#limhwalimo

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My legit BJD (ball jointed doll, just in case Tumblr super advanced AI short-circuits with this abbreviation. This is a freaking doll!), Limhwa Limho Mano turned 19-years-old on December 18, of 2025. I thought I would take a few more photos of his and fix the color of this wig. Which I made for him, on August of last year and thought it would be a nice b-day celebration to have him wearing a new wig, made just for him. Sadly, my old-fart-brain had a long-6ss brain-fog, and I completely forgot all about it! DX

In my defense, I never "celebrate," my dolls' birthdays/arrival-dates. I kind of sew stuff for them, then take photos, and sometimes share those. Most of the time, I just forget (yes, even back in the dark ages when I was in my early to mid-twenties, when I originally got most of these dolls. I still forgot things!). Lol!

Long story longer, I took photos of his in the wig, back when I took photos of him with his newest mods (Dec. 12, 2025). So, just a few days short of his 19-anniversary with me! I'm sharing these now, for that reason. I knew I had to do something with him, but I kept forgetting what. I am not happy with the wig, as I made it too bulky and the color is way off. His hair is supposed to be a dark midnight blue, but I've never been able to find that exact color anywhere, so I'll just live with what I can find and try to make it work.

He is meant to be and represent a 1000-plus-year-old, male vampire character, that looks to be in his early to mid-twenties. He represents a fictional eternal being, not a human, he is not a child by any stretch of the imagination. He is a doll, a collector or hobbyist type of doll, not some other type of weird toy. I have to explain all this, in case these get flagged to the dark side. Because a lot of my current doll photos on here, have been flagged. None of them are nud3s of any kind. Most of them are exactly like this set of photos, where you can barely see some of his upper chest and maybe a peak of his pecs' sculptural details showing. Exactly like in these photos. Nothing else is showing, yet my toys/dolls' photos were flagged as matur3 content, and are still pending "review," extremely impressive I say... >___>;;;;

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Let's see if this doesn't get sent to the dark side as well...

My mano all finished for now! I am super happy with him so far. I kind of feel like his top lip doesn't look as plump now. I am wondering, if I should make it thicker next time... Lol! I know I am nuts! DX

Regardless of all my shenanigans, I am happy with him He doesn't look as angry as I was hoping, after fixing his brow shape, to be more like the 2015 version I gave him. I feel perhaps I need to matte them down a little. I like to use a layer of MSC gloss, to add/enhance the skin texture effect. I gave him a subtle texture, so I like adding the gloss to enhance that, however, his brow bone is a bit too pronounced in some areas. Which makes the glossiness an issue in those areas. It makes it seem like the brows are not dark enough, so it makes him look less angry. At least, that's what I want to believe.

I still need to find better eyes for him, and new elastic so I can take full-body-shots of him, without worrying he's going to fall off my desk at any moment. He's floppy as the dickens, but I always forget to find new elastic for him. (:

These are mainly repetitive close ups, but I was having a freaking hard time photographing him. It's always a pain, because he is super pasty and his blue hair doesn't help... My cellphone cameras go nuts.

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I took a million photos of my Mano, so I'll be spamming him a lot more (perhaps!). I suck at photos, and lighting. I don't know why this photo looks so weirdly lit. I tried fixing the yellow cast, but nothing helped. I try to not photoshop my photos because I want to seriously get better at it, but I really wanted this one to be less yellow. I love the way he looks like this; I had to douse his hair in water, because this fiber is so staticky, I had forgotten that. I love synthetic mohair, never knew what the official type of fiber is. However, keeping it sleek looking, without flyaways is a pain in the gut. I don't use gel on my dolls' wigs, because I don't want it on their plastic. I like the hair, and the way the paint apps don't look make-up-like and rather soft and fleshy, as they are IRL, but the freaking yellow cast.

