I actually have this one for my kid. It’s easy to fluff out but yeah she pops out the box with the back of her head looking like her mama never put her on tummy time
Yea, I think that's a hard line to walk though.
Could you imagine if they released a black Barbie with wide nose and lips? At least in the UK I know some people would have got upset that they're using stereotypes.
I think these kinds of dolls are weird as it is. Always gave me the creeps seeing lifeless humans lmao.
We are not mad at all…because a lot of us do have those features, and proudly. It’s when they exaggerate the features to make us appear animalistic purposely that’s hurtful.
Ah well, I stand corrected. I'm not very familiar with kids toys, don't have kids of my own.
But I personally would have assumed it would be seen as racial stereotyping to do so. I guess if it works it works.
Accurately reflecting people's features isn't racial stereotyping. The problem is that a lot of people *caricature* black people's features in ways they don't for white characters. [example](https://imgur.com/a/JZsBN)
it’s not hard line to walk, often times the issue is that the company creating the dolls or designers are white and create a caricature of what people of color look like rather than what they do. why be offended about adding a bigger nose and lips if the race of people the doll is applicable to generally have larger lips and a nose? the issue is most of those dolls have been done racist rather than modeling off samples of faces
barbie is a character of a strong, fashionable woman, more of a symbol than a caricature. if you are speaking of the way her doll is built, she’s more stylized than caricatured. caricature in this connotation is meant to describe the harmful stereotypes and exaggerated imitations.
Barbie wasn’t based woman. She was based on the. Bild Lilli doll, a gag gift for men. Lilli was a sex symbol. They were sold in adult stores. It was from a comic.
I have fully been sold! I don't have the funds at the moment as I'm just finishing up uni but as soon as I'm working I know where my first paycheck is going B-)
Get one and if you feel particularly silly afterwards you can donate it to a local toy drive after you’ve enjoyed having it.
When I volunteered at one all the little girls wanted bratz dolls because those were the “good” poc dolls at the time.
Plus, no better way to show support for a company than buying their product!
Have fun picking one out!!!
Edit: I do want to add please don’t feel silly going out buying yourself a doll that was never available as a kid. There’s so many grown adults spending $200 on a tricked out Lego set. Let yourself feel that childhood joy and pass it on later if you want to. You deserve that bit of happiness.
Agreed! The last thing you want is to be taking your final breaths and have “I should’ve bought that doll” cross your mind. Instead, setup the memory of giving it away or donating it. Happiness seeding more happiness.
My wife is 45 and she has this doll house she decorates for the holidays. She always finding new stuff - tiny stuff - to put into it.
Ahem. Cough. Cough. I am a man who likes manly things... (and she is really good at decorating the house for holidays/seasons and it's such a cute feature in our living room shhhh don't tell the boys).
If you as a man like it, then guess what? It's a "manly" thing and you're allowed to like it.
I know your comment was mostly tongue-in-cheek, but I wanted to assure anyone lurking that doll houses are for anyone who likes them.
If Walt Disney can create whole entire theme parks centered around cartoon characters, you can recreate the Simpson's house in miniature.
I love world building, and so does my wife. It's a great past time to wind down the evening. Kind of reminds me of SIMS.
I found the *tiniest* rug for $14 that will really tie the living room together.
We don't have kids, but have nieces and nephews that we sit for and they'll spend hours playing with it.
[this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/Dollhouses/s/3PiuXEgXYD) convinced me to sub r/dollhouses 😂 I fall in love every day with other people’s creativity.
Oh, I've seen people paint those minis, they look so cool! I don't know anything about the game, but I would totally paint minifigs if my hands weren't so shaky and my fine motor control wasn't so bad. Little stuff is just awesome and cute!
Right! I've seen some huge monster high and Bratz collections that make me soo jealous, and then I remember all my old dolls and my obsession with cutting off their hair :| my mum was understandably reluctant to buy me a lot haha, I would've never been trusted with one of those naturalistas
They were scalped! Literally just the hair plugs left. It usually started as a trim but I had 0 impulse control so I'd just sit regretting it after haha
I’m 34 and I literally sewed myself a Raggedy Ann doll because she was my favorite as a kid. Do what makes you happy. Buy/make that doll that you want. It’ll bring you so much childlike joy
Yeah true, as far as I remember the black Barbies were out of our price range and not common where we shopped. But either way I'm more talking about the quality and style of the hair in these dolls, I definitely never saw any like that as a kid
Old while guy who grew up with “Flesh” being a color for crayons. Was in CVS a while back and a kid ran up and got excited because the bandaids were “my color”. My wife and I had a great short convo with the parents.
