I repainted my Mano, after more than five years without even looking at him. The last time I took photos of him was back in 2019. I wanted to modify his lips once again, to widen the top one. I feel like I didn't do a half decent job when I made the lips bigger than life. I always wanted him to have massive lips. It started slowly, then I got them to be this size. I purchased new Aves Apoxie to mod them, last year. Then I got lazy, and waited until this year to finally go ahead and mod my Mano once again!
Except, I thought maybe I can just get away with repainting his face, without even attempting to modify them again! Lol! I am a lazy old fart, what can I say! I know I'll mod him eventually, I just wanted to see if I could get away without modding. I feel like I could, but I know I'll mod him, just because that's how much of a crazy old-fart I am. And I can see every little flaw, and it kind of drives me crazy. He is a 67cm tall doll, so he's pretty huge, I should be able to do better (mods).
In the meantime, I'll enjoy how he looks for now -- I am happy with him, but need to fix his applied lashes, I suck at those too. I lost one of his piercings in the process as well, he has thirteen stainless steel ball bearing glued to his face as facial piercings and I lost one! I know I have extra ones, I purchased a few when I first gave him ball bearings as piercings (prior I was using a reproposed ball keychain as the piercings-beads). Sadly, I haven't been able to find them since I repainted my Luna, and wanted to give her some as well. I'll keep looking nonetheless, but I might have to get some more and that's going to hurt me more than I wish -- I hate wastefulness! T__T;;
His brows are darker than they might appear in some photos, and his lips are lighter. I wished I knew how to take photos, but I suck! DX The last photo is a comparison of 2019, the last time I photographed him, and his current bod1less look. Lol! I painted him using acrylics only, and tried giving him some texture with a slight stylized shading on his cheeks. I didn't want to make him look like he's wearing make up, but still like a dark vampire prince! (:
