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  • - [Sarah] The funny thing is this video started as

  • me just trying to learn about an Instagram trend.

  • Now, we're going to find out if people know

  • what the "Barbie Feet" trend is,

  • where people imitate Barbie's feet and it has somehow

  • turned into something...

  • - Yeah, I look really good.

  • ... wildly different.

  • All of this makes me feel concerned and worried.

  • - [Man] Dude, it's okay. You're ugly.

  • - [Sarah] Is that Barbie?

  • (band music plays)

  • So, why did I decide to try to become a life-size Barbie?

  • - The idea first came to me when I was asking people

  • on the street questions about "Barbie Feet."

  • - I've not heard of the Barbie trend.

  • - Oh, are they going like this?

  • - Pretending you have a high heel on.

  • - It's, like, go on your tip-toes.

  • - It makes their butts stick out, their chest stick out.

  • - Can elongate your leg or make it look more toned.

  • - If people feel that it's unrealistic,

  • then they don't need to wear heels.

  • - [Sarah] Her hair, her waist, her proportions,

  • are they unattainable?

  • - For who, because- Me.

  • - when you are born, that is the body you're given.

  • - Like, oh, I want to look like Barbie.

  • It's, like, Barbie's plastic.

  • - Like, what we imagine to be, like, a pretty girl,

  • tall, and slim, and, like, her make-up is done all the time.

  • - Barbie has unrealistic proportions.

  • - [Sarah] I mean, she is pretty perfect.

  • - We all want to be like her.

  • - I can't imagine a real person looking like that.

  • - [Sarah] People kept talking about her

  • unrealistic body proportions, and I just got to thinking,

  • like, can I have her perfect proportions?

  • You're saying you don't think that I can make myself

  • look more like Barbie?

  • - Oh, you can look just like Barbie if you want,

  • but is that what you want? Is that what anybody

  • really needs to be happy? That is the question.

  • If life is about being happy, do you need to look more like

  • Barbie to be happy? And the answer is absolutely not.

  • - [Sarah] Yes, I want to look like Barbie. I mean,

  • I didn't really think that before today, but

  • her body proportions, I can figure this out.

  • I need to figure out what Barbie's real-life proportions

  • would be, and compare them to my own.

  • A lot of people make the mistake of measuring Barbie's

  • height from her head to her tippy toes, which is incorrect.

  • You have to measure at the heel.

  • You don't go to the doctor's wearing high heels

  • and measure yourself.

  • To find out Barbie's sizes in real life,

  • you need to times all of her measurements by six.

  • Like her height actually ends up being my height,

  • which is perfect, and is like, okay, here we go.

  • But then she has some freaky proportions from,

  • since her waist, it's about, like, around a 20-inch waist,

  • 20, 21-inch waist which I can't make my waist that size...

  • Ever.

  • So, I have to one-to-one from somewhere,

  • and then I have to make everything else bigger.

  • That's the only way I can do it.

  • This has become like a math problem that I need to solve.

  • I got the numbers, now I just got to make them reality.

  • - [Robotic Voice] Barbie.

  • - [Sarah] Her feet are miniscule.

  • Okay, feet, feet, feet, feet.

  • Okay, like, a little over three centimeters.

  • When we do the math on this,

  • multiply by six, then we'll times the 1.3 to...

  • Barbie needs to be about 7.8 times larger than

  • actual Barbie to make any sense.

  • That way, I can have a waist.

  • In order for my thigh circumference to make any sense,

  • I need to make myself taller, I need to make my hair longer,

  • I need to make my hips bigger, but my boobs can pretty much

  • stay the same. Turns out, she is pretty, like, of average,

  • even below average sized breasts, and...

  • so do I.

  • So, it's kind of nice.

  • I'm going to bring in my friend Joanna,

  • she is a doll expert. Hopefully, she'll be able to

  • help me figure out how I can become Barbie.

  • - I guess I have some experience with dolls,

  • I've purchased a lot of haunted dolls off of eBay

  • that's my main experience with dolls.

  • - So, like a doll expert with a speciality

  • in the haunted type.

  • - Sure.

  • - I'm trying to make my body like Barbie's

  • 'cause I feel like I was challenged to do it by

  • some people out on the streets.

  • I just want to prove that I can.

  • - I would say that my relationship to Mary, the

  • haunted doll, is a lot different from your relationship

  • to Barbie, because I have never tried to look like

  • a haunted doll.

  • - Okay.

  • - You have a lot of numbers written down.

  • - Yeah, I do. Okay.

  • - There's a lot of math involved.

  • - All right, so -

  • - All of this makes me feel concerned and worried.

  • - Why?

  • As you can see- - Oh my God.

  • This is like a job for Engineer Barbie.

  • - Mhmm. I think I need to gain like around

  • 19 inches in height,

  • I think. - Wow.

  • - So my haunted doll, for her height,

  • she has like a doll stand.

  • I feel like stilts, maybe, are similar to, like,

  • the doll stand.

  • - [Camerawoman] Yeah, Sarah, how are you

  • going to hold a mic?

  • - I don't know.

  • I need to make my butt bigger.

  • I need to, I guess, kind of, pinch in my waist.

  • Her head is much bigger. So, like, I basically need

  • my head to go from this to this.

  • - Like, maybe, like a helmet, or something like that?

  • - Okay. Her hair is long, but that's easy.

  • It's like a wig. You just get a really long-ass wig.

  • The one other big issue I'm having, her pupillary distance,

  • I did the math, is double my pupillary distance.

  • - Wait, so, like, her eyes are farther apart than yours?

  • - Mhmm, mhmm. Okay.

  • I think I'm going to need to draw on some eyes, though.

  • Yeah, for sure.

  • For sure. Okay, yeah.

  • I love doing make-up. I love doing special effects make-up.

  • - Do you get a lot of people coming to you

  • asking you to look like Barbie?

  • - Never. Never?

  • - I've probably done something in the field of a doll.

  • - I need you to change my eye to be, like, over here.

  • You think you can do that?

  • - Yeah.

  • - Okay, thank God.

  • - I could weave brows, then cover them.

  • - [Sarah] We can just start. Maybe I'm going to become

  • the most attractive woman in the world

  • after this make-up is done.

  • Are my eyebrows gone?

  • - [Frances] Almost.

  • (light orchestral music)

  • - [Frances] I think you look beautiful.

  • - [Sarah] Yeah, I look really good.

  • - [Frances] You do look beautiful.

  • (light orchestral music)

  • Okay so we're just going to the outline of the eye.

  • (light orchestral music)

  • All right, so we're going to glue these to the top

  • of your eye. Really realistic.

  • (light orchestral music)

  • Wow, so beautiful. All right, you are done. Check it out.

  • - Oh my God.

  • Oh my God. I really do look very shiny and plastic.

  • - Is that Barbie?

  • - Shut up. Do you think everybody will understand what I am

  • when they see me?

  • - Yes.

  • - Okay, so I've got my giant eyes and I've got

  • my bigger hips. Oooh, you can hear it.

  • My waist tied as tight as possible.

  • So I'm getting more Barbie shaped.

  • So, you can see what I've done here is I taped a helmet

  • Okay.

  • Gosh.

  • Maybe the eyes are too big.

  • Okay, here we go.