Emilys face

My doll Emily, is an "its my nature" Sophie. I like her, But I allways felt like the makeup was wrong for Emily.

Emily is a girl who pefer pastels, and cold colors such as blue and purple. therefore I didnt think the orange lipstic and yellow eyeshadow really suited her. I though that I could repaint her lips, but there is sno way that I can repaint her eye makeup without ruining her eyelashes. So I decided to look for a Sophie with less eyeshadow.

My pick was "schools out" Sophie. She looked promissing, and I wanted her outfita s well. 

Hannah looks gret in Sophies outfit. And the shoes went to Rose, who really needed a pair of nice pink flats. 

"Its my nature" left and "schools out" right

I compared "its my nature" Sophie and "schools out" Sophies faces, and they turned out to be quite different. I was right that School, dont have that much eyeshadow. But her eyelashes is darker, and it looks like she is wearing more eyeliner + she does have some dark eyeshadow right around her eyes. School allso have darker eyebrows than nature, they are actually a complete different color. 

School has a lighter skintone than nature, which suprised me. I had noticed that my Hyadens, have lighter skintones than my Sophies and Katies. But I didnt expect two sophies to have different skin tones. The lighter skintone makes Schools blush stand out more, so it looks like she is vering quite a bit more than Nature. 

I dressed up "Schools out Sophie" in Emilys clothe and wig. to see if it would work. At first I thought it looked fine, but in the end she didnt really look like Emily to me. I pefer Emily with lighter eyebrows, the blush is too much and her eyemakeup seemed to be too dark. 

I might have been able to fix some of these things, but I really didnt feel like fixing it all. So I was back to square one with Emilys face. 

An old picture of Emily with blue eyeshadow and bright pink lips.

First I tryed to figure out, if any other Sophie doll had a better suited face. I didnt find many helpfull pictures, and  from what I saw, most Sophies have makeup that wouldent work. First wave Sophie might work thought, but she has those intense bright blue eyes. 

Then I tryed to figure out if one of my other dolls might actually work. Its my nature Hayden has a sweet face with mild makeup, but she allso have darker eyebrows. And my only other Sophie has a blue eyeshadow that I cant stand. 

So in the end I decided to repaint those orange lips and atleast try to remove the yellow eyeshadow.

Before

I removed the lipstick with nailpolish remover, and I removed some of her yellow eyeshadow as well. My goal was to paint her lips in a color, that looked natural. 

I mixed some red and white paint, undtil it was a nice light pink color. Then I mixed in some yellow, and I ended up with this verry light kinda peachy color. I sealed it with matt varnish. 

After

This color is a bit too light to look natural, but I think it suits her. I hope I can leave it at that, I kinda wanna give it another try and and mix a more natural looking color. But I allso feel like that would be exhasuting and I dont think I would be more pleased with that result. 
Its hard to see in this picture, but in real life it actually does look like I removed most of her yellow eye shadow.

So hopefully Emily is done now. 
I love how customizable Liv dolls are. But sometimes it gets  exhasting to work on, making the dolls look just right. *glaring at the dolls who needs new wigs*
This is why I dont want to collect BJDs. I have my cats, but besides that I think it sounds exhasting to build the doll from scratch. 
And this is why I actually really enjoy, that my Barbies and Paola Reinas arent as customizable. With my Livs I try to make the doll fit the character, but with the others, I make the character fit the doll.

Barbie - Made to move Teresa

Okay so I know I said that I would not buy more dolls, undtil late fall or winter. But the reason I decided that, is because I thought that I needed to take a break from buying dolls. I bought a verry exspensive doll in may, and I felt like I had to save up money from my buget to pay for him. This put me under some stress because there are alot of stuff I wanna buy, and I tryed to use less than was set aside for each month. My boyfriend exsplained to me that the Tonner dolls was a speciel purchase, and that I should nor compromise my buget because of him. I have paid a bit under half for him with money form my buget, the rest I paid with my everyday money. And maybe its okay to leave it at that. My plan was to save up my buget money, so I could pay all of him with it, but i decided to let it go. My boyfriend pointed out that the idea with the buget was not to limit me, but to help keep track of what I use, and I liked the idea to set aside a certain amount each month. I quess limiting how many dolls I buy, is pretty silly to start with. the last couple of years, I have only bought 5 or 6 dolls. So if I wanna buy a few dolls extra this year, I dont think I should fuzz about it. 

