#barbie repaint

"Round The Milkyway Girls"

So after much deliberation and a lot of asking questions to my mysterious friends @mermaidyarn @afayebray @ladynoirfanao3 and @jigglypuff1994 (“who are these friends?!” “How do you know them!?”) my 9 yo decided she didn’t want to transform these dolls afterall and she wanted one of the blonde barbies with articulated joints.

Some people might say you could just go to the shops and buy an Elphaba doll but these people don’t know how boring summer holidays can get.

Here is the before and after photos. We also made a video because we were that bored.

Before and After

Then we sewed her clothes from some old rags we had in the fabric basket and voila!!

Now before you ask me if we’re doing Galinda next, she has a standard Barbie to go with it with lots of pink clothes that was what started it all. It has flicky flick hair and it’s perfect.

We need some dark blue striped fabric from somewhere to make the Shiz uniforms (she doesn’t ask for much).

Viago de Riva🐦‍⬛

I made him for @turidtorkilsdottir as an art trade🫶

the mizu doll is being worked on! Let me know if you have any cool ideas for her!

After seeing the barbie repaints @hole34 posted recently, it got me thinking about repaints I still wanted to do and/or needed to get around to at some point. So on the spot I pulled one of those dolls out and got to work. Her name is Anna Marie, and she's my shot(er) hair length Jewel Hair Mermaid Barbie I got 2nd hand back in 2018.

A few years ago I tried adding on top of her face up and botched it, and undoing that left her with a lot of her factory paint gone. Since I got a white water color pencil a short while ago, I decided to take a crack at fixing up her face up.

Mulan is getting a more screen accurate faceup. Cindy’s getting a reroot (hopefully if the hair I ordered is the right color in person)

Moana’s getting her head shrunk to fit in with the others better (she’s a Mattel head and Hasbro body) as well as a new face, and new articulated hands

Snow is the only one remotely presentable, though her hair needs styling. Which should be the easiest thing, but I hate doing doll hair. So.

Regardless, I’m having so much fun with these :) These dolls have been waiting in storage until I gained the motivation to do something with them, so I’m glad I finally picked them back up. I have plans for some more gals, including Merida, Anastasia (don bluth), and Esmeralda (whose parts are laying around somewhere, but I can’t find them lol)