#fantasyfaceup

My wife asked me to repaint her Dollzone Big Dipper in white skin from 2015. He's an old and wobbly boy, and I still don't dare take him apart because he is a huge pain to restring. So wobbly he stays. Whenever he stands, I do not breathe around him in case I knock him over. His name is Cabbage, and he is a little plant familiar.

Yes, the eyes are on purpose like that. He came out of the box that way 10 years ago, and my wife fell in love with him just like that. So now she insists that I keep his eyes like this too when I repaint or handle him. His last paint job was much less green, I honestly fel I went a bit overboard this time... But it's okay, my wife loves him.

Here's his old faceup from way back when... I liked it a lot, but it had really faded over the years, and chipped from his many escape attempts. I'm honestly amazed he never chipped the resin.

This Sprouting Dragon Zilu in Mia pink skin was an interesting challenge due to her sculpted eyelashes. Naturally she was given lots of cute freckles! She is one of my wife's dolls, which means I could get an owner picture right away.

Isn't she pretty? My wife ordered the resin wig with her, but it didn't have enough magnets installed (only like 6 out of 12), so I bought some myself and filled in the remaining slots. The resin wig is still very precarious, but it's cute at least!

I managed to paint one of my own dolls, a Lost Chronicles Naris in normal skin, while I was waiting for more commissions to trickle in. I’ve wanted this head a long time, so I’m ecstatic to have one. His Faceup can’t really be appreciated in photos, so I made a video:

just look how wonderfully shiny and sparkly he is! My favorite part are his ears, I love creative elf ears.

My only sadness is that one of my mom’s cats knocked him off my desk and broke one of his ear tips and the piece is gone forever. Luckily I have all the necessary materials and tools that I could resculpt the missing ear tips and blushed it to match. Now I can barely tell where the break is even though I know that it’s there.

I will end the post soon, I just gotta gush about how nicely his ears poke out of the wig. I want to dye his wig greener, but all in due time…

More pictures can be found on my photo blog @izasbjdphoto

Here we got another little plant cutie for my wife. He is a Dream Valley Tea event doll, that I received with my DDE Black Friday order last year.

It took me a long time to start painting him with good reason, as I dreaded taking him apart for it. Finally though I did and I definitely regret taking his head apart. I had to completely unstring him to put his head back together, and an s-hook even disappeared into the ether never to be found again. I ended up having to make him a new foot s-hook out of a piece of paper clip.

And the worst part is, he's an utter brat.

Just look, he bites! Little jerk. He's now back in the doll cabinet and I glare at him any time I pass him. He is aptly named "Audrey II"

This faceup is on a Dollzone Little Snow in 1/6 in purple skin. Part of my personal collection.

She was a mini grail for me, specifically because I wanted her in purple, and I got her in February directly from Dollzone in stock through New-Clover-Singing, but with a lot of undisclosed issues, such as heavy and uneven fading (the head is faded to a pale grey-purple due to light exposure...) and being on a boy body when standard Little Snow is on a girl body.

It also turned out that she was a display model at Dollzone for the past 2 years. I bought her under the presumption that she was in like-new condition as I paid like-new pricing. In the end I got a partial refund and he became a she through the help of a small rotary tool and sand paper...

In the pictures above you can see the stark color differences between body and head. No matter, once it was determined I could keep the doll after accepting the partial refund, I corrected the color mismatch with the faceup.