Barbie Basics You Create Kit #3 Designed by Carlyle Nuera
- Wendy Dandridge
- Apr 3
- 5 min read
Updated: 6 days ago
April 3. 2025
Finally, reader we get to kit number three, the one I've been most excited about all along. The sculpts appeared to be the most attractive (not ONE cartoonish sculpt this time), and the boots! Good Lort these boots! Oh, one note: all pictures will have hair flying in dolls faces and everywhere. Can't be helped. But all good things in all good time reader.
The sculpt Number One gets my vote for prettiest of the bunch this time, it looks like Mattel was wanting to get cartoony with her eyes but then they stopped themselves and thank goodness they did. Her eyes are not oversized, this light color eyeshadow is just right, she's got perfect lashes, her lips are lined and curvy and full, chef's kiss! Love this face. I gave her the blonde on top, black on the bottom two tone wig because it's sort of pretty just for being long, and honestly, she can pull anything off. I wish the wig was just all black and shiny. And at least SARAN. Pretty girl gets the earrings, this time in bronze..
I put the beauty head on the curvy body, she just looked right there to me and as the director, producer, and sole funder of this production I only had myself to please, so I left her there. I gave her a mesh ensemble, mesh being one of the themes of this kit which I found to be... a choice. The skirt is a funny old thing that relies on bunchiness to be fashionable, and also not to be totally transparent I believe. The bunching strategy didn't exactly work for my Barbie, as you can tell you can still see what kind of underwear she's wearing - Barbie brand, granny panty, flesh tone. On one side of the daring fashion skirt, there's a big grouping of mesh that in the photo on the box, presents in kind of a round flowery shape at the hip and then as an almost folded fall down the leg. In real life, the extra mesh gets wrinkled up and doesn't quite live up to the promo pics. I also gave her a top with a mesh stomach in it (cause that's sexy?) and the pleather jacket because I like her.
Now it's time to truly buy that scratch off lotto ticket because the winds of fortune are blowing our way, the Barbie Gods have given us a pair of beautiful, usable, black boots! I'm finally satisfied, I love them, stringed instruments play, la la la.
This being my third time, I didn't need a map for Sculpt Number Two's violent blue eyeshadow to lead me to the two-tone black and blue wig ("the bruise" as it's called in the wig catalog) and I put her in it right away. I think it suits her. This girl is pretty, she just looks 14, but it could be the hair.
Since it looked so tiny and reminded me of clothes I wore as a kid the jumpsuit that ties around the neck went on the petite girl, whose body acquired little Sculpt Number Two. It just seemed right, and she did seem happy because once I put her on this body, she started doing the weird dance you see in the picture above. I think she was going into the robot maybe.
Who the heck is going out in shoes this pointy? One pair of shoes in this kit is just plain ridiculous and I'm calling it out. These shoes were made for Hansel and Gretel to pick berries in the forest perhaps, but slip on pointed windsocks, that are tied to the heel with thick hemp rope and further tied up the leg with more said rope, are not my idea of modern footwear. These are more along the lines of what was being worn whenever Sleeping Beauty was alive. That being said, I haven't been out in years because I've got teenagers so what do I know about what people are wearing now, I'm still listening to Weezer. All I can say for sure is I hate these, and once again, we have no offering for the petite feet.
Holy Smokes. The final sculpt is beautiful too. She looks a bit like the Claudette sculpt (Claudette was the Barbie Basics doll #3 that matched this set) but not in the egregious way that the doll in Kit #2 was almost a carbon copy doll, more like they could be sisters. I like the white all around her eyes, it's different and I feel like it shows off her pretty lashes. Her brows are thick, but I like that too, as well as her full lips and the beauty mark. The little brown curly wig is cute, so I gave it to her, I think she looks beautiful.
She got the normal size body and the one shoulder strap shirt with the long skirt containing a large mesh panel (ok...). It was either that or the star shaped hem skirt, which is shorter and also very wrinkled. I don't have a steamer, and what all these wrinkled clothes really need is a good steam. I do have an iron, but these clothes definitely feel like they are going to melt if heat is applied, although I could be wrong there. The truth is I just can't be bothered to keep them neat and unwrinkled in the future, so I feel like, why bother ironing them honestly. I should get a steamer.
Finally, for the third and hopefully last time, we put our poor suffering Barbies in the clear shoes. Here we actually could have had a kind of cool pair though, so it's an even bigger shame. They are spacey, snaky coils that wind rather satisfyingly around Barbie's foot to create a little pump. There's hardly any material to them at all and they show a lot of skin. So obviously they need to be transparent. I'm going to a friend's house later and surprise inspecting her footwear. I will find out if there's a secret clear shoe trend going on among women that I am unaware of.
Of the three I would definitely say this is my favorite kit. Again, I have to reiterate, more accessories are needed and deserved by your customers for 100 bucks Mattel! Congratulations on the new sculpts, even the crazy ones! It's always good to add to your stable, and a screening can make a lot of difference. Now that they've made the initial investment and gotten momentum going, I hope that they can make more kits, maybe with colors and if they are going to do the wig thing, do it right or don't do it. Rooted hair is great, especially now that we can swap the heads so easily, I think there's even less of a need for wigs for Barbie. I personally love wigs, not necessarily the wigs in this offering but in general and on other dolls. If they can get their wig game together, I say go for it, but if it's going to be like this, I would just say, no thank you very much.
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