Last year, BGBF sent a box of doll stuff that included a Malibu Francie. The doll's head was in rough shape, with the vinyl faded on the nose and part of the lip (exposed by rubbed-off paint), as well as the whole head having pits, but the body was in really good condition. As a joke, I put the tan Odile mermaid head, which he'd also sent, on that body, and the result was so similar to Teen Skipper that I kept the combination.
The head, though, sat in the head box, and I honestly thought I'd never do anything with it. I know it's common practice to touch up faded head vinyl with alcohol (I think) markers, but I don't have any and didn't want to spend money on this head, with the pitting damage, anyway.
I thought about the experiments earlier this year with de-yellowing old doll heads, in a jar of 3% hydrogen peroxide in the sun, and wondered: since this head had pigment that was already fading in spots, could I use the hydrogen peroxide treatment to bleach it to a more uniform color?
sharpi joins and they watch tiktoks-that-feel-like-vines compilations
(btw i'm slowly building the sharpi-comic treasure trove... the page is still a WIP but...)
ANTHRO DOLLS. YOU ARE MISSING THE HUGE MARKET POTENTIAL OF ANTHRO. DOLLS.
I'm not at all a furry but I would still rather see anthro fashion dolls instead of another line of human "high schoolers" who have toddler proportions huge heads to try to differentiate themselves from other huge head dolls
I know toy companies would point to old lines of anthro dolls that didn't do very well (and there have been several) as the reason not to make any, but that was the past
augh the plush dogs ... there was so much to like about them, I couldn't figure out why I am zero interested. they are labeled fashion doll but they just aren't
A partial look at the worst haircut anyone has ever given a wig OTL. This was my first wig and every step was a struggle tbh. Process & chatter under the cut
Made wefts from yarn (very limited amount acquired from thrift store, problem 1) (problem 2: tons of waste, which I saved at least some of for later) . Trying to make the actual weft tracks was tough, started with uv resin, which was a terrible idea, made them pretty thick, eventually used modge podge. Totally haphazard placement. The part was the hardest, pic doesn't show how sparse/messy it is.
So it was a bit of a mess, but might have been temporarily passable if not for..... the haircut.
Before: uncut/unstyled Karen hair lol:
Then I watched like 3 wolf cut tutorials on yt and decided I was ready. Yes it was 10:30ish pm, why do you ask -_- . Below is the very best I could possibly arrange/photograph it to hide the horrible awful chop
Not......... good. Super uneven, WAY asymmetrical, blunt cuts everywhere, too short up top. I now understand the emo and scene hairstyles of the early-mid aughts: bad diy haircut brined in ambient anime and Tim Burton. But at least their hair grew back u_u
This was a very humbling lesson and I have slowed my roll considerably. Maedhros's long flowing wig isn't quite the right size and also very heavy, so I'm going to trim off 2 or so inches (nothing fancy!! Just a straight cut!!!! I learned my lesson trying to cut layers) and try to make a new wig from the trimmings.
Meantime, Maedhros with the Bad Hair sports a little veil to hide the worst of my butchering ;u;
Peroxide bleached Malibu Francie head on a Xinyi body (the neck has been modified to work with vintage turn-only heads), and stock tan Malibu Francie head, with a curly blue reroot, on a Project MC2 body, with old IT hands, and very awkwardly attached Barbie feet. They've both had their lips painted pink and teeth touched up, and bleachy has extra light reflection dots, but the rest of their paint is stock
I know the Casey sculpt isn't the most popular, but I do wonder if this opens up bleaching Stacey-sculpt Malibu Barbie, for more proper Stacey customs. I have no idea if any suntan skin tone vintage head can be bleached, or if it needs to already show signs of fading on its own.
@queenofsquids got one of @dolljunk's resin head Peteena customs; DollJunk added some miscast blank heads to the package, and QueenOfSquids very generously sent one to me.
I was messing around with the black plastic body from a Little Bebops Dulce Catrina (courtesy of BGBF), and found that the resin Peteena head fit perfectly on that body's neck sphere. Then I bundled them together into the To Do Box for over a year. I finally spray painted the head black, glued on some textured knit hair that had been on a souvenir doll (it makes my wrists itch inside, so there's wool in it), and painted her in a very simple style
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this project!
She's wearing a dress I made for Bratz around 2007, featuring a temporary tattoo decoration; Beyond Pink Barbie shoes; bracelet made from cutting up one of those coily plastic hair bands; and a tiny photo-etched metal hair clip from Volks
I'm just glad it's not too small for Bratz/G1 MH-size clothes, so I don't have to sew anything specifically for her XD
The hair was...uh...like this
originally just glued to the souvenir doll's head to attain its shape (and the glue had disintegrated). I stitched the marked edges together, roughly matching the sides where the colors indicate
I wasn't going to be picky about how well the head matched the body, but it turned out nicely
Since all of my other Reel Drama dolls have been customised to be greyscale, I knew I had to free my Cleo from her piss yellow hair and tinsel, so I chopped it off then replaced it with black saran. I did debated about adding silver tinsel to her since I do have some, but I think it just displays really poorly and I love to run my fingers through my dolls hair so I just opted for some silver saran.
As for her face, I wasn't a fan of her lips, but since I bought her from another collector, they actually carefully picked out a good placement for her eyes, and I really liked the base of it, so I opted to just overpaint her eyes and add my own spin on it.
I also went over her accessories with a chrome marker and overall I'm really happy with how she turned out.
@queenofsquids got one of @dolljunk's resin head Peteena customs; DollJunk added some miscast blank heads to the package, and QueenOfSquids very generously sent one to me.
I was messing around with the black plastic body from a Little Bebops Dulce Catrina (courtesy of BGBF), and found that the resin Peteena head fit perfectly on that body's neck sphere. Then I bundled them together into the To Do Box for over a year. I finally spray painted the head black, glued on some textured knit hair that had been on a souvenir doll (it makes my wrists itch inside, so there's wool in it), and painted her in a very simple style
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this project!
She's wearing a dress I made for Bratz around 2007, featuring a temporary tattoo decoration; Beyond Pink Barbie shoes; bracelet made from cutting up one of those coily plastic hair bands; and a tiny photo-etched metal hair clip from Volks
The thing about Gunne Sax designs is that they were never meant for anyone larger than the stereotypical skinny little teenager. Of course they're going to look matronly when adapted to fit a body like mine. I am a matron.
I said that I was going to work on the Goat's second prototype, and I certainly am, but I had a moment of inspiration and took a break to make... The Snuppy
Possibly the most delightful creation of my life, I would do anything for him
I didn't actually need the zipper, but I forgot that I'd made something with this particular pull-over modification before, so I second-guessed myself into thinking it wouldn't work without the zipper. And then the first zipper I used self-destructed after it was sewn in. Even with the width lost in back by adding a zipper where the pattern didn't have space for a zipper, I can still put the dress on and take it off without using the zipper. Maybe I'll remember.
The design is heavily inspired by Simplicity 8729, one of the official Gunne Sax patterns, which I thrifted in a way too small size range in 2015, and hacked another pattern to more closely mimic last year.
The proportions between the two versions are very different (by necessity, since a higher waist more readily lends itself to being pull-over, I just forgot how very much higher I had made the waist in that version...), but the important part is the ridiculous volume at the hem
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