My girls never wanted Barbies. Normal dolls, and cars, and water pistols, and Legos and more Legos (and still more Legos; they play intricate role-playing games with them, even now that they're ten and almost twelve). As for pink, it doesn't suit N because she's a redhead, and it doesn't suit R because she's sallow, and it does suit M who is a paleish ash-blonde but she doesn't like it; so no. It was R's favourite colour for a while, but she went back to dark blue (which I also dressed her in as a toddler because it looks so good on her) and fire-engine red. M prefers white, N black (but that's probably the early-adolescent gothy phase).