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Sooooo i got her from a garage sale and her eyes looked very strange!! see this pic of her before...
www.flickr.com/photos/46390198@N06/5853298261/in/photostream
she's the girl on the far left. so yeah!
Always loved the "LUCY" redhead Bubble Cut Barbie doll from 1961, but as was often the case with the rare "Brownette" Bubble Cut Barbie from that year, the dolls tended to develop "greasy" faces and their huge "Lucy" red lips, & most of her other painted facial features, consequently slid or easily rubbed right off of the doll's face. Such a shame that such lovely dolls were prone to a manufacturing flaw where the plasticizer migrated from the vinyl formula and gave the doll her oily-faced appearance! So, because I can re-root and repaint Barbie faces with the best of them, I took a common reproduction Silken Flame Barbie & snatched her bald, then hand-curled & hand rooted bright red doll hair into Barbie's head. Barbie then got a MiKelman make-up makeover that included more blue eyeliner, less black eyelash area, larger red lips and tiny red nostril dots that were applied to the original 1961 doll, but missing on the Silken Flame reproduction from Mattel.
I fudged the doll's upper left lip line, so that needs to be repainted. Her eye brows need to be enlarged and I have not yet added the mist of smoky shadow to her eye lids that again, was present on the original 1961 doll, but absent on this repro!
Sarah Doyle's Popstar Makeovers
3 and 17 June 2006
Splashdown
a programme of events organised by Space Station 65
Whistable Biennale, Kent (UK)