Barbie Loves Stila

The Escentials boutique in Tangs Orchard has put up a Barbie Loves Stila window display!

Judging from the display, it looks like they only have the Lip Enamel set, Lip Glazes, Smudge Pots and brush eyeliners left. No sign of the Barbie Loves Stila palette, which sold out quite quickly.

If I had more money (and a much larger house), I would love to collect Barbie dolls. As a child, I would spend countless hours in the Barbie aisle in department stores, just checking out all the dolls that we could not afford to buy at that time. Finally, when I was ten, my mom bought me my first Barbie (Peaches'n'Cream) when I did well on an exam.

I only ever owned two Barbies with the other being an astronaut Barbie with the cutest fuchsia mini skirt and metallic silver tights. And my childhood friend got her parents to buy me a Barbie convertible car (in hot pink of course) for Christmas one year :-) Those were good times. Then I got too old for them and gave them to a young cousin. It broke my heart years later to see how badly she treated them (as she had dozens) with one even losing its head!

One thing I've noticed about the newer generations of Barbie dolls is that the faces of the Barbie dolls are not as pretty as those in the late '80s which had much more delicate features and smaller heads.