#steffie

Steffie was introduced as a friend of Barbie and made three appearances: Busy Steffie, Talking Busy Steffie and Walk Lively Steffie.

The thing that has stuck around about Steffie though isn’t the girl herself - it’s her face sculpt. The Steffie face sculpt is a popular head mold that has been in use since Steffie’s debut, all the way up to the present day. Some remarkable dolls have been launched that used the Steffie face, including the first Black Barbie from 1980.

The Steffie face mold is so notable among collectors that there was an article about it in a 2003 issue of Barbie Bazaar, saying (in part):

Collectors cherish the Steffie-face dolls and can never seem to have enough of them. Mattel’s use of the Steffie head on the Modern Circle Simone Doll gives new hope to all diehard Steffie fans that the head mold may find further use with future friends and collector series dolls. In the meantime, do an EBay search in the Barbie category and count how many auctions pay homage to the Steffie name. Those auctions typically get the highest bids because of an undying love for the girl who vanished 30 years ago, though her name lives on.

If I ever say "I'll JUST do a quick fix up for sale, JUST recreate the factory hairstyle" tap me gently on the hand and say "No honey. You know what horrors can lie underneath a doll's up-do".

I started again from scratch: matte kanekalon that'll frazzle with a boil wash replaced with shiny saran, pulled out rooting errors, rethatched the parting and separated out better sections for the curly bits.

Of course, I got the RSI migraine on Sunday but once i'd seen the extent of it, it was a matter of pride that a high-end face screening on a Steffie not be sent back into the world with a messy hair-do. 😂

Today's contribution to the dolls section, she's wearing legit barbie vintage dress

After some googling I remembered she's a quick curl Cara from 1973, really considering making ID tags for them