Barbie For Breakfast!

Home of my Barbies and other dolls! 💜I follow from ice-creamforbreakfast.tumblr.com💜 Alex she/her 30s Scotland

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Alexandra|she/her|30s|Scottish Follows from ice-creamforbreakfast.tumblr.com

Hi! I'm Alex and I guess this is my doll simblr...dollblr? Whatever it's called! I don't know how active I'll be on here, but I figured since I'm actively collecting more than before, this could be a place to share my dolls.

If the you like the following, this is the place for you:

Doll makeovers Doll restoration Doll opinions Barbie Disney ILY 4 Ever The occasional troll doll

Warnings: I sometimes take collectibles out of the box (except Frida weirdly...she's in there having the time of her life) and will alter them to fit how I want them to be. I'll also buy doll heads and bodies from a certain Chinese wholesaler site and make my own frankendolls.

with that out of the way, welcome to (one of my) cursed little corner of the internet!

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I feel like she was days away from becoming a Weird Barbie custom. After the severe matting was dealt with, I crimped her remaining five hairs and now she's ready for her outfit (currently in the mail) 💜

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Don't mind me, I'm just outfit shopping for my plastic son.

Mattel don't always get their modern dolls right (looking at 90% of the Millie dolls), but when I say they nailed their reimagining of Allan, I say it with my whole chest.

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On the somethingth day of Christmas, Santa gave to meeee...

A janky Barbie with a pile of janky Barbie clothes that I bought myself.

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Just a bit of low-stakes kanekalon torture on a Thursday... I'll crimp her hair at some point in the future. Honestly, I'm just glad there's so much of it left!

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Today was a day of Kenergy...and Allan.

Someone at some point in the past decided to paint Ken No.1's head black. Following that, the black paint travelled and stained his face in various places. He had several Vanish Oxy baths and murdered my trusty Barbie cleaning toothbrush (may she rest in peace), but I got him to a point where he only had a few subtle stains. Nothing a few well placed freckles couldn't fix. I made him ginger, because why not?

Allan was in good condition with perfectly working bend-legs. He had some missing head paint, and a child who is probably now in jail had stabbed his head repeatedly with pins, so I did a thin layer of milliput over his head and painted his hair.

Ken No.2, my beloved wonk-eyed Ken was already repainted beautifully by caketin_dolls, but he had a lot of flock missing, so I just replaced that.

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I'm so obsessed with her 😍Ken is a nice addition too (they were sold together as they've always been in the same collection...for 60 plus years).

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was bored tonight, so I decided to restore my new Malibu PJ (while I thought about how, as someone in the UK, I probably won't ever get a certain other Steffie-faced Barbie)

The biggest problem with her wasn't age, or the nick in her nose. Her factory paint was awful.

It was splattered, darker on one side and so squint, it was as if she was auditioning to be a 2023 Fashionista. Sometimes wonky factory paint adds character. This was not one of those times.

I cleaned her up, boiled her hands to get rid of the chew marks, filled the nose dent, and repainted her, trying to balance out the factory paint as I went along.

I'm pretty happy with how she turned out! I'll post another update when I have an outfit and I've made beaded hair ties.

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A little early birthday (by a few weeks, but who's counting?) present to myself! When I saw this Campus Belle set on Ebay, I knew it would look perfect on my newly restored swirl 💜

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This poor Barbie had a partial reroot...twice! I wasn't happy with the nylon reroot I did first time round, so I did it again with vintage Saran and ended up loving it a bit longer (yes, the Karen bob was originally inspired by the 60s stacked bob!).

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I also got my hands on a German Malibu Barbie. As a rule, I really don't like Malibu Barbies, but the German version is painted beautifully and I ended up loving this version after finding her by accident.

She got a thorough cleaning, I reset her hair, and treated her sticky legs (caused by leeching plasticiser).

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Mauled Barbie also got her day in the makeover chair/surgeon's office. I'm not 100% happy, but she's looking a lot better than she did!

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I've been busy and kept forgetting to update this account! Midge had a redo, because her sticky face came back, so I retreated it and repainted her.

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I've been productive today ✨

Quick Curl Cara's hair terrified me. It was matted, frizzy and also full of lots of little fragile wires to hold the curl. With a lot of gentle combing and boiling water, I managed to get it back to how it used to be with very minor wire breakage.

The side-part bubble cut was almost perfect. I literally just cleaned her and retouched her eyeliner.

The second bubble cut was very sticky and missing most of her makeup. I cleaned her twice and zapped her face a few times to delay/prevent more stickiness. She got a different face to the one I planned, but I'm happy with how she turned out.

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I had my hotel booked and flight paid for to go to the vintage Barbie faire in Amsterdam, but it was cancelled. The wonderful organiser was kind enough to come to my hotel with a big ol’ box of Barbies and these were my purchases.

The one on the left was an unplanned mercy purchase. The lady had bought her as a body donor, but I felt bad for her so I’m going to see what I can do. Literal chunks of her face are missing.

Next we have a floating head which was a gift and I can probably find a body easily…although she’s an American Girl Barbie so she may not get a bendy legs body.

Then we have Quick Curl Cara, who is pretty perfect but needs a serious restyle!

The side part Titus bubble cut is almost perfect by needs an eyeliner top up. I just wanted her.

The other titian bubble cut has a stuck face and needs new makeup.

The final bubble cut needs a hair transplant and some makeup.

They all need cleaned.

I’m going to be busy!

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I set myself strict rules for buying a Midge doll. She had to have little to no wonk-eye, the nice, long hair some Midges have (titian only), and either be dirt-cheap or come with a lovely outfit. She came with the Orange Blossom 987 outfit, so she came home.

I cleaned her up and did a bit of quick repainting where she needed it. Overall, I'm really happy with her!

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Another restoration out of the way!

There wasn't much to do this time. Just a quick clean, green ear treatment and filling in the gap where her lipstick had worn off.

I put some progress photos below showing her originally, having green ear treated and a progress photo of the green ear before it was cleared.

Her lovely dress is by LaDOLLceVita1960!