( August 2025 ) Daniel and Tennant updated faceups! I kinda crammed to get these two ready before Resin Rose. I was pretty nervous doing the faceups because I’m still pretty happy with the old ones, especially Daniel! I think Tennant’s is an improvement but I don’t know about Daniel’s. I might end up doing him again. I tried to match his coloring to his hands more, though (They were painted when I got them). I did in fact spend a full working/weekend day painting Daniel’s body hair.
( May 2025 ) Customhouse Choa! She came with a layer of eyeliner and sealant and nothing else but I tried to keep her faceup fairly light. I was inspired by a Tianba tutorial where they used pastel only to draw the lashes but I did use some paint in the end too.
( July 2025 ) I finished Angel’s faceup alongside Page’s. You can see two things in the process: one is that I once again started trying to use purples before remembering that I don’t like them and pivoting to warm colors again, and the other is how every layer looks terrible before being sprayed because of the white pastel base required for the colors to show up.
( July 2025 ) Here’s the faceup process for the Ace of Dolls page I won in the raffle at Resin Rose 2023! I airbrushed them in white and yellow originally planning for a soft lovebird/parakeet kind of effect but somehow the yellow I used totally overpowered the white layer to go BRIGHT TOXIC GREEN. Luckily I really liked that too but I had to pivot my plan so something bolder haha.
So, in May I attended PNW BJD Expo and did a faceup presentation/demo. For that I took exhaustive step by step photos of the faceup on my Megu and made a whole Powerpoint presentation on it. You can read it if you want! But be warned that the notes are speaker notes and not proofread at all, haha.
I liked making the tibetan lamb wig for Clawdeen so much that I splurged on a white pelt so I can make wigs with a bit more variety. (It’s a lot nicer-feeling than the stuff salvaged from the rummage sale skirt trim, unsurprisingly. I wonder if I can condition that. ) I decided to make a wig for my neglected old DIM boy. He’s been a character I don’t care about for about 8 years, so at this point I’m exploring doing other stuff with him. I like the doll more than I ever liked the character. This is a new-ish faceup too, although it needs to be redone because I didn’t seal it well and a bit of blush came off the nose. The brows are also too solid and brown, the lip line is awful, bleh bleh bleh.
The wig looks way poofier in pictures than in real life. It’s nice and soft though.
Thank you all for the very nice comments on Clawdeen when I posted her! I feel very awkward that I don’t know how to respond to reblogs without reblogging my own post a bunch of times. @oak23, I had acually originally planned to put the ears on the side of her head cause I love your Blaine but I decided I wanted her to be hyooman.
Anyway, seeing as that post was my most popular ever (!) I figured I should get a couple pictures of her dressed for y’all. She has a BFC Ink shirt, Ken shorts, a mystery sweater, Avea’s leg guard things, and her original boots which I cut down.
Frightfully Tall Clawdeen custom! Fun stuff. I promise her head and body match in real life, I didn’t change the color of either. That’s just the camera being weird.
Anyway, I did the very obvious eye surgery thing using an exacto knife and diamond files. The head glue was, as others have noted, super weird but at least less gross. I positioned the eyes up considerably higher than the painted eyes so she looks pretty different. The eyes are 16 or 18 mm – I don’t know and I honestly don’t remember where I got them? It is a mystery. I did her faceup BJD style, it was fun.
The wig was also a fun experiment, and it hides the fact that she has no ears. It’s a very lazy plastic-and-painted-masking-tape hard cap with glued-on tibetan lamb that I got from the trim of a $1 skirt from a rummage sale at the local children’s theater, which is probably the weirdest possible source of specialty craft supplies. I have no idea why that skirt was trimmed with that.