Anyway, I really love this photo, but Insta has image limit, and I just copy paste from here to post on there, because it is a royal pain in the gut hole to post on there (only through the app, and I am computer person). I like spamming my work anywhere, so that's what it is. I wanted to share this photo as well but already had too many I liked better on the other post. (:

Don't know why I wanted to justify sharing more photos of my Mano, on my own "blog," but here we are.

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More Mano spammage! Lol! I wasn't planning on sharing these, because I did try to fix his upper lashes at least once. I placed the inner corner pieces too far out and they created weird shadows, making his eye appearing crossed eyed. Luckily, I only did it on the left eye. These however, turned out to be so much more color accurate, that even if they are a bit dark and probably not that well lit, they are truer to IRL colors than any of my other photos with either phones. So, I also chose to share them now, to show a comparison of the desaturation of the reds/purple/pinks, in his original paint apps. I was discussing with a friend, that couldn't tell the difference, somehow. DX

So I chose to share these, because I probably sound like a weirdo. His previous coloring was a bit too pink/red, so I know I sound crazy, but I did desaturate those. The photos were taken with different phones, and different lighting but I feel it is obvious the previous colors were much redder. And, I didn't want to post photos with my crusty-dusty hands getting in the way, but I feel that my camera distorts his proportions less, when there is a human sized object in the photo... weird, but true (to me at least!). He has a very rounded face-shape, not elongated like my phones want to distorted it to be. I hate it, it does that elongated thing to most of my dolls, except my tinier dolls. I guess I should be stepping back more, and zooming in. Even if it means noisy photos. Lol! (;

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My mano all finished for now! I am super happy with him so far. I kind of feel like his top lip doesn't look as plump now. I am wondering, if I should make it thicker next time... Lol! I know I am nuts! DX

Regardless of all my shenanigans, I am happy with him He doesn't look as angry as I was hoping, after fixing his brow shape, to be more like the 2015 version I gave him. I feel perhaps I need to matte them down a little. I like to use a layer of MSC gloss, to add/enhance the skin texture effect. I gave him a subtle texture, so I like adding the gloss to enhance that, however, his brow bone is a bit too pronounced in some areas. Which makes the glossiness an issue in those areas. It makes it seem like the brows are not dark enough, so it makes him look less angry. At least, that's what I want to believe.

I still need to find better eyes for him, and new elastic so I can take full-body-shots of him, without worrying he's going to fall off my desk at any moment. He's floppy as the dickens, but I always forget to find new elastic for him. (:

These are mainly repetitive close ups, but I was having a freaking hard time photographing him. It's always a pain, because he is super pasty and his blue hair doesn't help... My cellphone cameras go nuts.

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I reworked my Limhwa Limho Mano's lips finally. It was just a tiny, small mod. And yet it took me well over six hours, split between two days worth of work, not including the sanding. I am happy with him thus far. The first image is him, all done, without sealing the work yet and adding his facial piercings. I've included a comparison, from when I redid his paint apps earlier in the year, for mouth size comparison. I don't want to completely change the way he looks, that's never been my goal. Since I modded his entire face many years ago. I just want him to have an appealing mouth shape (to me, obviously!), and a face-up that's not too make-up-like. While still having a larger-than-life mouth. I thought the previous mouth was too pursed looking, and not as wide as it needed to be. I painted a bit of smile this time, I am not sure I want to keep it, but we'll see.

I was looking through old photos of his, to draw inspiration for his brows. I always have a major struggle trying to figure out what to do with his brows. I found that 3rd photo from 2015, that I really love how he looked in. So, I used that to recreate his brows. Silly me, I didn't find one that wasn't covering half his brow shape or the other entirely, until too late. Now, I'll have to probably redo those or leave them as they are and try again next time. I want him to look just as irked as he looks in that photo, but of course, I had to f-the brows up... DX I actually always reminisce about how much I loved him in his previous incarnations, before I move on to modding or repainting him again (I already did mock-ups in PS, so I'll probably redo them a bit to match the brows from 2015). Lol! I suck!

