Suneeta in her meet outfit

My cousin posted my Truly Me #80 doll down to me and I picked her up today. She is absolutely gorgeous — I was a little anxious in case she wasn’t as good in person as she looked on the website (because lighting can do very odd things in photography) but I needn’t have worried. Unfortunately my photography skills don’t do her justice, so you’ll have to take my word for it that she’s beautiful.

I don’t give names to my numbered dolls as a general rule, but ever since I saw her I knew that she would be a sister to Sonali and therefore she needed a Hindu name. I chose Suneeta because I like the sound of it. It means either “good principles” or “young sun” depending on which baby name website you visit. (Sonali means “golden”, by the way.)

I was quite surprised to see that her body label is from 2017 — I don’t know how big a standard production run is for a numbered model but if she hasn’t sold out the first run in four years I guess she won’t be getting a repeat. If that’s the case then I’m very glad I bought her now. On the other hand, she did get the “Sparkle and Shine” outfit update so maybe I’m wrong — I hope I’m wrong.

Here she is with sister Sonali so that you can see the differences between them (apart from the mould — Suneeta is the Josefina mould and Sonali is the Sonali mould, of course!).


You can see that Suneeta’s skin is darker and also much redder than Sonali’s very golden tone. Suneeta’s hair is two shades of dark brown, while Sonali’s is black and dark brown and about two inches longer and wavy. Their eyes appear to be the same, though. Body cloths are slightly different as well. It does annoy me that the dark-skinned dolls have cloths that are so light in comparison — it can’t be that difficult to dye cloth dark brown, can it?


I also took a photograph of Suneeta and Addy for comparison. Addy’s skin is slightly lighter in value and a little cooler in hue. She’s also taller, but that is a function of pre-Mattel v current Mattel parameters. I’m fairly sure that the eyes are the same, or almost the same — Addy’s are a little less glossy due to normal wear and tear.

Here are the three of them so you can see the range of skintones.

As an aside, I had the greatest difficulty taking clean shots of the dolls as Vanima was determined to get involved — she was actually in the foreground of almost all these photos, but I managed to crop her out. I’ll spare you the picture of her backside.

I recently bought some new and second-hand saris so I’ll definitely be making brightly coloured outfits for both Sonali and Suneeta: