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Conchita, a small indigenous woman from Oaxaca has been weaving and selling her wall-hangings ever since i have arrived at la Ribera de Chapala, Mexico. she used to have a beautiful spot under the 300 year-old Eucalyptus trees by the lake, but this year as the lake has reclaimed his old territory from 30 years ago, she had to move up to the street and is now sitting, as you see here, on the sidewalk pavement on a piece of cardboard. she has a trolly which she loads, unloads, reloads every day with 3 huge heavy bundles of all her weavings and transports these back and fourth 3 village blocks up to her humble abode. i once asked her to pull her trolly and it almost took off with me (and she is a very short woman and not young... and i am much taller than her and a strong tennis player!) - to see this is so inspiring!!!!
She is an "Ultra Diva" doll made by Integrity toys. She's a little vacant looking but I liked her hair and her jacket.
I preordered an Integrity Toys Homme body on their direct store and decided to buy their Dynamite Girls "Black" body cuz hey it was half price (IT said they would receive the body late Jan but I’ve heard nothing yet). From what I saw online A Tone was usually IT’s second or third most dark skin tone so I hoped I could articulate one of my painted body dolls.
Unfortunately, it’s nowhere near the skin tone of my vintage Live Action Christie.
It’s closer to the Grace/Kara skin tone (Afra and light black) but it’s a lot less orange.
In the end I chose to put my late 70s/early 80s Malibu Christie on here since she has the same issue with being too grey for modern dolls. My Pink N’ Pretty Christie from 1981 is the exact same skin tone so I guess IT (light) A-tone would match the 80s AA mattel dolls.
I trimmed her hair a bit and put her in Anais' cocktail dress. She wears her own long leather gloves. They were unbelieveably hard to get on, lol !