Barbie Hairtastic Color And Wash Salon Playset Reviews

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We paid $26.99 for this at Target, because we couldn't find it at Toys R Us. I wonder if it is because this is a toy guaranteed to be returned as soon as it's taken out of the box. In fact, we had more fun trying to take it out of the box than we actually did playing with it.

First, it looks ok, but you'll soon see that Barbie isn't able to bend very well into the sink, so you'll wind up holding her at a ninety degree angle in order to lean her back.

As another reviewer said, you can't open the container where you're supposed to put in the soap fully, so that's cumbersome, which would be ok, I guess, if this toy was intended for 40 year old moms to play with. Then, exactly like another reviewer said, the lines were kinked, so the cheap pump that you use to pump the water/soap combo barely dribbled the soap out and then stopped completely. You wind up with a handful of Barbie bent into the sink with about six drops of suds muddying up the color in her hair. You know what IS fun? The fact that you then take Barbie over to your kitchen sink and accidentally but enjoyably douse her face with the shampoo you squirted into her hair so you could finally wash out the stripes you painstakingly tried to color on with a marker. Then you waterboard her under the tap. And voila, Barbie is clean. And wet. And messy. And all ready to return to Target.

This toy doesn't work. It's cheaply made and too expensive. Save your money by spending 4 bucks on a cheap Barbie at the drugstore, wash her hair under the faucet with some shampoo, and buy yourself a pizza instead.

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The idea of this toy is great for a little girl..

The issues is that you must mix shampoo which is easy however the water barely dribbles out of the tap the soap does not come out.

The pump to get the water and soap is a finger pump which is a poorly made and just lets the water dribble..

The hair color makers are a great idea and that part gets a 8/10 not a 10 as they are a little hard to control as the colors run on other hair...

So you can easily color the hair but do not think that you can actually wash the hair we can not even get the soap to come out when it is replaced with water...

basically the barbie and hair color is OK, the Salon that you are paying the money for will not work...

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My niece got this for her birthday today, and she's having a blast. The part with the mirror is flimsy, but the sink and chair, the parts that actually get played with, are sturdy enough. Barbie fits well in the chair, almost snaps in, and her head and the chair bend back so that when my niece rinsed her hair the water went in the sink. And the knees bend way better than the Barbie knees of my childhood!

It took a few tries for my niece to be able to get the hair where she needed it to be, pump the water pump, and hold the sprayer, but she figured it out.

The markers worked much better on wet hair, but they worked ok on dry hair if she went over it a few times.

I didn't have any trouble with the shampoo, but in the directions it said to mix it 1 part shampoo to two parts water. Because of the other reviewers that had trouble with the shampoo, I diluted it to the consistency of water. It still sudsed a little, and my niece was happy. The hoses come kind of kinked, but were fairly easily unkinked. I do wish it were packed better so this wouldn't happen.

One thing that isn't in the instructions is that the containers for the soap and clean water are not made to come all the way out. Only the container for the dirty water comes all the way out. I had to make sure my niece didn't pull them out, because I think that would have broken it.

The markers do seem to stain, so I'd wear a paint shirt and cover your surface with an old towel before you play, inevitably the water spills.

It comes with two elastics (hair pretties in our world), but you might want to have more on hand, they were tricky to get on there. Also, my niece wanted 6 braids because she just turned six.

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I totally agree with the negative comments. I ordered this for my granddaughter and she was so excited to try it..but that lasted for about 5 minutes. The water did not work properly. One of the sprayers didn't work at all. The lines get all kinked up..it's more hassle than it's worth. Don't buy this toy.

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So like the other reviewers, my daughter got this as a gift and she was so excited. The water pump worked, but the shampoo didn't. I read the instructions, and they were not helpful in the least. So I looked online, and read about the foaming handsoap (which is great by the way), but that didn't fix my problem.

But here's the solution for mine.

Symptom: I could feel resistance when I pushed down on the "water" pump, but there was no resistance when it was turned to the "shampoo." So it was either a hose completely undone, or something else. I filled the "shampoo" bucket with water, and there was no leak. I took out the "purple" bucket (sink water catch) and looked inside -you need to pull the shampoo bucket out as much as you can. If you look inside, the front left corner near the "finger pump" has two cylinders (like a car). When you twist the finger pump, the plastic piece goes over (on top) of the cylinder...

In my case, the shampoo cylinder was too high, and the plastic piece couldn't get on top. Therefore, there was no resistance, yet no water leak.

Solution: With the purple bucket out, work your finger into the front left corner, and just push the shampoo cylinder down a bit. Then twist the finger pump, and it worked. It's now working fine.

Hope that helps everyone else.