Upkeep of Dolls.

When discussing my hobbies with other people, I often  find that most of my friends, the majority of which are male or not very feminine, don’t get the appeal of collecting dolls. My boyfriend one day said to me “I don’t get it, what do you do with them if you don’t play with them? I mean I buy miniatures so I can paint them.” I.e. he doesn’t think there is anything more to dolls than buying them and having them. Oh how wrong he is, BEgoth dolls are fairly simple on the up keep front. I find with pullips, however, that far more up keep is required, especially when you board the customizing train. I bought Lilly, nude as a Xiao fan, after seeing a friends custom pullip and being entranced, the first thing I did was change her wig, I didn’t think about it before I did it at all.

Even though I bonded with her immediately, after a while and many pictures, I knew I wasn’t really taken with xiao fans face-up. This was the next thing to go and I gave her a new face with pointy eyeliner and dark silver/grey eyes.
Soon however the length of her wig started to become a bother, it was getting tangled and was too long to pose her very well, so a haircut was in order. At the same time I decided that her face-up was still childish and amateur, so I bought some pastels and gave her smoky purple eye shadow. She stayed this way for many months before I decided to obitsu her, so I bought a SBH-M obitsu, I soon learnt that although I loved the extreme flexibility of an obitsu that the softer torso kept coming apart and wasn’t for me, so I sold it and bought a normal soft bust obitsu with small breasts. For now I think Lilly is perfect but I have learnt that more possible dolls just require a lot of up keep. My Dal is missing a foot, and My Melody is missing two screws and is extremely wobbly. Personally I love this amount of upkeep because I love to tinker with my dolls and really it’s just a secret excuse to play with them ^_^
Miss Warwick