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They are using Matte paintings in the Barbie Movie like in the early movie days instead of using CGI

And here’s a look at Skipper, she’s living with Midge in Chelsea’s treehouse :-)

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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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Coming Up This Sunday! “Golden: The Barbie Collection of Bill Greening” Auction, Sunday, May 18, 2025. https://www.theriaults.com/events/event/262/golden-the-barbie-collection-of-bill-greening-sunday-may-18-2025

I’ve been looking for another vintage swirl ponytail Barbie for a while now but the EBay prices were much higher than when I got my last one, and I was seeing a lot of split necks and green ear. Finally I found one under $100 USD and even though the poor thing needed some work I decided to give it a go.

So these were the listing pics:

Obviously chopped hair and scratched up lip paint (the lip paint was faded to very light almost white pink which is normal for platinum swirls).

After I gave the doll a good wash and shampoo I took a look at the hair situation (the body was actually in amazing condition and the face paint was actually really good other than the lip scratches and a bit of rub on the lashes):

Eeek. No missing plugs but clearly someone gave this poor thing quite a haircut. Luckily I happened to have some matching hair on hand and was able to add that to what was there:

I considered painting the lips the pink lavender color they originally came in but decided to stick with the faded pink as most of the platinum swirls I see have that and it’s kind of like their trademark at this point (at least to me) so I just touched up the lip paint with a matching color and then boiled washed/trimmed/styled the hair and here’s my new vintage swirl: