McDonalds My Scene Dolls and Me

I recently got attracted to the cute My Scene mini dolls on roller skates, offered by McDonalds as part of their Happy Meals.  I do not usually bother with dolls, even during my childhood.  I had no Barbie dolls as a child because I did not like to play with dolls back then, preferring cars and animal-shaped toys instead.  Ever since becoming a late blooming ‘fashionista’ in the past month, I suddenly found myself more interested in anything to do with cosmetics, fashionable clothes and shoes, in-trend hair styles etc.  Apparently, this new interest also extended to my toy hobby and I bought one of the My Scene mini dolls from McDonalds. 

My friends and close ones know that I am more of a ‘plain Jane’ person, preferring to be attired in T-shirt, jeans and sporty shoes for comfort and convenience.  In the past since my adolescent years, I hardly put on make up except on very special occasions.  Now that I have developed this long overdue interest in my appearance, I have lots of catching up to do.  I am now gaining new ‘exciting’ knowledge and practice in personal grooming, learning and experimenting that should have done many years ago as a 14-year old school girl.  Maybe age has finally caught up with me to make me want to take more notice of how I present my physical self to others.

People always say that it is the person inside ourselves that truly matter but in this society, our outer appearances count a lot as first impressions too.  Those Barbie, My Scene and (unfortunately the ‘hideous-looking’) Bratz dolls are popular with little girls because the dolls evoke and instill this ‘natural instinct’ in them to be ‘vain’ and conscious about their beauty and dressing.  I mistakenly thought that this ‘vanity trait’ would surface within me when I grew up.  Somehow, this development only came about a good many years later.  Well like they say, it is better late than never!