So picked up the wigs for my cyberpunk girls yesterday and customized them today.
Turned out a little different than I envisioned them at first but like them better this way.
Style of wig as it arrived
Added beading and strands of yellow to the fringe
Showing the length of the ‘pigtails’ added to the green bob
And a closeup
I have had this idea running around in my head for a while now after seeing some nail decorations in the Japan Centre down at Piccadilly, about making a disco diva doll with a white afro, silvery/blue makeup with sparkly stars and other tiny jewels.
Started to look around for a white afro – with no luck.
So decided that I had to make one myself but was not sure where to find the ‘hair’.
Looked around normal wig shops but the ‘curl’ were a little too big.
Even considered getting a Momoko doll and cutting her hair of but decided that that would be a little too expensive and rather stupid. Why waste a whole doll just because I wanted to make a wig?
Then, when in DK in September I picked up a Panduro hobby catalogue and just before Christmas actually had a look through it and DING! They sell doll curly doll hair by the bag!
When home for Christmas I made sure to pop by one of their stores and grab some white curls in a bag – or three of them.
Only used one, but tangled half of it up so glad I bought the extra bags – maybe I will make another one some day ^^
Took the most of Sunday, while watching the three extended versions of Lord of the Rings at the same time to make the head-cap and sew all of the hair onto it.
Lessons learned:
Use more than one strand of curly hair – use at least up to five or six at a time.
Make the head-cap a lot larger than you think it should be – the attaching of the hair makes it shrink
But, it worked anyway and it looks the way I wanted it to – apart from it being slightly ‘shorter’ than imagined.
Modelled by Cinnamon who is my guinea pig for most of my experiments (guess that is why she is getting increasingly dirty…)
Finally got around to doing this the other day.
Got the wig and eyes from Dollmore a while back and had a green eyeshadow/dark red lips in my head for a faceup to match.
Some minor flaws to it, just cannot get that brush to do exactly what I want it to do! Hard when there is no ‘apple z’ – one gets too used to being able to just erase things by a click. Bad habit.
The lower lip got a little bit too big so it is a bit out of proportion.
However, really like this – now I gotta get the Marion faceplate redone as it is no good at all compared to this one.
Found her name to be Pepper and got 50′s pin up clothes theme in mind for her.
Just had to take this ^^
Still not done any shoes for Marilyn so she seems a little tinier than usual compared to the booted Scarlett and Cinnamon.
Ready for Sunday!!!
If I get time I will try to make a pair of wedges to go with it but only if time.
The inspiration was old pin up and wanting her to match her name, Marilyn.
So decided on a mohair sweater – but that was about it for the old pin up.
Rest is a bit more manga inspired, including the hair. Was deciding between the kiki wig and the dollmore that Cinnamon sported in earlier pics, kiki won.
Skirt turned out exactly as I imagined it – sometimes my ideas change a little from first thought to finalized idea but not this one. Even think it turned out a little better. The frill worked really well. Oh, I did cancel a ribbon idea simply down to the fact that I did not buy enough lol.
Butterflies was from a ribbon and cut them out and sewn on individually.
Marilyn had to borrow Cinnamon’s feet as she only has her high heel option and they looked kinda stupid in socks.
Got a request for a pic of the red pleated skirt up for sale on DOA so thought, hey, why not do some pics – opportunity to try on new Dollmore wig as well.
This might be the first and the last time Cinnamon will be looking like this ^^ Her style is a bit more on the wild side and less ‘afternoon’ tea like.
Still think she looks rather good – think she would be able to sneak in…
I am going through my old pics at the mo and finding loads I have not had time to upload.
This is my Unon with her first faceup – this was done last minute before last months London meet. At 2am in the morning ><.
Did not turn out quite right but will do for now, at least she is not without a face. Still without a name but think it has something to do with me knowing this will not be her actual face…
I found the lashes in Superdrugs and thought they were stunning – there is a bit of purple in them. Got some purple eyes to come in from a Dollmore Group order that should work better with them than her default ones.
Wig is also not quite right… Wig itself is ok but just not her and got another one coming in from the same Dollmore Group order.
Gave her lips a bit of sparkle by adding metallic glitter to the coating – not working with her dark lips.
J-Pop had a sale on recently so thought – here goes nothing! … And ordered half the store ><
Absolutely love the Kiki and it really suits the girls.
And new girls' name revealed itself during the session - Marilyn. I find there is a slight resemblance.
Full session here.
Meet Marilyn
Maybe Cinnamon is blue…
Cuties ^^
I have finally pulled myself together and ordered some wigs and some boots…
There was a notice of summer sale on DOA from jpopdolls so I thought, hey why not – I got no money but I will buy a bagload of wigs >< Most of them are for the Unoas but a couple will be for the Unon – but then again she is only one lol. There are lots of the others.
And I did this without much hesitation… Funny that I last night went late night shopping at Joy, tried on a couple of things which I thought were really nice – but that was it. Left without buying anything after debating for a while (with a shop assistant glaring at me to see if I was a potential thief) because I was like: I do not really need any new clothes.
Boots were ordered on the tails of a dealer order so hopefully there will be room for them – hoping – they are really really cool and will be for my Unon – Pretty sexy ^^
Can’t wait ’til it all gets here so my Unoas can get out of their fur wigs and my Unon actually get some hair lol.