here is quinn as he looked before a visit to the “spa”
and from the side…
i know normally boys don’t do “spa visits” but all my kids have to go at least once 😆
and now my shy boy is home to stay (or maybe i should say “up”, since the spa is in the basement 😉 )
he is a real flames fan and claims he wrestled the shirt from a bear, but i have my doubts…
i finally went out today and took some quick shots of ember (chloe) and can introduce her. it was a horrible day for pics with the sun going in and out of the clouds, making it really hard to get the right exposure, but i did get a few i liked.
she is going to get new eyes before the next photoshoot. her deep purple ones look great in person but in a photo keep looking like they are all pupil, or blowing out and looking bloodshot.
other than that i’m happy with the way she turned out – sexy yet demure at the same time.
the shirt was really big but i bunched it up behind her and loved the slightly sexy look it gave
we went up to the kananaskis lake to take some pictures and the girls found a perfect spot to set up a lemonade stand. amberglas figured all the hikers would be thirsty when they got back. crystalorn said since no one else was selling snacks, they could make a fortune. now if only they had some lemons…….
introducing tiera
before
and after
my third full faceup.
tiera is a luts honey delf, pitta. it’s a very sweet sculpt and a lot of fun to play with.
i found it hard to pick a wig for her once her faceup was done. her head was smaller than i’d expected and her new coloring didn’t suit the wig i had ordered with her. my final choice, the pink wig she is wearing, was cut down from a kemper raven. the bangs were way too long- they covered her eyes- and the wig dragged on the floor in the back.  i trimmed the bangs and cut the back to a more wearable length.
i’ve ordered a couple of black/dark brown wigs for her that i hope will work. i like that color on her as well to my surprise ( i thought since she looked so good in pale pink that she would end up a blonde -but the dark was MUCH better). i like my girls to have at least one fantasy color and one ‘normal’ color for variety.
unfortunately the only dark wigs i had in that size were too heavy for her features, so i’ve ordered a soft mohair wig, which i think will suit her much better.
i am quite happy with her overall look right now, very delicate and girly, and look forward to lots more photoshoots.
our house has grown with the addition of a boy! this is digory a white skinned littlefee boy. when he arrived i found the skin color too stark and wondered how he’d ever blend in with the rest of us. the other surprise was that the 6/7 wig he was supposed to wear turned out to be way too big. so there he sat waiting for a long time. after a lot of thought and research i decided to enhance his default faceup (which i also wasn’t all that thrilled with.)  i added extra blushing and freckles, then cut all the curls off of an auburn 5/6 girls wig to make him into a pale redhead. i love how he turned out.
digory is a real boy. he was not impressed that i didn’t have a shirt for him yet. “look lady” he said “don’t you know redheads burn easily?” i think he is going to shake things up as the girls have been quiet and ladylike so far.
here are the sister’s together, all done and ready to try on new clothes, so that’s my next project. 🙂
and just because i think the girls are truly adorable here are pictures of them separately:
ellyce
and ananda
her new hair color is reddish blonde. it was supposed to be carrot colored, but has just a hint of red. Â it looks both redder and darker in the picture than it really is.
now they have lashes and eyes.
ananda has lovely new glass eyes.
ellyce has to wait for her new eyecolor. she was supposed to fit either 12mm or 14mm but the 14’s were much to big for the socket and i didn’t have another pair of 12’s, so they are now on order.
the faceups continue, many layers of paint later the girls are done and waiting for the varnish to dry around the eyes so that they can get lashes, eyes and wigs.
i used mostly pastels to color them, rubbing the pastels on sandpaper to get my pallet then applying it with a variety of brushes and q-tips. the eyebrows were done with pastels and watercolor pencils and the lashes with thinned down acrylic paint.
here is ananda
and ellyce
i’m surprised at how different they look even though i used similar painting schemes and the sculpt is identical for both. ellyce’s shorter neck makes her face look chubbier.
i decided to do ananda’s little sister ellyce at the same time as ananada. it allows me to work on one while the paint/sealant dries on the other.
so to give ellyce equal time, here she is as she first arrived with default eyes and wig,
here she is ready for her first coat of mr super clear. her body is adorable and very posable but desperately needs heavier string!
and here is the fume hood she is sitting in.
the hood was built for michael by his dad, for painting his guitars. the white rectangle in the back is a filter/fan which leads to a long vent hose that we put up in the window when the hood is on. the vent is attached to a piece of wood that blocks the rest of the window opening so the fumes don’t blow back in. the box is just that, a box. the front flap folds up to close after painting to “seal” it. and is held closed by moving the tool box (seen on the left) in front. simple, but effective. it doesn’t block 100% of the fumes. we still paint with a respirator on, but it keeps most of them out of the basement where michael lives. there is also a light inside at the top, so you can see what you are painting.
Continue reading my first (and second) faceup part 2: mr super clear and the paint hood »
my cans of mr superclear finally arrived – by sea all the way from hong kong, no less – so i’m ready to try my first face-up ever. my first victim – er i mean subject – is my cousin ananda, a dollmore, narsha friend shabee. she’s been looking very pale and ghostlike ever since she came to live with us, and begged to be the first to get a facial.
in the spirit of true makeover articles, i will start with the before shots.  this will show what she looked for to start with. i apologize in advance for the crummy lighting. they were taken in the bedroom and the light through the curtains makes her look very greenish. i assure you she is not normally green!
here she is looking as she did when she first arrived.
this is a closer look at her face.
even without makeup she is very cute!
with her wig and eyes removed for protection from the first spray coat. she will be getting a new hair color and changing her eye color as well, but that’s no reason to muck them up with spray 🙂
another angle.
she is trying to be patient with all these photos but is really ready to start!