Hi, Barbie! ~ A Photoshoot

Hey guys! I could say a lot of things about my blogging so far this year... but yeah. I've had a busy schedule with my brother's hockey and kind of a general creative slump. But! Hockey season is over. (My brother's team won their championship, which I was really excited about. I'm going to miss taking photos for the team, but I won't miss waking up at 5 for morning games.) My posting is probably going to be more regular going forward, at least until I have to take finals. 

Enough of that life stuff! March 8th was International Women's Day and March 9th was National Barbie Day, which, if you know me IRL... those are the things I'm known for. Feminism and Barbies. 

So yeah, I decided to take some pictures with my AG x Barbie Collab stuff, which I hadn't done any photoshoots with yet! Let's get into it!

Eden!! I got American Girl's Day-to-Night Barbie outfit for Christmas and Eden was naturally the doll I wanted to wear it. Eden is my lookalike doll, and "Barbie" is my nickname at school, so of course she had to cosplay D2N Barbie! I wasn't sure what kind of backdrop to use for these photos, but I like what I came up with and I like how all the pictures turned out.

I think this photo looks so studio-like. 

I know not a lot of AG collectors are also Barbie fans, so I thought this would be a good place for a bit of Day-to-Night Barbie trivia. D2N Barbie was released in 1985, during the "Superstar Era," which is when Barbie started to be associated with the color pink for the first time. Cultural shifts in women's rights pushed Barbie to be re established as the career woman we know today, rather than a "teen age fashion model" (which she was originally marketed as at the time of her release in 1959). D2N Barbie represented a chic business woman, but a sparkly jumpsuit and reversible skirt allowed kids to switch her outfit into a "nighttime" look. D2N Barbie remains iconic with collectors, and I was ecstatic that AG made an 18-inch doll version of the set! But yeah, one criticism I've seen of this outfit is that there's only one skirt, but that's the original gimmick of the Barbie doll and it makes me super happy that they kept it. I thrifted a D2N Barbie a couple years ago so it was really fun going through all the pieces and comparing them to the original Barbie doll. 

Okay this framing is kind of amazing. 

I also wanted to take some pictures of my Barbie collector doll! I kind of hate how this one turned out but it's whatever.

I don't really like this one either. Maybe it's the angle.

I know she's not everyone's cup of tea, but I love this doll.

I really like the bokeh in the background of this one.

We're back to Eden! I switched her to the night outfit for these! 

I've honestly run out of things to say at this point because the photos are all really similar lol.

I figured out a cool thing on my camera where it will show you a meter that'll tell you whether or not you're holding the camera level which... I really needed, to be honest. No more crooked doll photos on Just Dolling, hopefully.

Okay she's honestly giving school dance vibes which reminds me of the photo of me during hoco this year in which I'm glaring into the camera while making heart hands. I looked so emo in the picture. It was great. *I'm not actually emo but my music taste is so that's the joke.*  

She fell, so I decided to try something a little different. I like it! It needs to be cropped at the bottom, but oh well. 

That's all for now! I'm excited to get a post out next week because I already have ideas, but until then, have a great week and remember to eat your veggies! Bye!