{"id":1545,"date":"2015-03-16T19:30:45","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T17:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eternalwinter.org\/blog\/?p=1545"},"modified":"2023-09-16T11:49:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T09:49:17","slug":"dream-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/colourless\/dollfie-dream\/dream-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Dream girls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, I ended up making a new post after all.<\/p>\n

So… the mysterious arrival that I talked about in the last entry is… my first Dollfie Dream! Yaaaay!! \u30fe(\uff20^\u2207^\uff20)\u30ce \u2665 \u2665 \u2665 … well, actually I’d be able to have another complete doll if I bought another body, whoops. (\u30fc\u30fc;) I was collecting Semi-White parts first, but then I noticed that there are more WS than SW bodies around… so then I had to buy a WS head and hands, too, in order to get at least ONE complete doll… and while I was hunting the parts and planning my girl’s look, I had trouble deciding on one look… so then when I had to buy another head anyway, I thought I might as well have twins! (\u2727\u2207\u2727)\u256f One with a more cheerful expression, and another with a shy look. I really love the DDH-06 head anyway, so I’m more than happy to have two of them, haha~ \u301c(\uffe3\u25bd\uffe3\u301c)<\/p>\n

Getting one of these dolls isn’t a dream, though, unless you’re prepared to shell out A LOT of money (and it’s also easier to buy one of the fullset character dolls than hunt down these basic parts separately, really) – which I wasn’t, ahah… (;\u00b4\u2200\uff40) I’ve been hunting down parts from three different places. eBay especially is insane with the prices, ughh… So I got a semi-white DDH-06 head from Y!J, a white skin body from Mandarake (I actually bought the Pureneemo Maya Heartful Kiss because I was able to have them shipped together) and the rest of the parts are from Volks… and I had to make two orders to Volks, because first I only got semi-white hands from them, but then later on I needed to re-buy everything in white ’cause I was only able to get a white body. (\uffe3\u25a1\uffe3) But well, now I have one complete doll at least. There isn’t that much difference between white and semi-white in photos, so once I get around paiting the other head, I can photograph both of the twins… just not together for now. But that’s okay. \u30fd(\uff61\uff65\u03c9\uff65\uff61)\uff89<\/p>\n

The one I photographed earlier was the semi-white head with a Volks face up… I suppose it was the 2011 version. Volks doesn’t have pretty much anything semi-white in stock, and I wasn’t able to find any blank semi-white heads on Y!J so I bought this one first. I was also a bit afraid that I wouldn’t be able to paint her myself because I don’t have any acrylics (well, I had some cheap ones which turned out to be all dried up, thus unusable lol), so it was kinda reassuring to get a face up… although, when I got it home, I wasn’t a huge fan of it after all, because it was so harsh. ~( \u00b4\u2022\ufe35\u2022` )~ With BJDs I’m used to soft pastel face ups, so… well, then I had to buy a white skin head and it came blank, so I had to try painting it myself. But luckily pastels worked just fine, phew! (\uff65\u2200\uff65\uff1b)<\/p>\n

Older twin Emiko, still with the Volks face up. This long blonde wig is the only one that suits them out of the wigs that I have in this size… I mainly have blue and gray wigs for Nyx and nothing else. (;\u00b4\u0414`) Both twins are supposed to be brunettes, but I need to sell some stuff before I can afford to buy new wigs. >.>;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I decided that the semi-white head shall be Emiko, who is the older twin and has a more cheerful and outgoing personality. Because I wanted the younger twin to be more shy, a little introverted… so I thought that a lighter skin tone would work better for her. (\u10e6\u02d8\u2323\u02d8\u10e6) The younger twin is called Umeko, and she is the one who I painted first. I’ve never done an anime style face up before, so it was quite exciting and fun. It turned out pretty well considering it was my first try, I think… Although, I screwed up her eyeshape a bit ’cause I got too carried away painting eyeliner on her upper lids, but… she’s still cute. Maybe at some point I’ll re-do her face if it starts bugging me too much.<\/p>\n

Emiko’s head with the Volks face up vs. WIP Umeko with face up by me. I made a few more finishing touches after this. The Volks face up is so harsh and simplistic… I love to add a lot of blush, as you can see, ahah… \uff08\u3000\u00b4\u2200\uff40\uff09<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
And a photo of the complete face up.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I took a couple of photos of Ume today:<\/p>\n

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The blonde wig is really strange because I’d want her to have dark brown hair, haha. \uff08\u3000\u00b4\u2200\uff40\uff09 I bought one cheap wig from eBay but it’s too much of a medium brown to suit Ume. Hopefully I can buy her a better wig soon~ \u2665<\/p>\n

… I feel like I’ve been writing forever and I’ve probably forgotten something but right now I’m too tired to think any more. (\u30ce_ _)\u30ce Hmm, maybe I’ll talk about the twins’ personalities in more detail later. When I have better photos to post… and Emi has a face up that matches her sister’s. Bottom line is: I’m so happy to finally have a Dollfie Dream!\uff08*\u00b4\u25bd\uff40*\uff09\u2665 I only wish I’d already got one four or five years ago when was the last time that I had proper DD fever, haha… but well, better late than never. Especially now that I’ve been buying neemos, getting a DD seemed like a natural next step. (\uffe3\u25bd\uffe3)\u30ce \u2665<\/p>\n

Too bad the Finnish BJD forum doesn’t allow DDs anymore… when I joined it in 2005, DDs were just as welcome as resin dolls (and that’s how I first learned about them and thought that I’d want one of my own someday). I only realised last year (when I got my first neemos) that DDs aren’t on-topic on the forum anymore. Bahh. No wonder I haven’t seen these cuties around in years! Well, sure, they aren’t proper BJDs anymore since they’re not strung, but… stilllll! (\u00b4\uff1b\u0434\uff1b`) “The good old days” are long gone…<\/p>\n

