VIP Pets Cats

I was surprised to see the VIP Pets Cats on clearance at my work Walmart last night. They never had them for sale at full price. They just appeared for $15 in the clearance aisle. 

I was even more surprised to peek inside the first bottle I picked up and see Stormy! She's the only one I really wanted. 

VIP Cats are an odd set. They're in the same type of bottle as Glam Gems (though not the same shape or style) in that they have the cloudy pink window on the front so you can sort of ID the cat. 

Amazon was the only place to buy them and they only had 3 of the 6 characters, but you could order exactly who you wanted. 

The three they have are:

-Elektra: White cat with pink, red and yellow hair and asymmetrical bangs. 

-Melisa: Light brown cat with a white lower face and rainbow hair. 

-Mistery: Yes, the spelling bothers me. Gray cat with a white blaze and pink and blue hair. Maybe more hair colors in there. I can't tell. 

The other three in the series are:

-Stormy: The one in my pic. 

-Kitty (very original): Light gray with pink hair. 

-Selena: Light pink with white and light blue hair. 

For the longest time, the latter three characters weren't available. They're still not on Amazon. I heard they were on Walmart.com, but you couldn't pick who you got, so I never ordered any. I wasn't even sure all 6 were available, so you can imagine how surprised I was to see Stormy! 

If you're interested in these, do check your Walmarts. You never know what you'll find. 

PHOTO CREDIT: Mine.

VIP Pets Glam Gems Part 4

Not gonna lie, I totally overpaid for this dog. I have had zero luck getting the last ones I need except for her so I was willing to splurge a little. 

This is Stella. 

Love the color of her gem and pearl hairclip. 

I like the seashell theme of her tiara, too. She's one of the best-designed ones.

She might have my favorite hair. I love this. 

Strangely cute. 

Oh, she's just lovely. Definitely better than I expected. 

Yeah, Mimi is still my fave of the ones I own, but Stella just took second place. 

Hopefully I'll find Esmeralda and Juliet someday!

PHOTO CREDIT: Mine.

VIP Pets Glam Gems Kiara Variant

I checked Walmart by work on the way home tonight to see if they had Juliet or Esmeralda. I came across one with a pink heart and tried to see inside. I rubbed at the window on the bottle and could see a lighter muzzle, but the heart color looked more like Kiara's than Lady Gigi's. 

I ended up buying the bottle to look it over in better light. When I got home, I knew it wasn't Gigi. There was no light blaze all the way up her face and no star by the eye. My Kiara, which is the one on the right up there, has a decidedly darker muzzle, so I thought maybe this was Juliet. 

So I opened the bottle and it was Kiara again, but boy, does she look different! 

My new Kiara (left) is quite a bit darker than the first one (right). I think you can see how I thought her muzzle was lighter than her body. Her eyelashes are also a lot darker on the one on the right. 

I really like the left one so it was a happy mistake, but that's a pretty big variation in color! 

I can't remember how I described her hair yesterday, but I did get that wrong. It's blonde but it does have yellow streaks, and it's also got pink, green and blue. The colors show more on the new one. 

Still on the hunt for Juliet and Esmeralda!

PHOTO CREDIT: Mine.

VIP Pets Glam Gems Part 3

When they went on sale, I tried a third order of VIP Pets. There are 13 total. I have 7. I ordered 10, figuring that would be decent odds. 

Eh. 

I ended up with only 3 new ones out of 10. 

What I learned from this is that the colors of the bottle don't matter. I have doubles of Maya in both pink and purple, and I got Mimi in both pink and green. 

I picked up one of the three I still needed on ebay, but that leaves me without my favorite (Esmeralda) and my 4th favorite (Juliet). If anyone spies them anywhere, please let me know. 

We'll go in alphabetical order and start with Agatha. I'm a September so sapphire was definitely one I wanted, meaning Agatha was my 3rd most wanted. 

 

She is very pretty. I love that hair. 

The stone is a little pale for sapphire. I would have preferred a darker blue to match her hair. 

These are amusing. 

She's lovely. Agatha is my 2nd fave of the 9 I own. 

Kiara was one of the few I didn't really care about. 

Her gem is ruby, which that is not. It's not even red. Her brush would have been the right color. I'm not sure how she's ruby when Alexia's gem looks more like a ruby. And the clip-on with pearls isn't even red. Weird. 

Kiara has the tiltiest stand. If you straighten this photo so the back of my shelf is actually straight, you can see how tipped she is. 

She looks oddly cute in these. They work somehow. 

Her hair is blonde with light pink and light blue. Sort of like Lady Gigi but less milky colors and Kiara doesn't have green. 

She really has a lot of colors going on.

With the gem in. 

Kiara is one of three with a heart-shaped gem. 

On the left is Lady Gigi's. On the right is Kiara's. 

They're easy to tell apart in the bottle though. Gigi has a white muzzle and that really stands out.

