#face up

Today I get to show off all 3 of my Fairyland LTF Juri 2013 faceups. The first is normal, the dreaming and the sleeping heads are modded to create more expressions for her.

I'm happy I repainted her finally, as I last painted her in 2024 and I definitely didn't like how she turned out. I had just made the switch from watercolor to acrylic paints for detailing, and I didn't have the thinning or extending of the paint down yet.

Couple of before and afters of each faceplate:

See what I mean? The old faceups were messy and the paint was definitely too think. I love how soft she is now though, I also gave her forehead scales again.

Another comparison of all 3 faceplates together. I literally painted them assembly line style. Basically I'd paint a scale on one face, then I'd switch to the next face to paint a scale in the same spot, and then on the third as well. I did that until all 3 faceplates looked same enough.

I also have a video showing off the shimmer and shine on them:

Isn't she lovely? It looks like she fell asleep to me, which I love. In the video I made her some new resin eyes, as I wasn't happy with how lacking in depth her acrylic eyes were (featured in the still images).

Here are the two sets of purple kitty eyes I made for her, since her third face is sleeping, I didn't need eyes for it. I've been having a lot of fun making eyes, and am offering them for commission as well!

I'll be posting images of her put together on my photo blog @izasbjdphoto soon. I really need to take her outside or setup a little scene for her.

Commissions are open!

Finished Meena Fleur! As mentioned previously on the Bella Parker post, I'm trying to get back into face ups and wanted to practice on these WIPs I started three years ago. Bella Parker was mostly done, so I didn't get much practice in, but Meena was mostly unfinished and oof. So much of it is getting reacquainted with supplies and materials.

So. I need to do some face ups, but it's been awhile. I thought I could jump straight back in, but haha, nope! That did not go well. I decided it was best to practice on something else to get back in the swing of things. I found these two Rainbow High heads I had started back some years ago and hoped for the best.

Tbf, I didn't do too much to this Bella repaint wise since she was mostly done already. I did have to go over the eye lash lines and woo boy. Maybe I should practice with calligraphy instead XD I also screwed up the paint when reinserting the eyes.

(man everything looks so chunky here) I repainted the eyeliner and scraped off the excess with a toothpick. It's still noticeable in person, but eh. Nothing's ever perfect.

I wasn't sure I was going to like her outcome and considered putting her up for sale, but I think I'm happy with her now. Finally!

Years ago when Bella Parker first came out I was smitten with her promo photos because I loved the soft pink and faux Channel suit. A friend helped me get her and I was so happy! But as time went on I started to feel.. underwhelmed? Something wasn't clicking for me (which is something I've felt with most RH despite their better quality and design compared to other dolls at the time).

One day, I decided to do something drastic to the pale pink Bella. I painted her lips black!: https://www.tumblr.com/zaksdolls/650441822922063872/some-really-quick-doll-stuff-done-right-now-i and then I was unsure how to proceed. If I went full goth then I'd have to make her a whole new look and I wasn't really up for that either. So she was stuck in limbo. But then after some RH commissions I decided to take the leap and repaint my own. That fire lasted all for one month before being stored away for years, haha.

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.

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...