Japanese Fashion Dolls: 2003 Archives

Volks new beauty body D & E pix (warning! naked!):

http://www1.odn.ne.jp/~aaa68230/DOLL/77/DOLL77.HTML

I'm glad they came out with larger breast alternatives, but I'm still not sure if I like the new beauty bodies. I'm so stuck on the old ones. But they're re-releasing those as well!

Who's busy? Second project for the day... make Jing's stockings! "Jingle Belle" is an awesome comic by Paul Dini. All about the rascally adventures of Santa's delinquent daughter. More cute than criminal, it is very spunky, and very well illustrated. Superb bathtime reading.

Yesterday, when we picked up the sewing machine, we also stopped by (eek!) the Disney Store to see what Tinker Bells they had on the shelves. Well, they are pretty gawd awful. BUT, but they were having a sale. One snowy princess outfit set FREE with any princess doll, which was also 20% off.

I'd been planning to do Jingle Belle doll almost from the beginning of the Volks obsession. And since Tinker Bell's face is so very close to Jing's it was a short leap to figuring out how to use it.

Well, it seems it works perfectly on, of all things, the Neo Teen body. Which is normally the more husky of the Volks figures. But with the giant Tink head (barbie size) it actually makes the doll body seem more petite. The green outfit and sweater, and the leather boots are by Azone. I bought a pair of stockings at the Pirate Store in San Francisco and cut them up, using a pair of Volks stockings to make a pattern.

What is left to do? I could make proper coverall shorts, but I think the mini dress is a fine facsimile. She needs a hat, either green peter pan style or santa style.

I finally got my extended Thanksgiving Holiday dollfie day. Got up this morning, pulled out the supplies and started painting in my pajamas.

I had finally found a 18/0 gauge brush at Amsterdam and hadn't had the opportunity to use it.

Let us start off at the beginning.

Lavinia

Lavinia is a doll I conceived of doing soon after I got my first Volks body and realized how easily the hands are removed.

For those not familiar, Lavinia is one of Shakespeare's most abused characters from his most infamous & violent play "Titus Andronicus."

"By S. Clarke Hulse's count, Titus Andronicus is a play with '14 killings, 9 of them on stage, 6 severed members, 1 rape (or 2 or 3, depending on how you count), 1 live burial, 1 case of insanity and 1 of cannibalism--an average of 5.2 atrocities per act, or one for every 97 lines.'"

In Shakespeare's own scene notes it reads "Enter DEMETRIUS and CHIRON with LAVINIA, ravished; her hands cut off, and her tongue cut out"

And that brings us to... Lavinia

Lavinia definately needed some texture to her hair, and since I planned on restyling the doll below as well, I used a similar technique of twisting the hair, then wrapping it around a pipe cleaner. This gives what in essence is the opposite of a sausage curl. For Lavinia I sprayed them heavily and endeavored to keep the spirals all intact. She needed to have angry snakes for hair.

Oh, and I made the dress too. A simple sack made out of cheese-cloth, then wetted, starched and ironed. It is a terrible piece of workmanship, but that is what I wanted, so lucky me!

Kallisti

Next we have a repaint, re-style. This was one of my earlier dolls. But not early enough to excuse the original horrible paint job. And especially since it was supposed to be me, in a highly idealized, fantasy sort of way. Well, the original boil crimp had long fallen out, and since been squashed in my recent move. She was a perfect candidate for an overhaul! She has and NDR Ellie-ish head. And she got the same do as above, but it was combed out just a bit and re-gel'd and sprayed.

Kallisti is wearing a Bratz Boys outfit. I liked the roughed up vintage leather and the orange retro shirt. This is what redheds are supposed to wear, I never manage too.

Like the accordian.

The painting on both of these is much finer, if still a little clumsy. But LO! The difference between these and any of my other customizations. I, too, can make a fine line.

Now, the last bit is just a smidge o' fun. Ran to Target for some errands and found the Snow Bratz on 35% off sale. Once again, another Jade was on its way home to me.

Here's Neo Licca & Dot modeling their new outfits, both from the same Bratz set.

