What Kind of Doll is That!??===What's Her Face? School Hip! Doll
Written: Jun 10 '02
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Pros: Her clothes are cool looking.
Cons: Everything else...
The Bottom Line: Find another doll...What's Her Face is not only a scary doll, she gets scarier. A total waste of money.
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| BlonbabyDawn's Full Review: Mattel What's Her Face Doll School Hip |
After a few months of refusing to buy new toys because of an overabundance of play things in my children’s room, I decided to give in and take them shopping for one new toy each. My youngest daughter picked out this What’s her face? School hip! doll after searching endless toy isles at Wal Mart.
Before Purchase
I can’t say I was even pleased at the mere site of this doll, even before opening the box, but I did say they could pick out whatever they wanted, and this is WHAT SHE WANTED!!, to put it simply.
Inside the box, is a rather scary, blank faced doll...no eyes, nose or mouth, adorned with red leather pants, a short sleeved shirt, purple shoes and long purple hair with pink streaks and pony tails. Along with the doll was an array of accessories that came with that are used for decorating the doll’s face, hair and clothing. Eight stamps, along with four markers, a mask, and a couple sponges were among those. Mommy’s reaction was not the typical, “Oh, what a cute doll!”. It was more like, “Lauren, what IS THAT?”. But after checking the front and back of the box, I saw that just maybe we could turn this bare featured doll into one of the adorable faces that the back of the box displayed. So I reluctantly paid the $18.00 for What’s Her Face? and made Lauren a happy little girl.
Bringing Home “What’s Her Face?”
What’s Wrong??
After struggling to get the doll and accessories out of the box, Lauren and I fiddled with the doll to find out just how this blank faced beauty became just that, a beauty. As I am not too fond of having to mess with an instruction booklet, I tried to figure the doll out on my own. Without much luck, I resorted to the instruction booklet. The stamps do not come with an ink pad, in fact, you have to use the markers to color the stamps in order to get ink on them. That was my first indication that this would be a messy and not-so-fun doll, at least for me. After figuring out that there were 2 stamps for each facial feature, 2 stamps for the left eye, 2 stamps for the right eye, 2 stamps for the nose, and 2 for the mouth, now was the time to start the real fun, right?
Wrong. The mask must first be placed on the dolls face so that you know exactly where which stamp goes where. But don’t try holding on to the dolls hair while your grasping What’s Her Face? in your hand or you will be frightened once again as the doll’s hair comes off the head and then you have a blank faced, hairless doll staring, well trying to stare, at you.
The mouth stamps are shaped like lips, the right eye stamps are shaped like hearts, and the left eye is shaped like a flower. Seems pretty simple right? Wrong, again. Put the mask on the dolls face, ink up your stamp and stick it in the right shape and you should have a perfectly shaped eye like on the box. Wrong, once again. The ink doesn’t stay wet long enough to even apply a whole eye, or nose or mouth. You end up with an even creepier What's Her Face with a half eye, half nose. What’s her face?’s instruction booklet tells you that if your markers get too dry, to run them under warm water to moisten again. So I tried that technique, the stamps still dried too quickly to even apply an eye. I don’t think the only problem was even the moisture, the stamps are nearly impossible to get even on a rounded face like this one.
What's Her Face? also comes with a pair of purple sunglasses, that broke soon after trying to put on the doll. They don't stay on the dolls face and with the persistance of a small child, broke right in half.
What’s Not Wrong?? (not much)
Alright, on to another feature. You can change What’s Her Face’s? long pants into shorts by removing the lower half of them. I found nothing amiss with this part of the doll. Her hair even changes colors like the box says. To do this, you wet one of the two sponges that came along with it and rub it along her hair. But, do remember that when her hair dries, her pretty pink highlights are gone.
What’s Her Face? also has some snazzy purple shoes that are easily removed and put back on. The square stamp that comes along with the doll is used for applying stamps to her shirt, and seems to work, “ok”, compared to the face stamps. Last, but not least, the entire doll is washable, as the markers are washable! And what parent doesn’t appreciate washable markers?? A wet paper towel does all of the clean up, even if my little ones gets pink red or green fingers in the process.
The doll is not cheaply made, in fact it could be a really fun doll to a child who doesn’t mind a doll with no face. But with an artistic child who only has one thing in mind, and that is to stamp....this is another story.
Overall Opinion
Seriously folks, save your money. Find another doll, run, run, run. I seriously feel cheated out of my money on this purchase. Mattel has disappointed me, and my child, with this incredibly dull doll. Eighteen dollars is not cheap.
Lauren has, in fact, made use of the doll by drawing her own faces on What’s Her Face?. And it is nice that she can wipe it off and start over, but it sure does take the fun out of the rest of the accessories when you can’t use them.
I consider What’s Her Face? a poor purchase that I deeply regret.
Recommended:
No
Amount Paid (US$): 18.00
Type of Toy: Arts and Crafts
Age Range of Child: 3 to 5 Years
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