#dux doll tag

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Core refresh Frankie pink streak lore

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look who’s done!

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she’s done! so glad to finally have finished the home stretch and have her completed on time, hope you guys like her!

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since she’s finally made it to her destination, i can post the other project i was working on, a custom nendodoll of lynne ghost trick!

there’s basically no way i was gonna make this hair as a wig, so i went the sculpted route and made her hair out of apoxie.

definitely the hardest part of making her. the ponytail has a wire armeture underneath the apoxie that is anchored inside the head for stability. here she is painted (i went in and got the side of her head after too)

next was making tiny clothes, which was even harder than making them for zinnia. she’s a LOT smaller

took me about 3 tries to make the dress the right size

obligatory .5 shot

the tiny trench coat was so hard. i think it came out pretty good tho, there’s a few messy parts where i had to use glue to stop the ends from fraying lol.

here she is with vampire heart (who i got as my half of the exchange <3) before i shipped her out

and there she is! to my bestie @snailcruncher, im glad you love her! she was a bitch to make but also a ton of fun lol

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Flats! Up next is shading to really make them sparkle

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started on decoras new face!

(here’s my sketch again, for reference

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i interrupt your regularly scheduled feverish octoposting to bring you a doll post again

today’s doll is faboolous pets cleo, who target had clearanced for half price. i got her for 12.50. this is my first cleo de nile! now with her, i have at least some version of all of the main 5 ghouls. there’s future cleos i’m waiting for that i was more excited for than this one, but because she was on clearance i decided to go for her

once again i’m at home, no stands so back to using the star jar. here’s the front and back, without any accessories. without them, i wasn’t fully sold on this cleo, but as you’ll see later this whole look is carried by the accessories

here’s all the accessories she comes with

-tut, her g3 pet

-hissette, returning to make her g3 debut (thank god)

-one selfie stick

-phone

-hissette bag

-two shopping bags

-to-go coffee cup

-tiny, easily losable ring

obviously, the standout here is hissette. she’s actually wearable, and one of my favorite pets we’ve seen. glad to see her return after g3 has dogified so many character’s pets (including cleo)

one of my favorite details on this cleo -both her and hissette have matching mini crowns

quick face card. this cleo has rainbow eyeshadow, which i think realizing, made me understand the vibe this doll was going for a bit more. she’s rainbow, and she has all of the colors. still would’ve liked i red lip i think, though.

shoe check. holy shit these slay. the cat heels are you kidding?

where this cleo really comes together for me is when she’s holding *all* her accessories. i feel like the outfit is so plain, but all of the accessories are so over the top that she needs to be posed with them to really sell this look. i’m particularly obsessed with the selfie stick

excited to take her back to the other ghouls when i go back to school from spring break! (and reunite her with frankie <3) dux doll post over, here’s the obligatory .5 shot

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finally remembered to get this fucking angle on mae and alie here’s the collection

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decora’s finally got her face and clothes back! super happy with the repaint, i think it makes her look even more fun than before, and i had a ton of fun doing the repaint itself. considering going back to pick up another one….

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new zoro and draculaura collection

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face up is done! so so happy with how she looks, all i have to do is make her outfit now!

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Opening the 2024 Howliday draculaura and clawd!

i got these two preordered a little bit back, when i realized that they were selling faster than say, winter clawdeen and would probably not go on sale like her before they were gone. so i preordered them, and once the 26 hit they were extremely quick to get to me, with me getting them shipped and delivered same day. here they are in box!

different backdrop today, i opened them downstairs, instead of in my room

i am planning on putting this adorable box into storage so i was more careful in opening it up. on the back we have the collector certificate, as well as two stands

once again, we have more of these infuriatingly terrible plastic head tabs. i’m gonna need them to find some other way to do this, because every time i’m scared that i’m going to cut a dolls hair. they’re the worst.

here’s them freed from their prison! first impressions are, as usual, the ghouls outsell the mansters, unfortunately. however, i do still really enjoy what they’ve gone with for this clawd. tbf bell bottoms and funky patterns are such a serve, and more interesting that the safer choice of a suit or something. i think i would have gone with black for the mesh top, though. it might make it a little more cohesive. the other thing is i feel like clawd needs just one more accessory. maybe a gold necklace? just something. for draculaura i absolutely love her outfit as well, but honestly i though it might have been really cute if the red bodice of her dress was the same pattern as one of clawds clothing pieces too. i really love the silhouette of this dress a lot, though.