I'm not sure if I like her better than Bianca or not. Either way, those two are my least faves. If I can track down my missing two, I'll do a ranking. It's been a little while. 

This is a really odd choice for me, I know, but Mimi was actually my 2nd most wanted. 

Yeah, the pink one. 

She is cool though! I like that her eyebrows fade into nothingness, and I love the black shirt along with the pale pink and blue. 

She has some blue in her hair. 

Nah. 

She's so cute. 

Easily my fave of the ones I have. I'm a sucker for that milky, super pale pink. I blame G3 Fluttershy from all those years ago. 

Mimi's gem is morganite, which I've never heard of. It's light pink so it works. 

PHOTO CREDIT: Mine.

VIP Pets Glam Gems Part 2

 

My second order of Glam Gems arrived today. I ordered 7 of them and got 6 different ones. The bottles come in three different colors and I got to open 2 of each. 

Thanks to being able to see the gems on top, I knew I had 6 different ones very quickly. 

And thanks to the gem and the color change window in front, I confirmed that I had a double of the purple gem here and set that one aside for return. 

Maya is the rounder dark pink gem and Nyla is the dark purple rectangular gem. (She's the one I got 2 of.)

Maya's accessories. 

I was hoping the loopy pieces would work as earrings, but they fly right off. I'm well aware this is a hairplay line and I'm impressed at the number of different hairstyles and hairstyle accessories they come up with for these dogs, but I do wish they had some jewelry! 

All of them come with the clear plastic rubberbands. I'm only showing them here with Maya's stuff though. 

Maya is lovely. I liked her in the promo pics, though she wasn't a top fave. 

Nope. 

I did a pic of her with only the tiara but it didn't come out. So we're going right to her final shot with the pearl accessory on. 

Maya is amethyst, though her stone is a little too pink in my opinion, and while pink and purple are never my faves, she does them justice. 

Moving on to Nyla, the other pink and purple one. 

I don't know why they thought those dark yellow hair beads matched her colors. No. 

She has no yellow on her, unlike Maya. 

These are halfway cute. 

With the tiara. 

Final look. Both Maya and Nyla got the pearl/jewel looped over their ear like I did for Aurora. 

Nyla is purpurite, which I have never heard of. It's actually a really cool-looking stone that I think has some gothy vibes, so I would have liked to have seen a darker character representing it, like Lilith from the original VIP Pets line. 

She's very pretty though and I'm glad to have her.

Now the green bottles. 

Jasmine is the yellow stone and Lady Gigi is the pink heart. 

According to the pamphlet there is only one yellow stone, so if you want Jasmine, just look for the yellow gem in the top. 

She comes with gemstone stickers like Aurora, only these are pearls and they're much cooler. 

Jasmine was my fifth most wanted, so I was happy to open her. She's my favorite of all the ones I've opened so far (because I did not get a single one of my top 4). 

Her hair is similar to Aurora's but not quite the same. The green is much brighter. 

Not awful but not great. 

The bold yellow with her color scheme takes some getting used to, but she is covered with yellow accents so it works. 

Hers was the first necklace I had that did not want to stay shut. I finally got it to hold a few strands of hair and hang loose. 

Jasmine is citrine. 

I really love her. Great colors. 

I really had no interest in Lady Gigi, but she surprised me. 

She is the only one so far to come with hair gel and it's glittery. 

She has folded over ears! So cute! 

Her hair is a pastel semi-rainbow. Blonde and lighter pink on top with the lighter blue and green on the bottom. 

Absolutely not. 

Gigi's hair accessory plugs into her head, unlike the others I've opened that all have tiaras. Any with folded ears may also have this. Actually, looking at the pamphlet, it looks like only Juliet has folded ears aside from Gigi. Shame because they're terribly cute. 

Gigi is quartz, which is pretty neat. 

She's not one I expected to love, but I do. She's my third fave of the seven I have. 

And finally, the purple bottles. 

I was excited when I saw the blue stone because I thought it was one of the blue-themed ones, but no, it's Bianca. 

Her hair is pale yellow, white and pale pink. 

She's cute, because they're all cute, but she's decidedly plain. 

That actually helps a little, which is kinda sad. 

Okay, now we're talking. 

Bianca is topaz. She's okay, but definitely my least fave of my seven. 

And finally, Alexia! She was my sixth most wanted. (Yes, I kept track of my top 6.) 

Alexia is color color color! 

Like Gigi, she has a semi-rainbow in her hair, but hers are the standard shades of red, yellow, green and blue. 

She somehow works these crazy things. I almost left them on her, but I like her makeup. 

Easily my favorite tiara so far. 

Alexia is...coral. An interesting choice because it's not a mineral at all but organic. 

I love her a lot. It's nice to have some bold colors because the others are all more pastel-leaning. 

And now I need to order one more larger batch to try to get my top 4! Argh. At least returns are easy. 

PHOTO CREDIT: Mine.