My Felicity & Samantha dolls are older than the colorless Kirsten and they have nice coloring. Actually, Samantha has fairly dark skin (I think someone else mentioned the skin tone differences)--she looks quite tan, but still has pinkness to the lips and cheeks. My old Felicity has one of the rosiest complexions of any of my dolls. It really looks like they just forgot to paint Kirsten!

I am so sad to hear that Sam probably has silver eye. Since these dolls were my sisters' childhood dolls, I really, really don't want to get new heads for them. I love them despite these flaws!

Re: Gilly Gals. Does she fix frizzy hair also? Kirsten's hair definitely shows previous ownership by a 7 year old qualities!

Em