HARRODS: Ultimate Fashion

Real brands have officially returned to Stardoll as a whole new version of the starplaza has finally opened; Harrods.
As many of you know Harrods is a highly luxurious and desirable department store. Many of us have missed real life brand stores such as DKNY and Vivienne Tam so lots of us are excited to have this priviledge back.

Old players of Stardoll may remember a scene like this from the old Starplaza, when it was set out as a building. There is 8 store spaces by the looks of things and 3 have been filled already with: Chloé, Junior Gaultier and Rykiel Enfant. Stores to come include Cavalli, Galliano and Versace, though there may be more.

I'm very excited for this partnership and think it's one of the best things Stardoll has done in a while.
What do you think? Comment below.

Now That's A Sticky Situation

You know that thrill when you take a visit to your local book store, and pick out a load of new books that have that new, sweet paper smell? Well, maybe this time you'll be smelling your guilt for being a true addict of stardoll. May I introduce a Stardoll and Random House Publication creation...

Looks like another off-stardoll creation has been added... A Stardoll Sticker Dress Up Book (hence the post title) and a Stardoll Covergirl Handbook. As a young soul of mine, I decided to head over to the Random House website. It appears these aren't the only new books... there are a whole series of 6 books! Those include tempting titles of Superstar Stylist and Stardoll's Top Trends (looks like they were jealous of TTT, and decided to steal the name! Could this be possible?!)! Aren't you ready to scramble your wallet and jump in the car to zoom to your local book store? What makes it better? These books can be brought home for a shocking $10.75 U.S. Currency (According to Amazon), cheap, I know!

Ok, enough sarcasm, I'm ready to get back to the real reason why I decided to post about this topic.

Every stardollian knows (or at least assumes) that stardoll is obsessed with raking in some cash, and I know, its not fair. However, since they are a thriving business, they need this type of money. I could spend hours and hours talking business statistics, but what's really up with these books?

For some reason, I'm starting to think stardoll's loosing ideas. They've came up with more than what I could've ever made possible in a whole lifetime... I mean, lets think of the newest stores, apps, and website additions that has been added in the month, year, and whole stardoll lifetime. Maybe it appears that they are coming up with better and better ideas daily, but I feel as if the website we've came to know and love are coming up with more and more ridiculous ideas, some have been thoroughly expressed with hatred, others with sympathetic encouragement. Lets take a look at some of these new (and I'm not going to lie, these are my own personal opinions) and unruly features.

I'm like extremely serious, that "Sofee Vegra" or whatever her name is (I know how to spell it, but whenever I see that person's face, I just start laughing my ass off! Cannot say her name right what so ever!) really makes me itch. Maybe its her voice, which by the way, if you want to laugh your ass off too, I recommend seeing the commercial HERE, or that a person would actually want their collection part of Kmart, I'm just in shock.

Maybe you aren't aware of Kmart's quality, but I'll just admit, its one of the worst places I've been in my life. If you can't afford proper clothing, you'll probably be shopping at your local Kmart (hopefully this isn't coming across as racist or anything...). Why exactly would stardoll choose this collection out of a ton of other brands, with much, much, MUCH better quality. Couldn't a Gucci or a Marc Jacobs collection suffice?

Moving on to another feature that truly shows stardoll is loosing ideas (and maybe a bit desperate for more members on the site).

I'll admit, but I do love the stardesign hair, and its quite fun to test one's ability to create something quite amazing. What I'm actually quite upset about when I see someone wearing a stardesign hair, is that stardoll literally took away some of our creativity. I was so impressed with the amount of amazing hairs created from stardesign jewelry, but stardoll just had to come and interfere, and remove that outlet from us (not that you still can't make hair from stardesign jewelry, but its definitely less popular).

Another way for them to come up with an idea, yet doesn't it appear that they are already using our own ideas?