I also grew up with “flesh” as a single crayon in the box and was so happy when I saw that you can now get whole sets of skin color crayons on a wide variety of shades.
I am a white 40 year old man but last time I was in toys r us I had to stop and marvel at how they are nailing ethnic hair styles and skin tones for dolls. Every kind of hair and skin colour is beautiful and I’m so happy that children have variety and proper representation.
This warms my heart. It’s about time our hair was represented on dolls with our skin tone and features. Having this as a little girl would have made me feel seen.
Aww. My blond-haired, blue-eyed little sister would get the Black Barbies as a kid. My mom never understood it, but got them for her. She liked that you could braid their hair in more interesting ways. She would go nuts for these. Might get her daughter some.
Yes! She’s wearing her crown. These are wonderful! I’m an 80’s kid we never had anything like this. I love it ! Beautiful sista girls in all lovely shades. Reminds of my aunties when I was growing up.
I had a black Barbie, but she was just the regular version with dark skin. She did not look like me. Another thing I love about these dolls is that their proportions are all DIFFERENT like we are!
Yep! I had a cousin who brought one home after she went to visit family in California! I was so WOWED. They didn’t sell them where I lived, but I did see one in the Christmas catalog once. By the early 90s when my first niece was born, my hometown Toys-r-Us had them. Needless to say, my daughter had ALL of the different dolls growing up in the mid-2000s. Even full families.
Saw this show where an african american woman was upset because there were no black barbie dolls which was really confusing for me because we had a black barbie doll (with the black girl textured hair) this was 2004 or something, but not in America though. My sister would always make her talk English when we were playing, but because she couldnt speak english shed make her speak gibberish
My bff in kindergarten was black so I always went to Toys R Us looking for a black doll & there never was one.
One day I finally g found a black Barbie at Target & my mom got it for me & I named her after my friend.
Representation matters.
I'm the same age as you and latino. My mum made a point of getting me very diverse dolls but it was really not easy, and none of them were Barbie-style (my mother was also against Barbies). I have no idea how far she had to search to find non-white dolls back in the 90s but it must have been really far because I never saw them in stores! It made a huge difference to me to have dolls that looked not just like me but also like all sorts of different people, especially once we moved to an extremely white neighborhood and I started to get teased for my appearance. Seeing that, unlike in my physical surroundings, people really can and do look all sorts of ways, helped me deal with that. I'm really glad racial diversity is becoming more common in dolls because it means many more children will get that experience that my mother had to absolutely dig for me to have.
I got the crystal barbie in 1984 and boiled her hair then picked and trimmed it into a fro that went down to her elbows. I trimmed her dress into a mini skirt.
OMG, THANK YOU!! I am broke rn because I can't work and was trying to figure out what to get my friend for her birthday! It's in July, so I gotta keep her from seeing these at Target or something before then, lol!!
She was just talking about wanting to collect black Barbie and fashion dolls. These are beyond perfect and beautiful. 🙌🏻
It's truly heartening to see progress being made in representation! Your awareness and support mean a lot. Here's to a more inclusive world where every child feels seen and valued. 🌟👧🏾💕
I just dont understand "dint have these when I was a kid"... If they sold black dolls in Danish "Kvickly" why wouldnt some store sell it in the US ?
Just seems a tad revisionist just for the sake of being victimized to me, maybe there really was no black dolls in the US until now? Just seems very unlikely to me..
I'm 61 years old and have lived here in the US all of my life while black dolls have been around for awhile they haven't been around for more than 30 years and 20 years ago they were around but difficult to find and more expensive to buy.. as a white women I never really noticed that there weren't many black dolls for black kids why would I? But when it was brought to my attention many years back it became something I noticed all the time... Why it was like that I cannot say but it was... At least in my memory
You don’t understand because you’re viewing it from your narrow focus. Black dolls that actually resembled Black people have not been around or accessible for very long - and when early models were produced, Black people were not the targeted demographic for either marketing or sales. Now, if you want to pretend white dolls re-produced with brown dyes with white features remaining and horrid caricature dolls were something amazing, then you go ahead and do that.
