hair and golden eyes. She wears an orange blouse with a long yellow skirt, along with white socks and orange shoes.
As a fairy, her hair changes to a bright blonde and gains small braids. She now wears a yellow violin dress with gold outlines, and a yellow heart emblem at the center, along with orange arm warmers with white frills. She wears orange boots with yellow stripes. She also wears a white headset with a microphone.

In Princess Camellia, As a human, Shirley has waist-length black-brown hair in her civilian form, and she wears an x-shaped yellow hair clip on her left side. Shirley also wears her transformation brooch. She wears a short white dress and a yellow sweater.
In her fairy form, Shirley’s hair turns yellow, and she gets bangs. Her dress looked a lot like the one from Finding Melody. Shirley’s gloves are long and yellow. Her boots are orange with a yellow border. She wears her yellow headpiece.

## Personality

Shirley is loyal to the Fairy Castle and fond of eating snacks in the human world, particularly strawberry chocolate. She is shy, sentimental, timid, kind, clever, and appears to be beautiful, mature, powerful, wise, elegant and honest. She is occasionally bold and a little careless, clumsy and a bit forgetful, but a good person overall. Her magic power is medium, but she has been looking for ways to enhance the magic ability.

## History

### Balala the Fairies (2008)

Shirley lost the Fairy Stone, which Luna stole to become more powerful, and as a result, she was punished and sealed inside a music box. In the human world, the sisters Maggie and Michelle found that same box at a shop, took it home, and released Shirley. Shirley gave them magical pendants, turning them into fairies, and they helped her find the stone.

### Balala the Fairies: Rainbow Heart Stone

Shirley was still the guardian fairy of Fairy Castle. However, she failed the Fairy Exam and was forced to go back to Earth, where she met Maggie and Michelle. One day, she found Sara in their house and found out she had escaped from the Fairy Castle to find her mother.

In episode 8, she returned to Fairy Castle. The Fairy Queen assigned them a new mission: to collect positive energy to power up the Rainbow Heart Stone and save the Fairy Castle from being destroyed.

### Balala the Fairies: The Movie

Shirley manages to win Prince Noah's last strawberry chocolate in a game with her flight magic and it is shown that she is somewhat nostalgic about her time with Maggie and Michelle. She was given a vial of healing potion by the Green Fairy and she gripes at the poor service. She was later summoned alongside Prince Noah to see the Fairy Queen. She tasks them with tracking down Aisha, a fugitive from Halle who failed in her attempt to seize the throne of Halle and fled with the Planetary Key.

Upon reaching Earth, he and Prince Noah help to chase off Sirius Snake and Sirius Wolf, who were attacking Maggie and Michelle. She returns with the sisters to their home, where a desperate Mrs. Lin begs her to cook the dinner. She does so with her fairy magic.

When Maggie and Michelle's pet bird Xiaoxing goes missing, she locates it and uses a magic potion she received from the Green Fairy to heal it. She attends the family dinner and makes no comment when Mrs. Lin passes off Shirley's cooked food as her own. After dinner, she explains her mission to the sisters. Later on, she nearly catches a figure sneak into the girl's room trying to steal a stone.

She shows up to Maggie's badminton game to show her support. When Maggie disappears, she attempts and fails to locate her. She begins to understand the various pieces of the puzzle placed before her. Eventually, when they finally locate Aisha and Maggie, she asks her to tell her side of the story, realizing Aisha had been framed by her own Queen.

She returns to Fairy Castle alongside the others to thwart Queen Halle's plans. She attempts to deal a combination attack to Queen Halle alongside with Maggie and Michelle, but nearly loses until they manage to steal the Planetary Key. She flies the Planetary Key back to Halle, to stop its descent unto Fairy Castle.

After Queen Halle is defeated, she was thanked by the Fairy Queen for her help in saving Fairy Castle. She returns with Maggie and Michelle to say goodbye to Mr. and Mrs. Lin, but was met by a tied-up Mr. Lin. After learning that Mrs. Lin plans to feed them her terrible cookies, she flees.

### Balala the Fairies: The Mystery Note

The Fairy Queen gave Shirley a precious musical treasure box on her birthday. The queen said that the treasure box contained a musical gem with powerful power, which can help Shirley, Maggie, and Michelle overcome their difficulties. This matter was known to Queen Halle, the enemy of the Fairy Castle. To gain strong power, she decided to seize the musical gem. She made her son, Omar, disguised as a human being, deliberately approached Shirley, gain her trust, and seized the musical gem. Queen Halle used the musical gems to enhance her magical powers and take her revenge on the Fairy Queen. Facing strong enemies, the Shirley once again worked together and finally defeated the evil with the power of justice and maintained the peace of the Fairy Castle.

### In Other Media

* A VUP based on her debut under the Fairies Girl Group brand.
* While Shirley does not appear directly in the collaboration event in Fairy Sphere, she makes an unidentified cameo bickering with Prince Noah off-screen.
* Shirley appears as a collaboration skin in Jizhan Yalate
* Shirley appears as a skin in the online sandbox game, Mini World: CREATA.
* Shirley appears as the female collaboration costume in Moonlight Blade.

## Gallery

Shirley in Manga styleShirley's Profile for Miracle DanceThe Magic Trial Shirley PosterAutumn Wear Promo on Weibo: Shirley x Elegant ZinniaEarly Miracle Dance ConceptEarly Finding Melody ConceptIn the  first Stage Show(Centre-right) In the  second Stage ShowMichelle and ShirleyFairy Sphere Collab Banner (Shirley doesn't appear in the game proper)Shirley Skin in Mini World: CREATAShirley Avatar in Mini World: CREATAMoonlight Blade Female Balala the Fairies Collab CostumeJizhan Yalate Collab banner
## Etymology

Shirley's Chinese name, 小蓝 (xiao lán), is a combination of two Chinese characters, 小 (xiao), meaning "little" or "small," and 蓝 (lán), meaning "blue," so her name means "Little Blue" or "Small Blue."

## Trivia

* She was ranked **2nd** place in the August 2021 Popularity Poll conducted by the official Balala the Fairies Weibo page.
* Shirley wears glasses in her human form and styles her hair only in the first season. This detail was never translated into animated seasons or movies.
* Shirley is the mascot character for the whole series.
* She is the first yellow fairy in the franchise.
* She was the oldest fairy in the franchise, until the introduction of Azure Na who is the same age, but has an earlier birthday.
* It is possible that Shirley may be well over 100 years old, as Noah had stated when Milk asks about how long they've known each other.
* Her birthday given in the 15th Anniversary Illustration Collection book is **December 5**. This conflicts with previously suggested dates, such as **March 14** (in the Balala the Fairies magazine).