By Joyce Schwarz, author and Holywood columnist and consultant on emerging entertainment, www.joycecom.com. STARDOLLS.com -- continues to be one of this blog's (www.hollywood2020.blogs.com) hottest posts. We discovered it back in February see our post DRESS UP ANGELINA JOLIE AND MORE STARS .
So we returned to www.stardolls.com to see what's up there -- and of course who's starring now. And we found this Q& A which may explain the popularity of the website: What is Stardoll.com?Stardoll is an online celebrity dress up and community site for everyone who likes fashion and celebrities. Most of our members are girls and boys between 7 and 17 There are new dolls every week.
HOW DID STARDOLL.com get started? The site says: Stardoll's original name was Paperdollheaven.com, and started as a hobby by Scandinavian-born Liisa. Inspired by her childhood passion for paperdolls, Liisa drew dolls and accompanying wardrobes, and also taught herself web design. Today the site is operated by Stardoll AB in Sweden and has around 400.000 visitors per day.
ABOUT THE SITE: The site is free and you can : can 1) Save celebrity dolls in album 2)- Write in diary and guestbooks 3)- Send instant messages... and more Basic membership is free and you can upgrade to what's called SUPERSTAR and that cost is about $3.00 (US) per month-- not bad.
CATEGORIES OF STARDOLLS INCLUDE: actors, actresses, models, singers, superstars, royals and othrs and special categories that include Makeup (yes, you are the makeup artist for Angeline Jolie and others
Actors -ranging from Ashton Kutcher to Tom Cruise, actresses -- from Bollywood's Aishwarya Rai to Grace Kelly to Zhang Ziyi (Memoirs of a Geisha), and models, singers; superstars ( Alicia Keys to Madonna); Royals (yes,as in Camilla Parker-Bowles );OTHERS ( including Sharon Osbourne ), Games (including a chance to 'dress-up' Oscar --yes, that Oscar from the AMPAS-- as in Academy Awards and a section called Make-up where you get to put cosmetics and 'make-over' your favorite Stardoll.
WHO'S ON STARDOLL.com?
On Saturday morning 10 a.m. PST as this post was being created there were 17,583 users online (and they say 400,000 visitors per day) and these include what they call: People who just signed in -- here are the avatars for just some of those fans:
Candy-Girl101 Girl 10, United States | |
NewYorkCity*Grl Girl 12, United States | |
kittenemily Girl 9, Great Britain | |
jlb Girl 12, Great Britain | |
niamhos Girl 9, Great Britain | |
Jared*boy Boy 16, United States | |
**MizzGilmore** Girl 11, United States | |
dog-chelsea Girl 9, Great Britain | |
MiryHD Girl 13, Italy | |
xxkizzxx Girl |
Newest dolls
Most popular dolls
People who just signed in
Candy-Girl101
Girl 10, United States
NewYorkCity*Grl
Girl 12, United States
kittenemily
Girl 9, Great Britain
jlb
Girl 12, Great Britain
niamhos
Girl 9, Great Britain
Jared*boy
Boy 16, United States
**MizzGilmore**
Girl 11, United States
dog-chelsea
Girl 9, Great Britain
MiryHD
Girl 13, Italy
xxkizzxx
Girl
Newest dolls
Most popular dolls
People who just signed in
Candy-Girl101 Girl 10, United States | |
NewYorkCity*Grl Girl 12, United States | |
kittenemily Girl 9, Great Britain | |
jlb Girl 12, Great Britain | |
niamhos Girl 9, Great Britain | |
Jared*boy Boy 16, United States | |
**MizzGilmore** Girl 11, United States | |
dog-chelsea Girl 9, Great Britain | |
MiryHD Girl 13, Italy | |
xxkizzxx Girl |
1. | Audrey Tautou |
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2. | Lady Punk |
3. | Amanda Bynes 2 |
4. | Mix and match petra |
5. | Eliza Dushku |
BAD WORD DETECTOR -- vegetable mania --(to detect 'bad words' Stardoll.com has set up a system where different vegetables thrown into the text?What you have noticed is our automatic "Bad Word - Filter" in action! Everytime our filter detects a bad word, it is replaced with a name of a vegetable.
stardoll and virtualiToy are the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Scarlett | August 12, 2008 at 01:57 PM
when stardoll.com was made???
Posted by: fdfsdfsdfsdf | March 22, 2008 at 05:59 AM
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Posted by: | March 01, 2008 at 04:21 PM
can i get free 25 stardolls now please i need them please
Posted by: lovekissss | February 26, 2008 at 05:20 AM
can i get free 25 stardolls now please i need them please
Posted by: lovekissss | February 26, 2008 at 05:19 AM