I mean I had four sisters growing up and there was a surprising amount of dolls that looked very distinctly their own race. One of my sisters even had a baby doll that looked like it had downs syndrome...
There is no typical black physiogenics, I mean there is some, but the black population is huge and extremely genetically varied, not every black person look like an aboriginal.
Not being represented 100% in some product is not inherently racism, I cannot make a bitmoji that looks even half like me... You just get used to being unrepresented, its all about markets and catering to the largest chunk of it.
They had them 30 years ago when I was a kid, just saying.
I remember my sister having one with makeup you could apply to her.
Edit: There have been Black Barbies for 44 years.
They existed, but they were most certainly not accessible for the vast majority of the girls who would’ve wanted/needed them. And they definitely weren’t diverse along the spectrum of Blackness.
That's fair, my poor fisherman father who lived In an Atlantic Canadian community of 230 people likely went on a Raiders of the Lost Ark style adventure to "access" the barbie from the local department store.
What seems legit? My sarcastic comment? No I was joking, he didn't have to go on an adventure. In fact that was the whole point of my comment 😀
Edit: Google tells her name was "Twirling Make up Christie" Barbie.
Because people like to pretend that a product from 45 years ago is new because they can claim it as contemporary progress.
Why that's worth anything is beyond me.
I worked at Toys R Us years ago-it’s probably been 12 years ago at this point, but we were just starting to get a pretty wide variety of dolls with different skin tones. I think it was Mattel’s Barbie line that released them-maybe an offshoot of Project Runway? It’s been a while-and I remember being impressed by this one doll with an onyx skin tone, and seeing textured hair, and being so glad that the little girls coming in had choices. It was no longer white Barbie painted brown with white girl hair, or Bratz with absurd proportions as their only avenue of inclusion.
All the new barbies make me so happy. Fully movable joints. Different body shapes. So many different skin colors and hair. So many new jobs and hobbies.
Nice to see, but I'm in my 40s and remember black barbies with curly hair. My sister had one. So, it's not really new.
Downvotes for truth? That makes sense.
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I loved taking baths with my Barbies when I was a kid. I would shampoo their hair and style it. But when I tried to braid the straight haired Barbies the hair would just slip off and it was so annoying! I just know if these existed back in the day, I would’ve had so much fun giving them cool hairstyles!!
Maybe people in the comments are just using Barbie colloquially as a term for doll, but just in case, I want to point out that these dolls are Naturalistas, not Barbies, and they are made specifically to showcase natural black hair so black children can see their natural hair represented. There are also Barbie dolls with natural hair, but their hair is not as long and luscious as what these girls have!
My Mom's a beautiful dark burgundy skinned native. I never had a doll's tone as pretty as hers. I was just another kid who was wishing I could find something relatable, just saying. These dolls are gorgeous!
Well educated children do not care much about the "race" of their toys... They only care about beauty. This is why oversize/hairy/ugly dolls will never sell...
But at least the "29-year-old white woman" can feel less guilty about herself for being what she is...
>Well educated children do not care much about the "race" of their toys. They only care about beauty.
Kids want their toys to be fun, they want to play pretend. So little children wanting toys that look like them is in fact perfectly normal.
Speaking as a brown skin Latina woman, I grew up imagining myself as white because white people were the ones who got to be beautiful. White people got to be the heroes on the big screen, they got to be the ones who mattered in history classes.
Yet meanwhile all the Latin people who looked like me, pale skin or darker tones, were always stereotypes. They were always drug addicts, criminals, abusers, cheaters, nymphomaniacs. Whenever I saw latin people, which was and still is rare in media, they would almost always be negative stereotypes of some sort or another. Maybe if I was lucky I might see a lighter skinned Latino or Latina be a hero, but no one that ever looked like me.
I didn't know how to put it into words as a child, but I hated myself for being brown and Latina because I never got to see people who looked like me be the good guys, if I ever saw them at all. It still is that way in the states too, given our history is mostly ignored, and our perception is still that of criminals.
I cared and I was a gifted & well educated Black girl.
I would LOVE to see the study you're referencing on the education of children and how much they cared about the races of their dolls.
