“Print it Pink” Nadja Rhymes

FRIDAY, DEC 15, 2023 

I decided to start an IT blog because by God there need to be more. The only one I could find was The Fashion Doll Chronicles which is excellent, and I can only recommend it to the reader. The problem is it’s absolutely the only one that comes up when I search, and I have read it about 5,000 times. So here is another one hopefully worth reading. 

"Print it Pink"

This is “Print it Pink” Nadja Rhymes. I looked at many pictures of her online lovingly and analyzed her doll soul through her eyes in a special way my grandmother taught me how to do. I knew the ins and outs of her outfit, her accessories, I especially loved her big fluffy blond hair.

I have blond hair envy, my hair is curly and almost black. Looking back over my life I realize every best friend I have ever had since Amy Stanard in 2nd grade has been blond, I did not even realize that was part of the reason I was picking them as friends!

This is how I remember her.

At any rate, I really wanted this doll and was very much looking forward to receiving Nadja in the mail.

I’m not in the W Club this year. I plan to do my best to be in it next year, but for now I am not in the loop. Nadja is a club doll and is not being released to the public, but this didn’t stop me from obtaining her. I just had to pay more for her on Ebay. I paid 190 plus shipping; I think she was like 160 to club members.

I was seriously charmed by this doll’s ad campaign, even though she’s not on the IT website yet so she doesn’t have a little story explaining her look, which I consider a detriment. I love to read the little stories that IT makes up for each doll released, it gives them some context and pokes me in the imagination.

I was pretty sure I could guess this doll’s context though. This is “Fit to Print” Nadja Rhymes, the disastrous (IMO) Nadja that was released not long ago.

• The... other Nadja. Shudder...

As you can see she is, well, gross. The checkerboard pattern or gingham or whatever you want to call it is not 1/6 scale like the doll. It stands out somehow. Her long legs and arms look weird and spidery. Who would walk around in giant gingham? It cracks reality for me. Plus, that burgundy hair color is gross with all the lavender. And the hairdo is just beyond bad with her face. I don’t know why but I hate the lipstick. I just hate this doll. I do like the baby hairs though.

I was starting to get annoyed because I really like Nadja’s sculpt and there had been some cool Nadjas released that I had missed out on because as soon as they hit Ebay, they went over my price limit immediately. I was beginning to collect NuFace and she’s important there, so I wanted one. I mean:

GRWM Nadja (Come on IT!!)

Nadja THE ENCHANTRESS (What I would give)

Then “Print it Pink” came out. She seemed to correct all the mistakes FTP had made. A miniskirt, not a pair of spider legs. Big friendly puffy blond hair instead of subdued greasy locks in rusty red. She was so cute I instantly forgave the fact that her gingham was also totally out of scale to her body. She has the same shoes, the same accessories, this woman is prepared.

Since she is mine that means, she is prepared to stand on the end table next to me in my living room and look fierce for about a week as I pose her and try to give her a slightly different look a day. Ideally. As long as I remember.

I have to say, although Nadja is just as pretty as a picture for sure, I was a bit disappointed when I opened her. Initially, I was kind of disappointed her skin was so pale, even though you can see it in the ads. I mean, this character has traditionally been released in darker skin tones and those were the dolls I had missed and wanted.

The material her outfit and big bag are made out of is the cheapest, thinnest cotton. Also, not to be prudish but she’s wearing a dang miniskirt and no panties. IT employees – would you let your friend go out like that? She has a pleather belt and tiny pleather bag, a gingham style bracelet, a pink ring. And pink gingham design earrings that look like little enamel frogs.

She's got a fabric bag, my first purchase if I was Nadja? Some panties!

Her pink triangle ring and tiny pink pleather bag

She’s got white sunglasses which are adorable with pink lenses, of course they are much too wide to fit over her eyes even though they look so cute in the promotional images. All you can really do with them is put them on top of her head and I’ve found I have to stick ‘em into her ponytail to keep them in place.

Like so. Damn they're crooked. Still cute.

I would say the lack of panties (come on Nadja's roommate!) and the cheap material in that suit (although tailored beautifully) should bring down the price of this doll. I was picturing a soft, tiny fibered flannel. Real people don't have whole outfits made out of whatever this stuff is, maybe a cheap blouse. 

Can't deny that pretty face!

But I just enjoy looking over at her every once in a while, when I’m at home because I still find her so charming. I’m one of those crazy doll ladies, I guess. I thought I was a cool Smashing Pumpkins/Rage Against the Machine well-adjusted adult with a healthy mistrust of the man but apparently, I’m just a middle-aged mom with a crazy doll hobby. Your true self will out I guess. But I’m still a total badass. 

Oh no did I say badass? I definitely meant smartass. Definitely smartass. Total Smartass for life.