The Color Pink Is All In Your Head!

Today I learned something amazing about the color on all those Barbie boxes.

From a technical, science perspective, the color you see in the background of this blog doesn't really exist. It's just something our brains make up. All the colors in the spectrum have their own specific wavelengths of light, except for pink! So then how is it that we see pink at all, let alone so many shades of it?

It's due to a sort of "blank space" in the light/color spectrum. Red has the longest wavelength, violet the shortest, while all the other colors inbetween have wavelengths of varying degrees somewhere in the middle of those two extremes. Yet, between  red and violet themselves, there is a blank canvas space, so to speak, where anything goes. In this space, there are all types of light in the universe, but we can't see them, so our brains create pink to compensate for that! Pink is actually white light without the green wavelengths. Even though it's science, it sounds rather magical when you think about it. Doesn't it make you wonder what other colors we might be missing, that we can't even fathom? I do.

Here's the link to the original article I read this from, on a site called "Life's Little Mysteries". It's a favourite of mine, filled with all kinds of weird, interesting stuff like this.  http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/no-pink-light-strange-snapshots-2101/

Custom face Barbies!

Today, after nearly a year, I finally read a comment left by someone named Mary. She said:

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I really like your blog, I always visit it whenever I had time, I really like your posts especially those about dolls and I hope to see more from your blog, so excited to read your future posts. Anyway, I found this website http://www.ThatsMyFace.com/f/custom_doll_head that can create a super-realistic doll heads of anyone from just a photo. Imagine making doll of yourself, your kids, your boss or your favorite celebrity! Apparently they can make the heads in many scales to fit Barbie-like dolls, Tonner dolls or even smaller figurines like Polly Pocket. Anyway, thought it might be interesting to your readers. Best regards, ….here is the link for the pic: http://www.thatsmyface.com/tmp/ThatsMyFace_doll_heads_s.jpg

November 14, 2010 1:07 AM "

I wish I'd gotten back to this a lot sooner! After school started last year I didn't keep up with my blog very well. I thought this looked pretty cool, so, finally, here it is! I wouldn't mind trying this myself, but for Barbie scale dolls it runs from $99.00 just for a head to $129 for a full Barbie/Ken doll. A Polly Pocket custom head is $49. I should order a custom Barbie head for a real face someday though, because it just so happens that I have a headless Barbie body that I got as a kid (I found it, didn't decapitate it lol).