Hollywood Nails Barbie is one of my favourite Barbies despite the fact that I don’t really like green nail polish. She was given to me by my sister for a birthday or Christmas present and I immediately fell in love with her beautiful facial colouring and her articulated body. I named her Elsa Lindstrom and she is still a firm favourite.

The doll was released in 2000 and came wearing a multi-layered outfit in green. The idea was that it could be worn in a number of ways. She also came with a set of child sized plastic nails also in green and a bag of glitter. I redressed her in it this afternoon and progressively removed the layers to show different ways it could be worn.

This is the outfit as it came out of the box.

Without the overdress, woolen thing and scarf.

The green dress can be worn as a skirt. It does seem a shame to give an articulated doll such a tight dress she can’t move her legs.

As a short dress. I don’t really like the woolly thing which seems out of scale.

The overdress could be a nightie, or these days she could probably wear it to the Oscars!

Here is Elsa modelling some other outfits.