Barbie’s a Tattoo Girl
arindam
arindam
29 Jun, 2009
Good doll gone bad. That’s what they’re calling Barbie with a colourful Ken tattoo on the small of her back or any of the 40 stick-on tattoos she comes with.
Good doll gone bad. That’s what they’re calling Barbie with a colourful Ken tattoo on the small of her back or any of the 40 stick-on tattoos she comes with.
At 50, Barbie’s only beginning to step on to the edgier side of life. Aesthetic surgery she needs not, until one finds the other unfit to ‘let’s go party’ Aqua-style (never, that is). Mattel says the tattoos let kids exercise their creativity. Though purists cry foul, the dolls are flying off retail shelves. Clearly, nothing sells like bad does.
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