Playing with Wigs

I must sound like a broken record now but I have been working quite a bit lately so I haven't really been around. Hopefully, I will be back to normal soon.

Today gave me the chance to do just that by cleaning the craft room which has been in a state of chaos for a month or two now or whenever my last free time was. I find, when my craft space is a chaotic mess and not the organised chaos kind, my motivation and inspiration suffers. Now that it is tidy again, maybe I can start on some projects soon.

Whilst I was tidying things up, I took the opportunity to play around a little with my Dollshe Saint. For a while now, his character name just hasn't really meshed with me so I recently tweaked him (yes I know, tweaking my dolls is an absolute obsession with me). Whilst playing around with him, I discovered sadly that the small ball joint that connects his hand to his wrist is cracked in two places. Ack. And of course I can't buy replacements as Dollshe don't sell the Rhythmos body anymore. So ...he might be getting some jointed hands at some point.

 He's always been a bit of a tricky one when it comes to wigs. I've had him in mostly short boyish wigs but they've never really been quite right. And his name has always kind of been a bit 'meh' to me. So I decided to try out Amaryll's wig style on him and ... I love it. He's now totally an 'Alden'. He deserves a fancy name with his new look. As this is Amaryll's wig, I did order him a new one. I wanted a more blonde colour anyway for him and this wig is white. I used to have two Saints and my last one had long hair so I don't know why I never thought to try it with this one.

He looks quite aristocratic now which is what I was going for. I haven't changed his character though. He's still a former solider who lost his twin brother during the War of Ashes. It's been eight years since that happened so he's let his hair grow longer making him look much more like his brother. He used to be the one sporting the short hair look and his brother wore his hair longer. He's still quite the damaged character who needs the loving arms of a good woman to heal his wounds. (ahem Deirdre).

I do think the longer hair makes him look older too and has aged him compared to his younger, pre-War self below.

And no blog post is complete without my angelic immortal, Belarus. My vain, beautiful immortal who likes all things of beauty.

I found a pair of earrings that I converted into a necklace to complete the outfit for Belarus. I really love how it compliments his whole look and style. He is all about extravagance and elegance.

When I got Amaryll's gorgeous outfit, I discovered it was missing the belt which was one of my favourite parts of the outfit so I emailed Impldoll about it. They did send out the belt (a month later) as it had to be made. I think maybe it was forgotten originally. The parcel arrived this past week and I was surprised to find not only the belt but this little head inside the parcel. An apology gift from Impldoll for the wait. I was definitely surprised by the gift and it did a lot to cement the company's customer service in my books. I think I will paint him. He does match my Bluefairy resin quite nicely but I think he'll be a floating head for a while. He has nice little fangs too and such a cheeky grin.

Still on the subject of floating heads, it's easy to say, "Oh Cosmo can share the Soom body with Epidos" however, I have a hard time swapping out the Epidos head on the Soom body because well, look at him. So right now, I am window shopping for a body for Cosmo. It's going to be tricky as Cosmo is a 2010 head which has yellowed and I will be buying a brand new body so ... resin match may not be 100%. Cosmo really deserves his own body anyway as his story is quite interesting and I really want to write it. The problem is the head has a really small neck hole but the head itself screams for a more buff type body. I've tried him on my AOD 62cm boy body and his head looks a little bobble headed because the shoulders aren't wide enough to balance that head out. Someone also kindly tried him on an Impldoll old FGB 65cm body and it looks okay but I still feel it's too lean for his face. His head kind of fit the Soom body which has a neck of 11cm. A 10.5 cm neck would be better. It's a shame Dollzone didn't just archive his body on their site so I could check out the body measurements instead of removing it completely from the site. Ack.

I also got my Shiva head (MH Ghoulia) back from the face up artist this past week. I will have to take a photo. Sadly I ran out of daylight today so I will post photos of her later. I think with her, I may 're-interpret' Shiva rather than recreate her exactly from the game. I'll stay close to the character but maybe deviate a little with the outfit.

That's all the update for today. Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend!