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The Barbie Interviews Project intends to start a discussion about how gender roles and societal structures are taught to children through user-submitted anecdotes about Mattel's iconic doll.



Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Did you ever cut Barbie's hair?

"I ended up with 2 of the same Ken dolls, the one with the kind of movable blonde hair with really bad lowlights in it. We didn't want to get them mixed up or look the same, so we decided to change one of them. Carolyn and I cut off his hair, and died it green with a washable marker. The ink also died his face green, so we tried to clean it with fingernail polish remover, but it took off his eyes instead of the green tint. We drew them back on with white-out and sharpie. It was pretty awesome; at the time I was a little upset, but I got the normal one and Carolyn got the green one. We also cut all of Anastasia's hair off, once we got it out of that terrible bun, and it was a definite improvement."


-Marcie, 21, Caucasian, heterosexual female from the United States

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