Prea is so pleased with both of her Raouken corsets from @salem_sisterhood on Instagram, who also made the matching rose necklaces as a gift to me. Although the necklaces are a small touch, I think they do so much for this look. I just adore them.
I feel so fortunate. I never thought one of my dolls would own a Raoken corset because I tried many times to buy one before her shop closed but never managed to. It just goes to show that you never know. I ended up with two of them that match Prea's very specific colors exactly. These corsets are incredible. I didn't realize that they not only look like corsets but also act like them. When you tie them, they really do mold to the doll's body. It's unbelievable.
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I wanted to have my Lucywen sleeping and elf heads painted after I had ordered them blank. In the past, I've always made doll-related transactions through a distributor like Denver Doll Emporium because it makes me feel more secure when ordering expensive dolls from overseas. That way, if something goes wrong, it isn't simply my word that it did; rather, it's the trusted word of the distributor. But to have these heads painted, I needed to work with Fairyland directly, and I was nervous about shipping overseas to Korea and communication with nonnative English speakers.
Thankfully Fairyland was a dream to work with. They told me when the heads arrived, confirmed my shipping address before sending back the heads, and sent me tracking information. Their communication was clear, polite, and professional. When the heads arrived, they were packed extremely well, in a large box with lots of bubble wrap and face protectors. I'm so grateful that Fairyland made this a pleasant and painless experience, and that they were willing to paint the heads that I had ordered blank. On a mobile device, click the image above to scroll through more images. My Prea has arrived, and I am in love with the Lucywen sculpt. She is my grail, regardless of the unicorn centaur body. I adore her face and could stare at her all day long. I'm so pleased that I was able to make a wig worthy of her. Her human wig, which I made from 5 different blondes, turned out looking as realistic as I had hoped, and soon I'm going to start making her fantasy wig of 8 different colors. I want it to be floor length, and I plan to make a matching tail for her centaur body. Welcome home, fire girl - bold and brazen one. Make your demands of me. The sky is the limit, and we will do such ambitious things together. Here's my video about Prea and her new wig: Edited to add on July 29, 2017: Beware the scammer Hellcorgi (aka Kleincrew and Polina Bliss). It's been 4 months, and I haven't gotten this corset or the other item I ordered from her. In the meantime, her Etsy shop was shut down because of complaints from customers that they didn't receive their orders. I was told she was banned from Den of Angels a while ago.
She claims Etsy was unfair to her and that her items take a long time to ship and often get lost in the mail, but I don't believe that items I ordered two weeks apart, and that she said shipped separately, both got lost in the mail. I believe I was scammed and that she didn't send them. The status in my Etsy order history for both items is "not shipped." It seems that she does make beautiful items and that she sends out some orders but that she also takes orders she never intends to fulfill in order to make money fraudulently. I think she tells people to anticipate a long shipping wait so that they don't file a claim against her within PayPal's allotted time (45 days). Just be patient, she says, when she assures you that your order will eventually arrive. But then it never does. She has a calculated scam going. Many other members of the community have been scammed by her as well over the years. My impression from the community is that, if you buy from her, you are much more likely to not receive your items than you are to receive them. Sparrow's Shop, on the other hand, is wonderful to work with and highly recommended! I'm starting to assemble the look for Prea, my Fairyline Lucywen. Just look at the incredible detail in this custom corset that Hellcorgi on Etsy made for me. I'm so impressed. I can't believe how much detail is in two inches of doll corset. I also commissioned a horn for Prea from Sparrow's Shop on Etsy, as well as a pair of horns for Jasphene. Sparrow's work was one of the main things that made me enamored with the BJD hobby when I first discovered it. At that time, having dolls like the ones on her Etsy page and commissioning an artist like her seemed like something that people from another world did. Now I'm one of those people. It's a bit surreal. Back then I kept debating whether I wanted to join the hobby. I agonized over it because I'm a frugal person, and this hobby isn't cheap. But those days are long gone. Commissioning Sparrow's Shop made me realize how far I've come. More so than anything I've done thus far in the hobby, commissioning her made me realize I'm completely committed to the hobby. I feel honored that I've been able to commission such talented artists whose work I so admire. That is a part of the hobby that I didn't expect to love so much, but it makes sense. I love art, especially exquisitely detailed art. And the items I've commissioned for my dolls are no less than works of art. I'm doing a little photo editing to envision Jasphene's faceup and eyes. I used the photo on the left. My edited version is on the right. This is not my photo. It belongs to etna_san on Instagram, and the doll is her Lorelei. I'm just using it to mock up what I want Jasphene to look like. Jasphene will be a very different doll. But hopefully doing this will help me place and shape her eyebrows how I want them and choose the eye size I want.
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