Do you personally match eyebrows to wig color?

Nope, I take no notice of eyebrow colour (on me or my dolls)

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Nope. All my dolls have either brown or black brows.

 

sometimes? I've matched one dolls eyebrows to the wig while I was doing her faceup, but rest just have dark brows regardless. Also feel like its pretty common not to match considering all the company fullsets I've gotten in the past have white or grey wigs, but dark brows.

If you are doing the face up yourself, I would say have fun and do what you want ^^)

 

I stick to just shades of brown as well. I change my dolls wigs too much to lock myself in to matching one, but I guess if I had a specific character in mind whose wig would be constant, then I might go for it.

 

I do match eyebrows to hair (wig) color, if the hair color is permanent, but not if I'm just switching wigs around. I know that a lot of people in this hobby don't like having multiple wigs per doll, but I do. In the beginning, I would get at least four per doll, now I "like" making my own, so I'm kind of lazy about the amount each doll owns if the wigs are of my own making. I tried keeping a theme with the wigs I purchased in the past, to match the "natural" or intended hair color the owner of the wigs had. However, if I found a wig I liked and it didn't come in the hair color the character needed, I just purchased the wig and let the doll wear it for fun.

I own a few dolls with none-natural (or common human) hair colors like midnight blue hair, one with red-blood-colored hair and a lot of my floating heads seem to have silver colored hair (but none are elderly characters). I like their eyebrows to match their wigs, but I still might give them a different hair color if I feel like forcing them into different wigs. I wouldn't change the whole face up just to match the just-for-fun wig, but I do match the eyebrow color to their intended or permanent hair (wig) color. (:

 

So personally I use various shades of brown for eyebrows probably 19/20 times or more, but, because even with people and natural colors not everyone has brownish eyebrows I do change it up sometimes. Most adult doll characters with blonde hair would be because they dye it, however I have one character with platinum blonde hair and blonde eyebrows. Her eyebrows are of course slightly darker but they are still extremely noticeably not dark at all. Every blue moon I do a fantasy colored brow just because I enjoy it and this it's a solid look, so my takeaway is that peopy should be doing whatever they personally think is fun and looks good.

As for brow matching, it's almost always fine to just show your Faceup artist s photo of the wig if your doll is going to have a specific haircolor. And regardless I would encourage people to specify their dolls "natural haircolor" / brow color to a Faceup artist. It drives me crazy wondering sometimes if I'm not informed... Maybe it's just me. but if you are worried about how the color will match or you want a photo with the wig on the doll then sending it along is your best option.

And yes, I would consider faceups extremely difficult. I studied painting in university and specifically did mostly portrait/ figuratiy and when I started I found faceups had a pretty steep learning curve. I would encourage anyone who is interested to try it out! But most artists are still improving a lot even after years of work.

 

Yes, as a beginner they can be quite hard. Not everyone uses brushes and acrylic paint for the details, some use watercolor pencils, but painting small details is rough in the beginning no matter what tool you use.

However, regarding your other question, I actually always ask customers to send me their preferred wig and eyes for the head they want me to paint. Partly to somewhat match color, but also because it allows me to take finished photos at the end where the doll can wear those

 

it's got a bit of a learning curve? took me a handful of faceups till I was happy with results while working so tiny. I use the nail painting brushes with a flow medium to the paint cause the sealant I use activated the water-color pencils. (I don't use mr.superclear personally cause I don't live in a place to spray it safely) feel you with the not so steady hands. I learned to work around it by using longer fibers on the brush. it's weird at first, but takes a lot of the shake outa lines.

And probably? never commissioned a faceup before, but figure that would be a good thing to talk to them about when you do? could also be good for figuring out how hair frames the face (I tend to make my wigs to match faceups, so assuming it would work the otherway around.)

 

My eyebrows have always been naturally been black, and my hair (until I started dying it...it's uhhhh very faded green right now ) was naturally blonde. So I don't really think matching them is a huge deal. I certainly could not be bothered redoing a face up every time I decided on a new wig.

 

It depends for me. If my intention is for the hair to be natural then yeah, i'd try to match the brows to the hair (a darker shade of) but if they're supposed to be dyed then having clearly different eyebrow colour helps sell that heh.

I usually try to decide approximately what hair colour I want a doll to have before I do their faceup but often haven't settled 100% so a fair few of mine tend to have just black or dark brown brows because they work with anything anyway hahah.

 

Like others have said, if the hair is supposed to look natural, then yes I try to match the colours.

Most of the time I just figure out which colour family the hair belongs to and do the eyebrows in the neutral of that family. An example would be if the hair is on the gray side of colours (cool colours) then the brows would be done in more gray, black, and white. If the hair is warmer, like browns, reds, oranges, then the brows stay in the warm family (mostly brown and beige).

 

No, not really as its doesn't matter to me as most of the wigs I own actually hide their eyebrowes .
I have colorful wigs put on dolls with brown shade of eyebrows and doesn't bother me at all

 

I'm definitely one of those people who decides what color hair the doll's character has and then keeps it that way--- even if they get a second wig for an extra style, it's the same color. So I never even thought about keeping the eyebrows neutral so they could go with different hair colors without having to change a faceup-- I just automatically asked for eyebrows that would go with the hair I planned. My dolls with black hair all have black eyebrows, the ones with lighter brown hair have medium to darker brown eyebrows, I have one with super dark brown hair that I plan to have painted with black brows, and then I have a blonde with dark roots and dark brown brows, and one girl with silvery pastel hair that has kind of taupe/pale brown brows. Personally, if I thought I might want to change the wigs around, I'd probably choose the brow color by what looked best for the facial expression and overall mood I wanted for the faceup.

 

I usually know what hair color my character has by the time I'm painting their faceup, so I do try to match eyebrows with hair color (unless the character has dyed hair). My characters aren't human, so some of them have natural "unnatural" hair colors in which case their eyebrows look unnatural, too! I just love that little detail of their eyebrows being the right color, and have had other people notice and appreciate it. I do make the eyebrows a few shades darker than the hair, and if I ever change their wig and it doesn't match anymore, I'm not about to repaint the head just for that. But generally, I like them to match.

Most faceup artists should be willing to match the eyebrows to a wig. If that's what you want then you should definitely send the wig to the artist! You absolutely cannot make a perfect match through photos, though a pretty good match is possible. An example of why this matters is that I usually mix black, brown, and a tiny bit of blue to paint black eyebrows. That combo has always served me well. But then I got a commission that needed black eyebrows and the owner sent the wig... I wouldn't have guessed it from photos, but in the light the wig's shine was VERY blue-toned. When I mixed my black paint I had to leave out brown entirely. I also find that if I paint blonde eyebrows from memory, they always look extremely orange. When matching to a blonde wig, the color mixture always seems too green or grey, but looks right on the doll. Color is really weird and hard to gauge without a reference.