Zaida

Face-up artist(s):

Impldoll

Date of acquisition:

14 December 2016

Provenance:

Bought directly from Impldoll through email rather than on their website.

Reason for choice:

As soon as I saw Vanessa's photos on the Impldoll website, I knew that I had to have her in dark tan. Her beautiful face floored me and her relatively low price tag made her all the more desirable to me.

Best Points:

She stands steady and strong and I love her curvy hips.

Worst Points:

She's hard to get to sit.

Eyes:

Mako Moon-005 w/ Black Pupil 12mm

Wig:

curly wig by Angelssewing; loc'd wig by me

Favourite colours:

black, gold, brown

Key fashion accessory:

her gold septum ring

Name story:

I wanted an Arabic name starting with Z and out of all the ones I found and liked, Zaida was the one that stuck.

Character age:

23

Character gender:

woman

Offsite roleplay:

This doll's character is not available for offsite roleplay.

Zaida was born in Khartoum, Sudan to a Muslim Nubian mother and Coptic Christian Arab father. Both of her parents were college educated and well known for their radical views. Soon after her birth her father disappeared, a casualty of the Second Sudanese Civil War. Her mother, three older brothers and older sister fled with the infant Zaida to Egypt, where they were accepted as refugees and eventually resettled in Sydney, Australia.

Zaida is an artist whose renown is slowly growing in the Australian art scene. Her works deal with her yearning for her homeland on the Nile, self-acceptance and sexuality, as well as harder topics like racism and FGM (which she and her sister were both spared from but her mother was not). While she has always known that she was a lesbian, she only properly came out during her first year of university.