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MH: Dragon and Werewolf CAM

Time for another CAM review! A word of warning, these two were given to me incomplete, and try as I might I have been totally unable to replace the missing limbs - so I have had to make do.

Here they are! I have named the dragon Wyverna George and the werewolf Roma Lupine, because ‘dragon CAM’ is no name for anyone. Wyverna is missing her left hand and is using one from the Colour-Me-Creepy Design Lab CAM, who is the right shade of pink but has a tendency to revert to dirty grey, sadly. And Roma had to borrow her lower left forearm from the mummy CAM, Isis Von Thebes, and it’s not quite a perfect match. Since they only have one wig and one pair of shoes between them, I’m using Isis’s wig and a pair of Wydowna Spyder’s shoes so they don’t have to share.

This is what they look like after they’ve traded wigs - note that the wigs match their lipstick now. For the purposes of this review I’m going to have Roma wear the violet wig and review her first, but there’s something I wanted to get out of the way first. Anyone noticed anything missing on Roma?

I took this before I left the house so I wouldn’t have to take these ear clips out of the house and risk losing them. I hate them, this is a stupid way to do it. They should be on a headband like Bunny Blanc’s rabbit ears. They slide around, you can see the clips and they absolutely had to be put in this wig because the smooth, slippery strands of the violet wig wouldn’t hold them at all - in fact this one barely does. Eh, you know what, I’m going to ditch these ears entirely, say she’s a vampire instead and call her Camilla Bluthaven instead. Objections? No? Good.

She’s clearly got makeup meant to match the red wig. Her lips are the same shade of red and her eyeshadow is the same hue, only paler. I like the pale blue eyes - she’s kind of got husky eyes, especially with the grey skin and brown eyebrows. On the whole, though, without the context of the wig, all the red is slightly baffling.

Her face shape is, on the whole, not terribly remarkable for a Monster High doll, and nothing really stood out to me. Kinda sad, but they can’t all be winners and it’s not as though she’s a named character. Sorry, Roma.

She looks a lot better in the wig, and as you can see it matches her makeup and skin tone perfectly. The wig itself is very coarse and difficult to manage, and the silver streak is kind of spread out a bit so it’s hard to get into one stripe - and if you don’t do that, it kind of looks as if she’s going grey.

I only have her left forearm - anyone who can help me out here, I would really appreciate it, I will pay and pay postage and everything, no matter where you are in the world - but I do have both hands, and you can see that they’re standard clawed hands. They’re not even curled like Clawdeen’s usually are.

The boots - like the wig - seem like they were made with Roma in mind, not Wyverna. Peep-toe ankle cowboy boots with moon decoration definitely says ‘werewolf’ to me, not dragon. I mean I guess I can see a flame motif over the front if I squint but I’m still getting mostly werewolf.

I really don’t like this dress, or at least, not on its own. The pattern is OK, although I can’t quite make out what those Skullettes are, but the shape of it is all wrong. It rides up on the skirt, so Roma has this odd ridge on her hips, and down at the bust, so she keeps getting exposed. Just... no. Bad dress.

With the jacket on it’s better - you can see how in the picture up top - but this is how it looks off the doll. As you can see it has a weird cutout at the back, in case you want to use the wings. And if you don’t? Well, sucks to be you.

We’re not going to examine the purple wig because we already did that in the other review. This is how this burgundy-and-silver wig looks on Wyverna - I think the wild cut is a good look but the fringe is too deep for her and hides her funky eye makeup. So let’s take it off and have a look.

Holy cheekbones Batman. Look at this face, this is way more striking than Roma’s. First of all I love the scaly eyeshadow and spiky brows, although I’m not sure how I feel about the lilac lipstick - it corresponds with literally nothing else in the outfit, although it would make Roma’s things suit her better.

As I mentioned she has a very angular face - especially the upper half, sharp, well-defined lines pointing towards the tip of the nose to suggest a snout even though she doesn’t actually have one.

She has the fin ear cast - not pierced, of course, this is a CAM we’re talking about, which is kind of a shame, dragons should wear some awesome jewellery. From this angle you can see the extent to which her eyeshadow wings out, I think this may be some of the most elaborate MH eyeshadow I’ve seen. I love it.

So let’s have a look at this outfit. It’s a two-piece outfit, which is neat, although that skirt is seriously short. Here you can also see the front of the wings, which we’ll examine in a bit.

This is not in fact a print of two different patterns - it’s two different patterns sewn together, with actual ribbons and real hems, which is way more effort that even the main MH dolls have these days. I miss these days. We have the teensy miniskirt, which in addition to being tiny, hitches up on the left side for Design Reasons. The halter top has a slightly paler shade of the spotted print - which is a much more elegant way of fixing the wing issue than a honking great hole in the back of the jacket.

So here’s Wyverna from the back with the wig off so you can see the wings. They’re actually some kind of hard translucent rubber-type plastic, so you can see light through them, and they’re textured a bit like leather. Very bat-wing.

Wyverna nude - she has scaly arms and legs, and parts of them are painted. The fins don’t come out of her calves like Lagoona’s do, but that’s not really an issue because, of course, the knee joint pops apart.

On reflection I think pink is an odd colour for a dragon. Why not green?

On the left side, she has green scales painted on her hip. This is the reason her skirt hitches up on the left, although in my opinion it’s not a good reason. Like, they could have painted it lower.

On the right side her leg is bare but she has scales on her bicep. Fashionable asymmetry FTW.

Finally, her hand is the standard claw hand, only with scale texture and fins on the forearm.

In conclusion, we have one pretty dull doll and one rather interesting one - so as far as CAMs go, that’s not too bad!

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