Original Listing Description

Vintage Color Magic Barbie Doll #1150 Yellow Hair changed to RED FLAMEI am thining my collection of dolls, many are duplicates, so I am looking for them to find new homes and not be returned. I am starting them at a very low price and so should be considered as is and let the bidders determine the price. Please bid if you like what you see. My dolls are in clean and very good condition and I try to describe them as accurately as I can. Please pay attention to whatever it is that is important to you in the descriptions and pictures. I am not responsible for factory flaws since I did not make them. If I see something I will draw it to your attention, as I don't like surprises and I'm sure you don't either. Mattel was a toy factory not a precision watch maker and the dolls in the 60's and 70's were not made by computers so I am happy to say they do not all look exactly the same as those made today. The dolls at Mattel were made by people and so today these vintage dolls are all a bit different, in the way they originally were and how they have aged, some being quite individual and often very special. Please read my interpretation of the specific details below.This Color Magic Barbie is the Yellow and Red Flame Hair Color Version. She came with bright yellow hair and if you use the recipe in the photos you can change your doll's hair to the Red Flame color or return her to he Bright Yellow. Both colors are beautiful. The colors between dolls vary a bit. This doll was and still can be returned to the bright yellow color. I colored her recently. The red color can fade a bit with time, but the recipe contents are easy to find and easy to apply with a small paint brush, q-tip or cotton ball. It doesn't affect Barbie's skin, but it will change an original Color Magic swimsuit and headband. I would describe her hair color as Red. She will arrive RED unless you tell me to change her back to yellow for you.The story behind this doll. I was originally looking for a beautiful face Color Magic Doll that had messed up hair so I could reroot her hair. I found this doll, but when I received her she was just too beautiful to cut all her hair off and start over. She had 3 or 4 hair plugs on the top of her head that were missing hair. I found two Color Magic heads and one was an excellent match of golden yellow to this doll. I figured out how to harvest the donor doll's hair and root the new hair into my beautiful doll face. It has been several years since I transferred the hair that I'm not sure which ones are the reroots the hair is such a perfect match. The next test was to see what the color looked like after I changed her hair to the Flame Red. Still a perfect match and I cannot tell which ones I rerooted. As with all color magic hair, I am always very careful when combing her hair and I recommend only gentle combing wilh all Color Magic Dolls. I also recommend painting the change solution on to the hair rather than dipping. Dipping means you will need to comb out the dipped mess, so an upright doll with a paint brush is my favorite color method. She also has a very decent body, but someone tried to fill in her tiny teeth marks on feet and legs. Sounds worse than it is, but be sure to read the BODY paragraph below. HAIR: Beautiful red color and very decent hair but most all color magic doll's hair is fairly fragile and you lose strands when you comb her hair too much. No hair cuts that I can see and and no missing plugs. Her hair is clean and in very good condition, quite beautiful with her different lengths. Some little girl must have had fun with her as she has many different length and some likely broke off during play, she has some short hairs on her right side. These dolls hair is often thinner at the front and on top. I suppose that is from over combing and reaction to too many color changes. You can see some of her hair plugs around her face and she has average thick hair, it isn't thin. I show her hair fanned in a picture so you see what she has. This doll does not have a painted scalp, so you might see her scalp if hair is pushed aside, but I just felt her hair and she has a good thick hair. She is not wearing a barrette because I always take them off to make sure they don't break her hair. FACE PAINT: Original face paint. Her eyebrows are medium brown and all there, nice black eyelash ridges with a little missing black on the very edges of her right eye. If she has any missing from her left eye it is very hard to tell and I'm using a magnifier. She still has smokey shadow and blue eyes with perfect thick blue eyeliner. Eyes are beautiful and lips are big and beautiful red color that seems to match her hair. She has blush on both cheeks. All I can say is she has a beautiful face..FACE: Her face is a nice even skin tone. No neck splits, nothing noted, her face is normal and smooth and does not look brown. No pierced ears so no issues with green anywhere ever. She has a typical Color Magic face with the huge red lips and thick blue eyeliner.LIMBS: Arms and legs are normal, straight, good coloring. Her arms are excellent and tight, may be a shade darker than torso. She has nail polish on all fingers the same color as her lips and no toe polish. Both legs bend as they should but the clicks are not loud clicks. They bend forward and back. Her hips are very tight and she does have some space between her ankles, but they are still good and not super rubbery lose. The space is naturally for her about 3/4 of an inch. She has all her toes and her bottom of feet holes are quite good with the tiniest little split on one hole very small.BODY: She has the correct body Copyright 1966 Mattel Inc US Patented Us Patent Made in Japan. All fingers and toes. Her body is very nice and her body coloring is tan. Her body is clean and I don't see major stains or scratches. She has some minor scratches on her back, but nothing really. She's a georgeous doll. OVERALL: She is a lovely old Barbie Doll very nice and clean, beautiful. Please look at her photos and ask questions, you may see something I have missed or have a question. If you contact me I will get back to you, but I'm on a computer not a phone. Thanks for looking and contact me if you have questions. If you save me as a seller you can be notified when I get something new listed, as I can be slow listing sometimes.On Jul-23-23 at 12:35:02 PDT, seller added the following information:Hi, I was listing last Tuesday and I "listed" the two auctions I have active now. Right after I listed them I got a big dialogue box that said ebay's listing software crashed. I tried to make revisions then and again later, but the software was not working correctly and I did what I could to revise the listing being that it had deleated many versions of saves. I originally used the template from a CM I previously sold and the dolls are mostly the same, but a little bit different. So, below I just thought you might like to read my discription of this doll adjusted.If you noticed a CM yellow Barbie head in the background in some of the pictures, she is the donor head for her couple of reroots and I just thought you might like to see the beautiful golden yellow color that she is if you change her back. Also I can tell the new owner which plugs had the transplant if they want, they are on the very top of her head at her part.Face Paint: Her black eyelash ridges have some paint missing on the very edges, more on her right side. You can see her nostril paint looks the same color as her lipsLimbs: This doll's knees click loud and bend as they should, still great bending mechanism in both legs. Some polish on all fingers with some having less than 100%, see pics. The space between her feet is 1/4 of an inch on this doll not 3/4 of an inch as described originally. No foot splits that I can see, just some tiny little bites like a tiny kitty might make?I don't see any scratches on her back, it looks smooth.As I mentioned, someone filled in the little kitty teeth bites with something the color of her legs. I never saw them look as bad as they do in the pic of three views of her legs with the yellow shoes on her feet. I don't think her patching looks that bad as in the pics they look like white shadows on her legs, but I think the camera made it look much worse that they really are, I don't see white shadows, but as always I just want buyers to be aware of any imperfections that I am aware of. She IS a very nice doll.Also, I didn't have a nice CM swimsuit for you so I bought this shiny golden yellow swimsuit that I thought looked so beautiful with her amazing red hair. I also am waiting for some squishy tall maybe the same golden yellow color of boots that I thought would look special with her swimsuit and if I receive them in time I will post a pic and include them with this doll with your purchase, I expect them to arrive here tomorrow. You get her headband too and it is in excellent condition. Sorry about all my bla bla bla, but I just think some people want to know the details. Thanks so much for looking. (Condition: Pre-Owned)

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