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photo taken at night and the yellow cast is from the table lamp

My second custom in progress

Her name is Winter Raven

the vision of this doll came 

as I was inspired by a dark, but beautiful

French children's book 

She began as a Simply Mango Blythe

which is an RBL face mold

The 2 photos above show her after

carving and sanding was completed.

I bobbed her nose a bit more

than my first girl

but the nostril carving is

pretty similar to Snow's 

The mouth is also

different than Snow's.

next come a layer of artists chalks

and a protective layer of MCS spray

This photo was taken with OTT lamp lighting and truer in color

I have no idea at this point, how many layers will be involved

I stopped counting

when I did my first custom, Snow.

Simply Mango has orange yellow hair

which would clearly not work for my vision

so I sent the scalp to a Blythe/Flickr friend

Deb Howell

also known as La Dee Dolly on Flickr

She does amazingly beautiful re-roots

I told her a bit about Winter Raven

what I felt she needed

which was long dark, dark hair.

We agreed she should have raven colored

alpaca, and so the process of re-rooting began.

raven colored alpaca re-root by Deb Howell

 

 When I got the scalp back, I was over-the-moon thrilled

I asked for a side part 

and she even put the braids in for me.

Alpaca is extremely soft

and a bit difficult to keep tame

..so while I work on her face

her hair stays in a protective net

After a few more layers of chalk

and two carefully placed beauty marks

she is almost....almost

ready.