Barbie Fashionistas Artsy Doll

The doll is very nice to my little girl loves it, the accessories are cute but not durable toy that can be expected. The fashionistas are all cute I want to collect them, but actually I bought my daughter, she is very careful, despite his young age (only 5 years old), the hands of the wrist are very fragile but I think my daughter as being is going to last. The only thing I don't like is that the get her lipstick worn, but it was good buy.

I actually purchased this doll for my son who, at the age of ten, is showing interest in becoming a fashion designer among many other things such as an animal rescuer and master chef. He is delighted with his new toy and is convinced that she is the most beautiful Barbie doll in the house. She is 'married' to his 'sporty Ken' doll a.k.a.Adam and they sure make a handsome couple!

This cool chick is an essential for your Barbie Fashionista collection. I'm digging the hair band.

I seriously wish I would have started buying these when they came out. I'm late to the game! I'm so glad they have come out with dolls since the first wave. For the life of me, I can not figure out why the first reviewer goes on and on and on about skanky outfits. This is pretty modest. She's a lovely doll, the boots are more bohemian than sleaze,. And if anything, Barbie has less cleavage than 1980's models due to new body molds. These do have a thicker waist and better proportions than model muse. When you buy the extra heads, they fit on a bust painted and made to look like a shirt. You know. So they don't look naked. The Barbie's do have slightly different skin tones, but even Artsy's skin tone isn't that dramatic. She is not a darker skinned AA Barbie like some of the SIS, or newer fashionista lines.My son is a toddler and he loves these. I found our first at a garage sale, and now we have to have more . I'm buying an Artsy and a Cutie, and a bunch of various heads. He won't care if they match up. I know Glam and Cutie and Sassy all look like they can share a body. As a child of the 80's, this DOES make me think of Return to Oz a little bit, lol! Love these!

So, after a year or so of fashionistas, we're on the 3rd set- the first being the original Cutie, Sassy, Girly, Artsy, Glam, and Wild, with Ken as "Hottie". Not long afterwards came Sporty, Sweetie, Sassy II, and Cutie II. The "BFFS"...Sassy/Sweetie, Glam/Sporty, and the "Shoppin' fashionistas" Sweetie Shops for Jewelry and Sassy shops for makeup were sort of an in-between, a side set of wave 2. Now, these trendy, bendy, sugary dolls have traded in their already scanty clothes for even MORE revealing outfits...oh, and removeable heads, too.I was disappointed with the Cutie Ken from w3...his "flexibility" was horribly limited. Artsy II is my first in the line of "Swappin' Styles", and she'll probably be my last. Actually, her dress is pretty long- it actually comes past mid-thigh. Unfortuneately the fabric they used down there came from her bodice. She shows more cleavage than any Barbie doll I've seen in a long time, and the dress is so loose it slides around showing EVEN MORE. Her boots are not only rather unattractive, but sky high and scream sleaze. As for her removeable head...A fairly good idea...you can buy spare heads and pop the original off, pop the new one on. Doesn't work perfectly though, since you have to match the skin tones and some dolls are tan, some are paler, some are African American, and so forth. Plus the only real benefit of buying a new $5+ head is for a different hairstyle. Of course, the day I got her, my friend lost her head in the woods. It was fall, so of course we couldn't find it. A few days later I went back out to look and my dog had gotten a hold of it...still useable but it doesn't fit the body anymore, it seems almost as if the plastic has constricted or something.So, now that I've ranted about the bad side, here's the good side. She came with some pretty cute accessories- a nice removeable headband (but be forewarned, once the threads are cut, it's never to stay on again. Her purse is simple but sweet. She came with a necklace, too...can't tell for sure what it is, but I'm pretty sure it's a flower. Like I said, her dress is beautiful, but too low cut.Along with the new set of fashionistas, there's a mini-series on Barbie.com featuring "Six cool girls with fierce, fabulous style" that is not unlike the old MyScene segments. These...are unspeakable. Yes, they supposedly cheer for individuality, but the message they convey is one of superficiality in the extreme. In one episode, Cutie gets a job and this is bemoaned by her and her buds. The reason for her new occupation is because she shopped too much and maxed out daddy's credit cards, now she's in debt. When her boss tells her he's not happy with they way she's doing, he becomes the enemy. "You told me you had experience with lattes!" he says. "Uh, I meant I had experience drinking lattes!" she giggles. That, coupled with Glam's gloating over her silk scarf from Paris and the slinky, low-cut, short getup they wear, I was gagging at the sorry excuse for a kid's miniseries.I know this is rather long for a review on a doll, but I'm hoping that perhaps we change Mattel's mind. Not only has this idea of slinky, sexy girls waving creds and sipping lattes and dating hot boys taken over the Barbie movies, but dolls and webisodes as well. Disgusting.

Love my barbie..she looks beautiful.. arrived safely..slight damage to the box.but still happy with my purchase and will be a great addition to my collection. Thanks