Basic Doll Anatomy

*This article is about anatomy for Rainbow High and Shadow High characters dolls. Other unique doll anatomy (e.g. Fantasy Friends will be discussed on their respective pages.*

The **Rainbow High** fashion dolls each have a unique color scheme and style and they all share the same body type which has yet to be changed. The only exceptions to this are the male dolls. Due to their identical body type, the female dolls can easily mix and match all types of clothing, allowing for a wide range of looks for each doll.

## Overall Anatomy and Skin Tones

The dolls stand at 11 inches tall. Every doll has a unique skin tone, however for the sake of simplicity all have been organized based on general undertone and shade as seen below.

**Table of Shadow High Dolls Skintones**
 Dark Gray
 Light Green/Blue
Uma Van Hoose
Eliza McFee
Berrie Skies
Oliver Ocean
 Lilac
Veronica Storm
Reina "Glitch" Crowne
Demi Batista
 Darker Purple
 Light Pink
Karla Choupette
Lola Wilde
Scarlet Rose
Rosie Redwood
Pinkie James

Each of the original Rainbow High dolls had 13 points of articulation total. Dolls belonging to Series 2 and onwards are slightly different in that the knees can bend a bit farther than the Series 1 joints can manage. Male dolls like River Kendall have an extra joint in their ankles.

Previously, none of the dolls had neck articulation beyond being able to turn their head from side to side on a fixed axis. However, every doll following the release of the De'Vious twins (who were the first to have the newer neck peg) has been able to tilt their head in all different directions, and versions of older dolls with the updated neck articulation have been gradually appearing all over the world since then.

Jett Dawson is the doll with the most points of articulation out of the whole line. She has joints in her ankles like the male dolls, but she also comes with articulation in her upper torso, something which no other Rainbow High doll has featured so far. This may be due to the fact that Jett is a special collector's edition doll, and whether future collector dolls will also come with these features is unknown.

## Head

The head and body are made out of hard plastic. The head, being slightly softer than the body, becomes squishy when put under hot water.

Each head features inset eyes and "real" eyelashes, plus a unique makeup look for every doll. Up until the release of the twins, and Series 3, all dolls shared the same head mold excluding River Kendall, who was the only male character as of yet and therefore had a unique head mold.

Here is a list of the basic head molds so far, as well as their variations with different lips and noses.

##### **Female Sculpts :**

* Classic Head Sculpt
	+ The Classic Head Sculpt is the first head sculpt used by the brand, Series 1 and Series 2 female dolls possess the mold as well as other characters from other lines.
	+ Both Georgia Bloom and Phaedra Westward use the mold but with modified facial features, Georgia uses the one with the bigger nose and Phaedra uses the one with thicker and bigger nose.

* Twins Head Sculpt
	+ As the name suggests, this mold was introduced with the release of Laurel and Holly De'Vious. The eyes are a bit narrower than the Classic mold and slanted inwards, Sheryl Meyer, Brianna Dulce and Carmen Major also have this mold.
	+ Daria Roselyn, and Vanessa Tempo has this mold with a larger nose and Margot De Perla has this mold with a thinner jaw.

* Monolid Eyes Head Sculpt
	+ First introduced in Series 3. The eyes are narrower than both the Classic and Twins mold, and appear less round and upward. This mold was first seen on Daphne Minton, and Emi Vanda, although Emi uses the modified one that has a larger nose. Few other dolls uses this mold as well.
	+ Simone Summers uses this mold but with thicker lips.

* Junior High Head Sculpt
	+ First introduced with the Rainbow Junior High Series 1 line, all characters in the line use this mold. It is very similar to the Classic sculpt, just scaled down to be slightly smaller to better match the younger versions of the main characters. Sunny Madison and Jade Hunter use unique variations of the sculpt, with sculpted on baby hairs and a bandage over the nose respectively.

##### **Male Sculpts:**

* Classic Masculine Head Sculpt
	+ River Kendall and Finn Rosado have this mold. The head is slimmer than that of the female mold, and the features of the face are overall more defined and square.
* Masculine Monolid Eyes Head Sculpt
	+ Ash Silverstone was the first doll with this mold. The eyes are smaller and more almond shaped compared to the Classic Masculine mold.

Jade Hunter's Series 1 doll was originally planned to have a different face mold from the others, with the addition of a bandage on her nose as seen in her artwork. However, her final version is bandage-free and sticks to the Classic mold like the other Series 1 dolls. The bandage would see a return in her Rainbow Junior High Series 1 release.

## Inset Eyes

Each doll features inset eyes, and eyelashes attached to it, Some dolls might use the same inset eyes or some of them have their own unique version.

### Widely used inset eyes

* **Purple and Blue** inset eyes are used by Poppy Rowan, Violet Willow and Amaya Raine.
* **Pink and Purple** inset eyes are used by Ruby Anderson, Bella Parker and Mila Berrymore, Just like Sunny's and Jade's both are different with Bella only being lighter.
* **Periwinkle** - inset eyes are used by Avery Styles, Brianna Dulce, and Simone Summers.
* **Brown and Yellow** inset eyes are used by Karma Nichols, Sheryl Meyer, Marisa Golding, Vanessa Tempo, Harper Dune, Finn Rosado, Meena Fleur and Coco Vanderbalt.
* **Brown and Pink** inset eyes are used by Kia Hart and Georgia Bloom.
* **Light Blue** inset eyes are used by Stella Monroe, Gabriella Icely, and Margot De Perla. There is a difference which Gabriella's are more pale and in greyish tone.
* **Blue with Indigo, Purple, Green, and Teal** inset eyes are used by Holly De'Vious, Lyric Lucas, Delilah Fields and Lila Yamamoto.
* **Aquamarine** inset eyes are used by Carmen Major, Robin Sterling, and Hali Capri.

