Rainbow High Pacific Coast Harper Dune

Rainbow High Harper Dune

It was Harper Dune's Burberry-inspired fashion that brought her here. This 11-inch articulated vinyl doll wears a cap, a sleeveless crop top, and panties made of Burberry print with off-white shorts that have a gold-tone RH belt-loop charm. She also has painted-on beige briefs and wears gold strappy sandals.  This doll is my first Rainbow High purchase. The other dolls that preceded Harper Dune's arrival were gifts.

Articulation: Harper Dune has the usual five points of articulation. Additionally, the elbows, wrists, upper thighs, and knees are articulated. 

A close-up in-the-box photo of Harper Dune illustrates her alluring eyes... it's something about those huge brown eyes that are enticing. 

Harper Dune is seen on the back of the box with the other dolls in this series.

Once out of the box, I photographed the accessories first.

Sunglasses, a vinyl tote bag, and a beach towel were separately boxed on the right side of the box.

 

Care instructions, a registration card, an extra pair of legs, a three-piece doll stand, and a comb were also in the extra box.

The doll's hair was gelled, hard, unruly, with uneven ends.

Why MGA Entertainment feels the need to apply heavy gel to Rainbow High dolls' hair is a mystery to me. Even they know, based on the care instructions on how to remove it, that the gel is undesirable. 

The care instructions for the hair read, "The doll has a light coating of gel in the hair. [Nah, Harper's gel was heavy.] If you would like to style the doll's hair, ask an adult or under adult supervision follow the steps below to remove the gel. Please note that the doll's hair will not appear the same after washing." (Insert eye roll here.) Their suggested instructions on how to remove the gel followed this statement.

Harper Dune tries to relax on her beach towel, but her heavily gelled hair was annoying to her, too.

I let her know I would remove the gel as soon as the initial out-of-the-box photos were taken. So, she cooperated with the next photos.

Harper poses on the doll stand wearing her sunglasses.

Removing the gel

Using cold water, the gel was rinsed out of Harper's hair.

Except for her sandals, Harper was undressed. The hair was rinsed with cold water and lightly shampooed with liquid hand soap. After the hand soap was thoroughly rinsed out and all the gel removed, the hair was combed to remove all loose hairs, snarls, and tangles. According to the care instructions, optionally, I could have added conditioner, but I opted to skip this step at this time.

 

Being modest, Harper wrapped herself in her beach towel and prepared to get her hair braided.

Four braids were added to Harper's hair while it was damp.

Harper's pierced ears.

The Rainbow High dolls, at least the ones I own, have significant-sized holes in their ears for earrings; however, earrings were not included with my dolls.

The next photos were taken after the hair dried and the braids were taken down.

The braids created a wavy look, but the ends still felt firm. 

I added conditioner to the ends of the hair and allowed that to dry for a couple of hours.

The conditioner loosened up the waves some and softened up the ends, but they were still uneven. I trimmed the ends for this final look.

Harper Dune posed with her friends, Phaedra Westward and Daria Roselyn.

Rainbow High dolls are cute with well-made clothing. Will I buy more? It is highly doubtful, but if you want Harper Dune, the buy link is included next.

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