Rainbow High Series 4 Jewel Richie

Jewel Richie by MGA Entertainment is part of Rainbow High Series 4

Jewel Richie (a gift from a doll fiend) is part of Rainbow High's series 4. She is the first Rainbow High doll that represents someone with vitiligo. Her color is emerald green as illustrated by her two emerald green ensembles and her emerald green rooted hair and green eyes. Her online description indicates Jewel is from the prestigious Puerto Rico-based fashion empire House of Richie... Her focus is fashion design. Every design includes precious stones and the highest quality fabrics. 

In-the-Box Photos

Jewel Richie, like the other Rainbow High dolls, is vinyl, 11-inches tall, and has multiple points of articulation.

Jewel has long emerald green hair and painted green baby hair, big green eyes, applied and painted upper eyelashes and painted lower eyelashes, and green eyeshadow. Her tan complexion represents someone of Latin descent with vitiligo. 

Jewel wears an emerald green sequined dress, painted-on green panties, a green boa, green high-heel shoes with ribbon ankle ties, and green faux emerald drop earrings. She wears three bracelets on the right wrist and two bracelets on the left wrist. 

Extra fashion

Extra pair of shoes

Her second outfit is a green bustier, a jacket with a faux fur collar and metallic gold studs, an emerald green embossed reptile-print skirt with metallic eyelets, and heeled sandals with gold studs. 

A green comb and a doll stand are included in the box.

Illustrations of the six dolls in Rainbow High Series 4 are featured on the back of the box from L-R: Mila Berrymore, Meena Fleur, Delilah Fields, Jewel Richie, Coco Vanderbalt, and Lila Yamamoto. 

Released in 2022, some of the dolls from series 4 were reduced in price at the time of this post. 
 

Thank you again, TS, for showering me with dolls that you want me to own. I appreciate you. I am going to debox her soon. I promise.

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Just Play Naturalistas Liya

Naturalistas Liya by Purpose Toys is an 11-1/2-inch fashion doll with natural 4C-textured hair.

I ordered this doll and another Just Play Naturalistas doll in April of 2022. The order for the other doll is not scheduled to arrive until September 2022. Amazon buy links for this doll and one other one that I ordered along with two others that are currently on their website are included at the end of this post (feel free to jump there and order, if they are still available, or browse and return here to read my review of Liya.)

Her hair is huge and gorgeous!

Liya, pronounced Leah, was chosen because of her deep-brown complexion and her big 4C natural-textured hair. She has hair for days! Liya is not articulated, but that is not always a requirement for me. The price of only $12.99 with free Amazon Prime shipping was also the reason I ordered. 

In addition to her 4C huge Afro, Liya has brown painted eyes and a closed mouth with dark lip color. She has appropriately full facial features and a quite pretty face. 

The next two profile photos illustrate how much hair Liya has.

She wears a light blue shimmery sleeveless short dress.

"Naturalistas" in raised letters is printed across the chest area of Liya's dress.

 A light blue Naturalistas-logo'd clutch is her accessory in addition to clear stud earrings.

This is a better view of the clutch.

One of Liya's earrings is visible in this second headshot photo.

A pair of brown high-heel open-toe shoes are attached to the box liner.

Liya's high-arched feet are huge.

She can probably wear some Barbie fashions, but she will not be able to wear Barbie shoes. Her feet appear as large as Color Infusion Janay's.  (Janay's foot is the one on the far right at this link.) As you can see from my pictures, I have not deboxed Liya yet. Will I? I'd like to, but not at this time. I want to bask in the glory of a doll line made by a female African American entrepreneur that I can support as well as love the product and packaging. 

Back-of-the-box image

Liya and the other dolls in the collection are featured and named on the back of the box below Liya's intro which reads:

I'm Liya

Liya is a Natural Hair model, originally from Atlanta. As a second-year engineering student, Liya's life forever changed when she met a delightful talent scout from a popular model agency. An international model known for her tight (beautiful coiled hair), Liya spends her time promoting appreciation for Natural "4 textured" hair in schools (and in the workplace). [Alright now, Liya!]

Liya's motto: "4 textured hair is absolutely beautiful and so are you."

Her hairstyle is described as stretched, and the hair type is 4C.

DeeDee Wright-Ward, the creator of the Naturalistas, is pictured on the back of the box.

A headshot of the founder of Naturalistas, DeeDee Wright-Ward, and her bio are also included on the back of Liya's box. The bio reads:

DeeDee Wright-Ward is an Entrepreneur, Business Development Executive, Founder of Purpose Toys and Creator of Naturalistas. Naturalistas is a sleek line of contemporary natural hair fashion dolls, created to uplift and celebrate children with coily, curly and natural textured hair. 

Purpose Toys partners with entrepreneurs, providing the resources necessary to succeed. Our mission is to produce "Product with a Purpose", which we hope to deliver with Naturalistas, who encourage every coily and curly hair kid to "Be Proud of Your Crown". 

 

I really like her!

Liya is a welcome addition to my non-Barbie fashion doll collection. Her lovely head sculpt and super-big hair are eye-catching and will make her stand out in any doll collection or display. 

Paige is the other doll I ordered, scheduled to arrive in September.

   

Update:

Some of the dolls, a styling head, and fashion packs are on the Target website. Target's online merch is available according to zip code. I ordered Dayna from Target after this post was first published. She is scheduled to arrive on August 6th. I will photograph and share Dayna’s pictures in a separate blog post. Check your local Target for these dolls as well as Amazon using the links I've provided. 

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Another QueBan 1/6 BJD

Vaddon by QueBan is a 1/6 MJD BJD

I ordered a second vinyl 1/6 BJD by QueBan. This one has light blue- or aqua-rooted hair styled in two braids with bangs. Her name is Vaddon. She has the same head sculpt as the other 1/6 QueBan BJD dolls and a total of 16 joints, which includes the usual five points of articulation. Vaddon is 11 inches tall and has blue stationary eyes with synthetic fiber upper eyelashes, painted lower eyelashes, and a sprinkling of freckles across her cheeks and nose.

She was inside her box protected by a plastic shell. Her extra hands and boots were in a separate plastic bag.

The index fingers of the extra hands are curled under. All fingers are straight on the original hands.

After removing the skirt to iron down the pleats, I took a couple of snapshots of Vaddon. 

The skirt was removed in this picture and in the next.

Completely dressed

Vaddon wears a black long-sleeved crop top with cutouts at the elbows, a camouflage vest, black undies, a black pleated skirt, black over-the-knee socks, and brown faux suede lace-up boots that zip closed in the back. On the Amazon website, she is described as a trendsetter; however, rebel might be a more appropriate definition.

 

Trendsetter: Vaddon has been very naughty since s[he] was a child and likes to cause all kinds of destruction. She often runs away from home with her friends. She wore a camouflage coat and black skirt, her best-preserved outfit.

In this close-up, Vaddon's lovely face is captured. She looks too precious to be a rebel. So in this collection, she is not.

Vaddon and my redressed Jesui display well together.
 

In this pose from the back, the length of Vaddon's braids and the back of her boots are illustrated.

Vaddon will not be redressed for now.

To show both dolls in their original clothing without returning Jesui to her original clothes, I added the above-combined photos of the two dolls. 

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There are countless items to collect and write about. Black dolls chose me.

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