Ukrainian girls from the city of Odessa keep making the news for
altering their appearance in dramatic fashion. The story of a girl who
turned herself into a real life Barbie doll has spread across the globe
and the saga continues. Two more girls, Anime and Dominika, have become
living dolls and received publicity for their disturbing looks.
Anime,
19-year-old Anastasiya Shpagina, transformed herself into an anime
character and never leaves the house without makeup. Applying the makeup
takes Anime a few hours to accomplish so she wakes up at 5 a.m. to make
it to work on time. When she walks down the street in a fairy-like
outfit, with long purplish hair, looking at the world with her
raccoon-like eyes, it doesn’t go unnoticed. “I don’t pay attention to
reactions, the most important thing for me is my comfort,” Anime said
during a talk show on a Ukrainian TV channel.
In interviews with
Anime, which appeared on mainstream television in Ukraine and Russia
over the past months, she gave the impression of being a pleasant,
slightly naïve, girl, who is living in a dream and plays a fairy in a
fairytale. She subsists almost entirely on honey-dew—no bread, meat or
fish; mostly fruit and veggies. However, she is probably not as naïve as
a fairy—her extreme makeup and unconventional style serve as a great
promotional tool.
Anime is a hairdresser and makeup artist so all
that publicity will, hopefully, work well for her career. She said that
right now she’s interested in focusing on her work, but in the future
would like to move out of the city and have a family. She says she
doesn’t have a boyfriend and states that she would like to have plastic
surgery to enlarge her eyes, to make them the size of the ones she
paints on her face with makeup. She claims she hasn’t had any plastic
surgery and her look is only the visual effect of styling and make up.
Unlike
her, Barbie – also known as Valeriya Lukyanova – and her friend, Olga
Oleynik, aka Dominika, had bosom surgeries and accentuate their
“Barbiness” with long hair, giant eyes, contact lenses, small mouths,
tiny waists, curvy hips, full busts, and slightly manipulative
unemotional manners. In a talk show, Barbie said her measurements were
86/47/86, in centimeters, which in inches equals 33.85/18.5/33.85. Olga
Oleynik said that she has had bosom surgery to balance the proportion
with her hips because she is all about harmony and perfection.
What is it that makes these girls turn themselves into living dolls? A struggle for perfection or escape from reality?
It
seems to have a connection to “Barbie doll syndrome” – when young girls
try to attain impossible standards of beauty – but with Odessa girls it
varies from case to case.
Anime seems to be a young girl who’s
not completely comfortable in her skin and experiments with styles.
Anime’s body image doesn’t radiate Barbie’s sexiness. She says the world
is cruel and is full of unhappy people and it’s easier to live the way
she does, creating a fairy tale for herself.
Barbie, whose
spiritual name is Amatue, openly says she exploits her looks as internet
PR to attract people to her lectures on esoteric subjects where – for
$80 per person – she teaches astral projection.
Dominika seems to
be similar to Barbie and calls herself her spiritual sister. They
appear together in interviews and talk about esoteric matters. She
positions herself as an artist and a fashion designer.
Whatever
this ‘Barbie-Flu’ in Odessa is, it seems to be creating a phenomena that
the world is watching with great interest, clicking through the weird
pictures and videos, looking into their doll-like eyes. Barbie, Anime,
Dominika—what’s next?
Source: Forbes.com
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