Barbie gets a neck tattoo (and other ink she'll probably regret)
After 50 years, here's one decision Barbie might regret: getting a neck tattoo. TokiDoki Barbie Doll, a "funky fashionista" collectors edition doll, is the first thoroughly and unfortunately inked Barbie on the market. She appears to have gotten stuck in an Ed Hardy t-shirt printing machine and then deposited at an Ashlee Simpson concert, circa 2006.
Designed by Simone Legno for the Japanese pop-art label TokiDoki, Barbie Ink (as we'll call her from here on in) is poutier, pinker and more pathological than most of her kind. She wears a skull t-shirt that hangs off her shoulder non-chalantly as pink doves fly up from her bosom, towards her collar bone. Her mouth is stuck in perma-duck-face. And she has a pet cactus that she insists on dragging around on a leash. (That's not a thing, by the way.)
Needless to say there's a faction of moms outraged by this particular Barbie incarnation. But they need to relax. Nobody is buying this $50 Barbie to cop her style. The fact that her tattoos are interrupted by slats connected to plastic arm pegs, suggests she isn't intended to appeal to young girls. This Barbie's demographic falls into that specific niche collector category: over 40, male, and married to a body pillow.
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