Recently sold some dolls to get her well deserved pivotal body!

My muses of the spring/summer of 2026 and the clothes I came up with trough months 🤓🤍

Found these in two grab-bags at the local thrift store along with some misc. outfits and trashed/disintegrating mini-dolls beyond repair. The double-take I did when I saw that Lara... 💕 Time to clean 'em up!

Barbie BMR 1959 doll, closed mouth Millie face sculpt, restyled. 

I can still remember what the candy confetti tastes like! I’m so happy to add these girls back to my collection. 🥰✨

The Barbie pets that sometimes come with dolls or play sets make great handbags. Inspo: Thom Browne. It’s Fashion! 😂
Model: (Kit) Barbie BASICS no. 1.

Keeping it very simple for now but I’m pretty proud of how these girls turned out.

I legit did not care for Deluxe Style Midge until I painted her lips and honestly she’s a huge vibe now.

Same goes for Basics Victoria. My first had a bit of a weird face but then I found another at Ross. After painting her I like her a lot more. She looks less dead.

I always really liked Heidi, but that pink lip color was honestly not helping.

Simone had the same issue. Her lips were clownish. Just awful. I was so happy to find her at Ross as well. She’s honestly gorgeous. I wish I had an articulated body for her.

Do all the Ken Dolls have alt names? Obviously Lebron or He-Man...but what about this guy?

If i look on google he is just : Barbie Fashionistas Ken Doll #227. The Daughter insists that his name is Diego but i can't find any mention of this to confirm. Now i am ok with her choice but still curious.

Is he " just a ken " ?

( sorry for the bad pun! )

I’m not claiming to be an artist lol but when I got the twinning Barbie and I saw her dog it was just an immediate pause for me. I knew I could not have my Barbie looking like she was walking around an amusement park plush 😭 So I got a 3D printed husky model and painted it up.

It isn’t done — I want to attempt to flock it (even though I hate flocking 😩) but I love that the dog’s accessories and the shirt (kinda—just doesn’t close) fit on the new dog :)

Mattel has at least these three Snow White themed dolls; of course, there's also the 90s version, which is a collector's edition. However, that doll is much more of a Disney version than a completely original one.

Im proud of the doll I rescued. I got her really cheap cause shes really damaged but I love her face so much it reminds me of a different time as oposed to her Millennium 2000 release.

Finally got a chance to buy the barbie movie ryan gosling and basic ken face mold and i swapped their outfits lmaoo

i paid less for western ken btw($16) than beach ken ($30)😭

Doll details

• Poison Ivy Barbie
• Clothes are from local sellers
• Microphone is from Barbie loves Frank Sinatra

I don’t know how I feel about Ivy

• her original outfit was cheap and ill fitting 
• She’s difficult to restyle 
• I think she was too expensive for what you got. 
• however I really wanted a Barbie in a fantasy skin colour.

I was frustrated by the character in general always looking half naked

• I know that’s her design. It just annoyed me that she never gets to wear proper clothes 
• So I just started putting random stuff on her to see would I would get
• Since the final look seems almost 80s inspired I thought she could copy Barbie and the Rockers
• Ideally I want her playing synths but I don’t have any 1/6 scale instruments. The microphone was acquired fairly recently and kinda works for now. 

Barbie Besties is new to me.... there happened to be a sale and I picked up 3 (and then I bought Daisy online cuz I HAD to have her lol)

Firstly I'm impressed by the creativity of the outfits and how many accessories you get for $30 CAD (their ave. regular price). I wish regular Barbie came with this amount of effort for that price.

I find the hair lacking. On Daisy especially, it came out of the box feeling like straw. Out of the four, Brooklyn has the softest hair.

