pira

As you know, I tend to straddle the fence when it comes to dolls. I have one foot firmly planted in the Resin Universe and the other in the Vinyl Dimension. There are opposing camps in each, with the former being the more rabid doll of fans ~ happily bashing the latter when not beating on one another.

I tend to think though, that if you were to collect all doll-people together, a quiet majority just plain like dolls in general, and while they might be partial to a particular kind or make, they aren't going to get their knickers in a wad if someone prefers doll-type A to doll-type B. It's all cool.

I mention this because the coolest, most customizable, posable doll I own arrived last week ~ and she's banned from BJD forums, even though her taller sister is grandfathered in. While I can understand the rational it still tweaks my nose just a little that the 60cm Obitsu (Vivian) is welcome (aibeit grudgeonly) but the 50cm (and 55cm Claudette) are not.

It's too bad ~ because the 50cm Obitsu is a breathtaking piece of engineering. *nods at the photo of the girl, fresh out of the box, to the left with borrowed eyes/wig*

As for my girl ~ I really hadn't given much thought to the head that came with this doll, because I hadn't thought it really came with a head until I ordered it and started paying closer attention to the Japanese shops.

Rita ~ is a Haruka Head-sculpt that I intend to go with this body....so what to do with this noggin?

I just couldn't find it in me to toss it into the box and so I worked on both heads yesterday. While I'm not a huge fan of these anime style heads, I don't find them at all creepy...any more than I do a NOH mask. They are simply....masklike....which is the problem. Your canvas is rather limited.

This train of thought lead me to consider my pair of 21cm Obitsu girls, whom I am making into little Kisune (fox spirits), and I decided they would need their Goddess to serve eventually... and after looking at number of woodblock print depictions of Inari, I found that this style of head would work particularly well for that role...rather in the tradition of the NOH stylization.

I have a fussy wig (which I was not about to haul out of packaging at this moment) and really just need to sew up a proper kimono for her and decide if I want to swap her torso to a medium chest from the small one she currently sports.

ANYway for the time being here she is borrowing Rita's body, a Hujoo's wig, DZ Floy's default eyes and some MSD clothing from Willow & Kohl. She is Inari: Goddess of J-Rockers XD