#Mattel repaint

[acousticinsect]

The found footage

[teatime-tangents-and-toys]

In 2023, I did a project called DIFFUSION where I took three (or six, rather) of the fused ghouls and reinterpreted their monster blends as a single original character concept through doll restyles. Dracubecca became Tinny Tinkerpins, a clockwork tin toy robot, Cleolei became Maupet A'Duat, a reincarnated Egyptian cat given humanoid form (also wasn't altered as a base, and merely redressed), and Clawvenus became Dendrea Barker, a haunted dogwood tree. I didn't work with Lagoonafire.

Read their posts here:

Intro

Tinny and her finalizing second pass

Maupet

Dendrea

[lilgnomefella]

Another Mattel Jurassic World Fossil Fighters repaint. This time it's plesio. Super happy with how this one turned out. I have always loved thr stary design that this particular vivosaur has. As always I hate working with yellows.

[ultrabrite-dl]

"What if I made the 1959 Barbie with a 2003 Polly Pocket?" I said,

"I can repaint her whole face, that definitely won't hurt my eyes!" I said.

Yeah, I really like the 1959 (first) barbie doll design, so I decided to have fun by making a tiny doll of it, rerooting her hair was surprisingly easy! I think I'll do more Polly pocket customization in the future...

If I ever find one with hair again!

Barbie doll size comparison below:

[hellafluff]

if i had a nickel for every time there was a fashion doll from the 2010s that was a pink and black colored cross between a skeleton and a moth id have 2 nickels. which isn't a lot

BUT ITS REALLY WEIRD THAT IT HAPPENED TWICE

I NEED VERA SHE BELONGS NEXT TO BONITA THEY ARE SISTERS TO ME

[rabbit-eclipsed]

POV: you think flynn could've gone even shorter on that haircut

[the-enzyme]

Here's my sealed work on my repainted Ken Looks number 5! I'm super happy with him. The only problem is his under-eye area turned out shinier than I was hoping. It was already like that before I sealed the repainted work with a few layers of MSC matte, and a single layer of MSC gloss. Otherwise, I am happy with all other areas of his face after sealing. I like using a light layer of gloss in-between, because it adds a nice "dewy/human-flesh-like" finish to my more "realistic-ish" repaints. However, I am not sure why it looks hyper shiny at the chin and under the eyes. Although, it was already like that before I sealed the work, as I said. I didn't expect to look like that after the layers of MSC matte. I don't mind it IRL too much, particularly the chin. But those under-eyes...

I might have to mask-off all other areas and add a layer or two of more matte fixative. I don't want to completely dull all the rest of the face, as I am happy with how it looks IRL otherwise. Just not super excited of how those two areas photograph. We'll see...

I took a lot of crappy repetitive photos of him; I am super happy with him now. Not the repaint work as I always feel I could have done a better job. I'm just in-love with how he looks in general, now. I like more realistic-ish looking repaints, and this is definitely a lot less cartoony than my last repaint work on him. So, I am happier for that reason. I do find this head sculpt extremely beautiful, otherwise I wouldn't have purchase one, let alone two (to customize one). I wasn't happy with the default chin, brow-bone and lips sculpting, so I modified the brows and chin a bit during my first repaint on him, back in 2022. I forgot about those when I repainted him a few days ago, so I just did a quick softening of the chin once again, but I thought I could have sanded even further. However, now that he is sealed and "finished," I feel like I don't mind the chin so much anymore. It is a pain to have to paint it to look the way I want it, instead of it just being the shape and size I want it to be. However, I don't mind it anymore. I am happy to leave him like this forever!