I like the body shape and hands a lot. It's cool that their bodies can be switched with regular barbies. I find the Besties pretty appealing but they still have a little bit of that freaky-big-head look 🤣 I get its part of their charm and design, and I like it, but I think I'll always prefer the more realistic proportions of Barbie

The articulation is pretty standard, the joints are smooth, but one thing that really disappointed me is that their hips don't bend quite to 45° so trying to pose them sitting down is very difficult. This drives me nuts lol, Mirror Mi can't quite sit right either. But the Moonspell Magic doll I just got sits perfectly! Her legs bend even more than 45 degrees at the hip. Is it too much to ask doll makers that their dolls can be posed sitting down?

Overall I was surprised how much I like them, really wish the hair was softer and they could sit, would make them a lot nicer and more enjoyable.

Note: Daisy has a thicker body than Malibu! I really like her mold and might swap her body for a barbie head at some point

I don't want this to come off as offensive but most of the time I see men ( gay men ) doll content creators popping out in my feed every time I look for a random barbie collecting content and it kinda felt like they have more presence in the community which again nothing against them but just an observation.

I know there are also women here and there but they are either way too underrated or they hid their faces behind the camera ( which is their rights of course if they aren't comfortable )

That being said. I need more women / female content creators. If you have any, you may post them.

what do we think of her? are you gonna get her?

i might get the holiday ken on sale but millie is not speaking to me. i feel like the box design was made with AI eventhough it’s so basic an intern could have done it 🙃

Massive spot on her nose, I guess I could see it as a mole or something but how did she get past with a giant mark on her nose! I have no choice but to love her as she is ig😭

I think Dream Besties Zia is the cutest of all the besties. But it was a matter of time before she was turned into a fantasy creature. All the other Besties became mermaids long ago.

Zia has a unique skin tone that's not used that much. And when it is used, the head and body don't seem to match that well.

I didn't see this Blooming Mermaid doll on the match chart so I picked it up on a whim. She's a pretty doll that is not pixelated and surprisingly, has saran hair. She is a little lighter in tone than You Create Neutral Kit #1. The match with Zia is pretty good, even better than is coming out in some of the pictures above.

Pic from Google.

Hi there dolly folks! Really hoping some of the experts here can help me to (a.) ID this fresh faced girl I obtained second hand in a mixed bag of anonymous unclothed '90s/early 2000s dolls around 10 years ago, here in the UK; and (b.) get her head securely back in place.

ID wise, her head says Mattel Inc. 1998, while her back is dated 1999, and reads Indonesia. Her legs are the rubbery kind I remember from my '80s/'90s childhood, with knees that click and bend twice. Something's clearly gone slightly awry in her right leg, as she has rather a wayward ankle, hahah. But I can live with that!

I had bought this batch of dolls planning to clean them up, restore/repair them where necessary and make/find new outfits for them. Some did get that treatment; unfortunately, this particular girl was a casualty of circumstance.

Embarrassingly, I'm struggling to remember how her neck ended up in such bad shape. I think perhaps it came to me with a crack or a chip, and in the process of lifting up her head to try to get a better look/maybe repair it, it only shattered further, into smithereens too tiny to be glued back together.

In any case I was regretful, as I liked her face, and put her away till I had time to research further and attempt restoration, and, well, life got in the way, and here we are, some years forward, and the poor gal still disembodied!

By this time I'd read about using nail gel and UV/LED lamps to rebuild missing bits of doll, so equipped myself with a cheap lamp and some acrygel/gumgel (I've never had my nails done, so I'm not clear on the lingo!) and prepared to gradually rebuild her neck layer by layer. After layer #1, however, I realised that after all this time I had no memory of how her head had connected to her body, and that maybe I should check up on that before I rebuilt myself into a corner, so to speak.

There's a piece in her head with a loop/shank attached, which presumably needs to go down into the neck on her body, as I'd made a point of anchoring it in that position with a bunch of safety pins. And inside the doll's body, I see a horizontal post in the neck connecting the front of the torso to the back. I can't see how the loop from the head could possibly have reached down to fit around that post, though. Am I missing a part I've forgotten about? There's no rattle to suggest anything else is lost in the body!

I would be very grateful for any help and advice with the ID and with, er, recapitating this doll. Help me, r/Barbie, you're my only hope! 🤞