Dollieh Sanctuary

http://www.boredpanda.com/tree-change-dolls/

This woman does like we do! She did new faceups on a ton of Bratz dolls and they look great!

My biggest problem with Bratz dolls is proportions before their overdone make-up, so this doesn't eliminate my issues, but some of them looks especially cute!And dresses too! Kudos for this lovely woman and her daughter

These are amazingly improved and charmingly innocent! Having grown up on thrift store dollies, I am touched by this mother/daughter project. Thank you for posting.

Wow, that's some transformation! Their small, short bodies seem much more suited to the new faces!

Wow, respect to her. I tried repainting Bratz dolls a couple of times before getting into Monster High, and the lack of actual sculpted features under the makeup does not make it easy.

Edit: On second thought, this looks like a market doll companies haven't gone into enough.. dolls that actually look to be the age of the girls playing with them. They usually range from baby to about 7, and from 15 to adult. I may be wrong on this, but I think the least doll-portrayed age group is the one most likely to play with fashion dolls. I know I would have loved to have a doll who looked my age when I was an "older" child.

FacelessPuppets wrote:Edit: On second thought, this looks like a market doll companies haven't gone into enough.. dolls that actually look to be the age of the girls playing with them. They usually range from baby to about 7, and from 15 to adult. I may be wrong on this, but I think the least doll-portrayed age group is the one most likely to play with fashion dolls. I know I would have loved to have a doll who looked my age when I was an "older" child.

I totally agree! Back when my sister and I stilled played with Barbies, we always made the Stacie-sized characters the stars. It'd be nice to see more dolls in that age range.

My initial thought was "Why Bratz??" because I can't think of a sculpt that looks LESS like a real kid. Why not use a more suitable canvas? But I'm guessing the transformation was part of the point.

There are a few dolls designed to look more like the kids that play with them - Only Hearts Club (discontinued) and Lottie are the ones I remember off the top of my head. I always feel like they're made more for the sake of parents, since as a kid I always thought the whole fun about Barbie was that she was an adult. Interesting to see others have a different take on it!

I don't know, I just don't see the fuss in them. Maybe its because Bratz have such huuuuuge heads and eye spaces and she gives them such tiny understated eyes. One of the main features of making anything appear childlike and innocent is to give it big eyes (seriously, even those cheap 'how to cartoon' books will tell you that). I think a Bratz would be an ideal canvas for some of those biiiiiiiig baby eye styles from the 60s/70s.

I love the after pics. I probably would have liked them better as a child. Bratz and Barbie were always a bit intimidating to me. I was not a fan of grown-ups and growing up. Strawberry shortcake was my doll of choice.