It does so have some thing to do with Volks Dolls! Zman, my ancient and cranky bluepoint, is wearing a black Dollfie Plus wig.

Wooo! A new dollfie! And my third attempt at rooting. I think I finally got it down.

This tiny girl is still nameless. I tried to name her, really did. But nothing happened.

In any case, she's a Volks Mini B in Beauty White. I love the minis, and the paler the better. Unfortunately I have to root the white heads. I got the root done in two sessions, one short and one long. Probably 6 hours total. That's a lot of work!

SO. Tiny girl has peach and green NDR hair. Peach & Green!!! It definately looks pinker in person than in these photos. I also went for more of an anime look than I usually do, because mini faces are so hard. When all else fails, go for the big anime eyes! Works every time. The painting is a little heavier than I wanted. I have to come up with softer colors, I usually use gray. But this brown is too burgundy. Bleh. But I'm really happy with her little face though.

These photos have crappy color. Bleh. She's much cuter in person. So say I.

This also ties in with the new fashion finds theme below, except these aren't in white. Here she is first off sporting a Bratz prom dress. I've been dying for this outfit but was resisting, until I started rooting the peach hair. What could be more perfect than a peach fairy dress? Hrm?

Another Bratz outfit, Jade has all the cool clothes, I don't think I've bought any of the other Bratz girls to steal outfits. Jade's are usually Asian themed, which is just cool. Everything fits just barely, and the pants were 1/4 inch too long so I just cut them off. Love the bag!

We are, we are, we are the Mods!

Aaaiieeeee! February Calendar Girl Tamaki is full on 60's Brit Mod.

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More peeektures! I want to see more. I might actually buy that one. Who was obsessed with Quadrophenia? I was!

Brother sent home a pro lighting set up, which I used to get the nice bright white pictures.

For the shadowy line-up we used long exposure and strobed a flashlight back and forth across the line. Nice effect! These first two are pretty large!

A Sopranos inspired line-up:

Aaaand, The Nun & The Schoolgirl

Weee! What better excuse than Halloween than to get aaaaall my dolls dressed up in Lolita outfits.

I ran out of dolls though, I actually have more Gothic Lolita outfits than I do dolls, or space to display and photograph them.

I'm a bit ambivilent about the photo set-up. The lighting we used worked awesomely for Mieux below, she looked luminous. But when pulling back on the group the effect was more washed out and less glowy than I wanted. Also the detail is fuzzy.

Bah. The close-ups are better. Go there.

We drove all over California Saturday trying to track down the few remaining tiny light-up pumpkins. It was a quest... I ended up with way more groovy Halloween crap than I needed, oh well!

Yay! My first new dollfie since I got married and moved!

Most of my dolls have been in boxes since we moved. I actually started this one (she's still nameless) ages ago when I rooted the head. This is my second root job (the first is too gross to be mentioned) and I used the purple NDR GLOW IN THE DARK hair! It really glows. Under regular light it is a pale matte lavendar, very pretty.

Mieux (maybe I'll call her that) is a Beauty White J body with huge knockers, very hard to come by these days.

Is here! And the new Takara Lolita outfit came the day before from Rudi. I guess she has the Jenny 18 body? She's about 1/2 inch taller than my Aya.

I don't have a SAJ body, so this is the nicest quality Jenny body I've seen, though I haven't undressed my special Jenny Shop 18. I was going give her a busty obitsu body, as I think it would make her look sassy, but I might leave it now. Oh, and when I tried pulling the other head off my obitsu the neck nob snapped off into the head. Sigh.

Bought this off of ebay last night.

I don't have alot of Takara dolls, but there are a few I want, this is my first Kisara, and she's *perfect*

Something else I haven't made her own page for... The Volks Beauty B body with #2 style Dollfie Plus head.

Er, she doesn't have a name yet either! For some reason I'm not in love with her. Fiddlesticks. I love Visine, but not enamored of the dollfie plus' I guess.

In any case, she's still cute in the Azone Chocolate Cushion Valentine outfit (white) and the red velvet Fairies O' Darkness. The boots are also spectacular. The problem is I'd rather see all these on another doll. Sigh.