"Three of Hearts" Hollis Hughes by Integrity Toys

March 6, 2025

Yes her hair is tastefully pink you're not imagining it.

Meet Hollis Hughes from the Tullabelle collection. This is the first Hollis I've been interested in buying that I've seen (I've only actually been around for two). She has a very distinct face sculpt with very loud cheekbones (it goes all the way back to one of Integrity Toys' first dolls ever released "Janay") and in her last offering she had giant long pigtails which just drew out her somewhat long cheekbones to be even longer somehow and I wasn't into her screening or her mis-matchy outfit. You know how I have that growing up in the 80's trauma with the mismatched outfits, reader. But this time she's so matchy matchy I got all excited (which turned out to be a blade that cut both ways) and mostly she has long pretty pink hair instead of unstylish down to her waist pigtails.

Shut up mismatched fabrics! And silence cheekbones!!!

That's the previous Hollis. Yuck, right? Just kidding I know a lot of people liked her she just had too many things I didn't want at the time. Except looking at that picture I do want that jewelry dang! Nice brooch!

But look at her now!

But look at how pretty this version is! I'm actually kind of surprised that I like the girlier version better to be honest, but I still think those pigtails were a major disaster. I'm not always a fan of the straight bang covering up the brows, sometimes in fact I quite despise it, but I think it fits here, it's sort of drastic looking and it looks like something you would see on a young girl, a girl who's barely 20 and that's the age I think the Tulabelle dolls are supposed to be. Hollis looks so dreamy here with her pop of candy pink lipstick and her purple matching eyeshadow. Her earrings are 3 hearts of ascending size which are definitely for a young girl who's barely 20 to wear, they're really sweet and pretty. And young.

She's got opinions.

Hollis has so much personality in this incarnation that she's one of those dolls that makes expressions. Every time you look at her, she seems to be thinking something different, and like me whatever she thinks is automatically on her face. I'm not quite sure how I feel about having that quality personally - I do think it keeps a person honest, but it's a very compelling quality in a doll and I would count it as a success for the designer, David Buttry, who has injected this doll with something inspirational, and that's arguably the point of art. There have been times when I've been talking on the phone and looked over at Hollis and I could have sworn she was listening in on my conversation. Other times she can look thoughtful, a million miles away. Most of the time though, she looks sort of playful and up to something in a friendly way. But she's one of those dolls you have to watch closely reader.

The dress of course...

Over the week of time that my dear Hollis and I spent together, I became very fond of this unique little doll with her huge earrings and young person vibe, not to mention her opinionated expressions. She has enough personality for five dolls. But slowly reader, I realized that I was beginning to loathe that purple dress. For one thing, it hides her body more than any piece of clothing I've ever had from Integrity, this dress is like a potato sack with ruffles on it. Is her torso hideously freakish and in need of protecting from the world, or the world from it? Underneath I can see the simple sheath that this hideous powder-puff of a dress is stitched to and just seeing that sheath dress makes me tear up. These dolls are supposed to be Y2K inspired and I was young, pretty and wild during that time but I for sure was not wearing one of these. I don't remember ever seeing anyone dressed like this at the club, even on Halloween but maybe this was a west coast trend? All of this is secondary to the point, which is that this dress is one continual blob of shimmery, weak almost purple that would make even Prince cry purple tears. And I probably would never have even noticed how weak and sad the color was if it wasn't continued so monotonously throughout each and every accessory.

First, it's in the shoes, socks, and even the bows.

The most excellent in design pumps, which I adore, the cute as a button fishnet socks, with the to die little bows on top, all in matchy purple. I mean the shade is exact to my eye. I don't remember finding shoes that matched a dress I had that perfectly ever in my life! How is such perfect color matching possible?

The purse!

Here's the cute little purse, with a silver ring for a handle, which I really like the design of. This time it's been dipped in shiny purple lacquer, so it's got that gleam to it. But it's still the same exact color. Ok...

Not the ring too.

And even the ring. It's just a simple silver band containing a costume jewelry feeling plastic bauble in that sweet bland lavender that you've come to know and wish you could have forgotten before we even got to the dress by now. Even her tiny fingernails are the color of that purple eyeshadow in your palette that you never use. It's like a shimmer shadow, that doesn't go with anything or even go on your skin right.

We'll make it through

At this point although I'm growing my collection and finding out which dolls really spark my interest, I'm also trying to train myself NOT to just buy everything. I might have passed on this doll if I looked at her with my new more temperate buying eyes (to be honest, she was revealed in December, so not so long ago did my buying eyes behold her). Her outfit is very simple, and I may not have picked up on the amount of personality spilling out of her or how charmed I am by her barely turning 20 vibe just by seeing her picture online. Probably a good argument for shopping for dolls in person to see if you really connect or not, it's sometimes not possible to feel those things online maybe. In either case, I'm glad I found my Hollis and I'm starting to branch out into buying clothes for another one of my dolls that arrived in a bathing suit that I had a connection with and didn't want to put away. So, she has clothes on the way and now when they get here, I can put something cute on Hollis and finally see her out of that potato sack. She can finally strut like she was meant to. And she will. I should update her blogpost. I'll try to remember, reader.

"I can't wait."