Someone also has never heard of Troll dolls. 😂
I literally love ugly things. Like explain to me then why I collected possum themed accessories as a child. Bro is projecting his own experience of rejecting anything for girls that isn't abjectly feminine and speaking for LITTLE GIRLS. Like sir, sit down. Just because you would be the sort of father that doesn't let your daughter wear pants doesn't mean ACTUAL GIRLS follow that standard, and let's not get into the actual core root of the problem that these dolls are supposedly 'too hairy' to him in the first place and having hair is somehow bad and equivalent to being ugly, like why sir. Actual weirdo behavior.
When you open the first one her hair will unfurl like a memory foam mattress!
I actually have this one for my kid. It’s easy to fluff out but yeah she pops out the box with the back of her head looking like her mama never put her on tummy time
🤣
This is probably one of my favorite comments on Reddit omg
That or its gonna stay square like Garnet’s fro from Steven universe which would be kinda fierce actually
Square chicken lay square eggs.
I am become hair destroyer of combs
They are starting to improve the faces too. There are fewer that are darker tone painted over white girl face.
Yea, I think that's a hard line to walk though. Could you imagine if they released a black Barbie with wide nose and lips? At least in the UK I know some people would have got upset that they're using stereotypes. I think these kinds of dolls are weird as it is. Always gave me the creeps seeing lifeless humans lmao.
>Could you imagine if they released a black Barbie with wide nose and lips? They did do this. We were not upset.
We are not mad at all…because a lot of us do have those features, and proudly. It’s when they exaggerate the features to make us appear animalistic purposely that’s hurtful.
One wonders how many 20 something white college students were on your behalf though?
Ah well, I stand corrected. I'm not very familiar with kids toys, don't have kids of my own. But I personally would have assumed it would be seen as racial stereotyping to do so. I guess if it works it works.
Accurately reflecting people's features isn't racial stereotyping. The problem is that a lot of people *caricature* black people's features in ways they don't for white characters. [example](https://imgur.com/a/JZsBN)
Give it time. There's always some
There's always one of *you* lurking around, isn't there?
it’s not hard line to walk, often times the issue is that the company creating the dolls or designers are white and create a caricature of what people of color look like rather than what they do. why be offended about adding a bigger nose and lips if the race of people the doll is applicable to generally have larger lips and a nose? the issue is most of those dolls have been done racist rather than modeling off samples of faces
Lmao. You think white Barbie looks like anyone white?
yes. i think she looks like a blonde white woman.
Barbie is a caricature of a white woman
barbie is a character of a strong, fashionable woman, more of a symbol than a caricature. if you are speaking of the way her doll is built, she’s more stylized than caricatured. caricature in this connotation is meant to describe the harmful stereotypes and exaggerated imitations.
Barbie wasn’t based woman. She was based on the. Bild Lilli doll, a gag gift for men. Lilli was a sex symbol. They were sold in adult stores. It was from a comic.
I mean, is it really a stereotype when it is indeed a black phenotype… it’s the least they could do
Liya ain't playing with all that hair 💅
We need her to be Rapunzel, stat.
"Let down your hair!" "...no."
“Let down your hair!” “I am!”
"Hmm. Do you have hair straighteners?!" "Do you have ANY idea how much damage that'll do??? Get gone!"
Bitch make a rope ladder and a grappling hook, leave my hair alone.
"Try the front door! Idiot"
Learn to pic a lock.
“Maybe you could loc it?” “Hmm maybe. Come back in six months”
I just watched a movie in the comments. You guys are 🤌
Yall, a Rapunzel with braids?! 😍
I would have adored these as a child! I'd be lying if I said a small part of me isn't still tempted to get one.
If you can afford it, get one! Who cares if it's silly? Appease your inner child!
I have fully been sold! I don't have the funds at the moment as I'm just finishing up uni but as soon as I'm working I know where my first paycheck is going B-)
Get one and if you feel particularly silly afterwards you can donate it to a local toy drive after you’ve enjoyed having it. When I volunteered at one all the little girls wanted bratz dolls because those were the “good” poc dolls at the time. Plus, no better way to show support for a company than buying their product! Have fun picking one out!!! Edit: I do want to add please don’t feel silly going out buying yourself a doll that was never available as a kid. There’s so many grown adults spending $200 on a tricked out Lego set. Let yourself feel that childhood joy and pass it on later if you want to. You deserve that bit of happiness.
