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Page 8 - Brush and necklace info
This page contains some basic information on the brushes and necklaces included in Cutie Club sets.
The brushes
Each Cutie Club series package came with one brush. There mould of the brush is always the same; it's pink, with a "lace" kind of pattern around the edge of the brush, a heart in the handle and flower with two leaves on the back of the brush. The most common brush is the hot pink brush, however some, although very few, sets came with a lighter pink brush, as you can see in a comparative shot below;
Brush variant- Fading or true?
Although the hot pink brush may fade in direct sunlight, there is another colour variant of the hot pink brush. The other brush is light pink, and it is not a faded one either. First of all, I have acquired multiple of these lighter colour brushes- they all have exactly same shade. The lighter brush is actually a tad purple in shade and the plastic used is slightly more solid. They have been acquired from multiple owners in different places, and as you might know, it's very hard for such solid things to fade to an exactly same colour; to have the exact same colour shade in 5 different brushes is no coinsidence.
I have tested fading on the hot pink brush. I placed a regular hot pink brush (chewed up one that wasn't collection quality anyway) on window shelf and in direct sunlight. I kept it there for 1,5 months during the warmest and sunniest period. During that month the brush did fade- but it did nopt change even near the light pink brush's purple shade. Instead, the difference in the plastic became even more clear as the colour of the hot pink brush faded.
It is possible that the lighter pink brush is an European only variant.
The necklaces
There are at least 10 different colours of necklaces; yellow, hot pink, green (/aqua) and purple being the most common ones. There are also darker light pink and very pale pink, light blue and light greenish blue necklaces, a yellow necklace with a creamy yellowish-white clip and a purple necklace with a pinkish purple latch. The necklaces came with the locket sets, one with each house and enabled the child to carry the house with them, in the necklace. I believe Galoob used the same necklaces with another line called "Sweet Secrets".
Picture above; the more common necklaces, from left to right light blue (only the latch), purple, hot pink, yellow, green (/aqua), pale pink.
Each necklace consist of three parts; clip, rope and latch. The clip (or key, as some call it) is insterted to a little hole on top of the building. The clip has a heart-shaped hole on it, see image below;
The rope is attached to the clip and latch, but it's easy to remove the rope from the clip so the rope and so, the rope often goes missing. The latch is attached on the rope, so the latter two usually stay together.
The latch of the necklace is always white, no matter what colour the necklace is. The rope is a bit different shade than the clip, but a hot pink clip always has a hot pink rope and yellow clip has yellow rope- and so forth- EXCEPT on the case of the variation yellow necklace with bright yellow rope and creamy whiteish-yellow latch. Although there appears to be some pattern in the colour of the necklace compared to the playset it came with (see confirmed lockets-section), where usually the colour of the necklace is attached to the colour of the accents or roof of the house, this doesn't always hold true- for example the pink Gazebo locket set (with blue roof and red accents) came with a green necklace.
Picture above; Some of the rarer variations of necklaces, from left to right; light pink darker version, light blue, light greenish blue, yellow with creamy white latch, clear blue (no latch).