Hat-Tastic Cerise Hood-Ever After High

Today's post is about my favorite Ever After High character, Cerise Hood. 

This is Hat-Tastic Cerise Hood who was part of a wave of dolls that were released after the original wave and a few others first came out.  

I purchased mine at Walmart, but she can also be found here on Amazon: 

Ever After High Hat-Tastic Cerise Hood Doll  

This wave (called The Hat-Tastic Tea Party) consists of Cerise Hood, Madeline Hatter, Apple White,  Briar Beauty and Cedar Wood as well as Maddie's tea table playset.  Here is a link to all of the dolls in this release (just click on the Tea Party one.)  

I wanted to start off by sharing a quick photo shoot I did during one of my walks outside during my lunch break. :)  I think she looks especially striking against the snow and duller colors of winter. 

Now onto the review.  Here's a look at her still in her packaging.
I thought she looked quite cute in her packaging and at the time I bought her, I was actually looking for the original Cerise, but she was out of stock at the time, so I grabbed this one instead.

Hat-Tastic Cerise Hood

Here's a look at everything she comes with.
She comes with a dress (all one piece), black belt, fishnet knee stockings, big black boots, a black purse, two black cuff bracelets (although I could only find one for the photo,) silver earrings, a headband and a necklace as well as a teapot and two tea cups.

UPDATE:  I actually found a photos I took of the necklace. :)  Originally, when I first posted this, I didn't include it, so here it is if you are interested.  I had removed it originally to keep it away from little fingers and forgot to include in it this review.  You can also see what the necklace looks like from the next photo above of where she's still in the box.  :)

One side of the purse has red paint, while the other side is all black. 

Here's a closer look at her purse, tea set, bracelet and earrings.  

If you look closely, one earing is a teacup and the other one is a tea pot pouring tea into a tea cup. 

The tea pot is actually two pieces and the top comes off and the tea cups attach to the red saucers, which is a really nice, interactive feature of this set.  

Her hair is quite longer than I expected from watching her character on the webisodes.  For some reason, I was expecting shorter hair under that hood.  It was fairly straight when I de-boxed her, but I had kept it braided so the little girls could hold her and occasionally (when I have to bribe them with something) play with her.  At some point, I will probably do a boil rinse to straighten it again.

The rooting and thickness of her hair is actually really good.  She has much better hair, in my opinion,  than the Apple White doll I have.

Below is a look at the original Cerise Hood.  As you can see, there are quite a few differences.  This new one's eye makeup is much softer (daytime look-tea party!) than her original smokey eyes. Hat-tastic's lips are painted a glossy candy-apple red while original Cerise has more of a neutral lip.
Hat-tastic's eye color also looks a tad bit bluer.

Original Cerise Hood

I think I prefer original Cerise's makeup.  What do you guys think? 

Yikes, look at all of that ...hair..

Here she is next to a few of our other 12 inch dolls.  The girls were with me and Pumpkin Pie asked if I could include Rapunzel in part of the photo shoot :)

Walk like an Egyptian. 

Coloring-wise, she is pretty similar to our Monster High Cleo doll, but I was surprised to see she was a bit taller than Cleo.  Cleo always seemed to me to be one of the tallest in the MH crew so it's funny to see her so petite here.

I don't think Cleo likes being the little one. 

She's a little lighter than our Liv Alexis doll (who I just found in Ebay for $7 :):))

Vogue. 

I was also curious to see if she could share clothes with La Dee Da (Garden Party) Sloan.

She is much darker than Apple White, of course, but size-wise, she's the same height.  Apple pretty much blends into my background in this photo.

In this photo, you can clearly see the differences in their faces.  Cerise has thicker browns, differently positioned eyeslashes and a different shaped nose.   I think her lips are a tiny bit fuller as well.

I never realized how angular Cleo's face mold is.  She looks quick fierce here.  Cerise looks sweet. 

They decided to switch outfits.  They both really thought this was funny. 

Time to try out the tea!

Friends, at least for now.  :) 

 "Grrrr,  now give me back my clothes!" 

Surprisingly, she can share clothes with La Dee Da Sloan.  Girly.  Not her usual style, but it's always nice to be girly every once in a while.  ;}

Ew, am I wearing plaid??

Cerise and Cleo can share close nicely, although Cerise has a slightly larger waist. 

Uh, you expect me to drink this? 

Cleo can be difficult to work with. 

Hat-tastic Cerise and Monster High Lorna McNessie

These two, on the other hand, hit it off right away.  They both look amazing in each other's outfits.  Both share a love of plaid .  And probably shortbread.

Overall?
I love this doll.
I love original Cerise a tiny bit more, but I am glad to have this one in my collection as well.  She's really fun to play with, has manageable hair and can share clothes with a lot of other popular doll lines.  I recommend her, for sure.
I hope you enjoyed the review and winter-y woods photo-shoot and once again, thank you for stopping by. :}

See you soon!  xo

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