Long, long ago in my childhood, I actually owned a few Barbie dolls. I don’t remember actually playing with them, I remember setting up houses and environments for them to live in: my big-doll bunkbeds became a condo, the nook under my own bed was a studio apartment. Even then, I was obsessed with tiny houses.
At dinner we were taking about tattoos and people that have had them done in white ink. I had a flash memory back to my Tanning Tuesday doll! She was a tall, willowy thing with an unfortunate head injury that allowed the user to spin the top of her skull to change her hair from brunette to blond or back again, depending on which personality was in charge that day. Her other selling point was that you could put stickers on her skin and then put her in the sun to ‘tan’. According to the commercial below, her tan would fade if you put her in the shade for a couple of hours.
Well, I hurried that situation along and held that poor wretch up to a light bulb. She tanned, and was tan for the rest of her existence. In fact, since she’s plastic, she’s probably pretty tan in a landfill right now.
I wonder if she’s blonde or brunette?
Brad says
That’s super cool! I don’t remember an action figure for boys that tanned in the sun. I do remember that Stretch Armstrong looked pretty tan though.
Lauren says
We had a Stretch Armstrong, too. Sooooo disturbing…..
I’m just leaving this post up for today since I was too tired to write one last night. I’m hoping for half-credit.