Doll Fakies

I was at a small toy store and found these dolls. They look good. The brand is called My Sikaly.

I almost bought one because I like the outfits and the doll's face isn't so bad. I don't have this sculpt either.

Then last night I was browsing a Facebook album of a doll seller and learned that these are ripoff versions of the MyScene Icy Bling line. 

Photo from Photobucket

Let me compare them:

Delancey

Chelsea

Madison

Kennedy

MyScene, My Sikaly, get it?

And isn't it Christina Milian on the box of the My Sikaly dolls? Or someone else?

Now that I've seen the originals, I think I prefer the pink fake doll the most because its outfit is the closest to the original MyScene dolls. But no, I won't buy any of these. I have too many dolls, anyway.

I also saw these at the same toy store.

It's just called Fashion Girl. It totally reminds me of It's A Girl Barbie:

A comparison:

What a poor copy. The sleeves of the bootleg doll aren't even puffy. And a pet dog instead of a teddy bear? LOL.

I still like looking at dolls like these even though they're fake. 

Nakoma and Jane

I'm pretty excited to meet my doll-collecting friend again soon because we have a lot of things to exchange with each other. For instance, she recently got these two dolls I bought from an online seller because she also bought from the same seller and they decided to meet up. Here's her photo:

Oh my goodness, it's Nakoma from Pocahontas, and Jane from Tarzan!! If you have been reading my blog, you would know that I've wanted Nakoma for so long! It took me four months of waiting to finally get her!

Ooh and Jane, I actually got her dress first, so having the doll who owns the dress would be fantastic. I think I like her face better than Mattel Belle.

I'm so ready for a body transplant. My friend is giving me her two Liv bodies. Just perfect for my growing Disney-Liv hybrid collection!

I also have other things to get from my friend like three broken Monster High dolls, and I will also give her stuff too like my extra Madeline Hatter head and broken MH body to go with it. Heh, the things we trade with.

By the way, today I kept myself busy with crafting. I'm not yet done, at least for the next few days, so no photos yet.

Color Me Creepy Add-on Pack

Ah! I found a Monster High Create-A-Monster Color Me Creepy add-on pack! It was on sale for P100!

How it was marked down. Read the bottom tag, then the middle, then the top:

The back of the box:

See, I could play with the temperature and make the outfits change colour...

... but I really don't want my doll items to get wet anyway, so nope. I'm keeping the pen and the little acrylic tub because they're cool.

The pack, still attached to the cardboard backing.

I made my customer skeleton face doll wear one of the outfits which is actually my favourite among the two outfits available, because it has net on it.

I still feel that this doll is incomplete, so I'm still going to work on her soon.

Test Makeup Part 2

I am finally able to remove factory doll makeup because I found a nail polish remover that works for me: it's Caronia nail polish remover. I tried it on a Draculaura doll I rerooted a while back and it worked but it took some elbow grease as well. But I also have a bootleg Monster High doll that I've been meaning to repaint, so I also tested it on this doll too.

This bootleg Frankie's head is yellowish compared to her body which is like bone white.

The factory paint easily came off when I used nail polish remover on the doll's face. I noticed right away that the eyebrow paint has really stained the vinyl. It just won't come off completely. Oh well.

After two to three hours, this is what I came up with: a skeleton head. I only used watercolour pencils for this.

I wish I used some acrylic paint and micro brushes, but I didn't have the time and energy for actual painting, so I settled with the pencils. I think the colours would be more vibrant and sharper with acrylic paint, so I will have to consider it next time I do a repaint.

I touched up the bottom of the right eye socket before I took the photo above. I wish I could do more details on the eyes, but I couldn't do so much with just pencils. And my sealant took some of the colour off the doll because of my application by using a makeup sponge. A spray-on sealant is so much better, so I'm on my quest to find Mr. Super Clear.

I was able to hide the eyebrow stains, I think. I applied a bit of white on them then I hid them some more by applying grey and brown.

I think my most favourite out of this project is the hollow nose. The outline of the hole looks more precise than the rest of the outlines I did.

When I get tired of this makeup, I'll just remove it and paint it in a different way. I also want to try "pretty" repaint, not just this Halloween themed makeup. I mean it's forgivable to have stray lines and dirt all over the face, but with pretty princessy kind of makeup, blushing and blending is important. So are neat lines, and attention and patience to small details. There's always room for improvement.

/Oh my goodness, I edited a small image of the one I posted above and blackened the eyes of the doll digitally, and look what happened.

I might keep the face repaint this way and continue work on the rest of the body because of this...

Evie from Disney Descendants

Foxxy Cleopatra and Evie

I found Evie (right) while thrifting! She is missing her left hand. The black paint on her gloved right hand is chipping off, and her toes have melted, oh my!

