Monster High Clair: Ghouls Rule Custom
I really pushed off finishing this ghoul for a while, mostly on account of trying to figure out the sweater. Did I knit it? Sew it? I was so overwhelmed by trying to do either than I just decided to put it down for like a year.
Then I picked up the doll this past week and went wait.. what if I just painted the spare Enid sweater I bought?
I tried really hard to freehand the skull from a still of the movie and a png I found online, but that was the best I could come up with. Right now honestly I'm sad I didn't attempt a skullette. Maybe I'll throw some eyelashes and a bow on the skull?
The actual process of painting the sweater was pretty easy. I used regular acrylic paint and saturated the sweeter with it. It is slightly stiffer than it was before, but since I don't really plan on doing much with the doll I didn't mind. The paint tends to seep through, so I also recommend saran wrapping the parts of the doll that the sweater is going to touch.
The tights are Scaris Rochelle's, because I felt like it was the closest to the source material. Her gloves are from the creepro Ghoulia, the boots are repainted Scaris Ghoulia boots, and the hair streak is stolen from a Frankie doll.
originally I was going to choose a jean skirt that was a bit closer to the characters jean shorts, but honestly it looked pretty mid. The skirt felt closer to her scene roots and I added a wallet chain to give some visual interest. Her backpack is the one that came with the Ghoulia scooter set. It's not movie accurate or anything, but she needed some sort of accessory to round her out. I might change it once I rewatch the movie and get a better feel for her personality, but for now it's great.
For her face I honestly chose to not recreate it as accurately as I could because Clair doesn't really have eyelashes? I chose to not bring the black eye makeup up to her brow because I think this doll would look really awful without visible eyelashes. Since I used a Rave'n Wednesday dolls as a base I didn't have to do anything to the lips or nails which was absolutely a plus. I honestly don't think I'd recommend the doll if you had to buy her new, but since I was able to get her second hand it totally worked out.
Orginally her labret piercing was just a dot of silver paint, but I found out that nail art dots make for great doll piercings and come in a wide variety of sizes.
I used the pearls in this set to replace a few printed on pearl buttons and the silver and gold bearings for piercings!
It looks way better than the silver paint and makes it look more like an international piercing rather than a random dot on her chin
I'm all I'm super excited to finally have a Clair doll that looks pretty nice if I'm being honest. She was really easy to do and would be really easy to recreate if anyone else wanted to. A majority of the items she's wearing are stock, maybe kind of hard to get if anything.
