Dolls & Doll-adjacent Things I’ve Been Obsessed with This Month 💖 (plus links!)
1. Antu Dreamlike Teaparty Centaur BJD’s
I’ve thought about these constantly since they were revealed. They’re just so SWEET 🥹. I have a couple coming in this week, I really hope I get the purple one!
Ddung is a Korean doll line I just learned about! They seem to fall between collector and playline— the bodies are study & the outfits are very detailed and well-constructed. This clown is EVERYTHING
3. Licca Chan Bunny Outfit
Okay so this is an outfit FOR a doll and not a doll itself, but oh my god look at Licca’s fluffy bunny outfit!! UGH!! Basic Licca dolls can be relatively affordable. Plus, the clothing sets usually fit rainbow high 👀
4. Dorothy Forest Spirit
These are figures more than dolls, but I just adore these little deer ladies!! I have the one with the green raindrop dress, and I bring her around everywhere to keep me company. Their sitting position makes them so easy to display!
5. Teennar Campus Blindbox BJDs
They’re fruit themed, they’re fashionable, and they’re SO baby!! There’s also going to be a series of figurines and a set of Sakura-themed recolors for this line!
Rynn’s lips are fixed for the most part. I believe down the road I will redo her completely. But for now I am happy. I’ve got other crew members to attend to.
I thought I was over the bug-eyed anime-adjacent charm of the Luts/CP Dark Elf Soo that held me enthralled when I was 14 and I had just discovered BJDs
look at this weirdo. I want to put her in 2007 Renaissance Faire GothTM clothes
Penny's Box came out with a new centaur series and these are the two super rare ones in the blind boxes and I swear to god I will kill a man for sprinkle centaur.
I went to a local doll fair yesterday and brought my Marie Teacup (she fits safely and perfectly into the Barbie Cakeworthy bag so that was pretty cool). So I thought today would be cool day to show some much clearer photos of my teacup & teacup hybrid!
My first teacup, Marie is from the most recent teacup preorder and is just adorable in the resin color Vanilla Pudding. I had gotten her head separately and my amazing friend @/amberharrisart found a way to get me her body for my bday 🥹❤️ so she has a very special place in my heart! She will probably have many fashion adventures but is currently styled after mori kei.
Aurie, my teacup hybrid happened very shortly after Marie. Because I was absolutely obsessed and wanted another one. Aurie is one of my original faves when I first found DDD, and I styled & named her after one of Fave j fashion icons; Minori! She’s hybrided on a melonpan kit body, the match was unexpected and pleasant surprise. Next thing I knew she’d called dibs on that body. I will say it is a great fit if you happen to have floating teacup head, the head sits perfectly on the kit body’s neck.
Both of their faceups are by me, and supposed to parallel each other on top of pushing as much maximalist decorating I could fit here. Marie’s horn I do not know the maker (and decorated on top), Minori’s is a syntheticephemera (used to be Lorelei’s before her unicorn wig).
Their eyes are by @/melonpan.market as per usual 🥰
Their outfits are a combo of dollmore but most of the accessories, which I feel really make the outfits; are from @/worldruinedsales. Most of my mori & high fantasy styled dolls are styled with accessories from them. And I have to say if you don’t already follow @/worldruinedfactory you are missing out, as they record and post lovely outfit styling flat lays with brand & designer information. An amazing BJD styling resource!
And of course, Marie is a full teacup by @/dodollsdream and Minori is the teacup Aurie head on the human kit body from Melondolls.
Dye Time Because Nothing Makes Me Tilted Like Ball-jointed Dolls With Pale Skin That Photographs Like a Vampire ((Also Shuen is an Asian Girl With Darker Skin and Temir is a Black Person))
Adding green dye to a skin tone dye bath is so scary but I think I got a real nice tone. Like I know how it works in color mixing, but there's still a fear of giving it too much green twinge.
30ml sandstone 2ml chocolate brown 1 ml peacock green dyemore to like 2 liters ish of water
10 minute dip
It hits the kind of Milk Tea level tan at like 2-3 minutes
Asleep Eidolon resin took the dye really smooth. I can see some of the sanding areas but it is not super jarring
That white orb is her head cap. lol
The paint remover was not supposed to clean off Temir's nose, but it did, so I dyed him again.
I like the new color a lot better, though it is a little darker than I was planning.
I lost count of how much green I added, 10-20ml and 6ml chocolate brown.