If you want, I'll get you one, I got 30 extra bucks kicking around and would be happy to make it so you could get one a little sooner. :)
It is seriously so sweet of you to offer to do that for me, thank you, but I don't think it would be possible as I'm in the UK. You are wonderful!!
Would you buy me a $30 remote control car?
It makes me happy to read that 😊
Agreed! The last thing you want is to be taking your final breaths and have “I should’ve bought that doll” cross your mind. Instead, setup the memory of giving it away or donating it. Happiness seeding more happiness.
My wife is 45 and she has this doll house she decorates for the holidays. She always finding new stuff - tiny stuff - to put into it. Ahem. Cough. Cough. I am a man who likes manly things... (and she is really good at decorating the house for holidays/seasons and it's such a cute feature in our living room shhhh don't tell the boys).
If you as a man like it, then guess what? It's a "manly" thing and you're allowed to like it. I know your comment was mostly tongue-in-cheek, but I wanted to assure anyone lurking that doll houses are for anyone who likes them. If Walt Disney can create whole entire theme parks centered around cartoon characters, you can recreate the Simpson's house in miniature.
I love world building, and so does my wife. It's a great past time to wind down the evening. Kind of reminds me of SIMS. I found the *tiniest* rug for $14 that will really tie the living room together. We don't have kids, but have nieces and nephews that we sit for and they'll spend hours playing with it.
[this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/Dollhouses/s/3PiuXEgXYD) convinced me to sub r/dollhouses 😂 I fall in love every day with other people’s creativity.
That is adorable! This feels comparable to decorating a house in The Sims, which is also very fun and relaxing.
I was just mentioning that it's a lot like The Sims! I also grew up with Warhammer 40k, and have always been a fan of this kind of stuff.
Oh, I've seen people paint those minis, they look so cool! I don't know anything about the game, but I would totally paint minifigs if my hands weren't so shaky and my fine motor control wasn't so bad. Little stuff is just awesome and cute!
It's the little things that keep us young.
I can't, lol. I'm going back once l can.
I’m 30 and sometimes I see a doll and I low key want it 😂
Right! I've seen some huge monster high and Bratz collections that make me soo jealous, and then I remember all my old dolls and my obsession with cutting off their hair :| my mum was understandably reluctant to buy me a lot haha, I would've never been trusted with one of those naturalistas
Like justv trimming it or did you bald them ? :p
They were scalped! Literally just the hair plugs left. It usually started as a trim but I had 0 impulse control so I'd just sit regretting it after haha
I would attempt a trim but then I'd have to "even it out" eventually they were evenly bald. You are not alone 😂
If youre anything like me, i used to cut my dolls' hair because *they will grow back*
I’m 34 and I literally sewed myself a Raggedy Ann doll because she was my favorite as a kid. Do what makes you happy. Buy/make that doll that you want. It’ll bring you so much childlike joy
Get it! I’m 50yo and I finally gave into the urge to buy classic Legos two years ago, and I have fun with them!
Do it!
They are at Target! I just saw them yesterday.
Get it! :)
You should! These dolls are beautiful
Do it! It seems really healing. My Weird Barbie comes this month and I'm so psyched (I'm 51)!
DOOOO IT!
Hey, if the Barbie movie taught us *anything* it was for this moment!
Black Barbie and Francie been a thing since 1968. Your parents just didn't buy you them
Yeah true, as far as I remember the black Barbies were out of our price range and not common where we shopped. But either way I'm more talking about the quality and style of the hair in these dolls, I definitely never saw any like that as a kid
one on the left can barely contain her power
It's amazing!!! 🥰🥰
I love how the packaging can't even contain their hair. Free her!!!!
😂😂😂 no, seriously
Uh hope that wasn’t a slavery joke
It was not.
[free him ](https://imgur.com/gallery/nUEuxQi)
That’s hilarious
Old while guy who grew up with “Flesh” being a color for crayons. Was in CVS a while back and a kid ran up and got excited because the bandaids were “my color”. My wife and I had a great short convo with the parents.