As I wrap up this post, I think, why are we still on stardoll? Its because stardoll continuously feeds us with new site additions, and therefore we don't get bored. What will happen if stardoll's ideas get less and less exciting, and all together the rate of Stardoll's members declines? Comment and let me know. I'd love to hear your point of view from this topic.

Stardoll is loosing creativity, and I'm not happy about it.


-Lindsey Le'Vogue

Also, I know this isn't my segment, but I felt the need to enlighten TTT with some stardoll statistics.

Stardoll, Listen Up!

After several months of compiling up enough information and such to put into this post I am finally ready to write. The LE: Through the Seasons will be coming soon too, following on from the DKNY part two.

Does anyone remember this wonderful poll that hinted we would be getting more makeup? I know I certainly do, as it brought a ton of excitement back in April 2010 when it originally debuted. Luxe came a few months later, but with it's expensive prices and OTT glitter many were un-impressed. I think everyone will agree that Dot is way past it's sell by date. We need something new and high qaulity *cough, Sephora, cough* with some amazing colours and decent prices. And not a random makeup line for a random country please.

Please and thank you! Also, what ever happened to that luscious looking Dot gloss?


The next thing I'd love to see is more real life and/or tribute stores. Remember when we had DKNY, Philosophy, Kohls, Vivienne Tam, Amy Claire, Elle? Now the vast majority of our stores are It's always cool owning a piece of real life clothing to put on your doll. A shoe or handbag store anyone? Louis Vuitton Luggage... perfection!

There are so many glitzy designer brands out there that could fill up a slot in the Starplaza so nicely!


And finally.. Royalty only and Starcoin only stores! Obviously the starcoin score would be on the lower end of the scale; but a store custom built for the non-Superstars would be awesome! As well as a Royalty only store; with graphics high-quality, to the degree of Hotbuys and older LE.

 What would you like to see on Stardoll?

Stardollars for ALL!

"You’ve just been given the key to unlock a world of posh possibilities!  New today: Stardollars are available to everyone on Stardoll.

Do you have some Stardollars already burning a hole in your purse? Your Stardollars are now available to spend your Stardollars in Starplaza, StarBazaar and Suite Shop!

The Superstar membership is still incredibly valuable, where as a Superstar, you have access to exclusive membership features and activities on Stardoll.

In need of a little-pick-me-up in your purse?  Visit the Stardoll payment page to find out how you can purchase more Stardollars!"

   - from the official Stardoll blog

To me, this is a marketing scheme to plant the seeds of temptation within the minds of non-superstars. Of course, It's a good thing, in that they'll get to pick up a nice item here and there; it's also a bad thing, in that there will be an increase of Superstar-only items. That's why Stardoll are so quick to stress that "The Superstar membership is still incredibly valuable."

And of course, it is. At first glance, I was ready to launch into a full blown tirade about why the newfound availability of Stardollars to non-superstars undermines the worth of Superstar accounts. Upon further reasoning, I've found that it's pretty much the same thing.

Let's look at the Stardoll hierarchy:

Royalty:
Same as superstar but with a useless club and a useless diamond. Ooh, shiny!

Superstar:
Penthouses, beach villas, extra rooms, Starbazaar, special clothes, special furniture... wait a minute, this sounds familiar...

Stardollars:
Still the currency of the aforementioned groups, but now with added temptation.

Starcoins:
Confusing, to say the least. They're the pennies of the people, but you can also convert your dollars into them to pay pretty much the same price you were paying anyway, give or take. Oh well, at least you can earn these.

So in essence, yes, you'll get the access to (a few) Stardollar items when you sign up. But once your initial amount is gone, it's gone. This is, in my opinion, simply a very calculated move from Stardoll - making them look like the good guys by giving everyone the access to Stardollars when in all actuality, it's meant to give you a small taste of the supposed "high life" before never seeing that kind of wealth again. Unless you buy Superstar, of course.

In conclusion:
Nothing's changed. Just Stardoll being Stardoll.