Iza's Face Ups

The Tumblr home of Iza's Face Up Shop. Strictly Pro-Artist and Anti-Recast. Face up artist since 2011! Find me at www.IzasFaceUps.com

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All 700 of my faceups in order of completion

It's been almost 15 years since I started doing faceups in August/September of 2011 on my first bjd, my Resinsoul Ai.

I've painted her 8 times so far, always 99 faceups apart so she could always be the 100th since the last time I painted her. I started this collage when I did my 50th faceup, boy was it hard to find pictures of all the previously completed faceups p until that point.

The collage used to be just one image up until I reached 500 completed faceups, but neither my computer nor photoshop could handle the file anymore, so I split it up into sections of 50.

I want to thank everyone who has supported me over the years, whether new or old, thank you for helping me grow!

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This faceup on my Resinsoul Ai in normal skin from 2011 (back then the normal color was called fleshtone) is special as it is my 700th completed faceup! I can definitely see the improvement of skill.

It's been 2,5 years since I last painted her, so I am happy with my growth. She was my first resin BJD from back in June of 2011. And she also had sported my first faceup from August/September of the same year. Let me show her with my first faceup:

I had help back then on the eyebrows and eyelashes. But I am happy with my growth since then! 15 years almost and I did 700 faceups. Damn, what a milestone!

I'll finish the post with a picture of her on her body, dressed, and wigged. I need to take full body pics of her...

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I recently painted a 3D Printed BellaBugs Acacia in tan skin, but I color matched her to Fairyland tan skin. The eyes are made by me, but they are C grade at best (bubbles over the pupil), but they are nice enough for pictures!

Let me show you how she looked before:

She was quite different from the tan the client wanted her to be.

And then here is after the successful color match and with the faceup in place. Fun times!

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I managed to paint one of my own dolls, a Lost Chronicles Naris in normal skin, while I was waiting for more commissions to trickle in. I’ve wanted this head a long time, so I’m ecstatic to have one. His Faceup can’t really be appreciated in photos, so I made a video:

just look how wonderfully shiny and sparkly he is! My favorite part are his ears, I love creative elf ears.

My only sadness is that one of my mom’s cats knocked him off my desk and broke one of his ear tips and the piece is gone forever. Luckily I have all the necessary materials and tools that I could resculpt the missing ear tips and blushed it to match. Now I can barely tell where the break is even though I know that it’s there.

I will end the post soon, I just gotta gush about how nicely his ears poke out of the wig. I want to dye his wig greener, but all in due time…

More pictures can be found on my photo blog @izasbjdphoto

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This is the third Dream Valley Olivia I’ve painted, and I don’t think I’ll ever get sick of this adorable sculpt. She’s based on a friend’s v-tuber model, so I did a hybrid of my normal Faceup style with anime mixed in. She’s in white skin, and does have a white wig, but the model had black eyebrows and eyelashes, so I went with that.

I also made the eyes with resin, only my third attempt at sparkle eyes, and my most successful one yet!

She’s also really sparkly, as are the eyes. The video shows her off well I think! I might still do a new video of her, but this’ll do.

I wish I could upload a second video to this post without needing to reblog it (because let’s face it, I’m gonna forget to reblog by the time this posts from my queue) as I really am proud of these eyes!

I will be painting her body and fantasy parts soon!

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Today I get to show not one, but two Faceups on some spare Sugary Girls 1/8 MJD Blind Box doll heads! Not bjds due to the joints construction, but they are definitely cute. I struggled to paint the eye chips as normal doll eyes don’t fit really inside the head cavity, and I chose to paint the no-eye head to be a sleeping head to match to the open-eye one.

My wife did a GO for the full set of them, and received a ton of extra faces and heads, including a whole blank body and two blank wigs. I’m customizing this one for a friend of mine, and only the wig is left to be painted. I’ll be airbrushing it, once the multitude of cats is gone and order is once again restored within our home... anyway, I’ve included some bodied pics in this post!

here you can see just how small these heads are in my smallish hands. I’m gonna use the rest of the faces as practice heads for anime faceups, I do feel I am improving with each one!

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I repainted my wife’s Soom LittleGem Special Order Golden Light Shale unicorn Centaur with open eyes. Her old Faceup was from a long long time ago, like 12 years, so it was high time for a redo (it was in good condition, but faded and I’ve learned a lot since painting her last).

Here’s a few pics of her in my hand taken with my phone. I’m glad I got to paint her horn this time too, it really needed a silver accent!

Of course I needed to make a comparison of the two faceups. The before is from when I’d just finished the Faceup back in like 2014. I’m especially hobby with how much more natural he freckles look now! I also chose to give her black eyelashes instead of grey as they look nicer and work better with her medium grey hair.

I’ll end the post with some quick owner snapshots from her in the doll cabinet! The ring around her horn is the engagement ring I’d gotten for my wife. Her wedding ring naturally is on her finger, but neither of us wear our engagement rings (mine is too small now, and hers has an Opal for a stone and she doesn’t want to lose or damage it).

So this doll has become an expensive and fancy ring holder hah. I do need to restring the doll, she’s super floppy, but I dread it as she’s a centaur and they can be complex to restring…

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Got this cute Sprouting Dragon Zilu in Mia white skin that I modded sculpted eyelashes onto before painting her. I also made the eyes, I love their delicate gold shimmer!

I will also need to blush her body and paint her wig a warm dark brown to a warm medium brown (she’s got a resin wig). Soon I hope!