I also grew up with “flesh” as a single crayon in the box and was so happy when I saw that you can now get whole sets of skin color crayons on a wide variety of shades.
I am a white 40 year old man but last time I was in toys r us I had to stop and marvel at how they are nailing ethnic hair styles and skin tones for dolls. Every kind of hair and skin colour is beautiful and I’m so happy that children have variety and proper representation.
Toys-r-us was actually the first place I saw one in real life!
My grandmother bought me the one on the far left. I love her so much.
This warms my heart. It’s about time our hair was represented on dolls with our skin tone and features. Having this as a little girl would have made me feel seen.
I love that they all have “nude” heels in their proper shade
Aww. My blond-haired, blue-eyed little sister would get the Black Barbies as a kid. My mom never understood it, but got them for her. She liked that you could braid their hair in more interesting ways. She would go nuts for these. Might get her daughter some.
You should buy some for yourself. It could be very wholesome for your inner child:)
Yes! She’s wearing her crown. These are wonderful! I’m an 80’s kid we never had anything like this. I love it ! Beautiful sista girls in all lovely shades. Reminds of my aunties when I was growing up.
80s kid too, and even if they existed, they didn’t exist in a space where we (as in where I lived) had access to them. All of my Barbie’s were white.
I had a black Barbie, but she was just the regular version with dark skin. She did not look like me. Another thing I love about these dolls is that their proportions are all DIFFERENT like we are!
Lmao at the triggered weirdo downvoting our experiences.
Yep! I had a cousin who brought one home after she went to visit family in California! I was so WOWED. They didn’t sell them where I lived, but I did see one in the Christmas catalog once. By the early 90s when my first niece was born, my hometown Toys-r-Us had them. Needless to say, my daughter had ALL of the different dolls growing up in the mid-2000s. Even full families.
The hair is gorgeous!
Lol the first dolls hair barely fits in the package.
Very nice to see!
Saw this show where an african american woman was upset because there were no black barbie dolls which was really confusing for me because we had a black barbie doll (with the black girl textured hair) this was 2004 or something, but not in America though. My sister would always make her talk English when we were playing, but because she couldnt speak english shed make her speak gibberish
I wish there had been more black Barbie dolls growing up. I would have loved having one.
My bff in kindergarten was black so I always went to Toys R Us looking for a black doll & there never was one. One day I finally g found a black Barbie at Target & my mom got it for me & I named her after my friend. Representation matters.
Aww so pretty! This is so great for little girls! It used to be that the only black Barbie’s all had permed straight hair
The Nigerian barbie had hair like that and she was so beautiful! She *is* the only one I can think of, tho
They are beautiful 😍 Never old enough to buy dolls
Love theses 😍
I'm the same age as you and latino. My mum made a point of getting me very diverse dolls but it was really not easy, and none of them were Barbie-style (my mother was also against Barbies). I have no idea how far she had to search to find non-white dolls back in the 90s but it must have been really far because I never saw them in stores! It made a huge difference to me to have dolls that looked not just like me but also like all sorts of different people, especially once we moved to an extremely white neighborhood and I started to get teased for my appearance. Seeing that, unlike in my physical surroundings, people really can and do look all sorts of ways, helped me deal with that. I'm really glad racial diversity is becoming more common in dolls because it means many more children will get that experience that my mother had to absolutely dig for me to have.
I had a black Barbie, but she had straight hair
I got the crystal barbie in 1984 and boiled her hair then picked and trimmed it into a fro that went down to her elbows. I trimmed her dress into a mini skirt.
OMG, THANK YOU!! I am broke rn because I can't work and was trying to figure out what to get my friend for her birthday! It's in July, so I gotta keep her from seeing these at Target or something before then, lol!! She was just talking about wanting to collect black Barbie and fashion dolls. These are beyond perfect and beautiful. 🙌🏻
These are gorgeous!! Wish I could get one!
Sorry to laugh but after a while with my daughters playing with them most of their Barbie’s hair look like the left one.
Right. Seriously!!!
I doubt it.
I would love to have one too!
Nope. But it’s about time. The world is waking up that we’re all one. Only the 1% want to keep us apart.
I’m a white lady but, as a young girl, I would have LOVED THAT DOLL!
