Mattel Disney: Little Mermaid Vanessa Doll Review 🧜🏻‍♀️

Today, we have Mattel's charming and fragile Vanessa from the Disney: Little Mermaid series.
The doll comes in a stylish blister pack with its story on the back, and does not come with a stand. In this review, for convenience, a stand from another doll is used.

The doll is distinguished by a very successful, graceful sculpting of the face and a graceful body. She has gorgeous, wavy, soft hair, completely unvarnished and docile. With some lighting, it seems that Vanessa's hair has different shades, as if highlighted.

The creators of Vanessa very interestingly and creatively approached the choice of painting the girl's face. On the one hand, it can be called pixelated, on the other - painting in such a "shadow" technique adds more depth and expressiveness to the look of the doll and the face as a whole. In our opinion, the combination of blond hair, blue eyes and red lipstick is very well chosen.
Vanessa's painted lips are quite unusual. The same technique with light shades in the corners of the lips and a richer tone in the center. If you look more carefully, you can see interesting spots on Vanessa's lips. Maybe sand from the bottom of the sea got into Vanessa's lipstick when she was going to meet the Prince?🤔😊

Vanessa's outfit will delight even collectors who are very picky about the appearance of dolls. From the outside, the dress looks fantastic, very soft, high-quality fabric and concise, harmonious design. If you evaluate the work of doll tailors on the reverse side - even here there is nothing to complain about😍

The look of the beauty is completed by graceful black high-heeled shoes and a stylish necklace with a golden shell on a "leather" string.

Vanessa's body has a minimal set of joints, but looks very delicate and fragile. There is no doubt that Vanessa is very young, because her physique is similar to that of a teenager. The doll has molded underwear and characteristic marks that remain after the casting process and can be easily removed with sandpaper. The slender legs have a lifting foot without a hinge.

There are all the necessary markings on the back of the head and the back.

Traditionally, we will not bypass the topic of Vanessa's hybridization, because, in our humble opinion, movement is life, and lol, this also applies 😁
Vanessa has a very fair skin tone. In theory, Mattel's new Made to Move tennis player might be perfect for hybridization, but if you're having trouble finding that one, or if you're not a 10500% perfectionist, there are other options to try, such as Neko (Made to Move Original Body ), Viktoria Looks (Made to Move Tall Body), or, as in our case, Andra Looks on a standard MTM body.

The tone match is almost perfect, visible only to the eye and in certain lighting, the camera does not see it.
It's a pity that a petit body with such a skin tone has not been created at the moment, Vanessa would look great with a short height☺️
With the petit Asian Look, unfortunately, the color difference is very noticeable:

And this is what Vanessa looks like after hybridization with Andra Looks😍 Perfect proportions, in our opinion👍🏼

For the sake of completeness of information, it is also worth noting that Vanessa's shoes are not suitable for a standard MTM leg, they are too wide and too big:

We hope this review was useful for you☺️
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The DollsHobby.club team