I have so many backlog stuffs to post about! (though most of them are about my dolls, they are the worthy things to blog about :p ... ever since I MIA from cosplaying lol) 

I have had MDD Latuni/Latouni/Latune (there is no fixed romanization of her name...) since months ago. I knew it will take awhile to fully personalize her, in terms of her face-up, joints repair and customizations, body stain removal (she has a severely stained body from previous owner...), clothings and wigs, mainly coz of funds problem for all of these. MDD/MSD requires me to build entire new doll wardrobe lol... Good that her default set consist of so many pieces which I can mix and match a variety of combinations! :D 


I have had in mind to shell one of my favourite OCs, Syris, into Latuni's, but still in a dilemma whether she is the right sculpt. 




I was having a hard time bonding with MDD Latuni and was thinking if it was actually a good decision to have brought her home :( 

So I figure I just had to remove the face-up and redo a custom one for her. I have been afraid to remove her default; the guilt of removing a one-off default face-up and lack of confidence in my face-up skills and techniques. But I know that the default face-up was the let down of this MDD and even if I have had it on or not, it wouldn't affect her selling point. My observation on the marketplace tells me that she is not a sought-after sculpt (AT ALL), even her beautiful outfit set doesn't sells well! D: It's just so saddening to learn this..... coz she has a beautiful face sculpt and beautiful outfit! 

Moving on, so I FINALLY had the courage to remove the face-up. I did it together with Eri's face-up~ Spring Cleaning~! I had some of practice on my face-up techniques on Eri's face and some other free commission BJD face-ups, before having the small increased confidence to do an 'anime' face-up. I have had only done natural face-ups for BJDs but not 'anime' face-ups on DDs. This will be challenging I know. 

Cleaning and removing DD's face-up is a real pain and long waiting time... coz you have to give the previous face-up stains the vinyl and have to be taken off with stain treatment process (which will take days). I use OXY10 for DD stain treatments. For this face-up removal process, I repeated 48 hours treatment once, and one 24 hours treatment (total 3 treatments). 




I removed everything, only leaving the bits of acrylic at the inner eye part and eyelids, so that I don't have to use more time and resources on painting those parts. 





I trusted my experience with my years of drawing and my developed manga-art style to doing the face-up. Like mentioned earlier, I have done the face-up with reference to my OC Syris. 
One picture of in progress~~ 




Ta-da! My first attempt at 'anime' face-up on DD / MDD. Overall quite happy with it ;w; But the eyebrows are almost non existent orz .. 




When I had her wig styled and put onto her.... 
She looks just like a Homunculus to me!! ///// 





Now I am in a ultimate dilemma whether to make her as Syris! Or another Homunculus OC, Hormuzd !!! T____________T 


Perhaps I need to get a more perfect Syris wig to decide.....sob sob sobbbbb.....

Labels: Dollfie Dream, face-up