HEADhunter 2nd ed.

Time to confess again. as it was mid December already I could be pretty sure this will ACTUALLY be my last doll purchase of the year AND I could use it as a Christmas present to myself:-)
On 15.12.16 I managed to win one really exciting auction full of doll's heads from one of the British doll collectors group on Facebook...

I set my mind on these christmas pudding goodies... 9 x contemporary fashionistas and some Integrity toys doll bits:-)))

here is a fab fat envelope with a lovely writing...

...and lots of bags with precious load...

This way I have made my collection much more contemporary and up to date...

there are New Skipper 2016 fashionistas (Doughnut and Coral) and two new curvy doll face-sculpts (brunette and blonde), Millie with curly greasy hair I said goodbye to, immediately, and lovely Grace sans her ugly snake-skin dress...

but what's most exciting on so many levels are these three Integrity Toys doll's heads...

They are my first even from this brand but luckily I am not loosing my mind here as they are apparently part of an 'old' playline editions...

The Caucasion (Asian?) ones (two:-) have exactly the same make-up which will give me a lot of headache at some point, I can feel it....

I had no keywords to do my research so I just wrote to the seller and sh egave me very precise answers:-)

The 'ethnic' girl's mold is called 'Janey' and she comes in many shades, styles and versions. My head is part of some shimerring eleganza - soooo 90's!

Fashion Insider - Award Nite 2006 (!)

here is more versions from some lucky owners

She also had rather interesting 'African Legends' editions

Two other heads belong to versions of Jade. 

I only identified one - as a fashionTV Insider doll

you can see in far right that one had pony and other two pony-tails

That's about it.

As great as Janay sculpt is, I am not sure what to think of them and how to see them in comparison with Mattel's products tbh...

p.s. from all their budget dolls I am most gravitating toward 'Alysa'...sometimes presented as bi-racial, sometimes appearing as Latina, to me... oh just look at her!

<3

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Adventures in rebodying - dolls 68 & 69

it this episode you will read about how I've turned in to a cold-blooded headhunter...i mean body hunter with several heads...

Case 1 is a seriously fair skinned, 2000s strawberry blonde /slightly ginger-as-an-excuse , and possibly ex-princes...None of my bodies matched and hollywood nails of Polish Barbie were obviously much more precious that this random head... which I pity tho...

One day fortunetelly in my super shabby local charity I stumbled uppon one hobbit bodied teresa-faced Barbie...not pretty not ugly - just not my style...

I always admire how coloration and makeup change a personality of a mold...

Thanks to her hairstyle and very blue eye-shadow I managed to 'rebrand' her as 70's Disco era styled Barbie head -(can't seem to find my 'promo' pics somehow).  Happily sold on ebay to someone ooaking hard:-) Guilt on purchasing the head and body for spares - anulated ;-P

Acne cream made wonders. The body was a hobbit type - just a lovely petite ginger friend of Barbie;-P

The second successful rebodying was Christie's from the same batch of heads.

With the green eyes and a streak of brown hair, fringe and medium length i first falsly identified her as a WNBA basketball player doll...

 pretty close but seriously...no earrings but hey - 

still the most reconisable Mattel lines - Pearl Beach Christie going roro...

After putting her hopeless hair on pipe cleaners  I've made final decisions about the body...

 I went for Disneys Tiana despite of her limbs being slightly greenish - 

her torso is a great match and hands have nice articulation:

tadaaaa

one happy beach doll almost 20 years later;-)

 here she is trying to work out her new afro;)

she is kind of petite on this slightly more lean body:-)

and she photographs sooooo well!

articulation changes everything...

tbc.

Another milestone aHEAD

yes...after you have your toes in rebodying waters...another thing is - buying somebody elses set of heads really cheap... especially is there are some brunettes AND you missed the auction like that before;-)

In my set was Christie with green eyes (and terrible hair) - my latest obsession /at the time)
Few Mackies who i learnt to like and get excited about after reading too many blogs;-)
There was Lea as well which I already had but thought is lovely;-)
some ginger ones, some ash-blonde, some with red lips;-)
oh, who needs to justify anything anyway...

 Christie is georgeus

 I couldn't wait to to something with her hair...

and this alabaster skinned one need saving too...

oh they gonna be a lot of work but I love it:-)...

TBC

In making...

...here are my textile dolls at its stage II.

Heads are getting filed with a fleece -

awaiting to be 'paired' with the corpus 

in color palette matching doll's embroidered make-up...

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