Barbie Extra #7

Promo photo used on March 8, 2021, on Amazon for preorders of Barbie Extra #7

I preordered this doll based on the above fuzzy promotional photo, which is the only photo Amazon and other sites were using in March of this year. I was so focused on her fat, banded ponytails (or pigtails if you must call them that) that I ordered her because of those (and the articulation, too). 

I was disappointed when I opened the shipping box to discover Mattel used the Nighttime Glamour head sculpt on this doll. I don't dislike the doll. I am upset at myself for allowing the hairstyle to influence the purchase before I knew which head sculpt was used. I actually like this head sculpt, but when a sculpt is used repeatedly, it becomes bothersome for me. All the doll begin to look alike.

I haven't removed the doll from the box, and I am not sure that I will (I haven't removed Extra #1 either and I like her). So the following photos were taken with the doll in the box in an attempt to capture as much detail as possible. (The Pepto-Bismol pink lipstick makes the overused head sculpt even worse.) Do better Mattel.

Barbie Extra - full view taken from a downward angle to prevent flash glare. The box boasts that the doll comes with 15 styling pieces. Barbie Extra #7 uses the Curvy, articulated body.

In this close-up, the pink lipstick is glaring. She wears a sheer lavender star-print peplum blouse that has ruffles along the edge of the sleeves that extend across the shoulders. The peplum blouse is worn with black twill shorts, a lime green faux fur shawl, and metallic silver mock laced boots. Silver hoop earrings, three silver chokers, a silver wristwatch, and a pink oversized ring complete her look. The pigtails of her dark brown rooted hair are banded with multiple colorful bands.

This is a close-up of the silver metallic boots.

Her shades-wearing Pomeranian, its cup, and an extra pair of blue shades* are captured in this photograph.

The back of the box illustrates Barbie Extra #7, the accessories, and three of the other 2021 Extra dolls.

*Initially, I thought the extra pair of shades (sunglasses) would fit Barbie, but according to Frantz Brent-Harris, who has deboxed his doll, "the blue and green glasses only fit the dog, not to worry as i know you are crafty...as the glasses for the dog are way nicer than the the ones for the doll, I used flat jewelry pliers to squeeze the posts of the glasses flat and glued on strips i cut from a black food container for the ear 'handles' it worked surprisingly so well." The glasses, modeled by one of Brent-Harris' Silkstone Barbie's are shown next.

A Silkstone Barbie from the collection of Frantz Brent-Harris wears a modified pair of Barbie Extra #7 sunglasses.

Note to self: Don't be enticed by the glitter and glam before investigating all features offered for future potential doll purchases. Answer to note to self: You probably will.

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