Playing with My Barbies

Three brand new girls—top to bottom, Elizabeth (Liz), Margarita (Maggie), and Francesca (Fran). Liz and Fran both came with Fashionista evolution bodies, Liz tall and Fran curvy. I left Fran her original body but really wanted Liz to have that “made to move” flexibility. Maggie is an MtM mod as well. 

More Barbie mods... This is all of my mods so far. Clockwise from top:

Estelle: An “Endless Hair Kingdom*” head, with a haircut, popped onto a body I bought in a thrift store.

Mindy: A Fashionista head on a “Barbie Style” body. The Fashionista bodies actually seem to be higher quality, but the Style bodies have the advantage of articulated joints (including wrist and ankle joints).

Amy: Same as Mindy

Allison: Same as Mindy and Amy. I did all three of them together; they got the body swaps because their skin tones happened to be the ones that matched the articulated Barbie Style line. 

Behold my first Barbie mod. This girl had been hanging around in Target for a week with a really quite lovely head (pic 1) attached to a (in my opinion) really pretty silly and unplayable body (pic 2). 

Unsurprisingly, in spite of her cool head, she didn’t seem to be selling. The second time I saw her, I bought her, took her home, and looked up how to swap out Barbie heads. I pried the nice head off of the silly body with a knitting needle, unearthed an old doll left over from one of my previous Frankensteinian experiments, pried off her (already mutilated) head as well, and wangled the new head onto her body. Mens sana in corpore sano!