Frida Kahlo
2006. Played by Salma Hayek in the biopic "Frida" about the famous Mexican artist.
Teresa doll has often looked like Salma Hayek to me, and with the EXCELLENT movie Frida, I started
thinking. The doll's head is from a Teresa doll circa 2002. I used the new larger Stacie body off of a 2006 Tapdancing
Lila doll to emulate the tiny physique of Salma and Frida herself. Painted and varnished to look like Salma-Frida complete
with unibrow.
The doll has had all original paint and hair removed. The dark brown katsilk saran doll hair from Restoredoll.com
has been rooted specially to make this hairstlye for Frida, without being too doll-like and bulky. Her hair cannot be taken
out of this set, as it is sewn onto her head. She does not wear the roses with her green hair ribbon in the movie, but they
looked so wonderful in the image I used to paint her face after, I could not resist adding them.
The green outfit that
she wears with decorated top and skirt are made to be as close to Frida's wedding outfit in the movie (and in the real
Kahlo's painting). The glass beaded necklace and gold earrings are handmade to be like the ones that Salma was wearing
in the movie. The red shawl is not identical to the one in the movie, but is very nice looking and has fringe trim on it that
took me a long time to make, as I did not have premade fringe, and had to swipe it out of a stewart plaid tartan piece of
scrap material.
The doll has big feet and wears factory Mattel black Ken shoes. She also has a tiny ever-present cigarette
made out of a painted chip cut from the tip of a toothpick.
I
made 2 nearly identical Frida dolls, this one I had for sale, but later had to pawn. The other one is in my personal
collection.
