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My failed Ruvik cosplay. I was trying to finish this before Halloween. I have plans for a 1:6 custom doll based on Ruvik, but I keep pushing that back (due to me being a lazy bum, who procrastinates too much!). So I decided, I wanted my tiny, baby-faced Bettina male to cosplay as him for now. I thought what could possibly go wrong? Lol! I am still happy I made the hooded robe and the pants. I am now certain I can make better fitted pants for this tiny guy. And I don’t mind the look of the robe, although I could have done a million times a better job, if I knew what I was doing (pattern making and sewing are things I am not slightly good at!). However, at the very least, they fit well, and I am into the worn and bloody look, these pieces have. Kaneki is a ghoul, after all, so what better than these type/style of clothes for him to wear. I am definitely going to give these some use after this.

I made many mistakes with the full body suit, to mimic the burn scars that Ruvik has, and I did make a mask for him to wear. That unfortunately, turned out insanely absurd -- because I am dumb as heck and didn’t take many issues into consideration, until it was already too late. I was thinking about not sharing these anywhere, but I did take a freaking long-time painting everything, not to spam these anywhere! Lol! DX I Photoshoped the 1st image, but I forgot to remove his eyebrow out, so I just left it there.

Back in 2004, I was just a girl collecting bjd that was ranting with her friends collector in chat, sad and angry, after learing that Lilicat discover her first doll recasted. What we can actually do, to contrast this unbearable phenomenon? With that in mind, the “Pro bjd artists” movements was born. At first just the “pro bjd artists day”, then the firsts tag, the phamplet for your local conventions, the slogan for the community. But the recaster have more and more power, the phenomenon is far from fading and we are still here, asking each other: what we can do? So, with this in mind, that same group of friend decided to try something more tangible and the first no-profit Italian cultural association is born: Jointed souls. Here we are. A baby that has a long way to go, but is legal, is real, and we will use it as a springboard for your dream: inform and help your community to grow, to eradicate the recast habit (because for the neebies is often the first choice), to partecipate at all the European convention we can, with info, tutorial, enthusiasm. We have so much ideas and we soon put all on the socials, in italian and in English. For now I put here all the links, we hope to become soon bigger and useful for this beautiful community

Yes, and I’m working on it, so far “purple skin dolls” are rare anon, especiallyif you want them to be legit. Leaving aside any Limited Edition or SpecialEdition dolls (that it’s not only near impossible to get, particularly ifthey’re sold out, but might also cost you an arm and a leg), the onlylegit company that might (if you request) do something on purple resin as“a regular doll” might be either Resinsoul(not “Bobobie”, not “The Junky Spot”, just go talk to the source, sent an email to them),or maybe Mirodoll (horrible quality andpoor service until this day, regardless of some antis thinking it’s better than recast so “they’re awesome”, but they might have something made in purple resin by request), maybe even Impledoll might make some custom colors (they’re pretty accessible if you want to ask them and their service it’s good, they will charge you a lot more for just the color, but hey, if you’re an anti you must be loaded with cash to spare). More expensive companies are usually saving the purple color (as other morerare ones) for their Limited Editions, so if they can sell you twice theprice the doll just because it’s from a color they don’t usually offer, theytend not to offer the color (even if you ask) on their dolls as a regularthing. Some other friendly not judging pro recast anon community membersmight have some extra replies that might leave here for you to see.

The other options are, either you dye a (snow) white skin doll (or as light skin color as you can, like normal pink or so, tan or darker resins are less recommended for this already messy process) at home (byyourself), but this often don’t work because they end up looking “bad”, unevenin coloration and have a tendency to stain whatever comes in contact with. Andin essence you might be ruining a perfectly good expensive legit doll (so useaniline under your own risk). Or, the other option it’s making a hybrid,if your faceup skills allow you to, you can get a body from Resinsoul orMirodoll (if you convince them to do the doll in that color), and get only thebody, and the head (that’s often the most important part of the doll) you canget it legit from any company you like and match the color purple (to the colorof the resin body, and I suggest this because I know Resinsoul esthetics arenot everyone’s cup of tea). You can achieve this by sealing twice the head withMSC and then using watercolor based acrylic paint and a magic sponge.Then seal again when the paint it’s dry with another couple layers of MSC andstart the faceup regularly (might have to take care of the faceup a bit morefrom “nose dives” or “general scratching”, but most faceups require care sothey don’t get ruined). Why don’t do this to the entire body?, simply put,scratching on joints and articulations, paint chipping all over and giving awaythe real color underneath. The visible part of the head it’s easy to manage.Leave the headcap from its original color (you won’t see it when the wig it’son), and just paint purple the face or base of the head.

Having said this, it’s sad not only that “your side of the hobby” it’sunwilling to answer and you have to use prorecast places to find answers since“pro artists” (or antirecasters) talk about their “high morals” and “how theyare super nice persons” and that they are “the heart of the hobby” but makesyou feel uncomfortable enough that you ended up asking the side of the hobbyyou disagree and possibly hate because they might hate you for a simplequestion. It’s also sad that you hurry us up like if we get paid for doingthis blog or anything (your first confession was less than 12hs ago), sinceyou decided to be against all we represent, even if we clearly don’t mind toanswer “legit questions”, will be a little more polite not to hush uswith the questions your anti recast friends might hate you if you ask… justan observation for the next time.