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I posted the picture above on Instagram with the caption: Latinistas Liv and Naturalistas Paige do not share the same head sculpt. 

@mynaturalistas made the following comment:

Yay! We were waiting for y’all to notice. 🥰 FUN FACT: NATURALISTAS face sculpts are comprised of our founder DeeDee (and IRL Peety’s) facial features…particularly their cheekbones, jawlines eyes and little button noses. For LATINISTAS, DeeDee not only assembled a multicultural team of Latino talent through the founding of @purposetoyslatin , she commissioned a Latina toy designer to sculpt culturally nuanced faces for Las Amigas. 💟 …a sculpt to reflect aspects of Euro-Indigenous facial features, and one to reflect aspects of Afro-Latina facial features.

Because, at @purposetoys , we understand accuracy in CULTURALLY diverse products start with the teams who contribute to their design.

What this means is our CULTURAL characters are built with the same loving hands from the communities each character represents. Soo you’ll never see a line of Purpose Dolls with the exact same faces features, labeled as different ethnicities. Ever.

We love and have enough respect for true CULTURAL representation, to ever speak over, short-change or trivialize the experiences of CULTURAL communities, by offering ill-conceived collections for headlines. We truly care about the people and the communities we CELEBRATE .👑🙏🏾☺️

My reply to the comment can be read on Instagram. :-) 

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Latinistas LIV

Latinistas Liv

Latinistas Liv arrived Monday, August 21, 2023. I ordered this doll from Target's website the day before it arrived. The super-fast receipt for this order was impressive.

Liv is one of four dolls in the Latinistas line that I wrote about here the day after the dolls and fashion packs were available on Amazon to preorder. By the time I published that post, the dolls were shown as unavailable. I had been waiting for the dolls to return to Amazon, but when they did, the price had more than doubled. So I waited and now they are all available at Target stores and on their online site for $12.99. I ordered some other items, so shipping was free. (The Latinistass are now available on Amazon again. Find Liv's buy page below.)

Of the four Latinistas dolls, Liv has the deepest complexion and was the one that called my name.

As indicated on the lower front of the box, Latinistas [are] Una Celebración de la Cultura Latina - "A celebration of Latina Culture."

Liv's bio and all four dolls in the Latinistas line are featured on the back of the box.

Liv's bio on the back of the box reads:

I'm Liv

From sunny Southern California, Liv (best friend to Lola) is a talented aspiring singer, and top music student at a prestigious performing arts school.

Known for her edgy style and big heart, when Liv isn't studying (or practicing with her band) she enjoys vocal lessons from her Abuelita, who is a retired legendary singer of guarachas.

Liv enjoys teaching traditional guarachas to the children of her community and believes music and family are the [key] to a happy life.

Motto: "La Musica Viene por Dentro" - "Music Comes From Within."

Liv has beautiful long jet-black rooted, wavy hair and brown-painted eyes. Her full lips are painted dark red. She wears a green sleeveless dress that is trimmed in bright blue. Latinistas is written across the front and the Latinistas logo (a capital L and a heart) is imprinted on the dress. Liv wears gray heart-shaped stud earrings, a faux double-stranded black beaded necklace, and a black watch. 

Liv's platform-soled knee-high black vinyl boots are attached to the box liner.

Latinistas Liv and Naturalistas Paige for comparison

While the Latinistas' head sculpts appear to be the same as the sculpt used for Naturalistas by Purpose Toys, LLC., they are different. Liv's lips are fuller and her jawbone is wider than Paige's as illustrated in the comparison photos above and below. 

Liv and Paige do not share the same head sculpt.

Manufactured by Purpose Toys Latin, which is a division of Purpose Toys, LLC., the company's mission is "to center and celebrate communities of culture while reminding children to love who they are and always remember La Cultura Viene del Corazón - 'Culture Comes From the Heart.'"

Liv's Amazon buy page

 See all the Latinistas on Amazon. 

Liv's buy page on Target's website should include links to the other Latinistas' buy pages.

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Latinistas Dolls and Fashion Packs

Latinistas fashion dolls by Purpose Toys LATIN are from L-R Lola, Liv, Juliana, and Dani.

Marketed as the first full line of Latina fashion dolls by Purpose Toys LATIN, at the time of publishing this post, the dolls are shown as currently unavailable or temporarily out of stock on Amazon. Preordering commenced earlier this week. The scheduled release for these dolls is in August 2023. The purchase links provided below should be active by then. I will update this post or create a new one that links to this one as soon as I know purchasing or preordering has resumed. The dolls will also be available at Walmart and Target.

Juliana

 

Lola

 

Dani

 

Liv

 

Dance Night Fashion Pack

 

Festival Day

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Latinistas by Purpose Toys

 

Latinistas by Purpose Toys LATIN

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These 11-1/2-inch fashion dolls received their social media introduction a couple of weeks ago. Representing Latinas, the dolls by Purpose Toys LATIN are appropriately named Latinistas. Their arrival online and in stores is scheduled for August 2023 on Amazon, Walmart, and Target.

The dolls appear to use the same or a very similar head sculpt as the Naturalistas by Purpose Toys, some of which can be seen here.

Read a BeLatina article about the dolls here.

The dolls and fashion packs are available on Amazon. 

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