### Unique Inset Eyes

* **Yellow and Green** inset eyes are only used by Sunny Madison.
* **Green and Blue** inset eyes are only used by Jade Hunter.
* **Brown with Pink, Red, Orange, and Yellow** inset eyes are only used by Laurel De'Vious.
* **Cyan and Pink** inset eyes are only used by Daria Roselyn.
* **Mint and Brown** inset eyes are only used by Daphne Minton.
* **Blue** inset eyes are only used by Skyler Bradshaw.
* **Dark Purple and Sky Blue** inset eyes are only used by Emi Vanda.
* **Light Blue/Grey** inset eyes are only used by River Kendall.
* **Indigo and Blue** inset eyes are only used by Krystal Bailey.
* **Deep Reddish Brown with Pink** inset eyes are only used by Phaedra Westward.
* **Emerald Green** inset eyes are only used by Jewel Richie.
* **Purple with Rainbow** inset eyes are only used by Jett Dawson, This one was supposedly the most unique inset eyes of Rainbow High as it used to originally have a glitter star but was later removed for an unknown reason.

## Arms and Hands

The hands can be easily removed to avoid clothing getting caught on them, though it’s also easy for the hands to loosen, break or even fall off if you do this carelessly and frequently. If your doll came with broken hands out of the box, it's recommended you return the doll to the store you or whoever bought you the doll got it from, as it’s a common occurrence.

Like the head, the hands of both the male and female dolls are made out of high-quality hard plastic. It’s posed in a grabbing form which allows for the dolls to hold various items such as food, phones, and other role play miniature items.

     The male dolls have unique hands. They are similar to the female hands, though the fingers appear more masculine, thick and bigger in appearance, with slightly more dimension.

The Shadow High female dolls use modified versions of the Rainbow High hands, with longer, sharper nails. Heather Grayson's left hand also includes a ring molded on her thumb.

Other dolls such as Royale Three have long nails and rings as well.

## Legs and Feet

Interchangeable lower legs, first introduced in the Pacific Coast line of dolls, can be swapped between a pair with arched feet and one with flat feet. The legs connect to the rest of the doll's body at the lower knee. To remove a leg, all you need to do is brace the doll's upper leg, and pull the lower leg off. The exposed knee peg and the inside of the legs have an "L" or "R" engraved into them, indicating which is the left leg and which is the right. The knee pegs on each side are slightly different, making it so you cannot place the leg on the wrong side.

## Quality Control

Quality Control is the quality tested on each doll that meets each of their standards. Due to the dolls being mass-produced, quality control is often rushed and features quality control issues. Each instance varies depending on the type of quality control issues, plus the series it was in, the type of doll it was on, etc.

Each series features a different level of quality control, for different reasons. (Ex. Series 4 was rushed leaving more quality control issues than normal.)

### Paint Defects

Rainbow High dolls often come with unintentional paint defects, especially on Series 4. These paint defects vary in color, depending on the doll, paint color, paint use, etc. and are easy to fix with home remedies depending on the type of paint. Examples include:

* Acetone can be used to fix black paint defects on the Cheer dolls.
* Matching paint to the paint used can be used to fix peach glitter paint on the lower lip of a Lila doll.

### Eye Defects

Rainbow High dolls often come with eye defects such as wonky eyes, especially in Series 4. These eye defects are often fixable or returnable, depending on the type of eye defects. Examples include:

* Hot water can be used to fix wonky eyes.
* A doll with a different colored eye needs to be replaced with the correct eye color sent by MGA or the store.

### Ear Defects

Sometimes, Rainbow High dolls come with ear defects, most commonly with the earrings falling off, most commonly in Series 4. These defects can be fixed or need to be returned depending on the issue. Examples include:

* A hot glue gun can glue a broken earring back to normal.
* A hole on the side of an ear bigger than normal needs to be given back to the store.

### Arm and Hand Defects

Rainbow High dolls often come with arm and/or hand defects, most commonly backwards hands. These issues are fixable or need to be addressed by the companies depending on the type of arm and/or hand defects. Examples include:

* Arms and hands are removable, so fixing a backwards arm and/or hand to the correct position is easy.
* A missing pair of legs needs to be returned back to the store.

### Leg and Feet Defects

Rainbow High dolls often come with leg defects, most commonly backwards legs. Depending on the type of leg defects, they are either easily fixable, or need to be addressed by the companies. Examples include:

* A backwards left leg can be rotated back to normal.
* A right leg without toes needs to be replaced by a right leg with toes sent by MGA or the store.

### Staining

The longer a doll stays in box, the more likely it is to get dirty and stain. The first widespread case of staining happened with the Cheer dolls, as it was a common occurrence for the pom-pom accessories that are attached to the hands of the dolls would be eventually stain onto the dolls hands making the hands blue, red, yellow, green, orange, or purple depending on the doll you had.
More examples of staining include:

* River Kendall’s hair can stain his sides of his head blue.
* Stella Monroe’s pink shirt on her first outfit can stain her arms pink.
* Emi Vanda's black hoodie on her first outfit can stain her arms and torso black.

Various box conditions also lead there to being more staining not caused by clothing dye. Examples include:

* The cardboard or screening can get dirty, leading to stains on the dolls.
* The packaging can get dirty, dirtying the box in the process.
* Ink paint can leak on the dolls, giving them dark spots.

## Resolutions

If any of these issues ever happen to your doll, fixable or not, it’s recommended you return it to the store you bought it from and ask for a replacement. Another way is to contact MGA through MGA customer service and submit a form with proof of purchase of the doll and pictures of the quality control issues. (This is only when the retailer won’t offer a replacement; MGA’s customer service is a LAST RESORT.)