I actually made a second pair of red anime eyes in resin that are 22mm instead of 20mm, just in case my friend wanted her eyes bigger. She now I have spare 22mm anime beast eyes. I do want to make more eyes, and experiment with painting in them…

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Restoration through Blushing

I just wanted to go a little more into detail about how I reblushed the last two heads I posted, as both are heavily faded and a little greened due to prolonged light exposure. The bigger head is a Soom Thera in bronze from 2015, and the smaller head is a Luts HDF Madeleine in real skin brown from 2016.

This is just how faded they are under their faceups. You can easily tell it’s from sun exposure due to the uneven nature and the fact that the head in the right has built in eyebrows now as the paint from the last Faceup protected the resin color from the light.

First step for me was to blush them with pastels to make the base colors even again. I used different browns and reds to counter the greening. It took about two layers to get them to where I’m happy with their colors.

Next step was my usual, adding the blushing, contouring, and deepening the colors. Pastel colors I used were reds, purples, blues, and some peach tones. I rarely use straight up browns for lighter tans, because I find it often looks unnatural. You’ll also notice that I added the eyebrow base blushing so I know where to paint those.

In the next step I added the eye detailing (brows, lashes, and liner) and a small dusting of shimmer for the two. They are lo at done at this point, only missing their white freckles and then the finishing steps!

Here they are with their white freckles sealed in and they are glossed. I normally do freckles first, before I even blush, because it softens them more. But for white freckles I gotta do them just about last so they don’t discolor when I blush.

Here are the two faceups finished! Not a bad restoration if I may say so!

Thank you for looking!

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Here we got another older gal, a Luts HoneyDelf Madeleine in real skin brown from 2016. She also belongs to my dear wife and her color hadn't stayed stable either.

Just like with the previous doll I posted, I restored her coloring with strategic blushing and then painted her. I think she turned out really sweet. The eyes she's wearing are some of my first ones, but they look nice in her I'd say!

Naturally since I painted her last in 2016 I had to do a comparison picture of her previous to current faceup. I'm really happy with my improvement over the last decade.

I admit I still struggle with painting white eyebrows and face the individual hairs show up properly. But it's okay, white is a tricky color for eyebrows and eyelashes and I get better each time!

Have a small owner picture of her with her cookie she's had for literal years. I think it's also around 10 years old, made of polymer clay by a collector in Minnesota, as we bought it at a meetup.

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This cute Soom LittleGem Thera in bronze from the 2015 FCE belongs to my dear wife. I last painted her shortly after her arrival in July of 2015.

She's sadly heavily faded in the face, unevenly, due to light exposure as Soom Bronze has always been rather unstable if there's even a smidge of light. But no matter, I managed to mostly restore her original color with strategic blushing!

I love this comparison, because it really shows how much I've improved in the last decade! She looks so much more alive, and the linework is better too. I also have nicer eyelashes now, so those look more natural too. Speaking of eyelashes, I need to soon reorder some...

Here you can see the restored color in the head compared to the faded neck and arms. She's lovely though!

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This eye-searingly hot pink doll is a Magic Mirror Fafnir in raspberry from my own collection. She'd arrived with the artist's faceup, but I always gotta do my own.

I used lots of shimmers and some duo-chrome watercolor paints on her to really make her shine.

Sadly once again, the sparklies cannot be truly appreciated without a video, so I included one. She's a goober though and kept flaking off the filigree linework along her cheeks before I could seal her. But I won the war in the end and it's staying put!

Quick comparison of the lovely artist's faceup vs my own. Next time I repaint her I will try to put her eyebrows lower and make them a little thinner as they are kind of taking over haha.

If you'd like to see more put together pictures of her, I did recently post her to my bjd photo blog @izasbjdphoto

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This old gal, a Planetdoll Mini Riz, was a little challenge to paint, as she's a small mature 1/6 scale. The client asked for all over freckles and to match her to her grey wig.

Here's a pic of her with her wig on, and some random eyes I had laying around. Both the client and I are happy with how she turned out!

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Painted my new Impldoll Sini in dark tan this past week, and I love how she turned out. The only thing I’m a little unsure on are her applied eyelashes. I might still swap them out…

Since she’s part of my own collection, I can include an owner pic right away! I accidentally made her look like Valentine’s Day chocolates, but it’s okay, she’s rocking the look.

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Today we got a two for one! I painted both faceplates of my Magic Mirror Branwen (fairy and human versions) in quartz skin, which is a beautiful blue-grey. I decided to go super fancy with her faceups, by adding a painted circlet.

There are some small, but distinct differences between the two faceplates. The human one was rounded ears, wider eyes, and sculpted lip lines. The fairy one has pointy ears, narrower romantic eyes, and smooth lips. I still painted them the same so I can swap between them.

Here's a quick pic of her all put together! Isn't she lovely? I love that she's got super voluminous hair while herself being delicate and light.

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Here we have a Doll Leaves Camilla in white skin. She's got such cute little fangs! I am really proud of how her eyelashes and brows turned out. Some of my best and most delicate work yet!

I matched her eyebrows to her wig, which I think turned out nice!

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This lovely gal is a Fairyland MNF Celine OE & SP in natural skin, but color matched to Bimong normal skin.

Luckily the colors weren't too far apart, only took two layers of pastels to match the parts together well. I had fun with these faceups, especially the nude lips! I'd never attempted that look before, so it took a few tries to get it right, but it worked out and now these lovely heads have juicy lips.

See what I mean on the color match? Just about a perfect now! The heads had been more yellow toned rather than pinky-peach toned like her Bimong body.

The kind client sent me owner pics right away when she received the heads back. She even did a video reviewing the faceups happily.

Here are the owner pics from BallJointedSoulmates on IG and Etsy.

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