Blorange! A brief look at one of Barbie's new heads

RagingMoon1987 will now waste fifteen minutes of your time with random dolly observations.  It's rare when one has an example of every doll released with one face mold...but when a mold only has three dolls to its name that simplifies things a bit.  I'm referring to the new Asian mold, referred to by Katti's Dolls as the "blorange" head.  From left, I've got #60 "Patchwork Denim," #73 "Rosey Romper," and #90 "Rainbow Bright."

Here's how they look up close.

Suika (#60) and Duckie (#90) are mine, while "Rosey" in the middle is supposed to belong to Talolili.  Thus I won't have all three of these girls together forever.  One thing Katti noted (and I subsequently discovered) is that the earliest of these dolls almost never have straight eyes.  Poor Suika's left eye is higher than her right.

"Rosey's" eyes are more straight, showing that printing did get better as time passed.

As for Duckie...well, if her eyes are wonky I can't tell.  Thus Mattel appears to have gotten their act together with this mold.  I figure learning to print a new head might be a bit of a hairy process at first, but it's still nice to see progress being made.

Pretty Duckie is my latest doll to suffer from BLS, better known as bubblegum lip syndrome (Deb, Jova, and Bumblebee are my others).  Her eye paint is gorgeous and I wouldn't change that for the world, but that lip color...WHY, MATTEL???  Why do you do this to your pretty girls of color???  You didn't do this to Baby Phat Chandra, or to Justine Dancer, or to Hula Hair Christie, or to Rockers Dee Dee...though granted, Dee Dee belongs to a completely different era than Justine and Chandra and Duckie.  Interestingly, my Chandra has the exact same shade of pink that Duckie does, but her lips have this glorious shimmer paint on top and that helps quite a bit.  Given Mattel's penchant for playing with colors and head molds and paint, I can't help but wonder why they didn't paint Rainbow Bright like the real Duckie Thot (whom Rainbow resembles a little).  Y'all see how pretty that purple looks with Miss Duckie's skin?  Maybe I should try that with my Duckie, some shiny purple paint or something like that.  Pink lips notwithstanding, I'm glad this new mold is getting used, especially when the head Deb uses (Zig-Zag) appears to have only been used once.  I'm looking forward to see what else Mattel does with this head.

Much love,
RagingMoon1987