Now when I go to a con, I’ll have a big and light enough mascot to take with me, lmao! Well, I’m actually making a small trip to Helsinki next month because my brother got a new apartment, so I’ll go visit him~ (*^\u25bd^*) Hopefully I’ll find some lovely places for doll photography there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, I ended up making a new post after all. So… the mysterious arrival that I talked about in the last entry is… my first Dollfie Dream! Yaaaay!! \u30fe(\uff20^\u2207^\uff20)\u30ce \u2665 \u2665 \u2665 … well, actually I’d be able to have another complete doll if I bought another body, whoops. (\u30fc\u30fc;) I was collecting Semi-White parts first, but then I noticed that there are more WS than SW bodies around… so then I had to buy a WS head and hands, too, in order to get at least ONE complete doll… and while I was hunting the parts and planning my girl’s look, I had trouble deciding on one look… so then when I had to buy another head anyway, I thought I might as well have twins! (\u2727\u2207\u2727)\u256f One with a more cheerful expression, and another with a shy look. I really love the DDH-06 head anyway, so I’m more than happy to have two of them, haha~ \u301c(\uffe3\u25bd\uffe3\u301c) Getting one of these dolls isn’t a dream, though, unless you’re prepared to shell out A LOT of money (and it’s also easier to buy one of the fullset character dolls than hunt down these basic parts separately, really) – which I wasn’t, ahah… (;\u00b4\u2200\uff40) I’ve been hunting down parts from three different places. eBay especially is insane with the prices, ughh… So I got a semi-white DDH-06 head from Y!J, a white skin body from Mandarake (I actually bought the Pureneemo Maya Heartful Kiss because I was able to have them shipped together) and the rest of the parts are from Volks… and I had to make two orders to Volks, because first I only got semi-white hands from them, but then later on I needed to re-buy everything in white ’cause I was only able to get a white body. (\uffe3\u25a1\uffe3) But well, now I have one complete doll at least. There isn’t that much difference between white and semi-white in photos, so once I get around paiting the other head, I can photograph both of the twins… just not together for now. But that’s okay. \u30fd(\uff61\uff65\u03c9\uff65\uff61)\uff89 The one I photographed earlier was the semi-white head with a Volks face up… I suppose it was the 2011 version. Volks doesn’t have pretty much anything semi-white in stock, and I wasn’t able to find any blank semi-white heads on Y!J so I bought this one first. I was also a bit afraid that I wouldn’t be able to paint her myself because I don’t have any acrylics (well, I had some cheap ones which turned out to be all dried up, thus unusable lol), so it was kinda reassuring to get a face up… although, when I got it home, I wasn’t a huge fan of it after all, because it was so harsh. ~( \u00b4\u2022\ufe35\u2022` )~ With BJDs I’m used to soft pastel face ups, so… well, then I had to buy a white skin head and it came blank, so I had to try painting it myself. But luckily pastels worked just fine, phew! (\uff65\u2200\uff65\uff1b) I decided that the semi-white head shall be Emiko, who is the older twin and has a more cheerful and outgoing personality. Because I wanted the younger twin to be more shy, a little introverted… so I thought that a lighter skin tone would work better for her. (\u10e6\u02d8\u2323\u02d8\u10e6) The younger twin is called Umeko, and she is the one who I painted first. I’ve never done an anime style face up before, so it was quite exciting and fun. It turned out pretty well considering it was my first try, I think… Although, I screwed up her eyeshape a bit ’cause I got too carried away painting eyeliner on her upper lids, but… she’s still cute. Maybe at some point I’ll re-do her face if it starts bugging me too much. I took a couple of photos of Ume today: The blonde wig is really strange because I’d want her to have dark brown hair, haha. \uff08\u3000\u00b4\u2200\uff40\uff09 I bought one cheap wig from eBay but it’s too much of a medium brown to suit Ume. Hopefully I can buy her a better wig soon~ \u2665 … I feel like I’ve been writing forever and I’ve probably forgotten something but right now I’m too tired to think any more. (\u30ce_ _)\u30ce Hmm, maybe I’ll talk about the twins’ personalities in more detail later. When I have better photos to post… and Emi has a face up that matches her sister’s. Bottom line is: I’m so happy to finally have a Dollfie Dream!\uff08*\u00b4\u25bd\uff40*\uff09\u2665 I only wish I’d already got one four or five years ago when was the last time that I had proper DD fever, haha… but well, better late than never. Especially now that I’ve been buying neemos, getting a DD seemed like a natural next step. (\uffe3\u25bd\uffe3)\u30ce \u2665 Too bad the Finnish BJD forum doesn’t allow DDs anymore… when I joined it in 2005, DDs were just as welcome as resin dolls (and that’s how I first learned about them and thought that I’d want one of my own someday). I only realised last year (when I got my first neemos) that DDs aren’t on-topic on the forum anymore. Bahh. No wonder I haven’t seen these cuties around in years! Well, sure, they aren’t proper BJDs anymore since they’re not strung, but… stilllll! (\u00b4\uff1b\u0434\uff1b`) “The good old days” are long gone… Now when I go to a con, I’ll have a big and light enough mascot to take with me, lmao! Well, I’m actually making a small trip to Helsinki next month because my brother got a new apartment, so I’ll go visit him~ (*^\u25bd^*) Hopefully I’ll find some lovely places for doll photography there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[126,125],"class_list":["post-1545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dollfie-dream","tag-emiko","tag-umeko"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/colourless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/colourless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/colourless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/colourless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/colourless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1545"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/colourless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3756,"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/colourless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions\/3756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/colourless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/colourless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/colourless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/colourless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}