the shoes. they’re very detailed molds. with lots of stitch detailing on clawd’s adb a moon detail on the side, and draculauras heel-less heels are very valentines but make it spiderweb. with of course, adorable bat wings. the shoes are both completely solid colors, however.

here’s a random thing i was seeing that i wanted to make sure i made a note of. in clawds stock images, his wrists were edited to look like they were smooth and unarticulated. they are articulated, however, so it seems like kind of a bizarre choice on the photo editors part. draculaura’s hands are cast in black to give the appearance of gloves, with little plastic cuffs on her arms. they do not have a gap when you pull them down.

here’s the accessories! they come with a rose and a coffin-shaped gift box, a bag for draculaura, and a parasol. also rubber banded in like accessories were these little paper valentines hearts, though i’m not sure what to do with them. they’re very cute, though, and clawds one to draculaura is also for her birthday, which is valentine’s day!

with accessories! i couldn’t really find a good way for clawd to hold the box, but he holds the roses fine. the parasol comes with an additional piece that attaches to the stand to hold it up, so that draculaura can look like she’s carrying it.

facesss! clawd has a longer mohawk of short curly hair, while the sides are flocked. i think i might have liked to see a little facial hair on him? like maybe some painted sideburn details. or even some more intense eye makeup. he does look a little bit plain

draculaura! her signature heart has a moon in it for clawd, which is super adorable. i love the lip colors they went with for her as well,

and that’s the 2024 valentines howliday two pack! faboolous pets drac has found a new spot at the bottom shelf, where i’ve given clawdeen back to her, since if clawd can come to the draculaura shelf clawdeen is allowed as well. they’re not chilling on the bottom and i’ve decided the top shelf will have my g1 style ghouls on it for now. thanks for reading!

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y’all….

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another doll post… this is the one i’ve been talking about

today i managed to remember to bring my wallet to the walmart, so i decided to go ahead and grab one of the decora girls

my walmart only had these two, celestia and decora. i decided to pick up decora because she’s the poster girl. also, rainbows.

here’s her in her box, as well as the box art on the back. i wish i could’ve seen luna and sweetie in person. don’t know why every walmart ive seen have them only has decora and celestia.

unboxed! i have to say, u do like her much better out of her box. the hair feels like nylon, to me and not poly, which i was thinking it might be.

here’s what she comes with. one doll, three hairclips, two sticker sheets, a doll comb, and a stand. i was pleasantly surprised to see that she comes with a stand! she is not capable of standing up herself whatsoever, and even with the stand you have to balance her a little. i also was not able to get her hairclips to stay on her bangs, as they are very loose and her bangs do not have enough hair for them to sit nicely.

she has articulation at the shoulders, hips, and neck, as well as a turnable waist. her legs are rubbery and have click-joints, giving them a little bit of motion, but her elbows are unarticulated. her arms are rubbery as well though, so you can get a little movement out of them, but it won’t hold.

her clothes. she actually comes with a lot of pieces- a bodysuit, a jacket, a skirt, two mismatched socks, leg warmers, shoes, and a purse with a little charm on it. i do particularly like these colorful platforms and the leg warmers

here’s her face (i did decided to try out one of the band aid stickers just to see how it looked. her eyebrows are super far under her bangs.

now, one of the biggest complaints (that i agree with) is that the faces on these dolls are not really that great. they look very baby-doll ish, but not in a way that’s quite cute enough to fit the mold. not particular a fan of this open mouth smile, or the detail-less eyes.

i did buy this doll with the intention to repaint! this is my initial mock up, i’d love to know if people like or hate this idea, or if they have any ideas for directions to take her face. i wanted to go for a kind of rainbow-maximalist look, with lots of asymmetry, because i feel like that really sells more of the decora style than her inital look.

here she is next to some of my other more rainbow-ish dolls. i put her next to core lagoona 1 and sunny’s 2-pack look, so you can see how she’s proportioned compared to a monster high and a rainbow high. she’s about the same height, but obviously has a much larger, massive bobblehead.

obligatory .5 shot

and that’s decora! i like her much more unboxed than i thought… i’d love to play around more with the sticker gimmick, but i don’t want to waste them before i give her her repaint. i will definitely update you guys as i work on her, though!

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My final doll project assignment of the semester done, a box mock up!

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todays acquisitions: shirahoshi and a bratz chair for the mh girls