Adding eyelashes

Another New Arrival

I adore her hair! so that will be staying, such a beautiful pale face plate can't waite to design her face up!

Choices Choices???

My first ever Order arrived from My little Customs, and i am really pleased with service :D

The Nylon comes in so many beautiful colours, but does feel a little weird and kinky!

{i am used to handling natural fibre!}and the Saren is really glossy and soft, only down side is it feels a bit oily.

Now just have to make up my mind what colour/s hair she is going to have, as i REALLY love the colour of the pale pink Saren. {oh Choices Choices}

The scalp *gulp*

Before attempting to open my Blythe, I searched the internet high and low for a Tutorial, but only stumbled on ones that had partially taken the flange out.

So I took a deep breath and pulled the scalp from the dome, there was only a little bit of glue on the back, and it came out easy enough, so I thought before detaching completely I would try putting it back in and to my surprise it went back in all the way, little bit tricky in some areas but on a whole a lot better than expected



As you can see from the last picture there is a little gap between the edges, so may need to use some craft glue in a couple of spots to secure in place.{There was no glue on the dome its self though}

Tool's *inserts creepy laugh*



My Tool kits consists of:

Screw drivers - great for prying, and of course undoing the screws

Paint brushes – from sweeping, dusting and painting very handy :)

Dental tools – nice and Sharpe but also strong and thin, so ideal for face craving. {I brought mine from ebay}

Mini needle files - great for nostrils, mouths, philtrum and around eyes. {I brought mine from ebay}

Tweezers - Removing hair from scalp and eyes lashes

Craft knife – not had to use mine yet, but have read that they’re great for flanges and scalping the earlier models of Blythe.

Sand paper – I have super fine wet and dry sand paper and also nail buffing blocks, also I found using an eraser with the sand paper wrapped round makes an awesome little sand block.

Glue sticks – not pictured but on order.. to remove eye chips {the glue sticks you use in glue guns}

Fake eyelashes – if you want to change your Blythe original ones.

Air brush kit – not essential but my preferred method to apply the makeup, I am also using magic colour paints which become water proof when dry and high grade art pastels.

Nail Art stencils – To add little face or eyelid decorations 

Glue – again this is down to personal preference, I am using craft glue instead of super glue, so that if I want to change things at a later date, I can do so with out to many problems or making too much mess.

New eye chips – you can buy beautiful handmade ones from etsy, and you can try making some yourself {which I am going to attempt at some stage.}

Dolls hair – if you’re going to re-root you will need your replacement fibre, being a total Yarny and die hard natural fibre fan, I am sticking with Mohair ,Alpaca and wensleydale sheep locks, because like human hair, you can dye, wash, and use heated hair appliances to style.{ I will go more  in-depth about the fibres in a later post.}

Crochet hooks - for re-rooting hair and un hooking springs

**  At the moment I am still trying out EVERYTHING to find my perfect tools {which will be different for every one}  so my list is quite long :D but then I am a person who likes a lot of stuff!! Lol..i will add to this list if I come across things that work better than others.

Opening a RBL/FBL Blythe head

After all the horror stories I read about opening up an RBL, I was very reluctant to try and open mine.

RBL have three little screws at the back of the head, you also have the little square hole that has the spring attached, now for me trying to unhook that spring before opening the head was a pain and just far to fiddly, so I unattached after I opened.

  You will read a lot of post on blogs and websites stating that you have to a considerable amount of presser at the ears for it to pop open…so I was surprised when my head popped with hardly any pressure at all.  

As you can see from the picture above the spring is still attached to the back of the head, if you are going to attempt to unhook by this method, don’t pull the head to far apart, otherwise you will over stretch the spring and it won’t work when you hook it back. To unattached mine I used a metal crochet hook {buy one for your tool bag if you crochet, because you will end up blunting them} and a pair of tweezers.

The great thing about RBL is you can open the face, without having to touch her scalp like the other earlier models. Another bonus is you swap scalps with other RBLs to change your Blythe if you don’t want to go down the re-root avenue  and also change face plates!

Introduction :D

Hello *waves*

I decided to create this blog space, to document my doll customising journey,  I have never customised a doll before, so I am a total beginner, I don’t know anyone in real life that dose this either so it’s going to be a total learning curve, and I sure a lot of mistakes will be made lol.

I have already made start on customising my first Blythe so please be patient with me while I put together all the posts and pictures for the relevant stages : D

But for now I would like to introduce you to my stock girl simply Chocolate, she is a FBL which stands for Fairest,{but her head and mechanisms are the same as the RBL which stands for radiant, as far as I can tell}   I brought her from eBay and it took roughly two weeks for her to arrive from  Japan.

Over the next few Days I will update the blog, with information on tools I am using where I got them, the websites I have been using to educate myself, and my own tutorials on the technique I used to take apart face plate, sand mat the face ,face carve, and scalp :D

xx