Regardless, I am looking forward to having all his piercings back on, to see if I am super happy with his whole look, or if I need to do more mods to his mouth shape. Sometimes I feel like the problem is not the mouth shape or width, but me... I suck at painting faces. T___T;;

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I desaturated the pinks and reds in my Mano's face paint apps, because my (phone) cameras were having a hard time photographing him, without making him look like I gave him pinkeye. I love him so much more now IRL, and also how my camera(s) photograph him. They still struggle due to his super dark blue hair.

Having said, even my old actual camera, from a decent camera brand (but still inexpensive point and shoot camera, but with an actual zooming lens that wouldn't distort proportions to h3ll and back!), struggled with his blue hair all the time. I am supper happy with him, now, I was already, but I gave him new lashes. His old ones were blue, and this ones are a blue black mix, which I don't love. However, it is hard to find dark blue lashes that are not leaning towards Halloween costume.

I might still try to fix the upper lashes, as they are always another struggle, because I prefer thicker lash lines, than longer than life ones. Having said that, these are human meant lashes so they are both thick and long as time itself. DX

The las four are from my newer crappier phone. They are way too washed out, but they are closer to RL colorings. As always... I am working on my DIM Minimee Lulu's mods still, so I am keeping my Mano off his own body, while I try to complete those. Forgot how much of a struggle it is to remove his head from his body, because he doesn't have an S-hook to connect the elastic to his head. It's a bar, and due to me liking to have a lot of floating heads, but only one giant body, it has been a royal pain in the lower back removing his head, then putting it back. I feel I might have to look into finding another way to make it work. When I was younger, it wasn't much of a struggle, but as an old-fart, my hands hurt like the dickens every time I switch doll heads. T___T;;;

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I am working on a new wig for my Limhwa Limho Mano. I've already made two wigs for him in the past and bought one for him when I purchased him in 2007, that I use as his default. He is supposed to have past knee hair length. However, I always wanted to try shorter hair on him.

I purchased this synthetic hair more than ten years ago; I purchased a lot of hair to make wigs for a lot of my larger resin dolls, then I lost interests and also lost/misplaced a lot of my supplies! Including a box of different colored synthetic hair, I purchased from a nice lady on the Dollfie Dream Y! groups! I live in the middle of nowhere, in a small touristy town, so I never find anything I can use for my dolls' customizing process, locally. The lady offered to purchase some synthetic human hair meant for wigs and dreads, for me (because she had places like salons, she could get it from locally to her). I of course said yes, I was grateful she even offered.

Long story longer, I never found that box of synthetic hair! I later purchased this from my BFF that got some for customizing dolls as well, as some of the white I used for my Hujoo sleepy Wings wig and my first wig for my Myou Bettina, who's supposed to be my Ken Kaneki fan art doll. The hair is too thick in my opion, for smaller dolls, but works really well for larger dolls. It is mean for dreads, so it has a crinkly texture. Which kind of goes away with heat, but there are some areas where the texture is a lot more stubborn, and it's just here to say. Lol! DX

I am happy with the wig so far, I feel I've made a clean part-line, which is often the bane of my existence. I also like the length, but I feel I could have made it thinner but making thinner wefts -- I always try, yet I keep failing. I was going to make sewn wefts, which are also a struggle for me. But then I remembered that I suck at those and always make them super thick. So, I just went with the glue together mess. I prefer sewn wigs above and beyond, but they are a pain in the gut to make, due to my dislike of readymade sewn wefts. I have to make those myself, and I suck at them! I can make them thinner than comercial made ones, but I suck! It is a struggle either way. I prefer sewn wigs, but feel that glued together ones are such a breeze to make... What can I say, I'm lazy!

This is supposed to be a short version of his regular length hair, with the bangs exactly as his regular hair is supposed to be, but shorter in the back. Kind of like if he just went and cut off all the length in the back, from his hair, but did out of spite and thusly this hair cut! Lol! I suck!