1. With stick-thin bodies, permanently arched feet, and platinum blonde hair, Barbie dolls dont look like most real women.
3. Designer Nickolay Lamm is seeking to change that. Earlier this year he created a normal Barbie, which had the proportions of an average 19-year-old woman. Lamm has dubbed his creation, naturally, Lammily.
Nickolay Lamm
A traditional Barbie on the left, and Lamms doll on the right.
5. Lamm has now made a new accessory for the dolls: stickers that emphasize what its really like being a woman.
The stickers, which include tattoos, cellulite, and stretch marks, can be placed anywhere on the dolls body. Lamm hopes they show that a variety of body types are natural and beautiful.
7. Since playing in the dirt, getting bruises, or developing stretch marks during puberty or growth spurts are normal parts of many girls lives, Lamm wanted to make dolls that would represent those experiences.
Eine Lammily-Puppe mit Cellulite.
Nickolay Lamm
Eine lammily-Puppe mit Schrammen.
Nickolay Lamm
9. All fashion dolls look the same! I wanted to give them a realistic makeover, Lamm told BuzzFeed News.
Nickolay Lamm
A doll with a stretch-mark adhesive.
11. The other options for stickers are freckles, glasses, blushing, adhesive bandages, moles, temporary tattoos, stitches, scrapes & scratches, bruises, casts, scars, mosquito bites, and grass and dirt stains, Lamm said.
A Lammily doll with a mole adhesive
Nickolay Lamm
A Lammily doll with an acne adhesive
Nickolay Lamm
13. Lamm designed the flaws as stickers so that girls could customize their own doll.
Nickolay Lamm
A Lammily doll with a stitches adhesive.
15. He isnt very worried that their imperfect nature will deter kids from wanting to play with the dolls.
Ive seen kids playing with these stickers and saw how they put the stickers on and off, laughing and showing the customized doll to their parents, Lamm told BuzzFeed News.
The imperfect nature of it isnt an issue. I feel it makes the doll more relatable.
Nickolay Lamm
A Lammily doll with freckles.
17. Lamm also made a YouTube video showing how second-graders reacted to the dolls. The response was overwhelmingly positive, he said.
I think shes really pretty, said one kid. She looks like my sister, another said. Kids added:
She looks like a regular girl going to school.
She looks like she would help someone if they were hurt.
Shes not like other dolls.
While intended for kids, Lamm thinks the doll may appeal to teenagers too.
Though Im not a teenager, I remember what it was like and this doll seems more relatable, because she isnt perfect, said Lamm. Ive also seen kids remark how real she looks because of her body, so I feel it appeals to kids as well.
19. I want to show that average is beautiful, said Lamm.
The Lammily stickers are available to order on his website for $5.99.
A video showing the differences between a Lammily doll and a traditional Barbie.
'Normal Barbie' to come with stretch marks, cellulite, acne. The Lammily doll, also known as the normal Barbie, is ready to buy online.
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