In Career Gems January 30, 2020 By EditorCHECK OUT THIS NEW ERA OF BARBIE DOLLS Mattel the manufacturers of Barbie dolls have diversified the looks of their dolls. This new era of dolls are made to look more like what children see, and not the milk coloured, slim, blond haired dolls. One appear bald, another doll’s curly dark hair, one has a prosthetic limb. Some are made with the skin condition vitiligo, a condition that causes patches of skin to lose melanin. They are among several new Barbie dolls that Mattel features with “more skin tones, hair types and body shapes than ever before.” Thin blonde Barbie have been blamed for distorting young children’s idea of beauty, skin tone and body shape. According to Mattel, the Barbie Fashionistas line now includes 176 dolls with 8 body types, 35 skin tones and 94 hairstyles, “designed to reflect the world girls see today.”
