My 1st Rainbow High Doll

This is Phaedra Westward of MGA Entertainment's Rainbow High Pacific Coast series.

Here she is in a buy link from Amazon:

Because she wanted me to have this doll to review and because she is an avid collector of MGA Entertainment's Rainbow High Dolls, Telisa Spain sent Phaedra Westward to me as a gift. I must admit that I've been "sleeping" on the Rainbow High dolls because I didn't want to begin another collection and as a rule, I avoid dolls with oversized heads and eyes. But after seeing Phaedra Westward up close and personal and actually owning the doll now, an exception to the oversized head/eyes rule has been made.

Before the doll arrived, Telisa told me she was sending a Rainbow High doll, but she did not say which one. Before I opened the Amazon shipping box, I made a video and uploaded it to Tiktok. View the video at this link.  

Phaedra Westward's spreadsheet description reads as follows:

Part of the Pacific Coast series of Rainbow High Dolls, Phaedra Westward is 11-inches tall, made of articulated vinyl, and has the deepest complexion of these colorful dolls. She has brown painted alluring eyes, rainbow-colored rooted hair styled in two side ponytails with painted rainbow baby hair. She is dressed in a one-piece purple snakeskin bathing suit. A purple, yellow, fuchsia, and white chiffon wrap is worn at the waist with purple high-heel mules that have purple snakeskin block heels and  "Rainbow" written across the vamp. Included are an extra pair of legs with flat feet (but no extra shoes that fit these feet*), a beach terry-cloth towel, a tinted visor, satin scrunchies, gradient tote with Rainbow High logo, sunglasses, and a purple doll stand.

Below are additional in-box and out-of-the-box photos and captions of my doll.

While still in the box, this close-up photo of Phaedra was taken.

The back of the box features all the doll characters of Pacific Coast High School.

From L-R on the first row are Simone Summers, Bella Barker, Margot De Perla, and Phaedra Westward. On the back row, from L-R are Finn Rosado, Harper Dunn, and Hali Capri. 

The text at the bottom of the back of the box reads: Meet the students of Pacific Coast High, the most elite fine arts high school on the west coast. Here the days are sunny, the classes are poolside, and the drama rolls in and out like the tides.

Released from the box, Phaedra poses on her purple stand holding her purple tote. Her Malibu beach towel and comb lie below.

Her big brown eyes are almost entrancing. Rainbow is on the front of her visor, on her shoes, and on the front of her tote.

With her sunglasses on and the doll stand put away temporarily, Phaedra strikes another pose.

The feet of the extra set of legs are arched.

To swap out the legs, you pull down on each below the knee and snap the others in place. That sounds easy enough, but it wasn't so easy for me to do.

In this photo, Phaedra's legs have been changed to the extra legs.

It was difficult snapping the left leg in place. In fact, I was unable to position it all the way inside the knee cavity, which left a gap between the knee and the upper calf. I didn't try to force it inside for fear of causing damage. 

*According to Telisa Spain, dolls in the previous series have had extra shoes that fit the feet of the extra legs and most have had an extra outfit.

Her original legs and the shoes that fit them were replaced as seen in the next photo.

After combing each ponytail to remove the stiffening gel applied by the manufacturer, I gave each ponytail several double-strand twists. (I'll redo these later because they were hurriedly done and are not perfect.) Rubber bands at the end of each twist hold them in place. Phaedra models her new hairstyle. All her accessories, including her wrap, are inside her tote bag.

Back on the doll stand, not wearing the visor or the wrap, Phaedra strikes a final pose. Without the visor, the baby hair is better visible.

  

By the time this post publishes, Telisa will own all the Rainbow High dolls released to date. For this post, she shared photos of all the Black and Latina dolls from each Rainbow High series that were already in her possession. Her photos and captions will end this post.

This is Vanessa Tempo from the Rock Star series (a Target exclusive).

Vanessa Tempo, Rock Star series

This is Skylar Bradshaw from series 1, Winter Break series, and the Cheer series.

Skylar Bradshaw wears her extra outfits.

This is Sunny Madison from Series 1, Winter Break, and the Cheer series.

Sunny Madison, Series 1, wears the two outfits she comes with.

These two lovelies are Krystal Bailey from Series 2 and Georgia Bloom from Series 3.

Above are Daria Roselyn in two different outfits from Series 3 and Robin Sterling from the Slumber Party Series. (The Slumber Party series is a Walmart exclusive.)

These three are Hali Capri, Harper Dune, and Phaedra Westward from the Pacific Coast Series.

Thank you again, Telisa for the gift of Phaedra Westward. Your kindness and generosity are greatly appreciated.

To learn more about Rainbow High dolls and the many different series/collections, navigate to the Rainbow High wiki here.

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