I chopped off her curls because they were getting unruly even after a boil wash, then I just tied her hair into a pony tail. I haven't given her a left hand but for now she can hide her wrist under her Barbie dress.

I smoothened what is left of her toes with a Sally Hansen nail file to remove the rough edges of the plastic. And I tried to rub off the rest of the paint on her gloved hands but I'm not done yet.

Oh and I gave her eyeliner using a black watercolor pencil. I had to wet the tip of the pencil so I can draw over her factory eye paint, then I sealed it with a satin sealant and a black cotton swab (because I don't have regular white one right now. Just a set of black ones from Japan Home Centre).

Not in photo are the shoes she's wearing. They are yellow CD-R King/Kenko World shoe charms that my Licca doll used to wear.

The blue chair that Evie is using is from Daiso. In that previous entry, I also posted about a green chair, but I gave that one away to someone I transacted with recently, because we were supposed to meet up one day and I was late and didn't make it on time. I gave my buyer that chair as a freebie the next day to make up for the lost time.

In the photo above is Foxxy Cleopatra sitting on a wooden shelf that looks like a staircase. My sister actually bought that for me at Daiso in Hong Kong when she visited my other sister there. I haven't even made a post of her Daiso haul for me, but soon I will.

The background is actually a gift wrapper that has pretty cute illustrations of ladies in nice outfits. It's actually a collaboration of National Bookstore and a blogger named Chuvaness, and the artist is Keeshia Felipe. I modified the wrapper a bit by covering the brand all over the wrapper with correction tape because I like the wrapper much better without it, lol sorry.

Let me talk about two of those illustrations that I like the most:

Photo lifted from Preview article

This one is actually based on the red dress by Yulia Yefimtchuk. It's clearly based off of that because of the pose of this model too.

Source: Opening Ceremony

The other illustration:

Photo lifted from Preview article

It says on the article that this is based on fashion by Junya Watanabe. I can't find the exact match so maybe it's just an inspired illustration of something like this:

Source: TheFashionSpot

Now I want to copy those looks for my dolls, hahah.

Harumika Dress Form and LPS Blythe Hybrid

I found these while thrifting:

Left: A Harumika dress form with no stand, from the New York City designer dress form set.

Middle: An unidentified anime figure's body. Hope I can identify the owner using this website: https://www.animecharactersdatabase.com/. A figure of Perona from One Piece. (Thank you for the ID, "Unknown"!)

Right: A Littlest Pet Shop Blythe head, from LPS Blythe Style Skate set.

A clear envelope with some crafting supplies. What I find most important in this is the cutting mat.

Now I have a cutting mat, yes!

Back to the Harumika dress form. It didn't come with a stand so I have to improvise. I have a short wooden dowel, and a balloon cup stuck on a jar lid, which was previously a doll stand I used for my dolls. 

There is a shallow hole underneath the dress form which was for the original stand, so I inserted the wooden dowel through it and it fits perfectly! I don't even need to add glue!

Then I inserted the wooden dowel through the balloon cup and it also fit! Now my dress form with stand is complete. I might leave it as it is, or paint the wood, the balloon cup and the jar lid black to match the dress form's colour.

/What's special about a Harumika dress form is that you can drape pieces of fabric on it and tuck them in the back to secure them. There's a tight slit on the back of the dress form for tucking fabric there so you don't have to sew anything. You can use a ruler to tuck the fabric there if you don't have that special tool that comes from the Harumika set.

Then this anime body Perona figure I found, at first I had a different plan for it because I knew I have an anime head in storage in my new place. While rummaging through the toy box at the thrift store, I found this random LPS Blythe head, then I thought of sticking the Blythe head to the body.

As you can see, the neck hole is just right for the neck peg of this body. So I gave the head transplant a try.

And it works!!

I had a heart shaped wood from a lot of toys and found use for it when I painted it black with a marker and stuck the figure onto it with sticky tack. It works!!

Afterwards, I gave the figure a wash specially the Blythe head because it had paint on its face and hair. I also stuck a lollipop I made from a wooden bead and toothpick to her raised hand to complete the look.

Now these aren't at the thrift store but at a local supermarket. I found this Sikaly doctor doll.

Then I noticed the joints of the doll.

Oh those are Liv joints! This doll has a Liv clone body...

... but I spoke too soon because her feet are Barbie sized and unarticulated. This is still good, because Barbie sized shoes are more accessible than Liv shoes!

And I noticed this cheap doll called Anita. Wow look at all that hair!

And the dress looks somewhat decent! The doll apparently has chopstick legs, but it's nothing a body transplant can't fix, right?