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| credit: Sonya | You can buy a make-up free doll at Tree Change Dolls |
She removes any trace of make-up, reduces their lip and eye size and personally sews the dolls modest new outfits.
When Hobart woman Sonia Singh posted photos of her Tree Change Dolls on the internet, she had no idea they would attract worldwide attention.
"It was just a little craft project and it really took off. It spread all around the world in just a couple of days ... it just got bigger and bigger."
In a world teeming with make-uped (made-up)* faces, where the beauty-overdrive-mode becomes the necessity of a necessity, this make-under movement is not only a refreshing change, but offers a perspective (and possibly an insight) of what we are feeding our children with, from practically day one.
op-shop (short for: oportunity shop) - a shop selling second-hand goods for charitable funds
make-uped - an invented word. :)