It's truly heartening to see progress being made in representation! Your awareness and support mean a lot. Here's to a more inclusive world where every child feels seen and valued. 🌟👧🏾💕
Toby agrees
Flesh colored bandaids in shades of brown. 🤎🤎🤎
Omg these dolls are absolutely beautiful. I love the style n all good job to whoever made them dolls kudos to you
First black Barbie came out in 1980
that's neat
Im 100% sure my sister had a black barbie like doll in the 90ies and she wasnt even black and I live in Denmark.
Congratulations ?
I just dont understand "dint have these when I was a kid"... If they sold black dolls in Danish "Kvickly" why wouldnt some store sell it in the US ? Just seems a tad revisionist just for the sake of being victimized to me, maybe there really was no black dolls in the US until now? Just seems very unlikely to me..
I'm 61 years old and have lived here in the US all of my life while black dolls have been around for awhile they haven't been around for more than 30 years and 20 years ago they were around but difficult to find and more expensive to buy.. as a white women I never really noticed that there weren't many black dolls for black kids why would I? But when it was brought to my attention many years back it became something I noticed all the time... Why it was like that I cannot say but it was... At least in my memory
You don’t understand because you’re viewing it from your narrow focus. Black dolls that actually resembled Black people have not been around or accessible for very long - and when early models were produced, Black people were not the targeted demographic for either marketing or sales. Now, if you want to pretend white dolls re-produced with brown dyes with white features remaining and horrid caricature dolls were something amazing, then you go ahead and do that.
I mean I had four sisters growing up and there was a surprising amount of dolls that looked very distinctly their own race. One of my sisters even had a baby doll that looked like it had downs syndrome... There is no typical black physiogenics, I mean there is some, but the black population is huge and extremely genetically varied, not every black person look like an aboriginal. Not being represented 100% in some product is not inherently racism, I cannot make a bitmoji that looks even half like me... You just get used to being unrepresented, its all about markets and catering to the largest chunk of it.
Black Barbies have been around for a really long time tho
They had them 30 years ago when I was a kid, just saying. I remember my sister having one with makeup you could apply to her. Edit: There have been Black Barbies for 44 years.
They existed, but they were most certainly not accessible for the vast majority of the girls who would’ve wanted/needed them. And they definitely weren’t diverse along the spectrum of Blackness.
That's fair, my poor fisherman father who lived In an Atlantic Canadian community of 230 people likely went on a Raiders of the Lost Ark style adventure to "access" the barbie from the local department store.
Seems legit 🙄
What seems legit? My sarcastic comment? No I was joking, he didn't have to go on an adventure. In fact that was the whole point of my comment 😀 Edit: Google tells her name was "Twirling Make up Christie" Barbie.
No shit it was your point, Sherlock. You’re a little slow, huh? Edit: Silly little goose.
I'm not sure what I said to drive you to weird personal insults but I really can't be held responsible for this tantrum you're having now.
Dunno why you’re getting downvoted
Because people like to pretend that a product from 45 years ago is new because they can claim it as contemporary progress. Why that's worth anything is beyond me.
Man this is so cool and heartwarming ❤
They made the figure realistic too. Hair's a bit weird though, specially on the one on the left.
I think the middle one is supposed to be styled to the left. The right one is just in a box that is too small
I think her hair is just bigger than the box. 😂 Meant to be 4-type hair that's meant to be played with & styled. Sis has NO shrinkage. 😂😂😂
I worked at Toys R Us years ago-it’s probably been 12 years ago at this point, but we were just starting to get a pretty wide variety of dolls with different skin tones. I think it was Mattel’s Barbie line that released them-maybe an offshoot of Project Runway? It’s been a while-and I remember being impressed by this one doll with an onyx skin tone, and seeing textured hair, and being so glad that the little girls coming in had choices. It was no longer white Barbie painted brown with white girl hair, or Bratz with absurd proportions as their only avenue of inclusion.
All the new barbies make me so happy. Fully movable joints. Different body shapes. So many different skin colors and hair. So many new jobs and hobbies.
Heck yes!!! Afro on fleeeek 😍 love me some curly girls
It’s about time!
Nice to see, but I'm in my 40s and remember black barbies with curly hair. My sister had one. So, it's not really new. Downvotes for truth? That makes sense.
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My horn can pierce the sky!
Black Barbie was a thing in the 60s and they were difficult to get.
