This doll was an experiment and one I’m still thinking about. I ordered her from AliXpress.

Here’s the product image and here’s a link to the product landing page. These dolls are available from many vendors on the site. I paid about $50CAD for mine.

The dolls have a facial sculpt similar to the Silkstone Barbies but a taller articulated body. I thought the body resembled Fashion Royalty dolls. I chose the brunette, which is on the far right. She came in about two weeks, nicely packaged, with a pair of shoes (black slingbacks similar to the ones for Silkstone dolls) but no stand.

When she arrived, I compared her with two of my other dolls. On the left is Jade from Integrity Toys/Fashion Royalty. The body of the new one (in the middle) is most similar to this body type, although she’s a bit taller and has a longer neck, too. She’s also much lighter, so a different plastic has been used for the body. On the right is a Silkstone Barbie, Best in Black, who is a good bit shorter but also an articulated doll.

The new one’s hair is nice and long. It feels good, though it could be rooted a little more thickly. She’s too tall for the Silkstone stands, but Jade’s, from Fashion Royalty, works well. She’s very very pale and she has these incredible finger nails.

There’s definitely something “Queen of the Night” about her! If I’d bought the one with the black hair, I probably would have made her a Morticia outfit.

I debated the option of ordering her a different pair of hands – they pop on and off – but doubt I’d manage to get a perfect match on the skin colour. She’ll get a manicure instead.

Overall, I’m not sure she was worth the price. It also looks as if you could build one of your own – buying the head separately from the articulated body on AliXpress – for maybe $10CAD less. I don’t build dolls (yet! LOL ) so I won’t be buying this one a friend.

There’s another doll that people are talking about – actually, there are three variations of another articulated 12″ fashion doll. I don’t mind the faces of these dolls, but apparently their lower limbs are made of a different softer plastic. That’s an ewwwwww for me, which is why I ended up trying this one. That one is less than half the price of this one, though.

I realized that my new girl reminds me of Natasha from The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show – did you know the character’s name is Natasha Fatale? I didn’t. That’s a Wiki link – so I put her hair in a ponytail and dressed her in a chenille coat.

Doesn’t she look like a spy now? Her sunglasses could have been straighter, but the whole endeavor is such a balancing act – it’s inevitable I’d miss some detail.