Piknik etno

 Exactly one year ago, on one fresh sunny Spring day I've made this series of photos called 'Picnic' for the May pages of doll's forum calendar.
I would not be myself if it was yellow, pink and blossom..
Here are my three beautiful unusual Mattel's brunettes in mix of ethnic and army clothes - my kind of girls;-):

Chinese Midge, Pocahontas and Esmeralda

before they deserved a rest and some snacks they threw few poses obviously...

yay for the team red lipstick!

mmm sun...

oh well.. there was not much to eat...

(sooo stiff <3)

but you can always photoshop some...

SPRING!!!!

My dolls - nr 92

One more doll which was pretty unexpected and unusual - /possibly and hopefully/ the last one of the fruitful Summer 2016. I purchased her just before leaving for holidays. She was posted to my friend, spent Summer in a cupboard and I managed to pick her up during lunch get together in September.

It is a lovely Midge sculpt doll dressed as a Chinese Empress (1996-Barbie-Chinese-Empress-Doll-Great-Eras-Collection). I'm not the biggest fun of this face nor the Heart Family but this one couth my attention as Mattel often used her do produce Native American dolls. I definitely have no luck with these...

she is sharing her duty with Teresa which is much better idea... later Goddess mold is obviously much more suitable and attractive!

Mattel has a long, ancient and recent, history of so called 'Asian Dolls' in traditional clothes. Only recently the mold became more appropriate... and as much as I love my new doll I cannot understand why Miko is not the impersonator...

She arrived in non attractive envelope packaging (only one level above the mummy package;-)

 missing shoes and most of her accessories...

 Her costume consisting of coat and a dress is extremely well tailored and well designed (not the most universal though). I enjoy her make-up a lot. Lips are fab and she looks much different from the 'Mum' doll I associate her with...

as you may heard she has extremely silly hair - long and wavy at outline yet short and curly on top of her head to pit/fill the fancy hat she used to wear originally...

When it came to her transformation I was very confused - tried to streighten the top and cut the rest, or cut the front and make a huge afro. Saw people 'partially rerooting' her but its like 3/4 of head in the end (and do I want her to look like a Native American?)

 help me!

In teh end I decided to put her fair back, conceal the short one within the long ones which I curled using pipe cleaners and hot water...

 <3

the result is lovely as she has got really high quality hair.

I'm still not sure about styling (and she has TnT body which sets some limits) - she is rocking my hand-made meta-Benetton jacket and khaki top and skirt. With her horse riding boots she has a little bit Mexican or Argentinian vibe but maybe I cannot control that completely in the end...

 benefits of being a floristry student...

 

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