Zarina -A Disney Pirate Fairy

Hi everyone!  I hope all is well in your neck of the woods.  Today I have a quick review of the Disney Store Classic 10 inch Pirate Fairy, Zarina. 

I love her!

Zaria is one of the new fairies introduced in the 6th Disney Fairy movie- Tinker Bell and The Pirate Fairy.  She is a pixie-dust keeper fairy who ironically always run out of pixie dust. She later discovers blue pixie dust and ends up teaming up with a deceiving and young Captian Hook after feeling outcast by the other fairies in Pixie Hollow.  Tink and the others end up finding her and helping her make things right again.

My girls loved it-especially Pumpkin Pie and she really loved Zarina.  Lucky for her, Santa brought her one for Christmas and she was kind enough to let me borrow her for a quick review.

Since she was a Christmas gift, I didn't get a photo of her in the box as she came out of the box immediately after Pumpkin Pie opened her, but the box was pretty similar to most of the other Disney Classic dolls.
I just love her wild curly hair!  Very Merida.  Not quite movie accurate, but pretty nonetheless.

Zarina comes w/ a dress, pirate boots and a sword.  The sword fits into a little "metal" loop-like sheath attached to her red bubble-beaded belt.  The belt unsnaps in the back, but is attached to her dress in two different places. Her dress is all one piece with velcro in the back and is actually really accurate to her movie character which you can see below.

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Her boots are knee high "swashbuckling" boots with a nice stitched up detail in the back.  The plastic is molded to resemble slouching and movement in the boot.  There's a defined seam where the sole and heel are attached to the sides and top of the boot and I love this little detail!

In the movie, Zarina's wings are translucent like the rest of the fairies, but her doll version has gold glitter outlining the lines in her wings.  The wings are attached to her back as you can see below.  If you press the button in the middle of her back, her wings flutter back and forth.  It's actually a really cute effect.  I don't think they come off and to be honest, I didn't really try to remove them.

As for jewelry, she only comes with one hoop earring in her left ear.  The way it is pierced on the doll, makes it look like a tragus piercing, which is pretty adventurous of Disney. ;)

In the movie, it looks like it's a regular earlobe piercing.

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Look at those cute ears! 

Her face.  They went all out "sas" for this face mold.  I tried to find a movie still that was somewhat similar and this was the best I could come up with.  She has a really sweet face in the movie, but I think they really seemed to capture her spunky, rebellious side in the doll representation.

Image found here. 

Zarina has mossy green eyes with black liner, brown smokey shadow on the upper lid and lower lash line and painted on upper lashes.  I really like the effect of the white paint on the outer corner of her right eye, which gives it a nice depth.  Her brows are thin and arched and add a lot of personality to her face.

Her checks have a peachy blush and her lips are painted with a shiny coral glaze.  They even included her beauty mark on her left cheekbone.
She is so cute!!

Her profile can't be any cuter either.   I love her rounded forehead, celestial nose and pursed little lips. Very pixie. :)

Her hair is pulled back in the front with a satin blue ribbon which circles around her head separating the top of her hair from the bottom of her head.

This girl has ALOT of hair.  Obviously, she's been a bit played with a bit, but her hair is a gorgeous coppery auburn and very curly.  It's pretty soft, though, but I wouldn't recommend combing it.  Usually we keep it pulled back in a ponytail and it still looks really cute.

As for her body, she has 9 points of articulation (if you count the knees.)  Unlike Monster High, or even some of the classic Disney Store princess dolls, she does not have extra articulation in her wrists, which is a little bit of a bummer.
She is a tiny bit shorter than Monster High Draculaura, but has a thicker torso and bust as well as a larger head.  She unfortunately can't share clothes with Monster High or Ever High dolls as they would be too tight.

She has the "click knees" as I've heard them so often affectionately (not) called, which only bend about this far.  I've seen some other reviewers experience breakage of knee joints in these types of joints, so I didn't want to push it!  Sorry Pumpkin Pie, Mommy broke your doll! 

I was surprised to see that she had a similar torso to our old friend Hayden (Liv doll.)
I was hopeful that she could share clothes with her.

And she can!  Hayden looks quite cute dressed up as a Pirate. It's a bit short. Arrrgh.   Although if you google "adult female pirate costume" this is pretty much similar to what you would get, lol.

Zarina looks quite cute as well in Liv clothes.  I think the orange and blue fit her coloring and wings quite nicely!

She is really fun to photograph.  :)  I love how she pops against the duller colors of winter.  She'd be great to take on an autumn photo shoot for sure.

Sadly, when I went back to the website to include the link for where I got her, it looks like she's not listed on the Disney Store website anymore. :(  I wish there was more warning before dolls just disappear!

I did find her on Ebay and she's listed at only a few more dollars than what I paid for her ($14.95) so if you are interested, grab her while you can! UPATE 10/9/15 I also found her on Amazon listed around $17.00! Disney The Pirate Fairy Exclusive 10 Inch Doll Zarina

She is a really cute doll.  The combination of cute fairy and spunky pirate makes her irresistible to my 5 year old who adores both aspects of the Neverland world.  Little Button got Periwinkle for Christmas and I recently added a Fawn doll to my collection so we have been having lots of fun with our fairy adventures.  Now we just need Tink!

I hope you guys enjoyed this review of the lovely Zarina and thanks for stopping by!
Photo shoots of Fawn and Periwinkle coming soon.  ;)
xo

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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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