Celebrities: Dress Up Dolls

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If you're a fan of fashion and looking for something fun to play around with that relates to celebrities, dress up dolls might just be the thing!

Britney Spears is a popular celebrity dress up doll.

Real Celebrities Dress Up Dolls

Real life dolls are always a treat for young girls, while virtual dress up dolls are perfect for everyone. Celebrity dolls are available in both female and male versions.

Celebrities have long been the subject of toy dolls, and the wide range of fashion clothing and accessories they come with appeal to the fashion diva in all of us. These dolls are generally only available for purchase for a short period of time, since they are limited edition toys. Because of this, they quickly become collector's items.

Barbie

Barbie is perhaps the best known type of dress up doll. She has seen many changes over the years, including incarnations as various celebrities. Manufacturer Mattel has created several celebrity Barbie and Ken dolls based on:

Audrey Hepburn
Lucile Ball
Cher
Diana Ross
Elizabeth Taylor
Elvis and Priscilla Presley
James Dean
Marilyn Monroe
Clark Gable

Other Celebrity Fashion Dolls

Gwen Stefani

As celebrities come and go from the A-list, you can find their doll versions in almost any toy or department store, such as Target, Wal-Mart, or Toys'R'Us. Many of them come with an entire line of clothing and fashion accessories, or accessories related to their careers or memorable acting roles. Some popular celebrity dolls are:

Gwen Stefani
Miley Cyrus (as Hannah Montana)
The Cast of Camp Rock
Ashley Tisdale
Vanessa Hudgens
Zac Efron
Halle Berry
Hilary and Haylie Duff
Taylor Swift
Britney Spears

Celebrity Dress Up Dolls Online

Halle Berry is fun to dress up.

Another fun way to play with celebrities, dress up dolls online are becoming very popular. There are lots of dress up doll sites out there, and you're almost sure to find your favorite celebrity, past or present, on at least one of them.

Celebrity dress up dolls, also called paper dolls, allow you to customize the look of an animated picture of the star. Some of the things you can change are:

Hair styles
Makeup
Clothing
Accessories

Sites that offer these games differ widely. Some of them will allow you to change colors of outfits, draw your own additions, and change backgrounds. Others are very limited in the selections you can make. Many are heavy on advertising, and include lots of pop-up windows and blinking ads. Try out a few of them to see which one suits you best.

How to Save Your Creations

A few dress up websites offer registration so that you can create an account and save the dolls you've created. Others are free from registration, but once you leave the site, your doll is gone.

If you want to save your creations, right-click on the image and then save it as a file with a name you'll be able to remember. If the right-click is disabled on the page, use your "print screen" button to save the page, and then copy it into an image program such as Microsoft Paint.

You can use your pictures as desktop backgrounds on your computer, or print them out to create your own celebrity dress up portfolio.

Online Celebrity Dress Up Sites

Here are some good places to start with web-based celebrity dress up games:

Star Doll – Star Doll is the most popular site for celebrity games and fashion topics. This site requires registration, but offers lots of activities and a community for members.

i-Dressup – This is another popular site but it doesn't require that you register for an account. The layout is clean and easy to use.

Paper Doll Heaven – Paper Doll Heaven also features a clean setup without too many ads. The unique feature here is that the site is available in several languages. Just scroll down to the bottom of the page to see all of the languages you can choose.

For even more websites that feature celebrity dress up activities, try the articles Dress Up Celebrities and Celebrity Dress Up Games.

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