I say that now, watch me redo his face paint and mods once again in a few years. Lol! (; I am in love with this Ken, even if I am a crazy old fart who wants to mod and repaint things a million times over! I only wish I knew how to re/style hair a tiny bit, so I could try different hair styles on him. Or, that I was willing to re-root or shave him. I hate re-rooting dolls, and I like his hair style as is, a lot. I only wish I could restyle the hair, from time to time! I'm also petrified of doing anything because his flocking keeps falling off all over the place! That's what's on his face on some of these photos at his chin and lips. In case some of it is visible, I kept blowing it off his face, only to find more a few seconds later. I keep his hair in a plastic wrap "hat," to keep the hair from getting messy, but I don't know if that's the reason for the flocking to be coming off all the time, or if it's just a natural thing with flocking. I don't own that many flocked things that are unboxed -- or that I handle at all! Last four are from my older than dust phone, because it takes slightly better, hyper-washed-out photos, the newer likes adding a pound of noise and they are always dark as the dickens, which I would love, if it wasn't for the extra-crispy pixels. DX

[mazovshanka]

Several days ago I found my very first doll I bought as an adult. That was the beginning of my doll collection. Back then I wanted to buy a Monster High doll but I missed every single one I really liked. So I ended up with Ever After High Cerise Hood in its basic version. Some time later I thought I'm not fond of that doll to the extent I want to keep it, so I sent it to a friend who was making OOAK dolls. I was very surprised when she sent the doll back to me but it was now completely different. She made a lovely OOAK doll - did the repaint, reroot and even sew the clothes. I really like the new look of that doll. It had a black faux leather jacket but unfortunately the leather started to peel over time and moreover it stained the doll's forearms. I really don't know what to do about those stains, I tried acetone but it didn't work. I suppose I should sew some kind of mittens. Anyway, I'm not gonna get rid of that doll because it reminds me how my collection had started.

These days I have no time to take decent photos so I just took those snapshots on my way home from shopping. That colourful graffiti simply caught my attention, finally some nice art instead of just random scribbles. And since it's spring I took a photo of blooming white lilac.

[iodoesdolls]

Really struggling with this thing where so many dc characters have blue eyes and black hair, and also there’s only one main face sculpt for dcshg.

Huntress/Helena Bertinelli is on the left - I repainted the lips and just added a little purple to the eyes for variety. She started as Wonder Woman. I picked the blue strands out of her hair and filled it back in with black, too.

Madams Rouge/Laura de Mille is in the right. Started as a supergirl head, repainted eyes, lips, and eyebrows. Rerooted. She’s on a Blackfire body - the Blackfire body is the whole reason I’m making a Madame rouge:

It’s all about those arms and legs.

[thelivesofourdolls]

Trying on a new wig.

[teatime-tangents-and-toys]

Thronecoming Cupid with slight face repaint!Read her full review here!

[lilgnomefella]

I finished another Fossil Fighters repaint, this time it's a Dimetrodon. Really happy with this one. Took some creative liberties since the og design has some frills that this figure doesnt

[ultrabrite-dl]

Polly Pocket customization 2: Electric Boogaloo

And this time, it's Allan!

I decided to torture my eyes once again to turn an (hilariously ugly) polly pocket into the one and only Allan. I thought about making Ken first, but honestly, his first design wasn't that interesting and iconic, and the polly pocket I found had a face sculpt closer to Allan's than Ken's. And I really like that Allan and barbie are matching with their stripes.

Btw, check out what the polly pocket looked like before, I wheezed so hard when I found him:

He look like he's high on glue

[mortaljoy]

ouughhh i wanna jump on the gyaru lagoona trend so bad i fear she’d eat

[barbietronix]

Model: “WaWa”, a tall Barbie fashionista. My first born goth baby who looks like a zombified Dua Lipa. She already had the pastel green streaks and I gave her a black matte lip and haven’t changed it since. Her deconstructed sweater is made from a Dior Homme sweater of mine that I spilled pink wax on. No big deal…I just cut off the entire portion from the sweater and saved that fabric for a future project, like the sustainable, crafty wizard I am. Now she looks like a Rick Owens girlie. All other clothing and accessories by Daddy Mattel.

[dolljunk]

So for my trade for the Creature of the Black Lagoon was a repaint of the Mattel Dr Who Barbie, aka Jodie Whitaker as the 13th Doctor. I was given free reign on what to go for so I figured I would opt for a faux collector Barbie style paint from the late 2000s since I don't think the original paint was doing anything for the doll. I also did end up saturating the colours a bit as I felt like the original paint was super muted and I wanted her to be versatile as well for restyling. Big thanks to @jackdkay for this trade, I was excited to try a Barbie repaint after so long.