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The perks of being my bestie! Free makeup sessions with me. 💄

This is Iesha, my bestie. What I need to tell you about her is that she is part middle eastern, and as so, she tends to have very dark under eye circles. She also has extremely sensitive skin, so I have to be very careful about what I put on her face or she starts breaking out.

  

1. I started off by applying eye primer to her lids. Applying primer will help your eyeshadow stay in place.

2. Working from the inside out, I applied a combination of taupe and peach on her inner lids, followed by a combination of cream and bone, followed by grey, dark grey, and black.

3. I winged out the dark portions of her eyeshadow and blended in some taupe to lead up to the highest part of her lid. I then finished her eyes by applying the lightest color (cream) on her arch.

4. Finally, I winged out her liner at the ends, extended her liner into a cat eye look at her inner corners, and applied black falsies to finish out her eyes.

Hope you guys like, and don't forget to let me know what you think by commenting below.

Advice on Customizing dolls

I've come a long way since my early days customizing dolls (2yrs ago). At first, it started out as a past time for me, but now, that's all I seem to do. I absolutely love these little girls, and bringing them to life is just icing on the cake for me. But it wasn't always this smooth.

I started out by making mistakes after mistakes, but eventually, trial and error is what got me to perfect my skills.

If YOU are thinking about trying your luck customizing the little girls, there's a few things you should know before you start.

First. You need alot of patience. For people like me, that need immediate results, this is the most challenging part. I have thrown away many a dolls simply because they didn't come out the way I expected, and in the time I expected. Now (2yrs later), I just sit back, listen to music, hear a book, or occasionally lift my head up at my phone to watch a movie while drawing, carving, and sanding.

I work on one part of the doll, and only concentrate on that part in order to focus better. Also, I always start out by drawing in what I want the features to look like before I start to carve them. In other words, if I am working on the lips, I only concentrate on the lips. Every so often, I will get up, take a break, come back and look at my work again from a different angle before I move on to another part.

I draw, carve, and sand...in that order.

Another thing that helped me was purchasing a "faceplate lot" to practice my carving techniques. I believe it was a "lot" of 10 faceplate. I practiced just about every night, until I became more confident with my skills. In my defence, I feel I had a big advantage because my background is in art, so drawing facial features just came natural, what didn't come natural was the carving, and sanding, as I was used to painting on canvases, and with oils.

Second, it's very important that you get the proper tools.

You will need:

• Carving tools
• Sanding tools
• Pastels
• Blades
• Sand paper/sanding blocks
• Paint brushes
• Qtips
• Watercolors
• Oil pencils
• Dimensional gloss (optional)
• Mr.Super Clear
• Small toothbrush
• Disposable cup
• Toothpicks

Most of my tools/supplies were purchased from:

www.blytheeverafter.com

www.michaels.com