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More of my recently repainted, and modified DIM Minimee Crisis Core Sephiroth custom head sculpt. I took these with my newest phone, that takes crappier photos. They were all taken at the same time, but all are pretty much the same exact angle, as his wig wasn't cooperating and his eyes leave huge gaps if not positioned just right. It's hot like the dickens here, so I didn't want the extra struggle. I just took a few quick shots with this cell as well. The body is floppy, needs new elastic, so it was a real struggle. Most of these are carbon copies of each other. Not like, I usually don't take repetitive photos anyway. DX

I am particularly happy with these, regardless, because they don't have harsh shadows. The other phone exaggerates lighting/shadows for some reason. This one takes blurry, pixelated, off focus photos that are most of the time washed out and glowy in a weird way. I don't know if the lens is damaged (I am a klutz, but I haven't dropped or accidentally scratched any of my phones as of yet). Weird, but what can I do? I suck at taking photos already. I adjusted the curves in the first one to not look so washed out. It is a slightly different angle than the last one. But that yellowy-ness...sigh

I seriously need to fix his wig, it's driving me nuts. The bangs in particular, I don't know how they got so messy. The fiber is awful, I feel I mentioned that it is the same as my CL Rou's fiber. It tangles like nobodies' business, just because. It is staticky and is stiff. I used a fabric sheet with fabric softener, because I heard that would remove static from synthetic fiber wigs. It worked a bit, and kind of left it feeling semi-soft, for a tiny bit. T___T;;;

I might have to wash it with actual fabric softener, for real, and that's going to destroy the freaking bangs. Which took me an eternity to get to where they are. They are not even as tall as they need to be, considering how tall my Rou's are (and how tall CC Sephy's are!). Taking into consideration, Rou is less than half this dude's size. DX

End of rant! I loathe summer weather; in case I've never mentioned that anywhere. I am winter-fall, old fart. I don't mind shoveling ten feet of snow daily, as long as it's not 80 degrees anywhere near me.

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My first custom Rapunzel doll.💕 She’s up for sale! $100 + shipping. I may not be able to ship her out until later this week since I’m still hoping to have one last photoshoot for her, But DM me if you’re interested! She has a 100% original faceup and a partial reroot. The last three pics show some slight imperfections. The nightgown is secondhand so it has a few little scuffs and a small mark on the front. And although I partially rerooted her to have longer hair I left most of her original hair in place, so sometimes the shorter hair peeks through, but It’s usually not noticeable! I made her to represent the movie scene where baby Rapunzel sneaks out of bed to watch the lanterns from her window, with the lanterns reflected in her eyes! 💛✨

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They really shouldn't have let me keep score😂 #bjd #bjds #balljointeddoll #asianballjointeddoll #bjdphotography #bjddoll #bjddolls #dolls #dollphotography #dollsofinstagram #dollyinstagram #dollmod #dollmodification #customdoll  #toysofinstagram #toystagram #toyphoto #toyphotography #womenintoyphotography #womeninphotography (at Bristol, Maine)

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I finally repainted my custom DIM Sephiroth MInimee, Crisis Core version. I modified his left nostril a bit further, so that it would be less asymmetrical. DIM's Chinese sculpting team didn't do a decent job at getting even 50-percent close to what I requested and paid extra for. I even requested to have a smaller sculpt, yet I got the biggest head sculpt possible. T___T;;;

I love this head sculpt nonetheless, it doesn't look exactly like Original Crisis Core Sephiroth (my ultimate dream doll based on Sephy!), but I feel I am slowly getting there. I am really happy with how he looks right now; I need to fix his current wig. I chose the worse fiber possible; this is the same one as the fiber I used for my mini Sephy (FL CL Rou). I don't know where I'll find nice synthetic fiber for doll wig making now...but I haven't lost all hope yet! (:

The last image is the progress I did on him, over the years, with the very last shot, being how he looked prior to this new repaint and nostril and left eyelid mod.

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I promise I didn't ask myself, " can I make a hyper-cutesy-looking-doll, hyper-creepy-looking, or what!" Lol! I always wanted to try my hand at repainting one of the Lol OMG dolls, particularly the male ones. When I got my Rocker Boi back when the doll released a few years ago, I thought he would be perfect for me to try. I got two, so I could keep one in box (he comes with Punk Girl). Sadly, he is a plastic shade of sun-burned red IRL. So, I kept putting that repaint off. I did make a mockup, and even planned on replacing his default body with the Mattel BTS body (I own too many, and don't really need any of them now! Lol!). His default body is too tiny for my taste, I would rather have a taller broader version of it, but there's nothing of the sort, that I know of. I am not a fan of the BTS body either, but that's probably the palest mass-produced body I own too many of, that I don't have to import and already have a million of them. So, I'll be keeping this dude on that body for a while.

My mockup for this repaint/mod has tinier eyes, and chipmunk cheeks. I don't know why I did that with the cheeks, there's no way in hell I can do that to this sculpt. I do want him to have much smaller eyes though. But I had to fill in the sculpted eyes with my old rusty Aves Apoxie Sculpt a million years ago, when I got this doll, because the LoL OMG eyes are massive!! And they are literally sculpted to be deeply carved onto the head. I had a huge pain in the lower back sanding all of that as flat as possible, without making the sculpt completely flat or ruin it in the way. I still need to mod/flatten it a bit further (the eye area), but I didn't have to add any filler as I had feared. The first time I modified him, and repainted him, I feared I had done a sh1tty job because my Apoxie was so old. However, I lucky didn't had to do any additional, additive mods. Just needed to sand a million years more! And I'll probably need to sand even further to get the tiny eyes I want, next time!

That will be the next time I am feeling energetic! I layered the paint way too thin at first, to match the much paler BTS body, so I kind of shot myself on the foot doing that. I do appreciate texture on realistic HS, but not on hyper-sylized ones as much. At least, not bumpy texture. I don't mind painted/faux/pigmented on texture on stylized heads, but I kind of mind this kind of thick texture from too many layers of paint (love it on 1:6 realistic-ish heads, but not on melon-headed anime-ish ones). It was my mistake, however. The next time I'll probably try to get myself a can of white acrylic spray paint first, or go thicker on my initial paint layers, for the color matching aspect. He's a vampire, so I don't want texture of any kind of him, I just want him to look dead-pasty-white-kind-of-pale, and I'll probably rebody him by then. I quite like him for now, I wish there was no texture to speak of, but live and learn I always say! (;

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I was commissioned by @marydotdesign to fix up & face up these official miraculous ladybug dolls, and I think they turned out pretty good 😉

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More Rapunzel ☀️

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@stephoodoll on Instagram organized an animal crossing doll collab to celebrate the release of #animalcrossingnewhorizons! (Which I cant play any time soon since I don’t have a switch 😭)
We all picked one of our favorite villagers to make, click my Instagram post to see all their amazing dolls