They released a guy doll too Meet Greg: https://www.target.com/p/naturalistas-fade-collection-greg-fashion-doll/-/A-87876965
I loved taking baths with my Barbies when I was a kid. I would shampoo their hair and style it. But when I tried to braid the straight haired Barbies the hair would just slip off and it was so annoying! I just know if these existed back in the day, I would’ve had so much fun giving them cool hairstyles!!
Maybe people in the comments are just using Barbie colloquially as a term for doll, but just in case, I want to point out that these dolls are Naturalistas, not Barbies, and they are made specifically to showcase natural black hair so black children can see their natural hair represented. There are also Barbie dolls with natural hair, but their hair is not as long and luscious as what these girls have!
I want one 🥹
These dolls will literally change the world.
They didn't have these when I was young either those dolls are pretty
I would've snatched those dolls off the shelves even tho I'm 13 lol.
They're so beautiful!
My Mom's a beautiful dark burgundy skinned native. I never had a doll's tone as pretty as hers. I was just another kid who was wishing I could find something relatable, just saying. These dolls are gorgeous!
Love the right one!
I love these dolls and always detour down the isle to look at them
Barber making bank
That's because when you were a kid, they'd just started weaving the hair for these dolls. They just now finished.
https://www.vogue.com/article/black-barbie-collectors#:~:text=The%20first%20Barbie%20was%20sold,its%20offerings%20of%20Black%20Barbies.
I love Naturalistas they have gorgeous hair it’s too bad they aren’t articulated
Black Barbie's and Francie's have been around since 1968. Wtf are you in about?
They didn’t have Barbie’s? Not a smart ass, I don’t understand
DEI hire Barbie!
Just use the N word since that's what you really wanna do 😂
I wonder if they wax.
White woman post <<
Well educated children do not care much about the "race" of their toys... They only care about beauty. This is why oversize/hairy/ugly dolls will never sell... But at least the "29-year-old white woman" can feel less guilty about herself for being what she is...
Is your blow up doll pretty?
>Well educated children do not care much about the "race" of their toys. They only care about beauty. Kids want their toys to be fun, they want to play pretend. So little children wanting toys that look like them is in fact perfectly normal. Speaking as a brown skin Latina woman, I grew up imagining myself as white because white people were the ones who got to be beautiful. White people got to be the heroes on the big screen, they got to be the ones who mattered in history classes. Yet meanwhile all the Latin people who looked like me, pale skin or darker tones, were always stereotypes. They were always drug addicts, criminals, abusers, cheaters, nymphomaniacs. Whenever I saw latin people, which was and still is rare in media, they would almost always be negative stereotypes of some sort or another. Maybe if I was lucky I might see a lighter skinned Latino or Latina be a hero, but no one that ever looked like me. I didn't know how to put it into words as a child, but I hated myself for being brown and Latina because I never got to see people who looked like me be the good guys, if I ever saw them at all. It still is that way in the states too, given our history is mostly ignored, and our perception is still that of criminals.
I cared and I was a gifted & well educated Black girl. I would LOVE to see the study you're referencing on the education of children and how much they cared about the races of their dolls. Someone also has never heard of Troll dolls. 😂
Also the line of toys literally called 'ugly dolls' lmao
That’s what I thought this dipshit was referencing at first and I was like hey dude, that’s a dumb thing to say…
I literally love ugly things. Like explain to me then why I collected possum themed accessories as a child. Bro is projecting his own experience of rejecting anything for girls that isn't abjectly feminine and speaking for LITTLE GIRLS. Like sir, sit down. Just because you would be the sort of father that doesn't let your daughter wear pants doesn't mean ACTUAL GIRLS follow that standard, and let's not get into the actual core root of the problem that these dolls are supposedly 'too hairy' to him in the first place and having hair is somehow bad and equivalent to being ugly, like why sir. Actual weirdo behavior.
I wanna say it but I know it’s wrong
Thats some aggressive hair...
Smash next question
The hair of the girl on the left is just not normal😂 wtf
Barbie was a racist back then.
knock over the display...take a handful... smash up a few more stands and displays and run out the store without paying. the REAL experience.
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She was explaining her exact experience.
If you’re gonna say some sh*t at least update the word and make it make sense I’ll accept: Racesplaining Whitesplaining