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Friday, July 27, 2018

Barbie Fashionistas Review

With Bday money, I purchased one of the new Barbie Fashionistas, along with a fashion pack. This is Hipster Happy, and I love her! She has the closed-mouth Barbie head mold, and I love her hair length! Very fashionable! She comes with a cold "Love" necklace, a pinkish-reddish drawstring purse, and a black hat. She comes with a simple white ruffled shirt, stretchy, rose patterned tights, and cute black heels with molded buckles.




The fashion pack included a plaid dress, jacket, rose shirt, red vinyl skirt, silver necklace, and black purse. They are "One Size Fits All," Meaning that they can fit Petite, Original, Tall, and Curvy dolls. I didn't know this when I purchased it, because they don't mark the packaging anymore. They really only look good on the Curvy Barbie, because she can actually fill out her clothes. this was very unfortunate, because they don't look good on Original or 90's Barbies, and I don't have a Curvy =(.





This dress came with the doll, and Is very cheaply made. One strap snapped off immediately. It doesn't even look good on any doll. It's lopsided, and also the seams are all popping out, and so I just gave it to my little sister, who doesn't care either way. I hope you'll check out my Instagram, crazed_dolls!
   I hope you enjoyed this review, and 'til Next Time!  - JCole

1998 Twist 'n Turn Barbie (Redhead)

For my thirteenth birthday, I purchased the 1998 Twist 'n Turn Barbie. She is the first doll in the Collector's Request collection, a line where collector favorites are reproduced. I thought she was the brunette when I purchased her, but I was pleasantly surprised to find out she was a redhead. I posted this on my Instagram, crazed_dolls. I posted a picture of my grandmother's Bubblecut, too. She is wearing a beautiful reproduction of the 1967 fashion "Smasharoo." It consists of a striped shirt dress, yellow stockings, red boots, matching hat and coat, gold chain belt, and... two pairs of underwear?? She was NOS (New Old Stock) meaning she was stored in a warehouse, and never sold. So maybe she just wears two pairs of underwear?? I don't know...  

She has painted finger and toenails, but because of her rubber legs, the toenail polish wiped off almost immediately. Her red hair was tied up in a half ponytail with a brown rubber band and red bow, but the hair tie disintegrated (eeew!!!) and the bow was the only thing keeping it in place. DO NOT TAKE IT DOWN!!! I made a huge mistake taking it down, because now two pieces of hair are sticking up in weird places. And I can't boil it because we don't have gas yet!
Oh, Barbie. You deserved better.






This is her Certificate of Authenticity. I want to frame it! She likes Malibu Barbie's swimsuit (Above)



Her hair was attached to a weird brace thing. The red circles show where the plastic ties were (Ugh, let's ban toy makers from putting these in their heads!) and
 the blue circle shows where her hair was slipped through.




I hope you enjoyed this review! I know it's all over the place, but I'm still learning all of the Blogger thingies =) 

  'til Next Time!  - JCole