I quess Igot kinda side tracked there, but the thing is that I really wanted another Barbie - Made to Move doll. I felt like Kira needed a friend to hang out with, and I felt like having two dolls to start with made more sense, than just one lonely doll. 

So I bought the Made to Move Teresa, and I REALLY like her. I actually think the outfit she comes in, looks pretty nice on her. I think it looks better than the yellow top, that my first doll Kira came in. I think the colors and the fit is better with this one.

I named her Michelle, she is 25 and into gymnastics.

I really like her warm and gentle face. Im not the biggest fan of her smile, but I think it suits her and I really like her dimples. Its interesting for me, that she has a different face mould than Kira. My Liv and Paola Reina dolls all have the same face mould, so that is something new for me. Kiras nose is more pointy, her jawline is sharper and her smile is wider. I really enjoy the differences in their faces, and it helps to define their personality. 

I didn't try many different outfits on her, because when I put her in this casual outfit - it was just right. The shorts are actually some I bought, in a small lot of barbie clothe a long time ago. I was dissapointed that they didnt fit my Liv dolls, so I had just put them away. But they fit my Barbie dolls perfect, and im pretty happy about that.

Im genrally pretty happy, with my two new Barbie dolls. I placed them on my desk, and I like how they look, sitting there together. I thought that when I gave in to my urge to buy another Barbie, I might feel the urge to buy yet another one. But for right now, I feel verry content with these two. Offcors I still want the other Made to Move dolls, I just dont feel like its a pressing matter annymore. 

Doll finds.

I love finding small objects in random stores, that are just perfect for my dolls. I dont really find stuff like that all that often, so im pretty excited when I do. 

I found ths small decorative plastic plant, and I thought it would be nice to put it in my Paola Reina  room. They only had them with black and white pts, so I choose white. I kinda wish they had them in more colors though.

I put it on the dresser in the room, and I think it looks really nice. The white pot kinda dissapears against the white wall though, but I hope it helps to put some decorations on the wall. 

My boyfriend and I went to a amusement park, with my brother and his girlfriend. There were souvenir shops EVERYWHERE in the park, and in one of them my bother spotted these small frog plushies, that I totally feel in love with. They had them in many different colors, so it was really hard to choose. But I ended up with the orange one.

I decide to give the frog plushies, to my Paola Reina Emma. She loves plushies, and I thought it was a nice size. Gosh she looks so cute with her new plsushie <3

My boyfreind and I stopped by a grocery store, we uselly dont shop in. I saw these small laundry baskets, and knew I had to have one for a doll room. My first thought was that I might give it to my Paola Reaina dolls. 

But I realised that the size wasn't right, and I gave it to my Liv doll Leia. The size is much better for her, I would actually say that its near perfect. i can imagne her taking the basket, to the washing machine and doing her laundry. 

I put thr basket in the room, between her bed and her closet. I put clothes in it, so it looks used. And I think its a pretty great accessory for her room. 

My boyfreind and I, went to a Zafari zoo with my family. In the souvenir shop, we found these small bean ball plush animal. i thought they were super cute, and my boyfreidn ended up buying the giraff -  he loves giraffes and thought this plus was super cute and weird. I thought he would put it on his desk, or something like that. But he said to me that he thoughht, that one of my dolls might want it. And I would lie if I said that I had not thought, the plushie might be a nice size for a Paola Reina. 

Both Amalie and Nadia wanted the plushie. But I ended up giving it to Nadia, since she is the only Paola Reina who dosent have a plushie of her own.