wow. so our obsessive checking for a shipping notice isn't so crazy! congrats. ooooh! I just checked 1st time today. mine shipped too.
Yay so exciting! I’m a bit slow, it just barely occurred to me that I can use this blank Mei head to try my hand at making wigs without risking damage to Saireth’s eyelashes and faceup
Congrats @petiteballerine ! It's nice to have something ship early, especially when Raccoon Doll is experiencing delays. I was hoping something would ship before South Korea gets bogged down in the Olympics and all the traffic that will bring. @skyealloway - That's a great use for the blank Mei head!
Building a fantasy wardrobe and accessories! I'm so inspired by this doll, I think Mei will need her own body - just to help display some of the outfits Time to accessorize by Skyealloway, on Flickr
Yay! for Karins coming home. USPS tracking stopped at JFK for me. I expect a knock on the door tomorrow or Tues. I can't remember, is your girl painted @vermont chick ? mine is blank. I have such a backlog of dolls needing faces, blushing, mani/pedi.
Karin will be my first Creature Doll with a face-up. I painted the first two myself. My tracking stopped at JFK for an entire day, then updated the next day (this morning) to show it at my regional distribution center. That's only 30 miles away, so I expect her with tomorrow's mail.
It looks like the Mei head promotion is over, because I didn't get one. I did get the heel feet, which I had ordered separately and asked to have sent with Karin. I also received a pair of No. 3 hands and a pair of boots not shown on the website. Gifts? At first I thought it might be someone else's order, but with the boots being different from the ones on the site it can't be. Karin's face-up is very pink--much more so than her images on the website. The default eyes are 8mm round acrylics and you can hardly see any white around the iris. I changed her into 6mm oval glass eyes, which fit better. They're a darker color than I like so she'll keep them only until my Safrindoll eye order arrives. (They should have shipped today.) Did someone ask me for a comparison photo of Karin with another doll? If so, I don't remember which other doll. Here's a photo of Karin by herself for now. She's wearing the default eyes in this photo.
My girl arrived today, too! You are very gifted, @vermont chick. lol. I received an appropriate extra for my vision of the new girl: a painted sword. but, that's all. I love Karin! Not usually a fan of pink skin, this color is very nice. I have a queue of dolls needing faceups, mani/pedi, blushing. My girl's eyes are pale blue, perfect size. So, now all she needs is lashes and some side-eye. I want to dress her right away, but maybe I can get to work painting this week.
Congratulations @petiteballerine ! I hope to see your Karin once you get her painted. I don't know which size sword you got but I have a feeling my two gifts are about equal in price to your one. The heel feet were not a gift--I paid for them. Wish my girl had come with pale blue eyes instead of the dark blue. They photograph lighter than they look in person. All the eyes I ordered from Safrindoll this time are darker than I usually get, so I hope something works for her. I also need to buy her a new wig. I have a bin full of wigs and she's already asking for something different.
Congrats you two! Awesome gifts!! She has quite a bit of pink blushing, I wonder if it is so dramatic because she is white skin @vermont chick ? I saw her with the smaller eyes of Flickr, they are much better. I’m ready to see her try out some new wigs and eyes too Which sword @petiteballerine ? I love my sword. It fits really good in hands #3 so I’d recommend those for sure.
I just looked again at the items in my box, and they sent the painted short sword (which is pretty long) and the #3 hands to hold weapons. I'd ordered the daggers unpainted and #2 hands. very cool of them, and more useful to me than a head I won't use. that with free shipping and 10% off clothing with a face I fell hard for made it an easy choice to buy her. I can see her as a dual-wielding Druidess with earth magics, dagger in one hand, sword in the other. Stern expression as intimidating as her steel knives. But, I think there's a male violet Dark Elf in her future. Friend or foe? (another head to paint!) updates as they happen.
@skyealloway - Karin on Creature's website has white skin, which is what made me think it would be safe to order white skin with face-up. I should try taking photos against a plain gray background and not using Photoshop to balance the colors and lighting and see if that makes a difference. Here's a photo of my Karin with the 6mm oval eyes. I wish my eye order would get here. Jenny at Safrindoll sent me an email a few days ago saying the eyes were ready to ship when she noticed one eye had a large air bubble. She recast the eye and the order shipped today. It should be here by Friday.
I love my new Elf girl. looking at her in different lighting, she's telling me more about her faceup. but, I never know until I start painting. the doll knows all. but, she's wonderful unpainted. I like the eyes they sent with her. they just need re-positioning. .
I love Karin's blank sculpt, @petiteballerine ! I can't wait to see how you paint her. I had problems painting my first two girls. There seemed to be a slippery spot on the resin above the left eyebrow on both of them that wouldn't take color. After wiping off two face-ups I gave the faces a good wash and a light sanding, then sprayed with MSC and repainted. Worked like a charm. I just realized that Karin looks like a girl I knew in college.
Could one of you possibly post a comparison of Karin and an msd from a different company? I have Unoas, Doll Chateau, and DiM, so any of those would be great but anything helps. I'm wondering if their heads are smaller than the average MSD since their proportions look more realistic? EDIT: Nevermind, checked a few pages back and saw the comparison shot.
Karin's new eyes from Safrin Doll have arrived. I'm not sure which color these are--Jenny didn't label the envelopes this time--but I think they might be wintergreen. They're 6mm. Small iris option is not available in this size. Her wig is a Wendy from Monique.
those wintergreen (or whatever) eyes are beautiful. I sort of like the slightly big eyes unless the character is the glarey-starey type. I love your girl's eyebrows.
@vermont chick there are a lot of details about her face I didn’t notice in your first photos, either this wig is just much more flattering or I was distracted by the default eyes. I love her winged eyeliner and she doesn’t come off as overly pink in this photo either. So pretty!
