Ever since I caught the Rainbow High bug last autumn, I’ve been stockpiling Rainbow High dolls. I’ve got so many Rainbow High dolls at the moment that I’ve fallen behind in blogging about them. Gabriella Icely is from Series 3. I bought her at the end of last year, when Series 4 had already been released. Now that Series 5 dolls were released earlier this year, I suppose it’s time to give Gabriella her time in the Dollsville USA spotlight.
Like all Series 3 dolls, Gabriella comes with a second outfit and a second pair of shoes (Series 5 has been criticized for no longer including the second outfit, opting instead more more plastic accessories such as hangers and the same plastic sewing machine that came with the Jett Dawson deluxe set). Gabriella also came with the same stand, comb, and hangers as most if not all of the Rainbow High dolls.
I love the Rainbow High combs. This one came in handy to comb Gabriella’s hair which, surprisingly, didn’t have any glue in it. Excess glue to style hair has been an issue that has plagued many Rainbow High dolls, to the point that many collectors wash their dolls’ hair to get it out. Gabriella’s hair was very soft and easy to comb. This is her hair right out of the box with just a comb-through.
Gabriella Icely gives Wintertime realness. As her name suggests, her hair, makeup, and clothing are in tones of ice blue and silver for a super-frosty effect. And when I first saw Gabriella, I thought she was super-frosty too. She seemed a bit difficult when we first met her. I thought she was going to be one of the Mean Girls of Rainbow High, like the Devious Twins. But Gabriella mellowed out later on, like when she used her skills as a fashion technology major to help her roommates in the first season’s fashion show during Radiant Week. And it looks like love is in the air between Gabriella and Finn.
Her hair is made up of strands of icy blue mixed with streaks of snowy white. It’s secured by two plastic barrettes.
Her eye makeup is done in hues of icy blue and silver.
Gabriella’s second outfit features a sleeveless dress that’s shirred at the sides.
It’s paired with a faux snakeskin jacket and blue strappy sandals.
Gabriella’s faux snakeskin purse from the Rainbow High Mini Accessories Studio perfectly complements her second outfit.
The choker that comes with the second outfit spells “Rainbow.”
While Gabriella seemed to be a mean girl at first, she’s mellowed out over the course of the second and third seasons of the Rainbow High webisodes. So is Gabriella Icely the girl you love to hate, or the girl you hate to love? I like her!
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