For a long time now I have wanted a vampire girl, and since seeing Coraline I know I DEFINITELY want one! She is so cute!!
My problem is I am too scared to buy a Blythe and customise it! Plus I don't have the money to spare if I get it wrong. But I also wanted to try something different from a Blybe/CCE, so I decided to customise a Jecci Five!
This is the girl I got from Ebay...
I chose her for her dress! Isn't it cute?! I want my vampire to have black hair, but again wanted to try something different from yarn. So I opted for mohair wefts, which I bought from Coolcat.
They all arrived in really good time, so I started straight away. My first big problem was trying to get the scalp off the dome - the scalp has flanges like a Blythe scalp and it was glued in...
After much forcing and prying, I got it free with minimal damage...
I removed all the hair, which was really well rooted...
...and prepared the mohair weft. This is what it looks like out of the pack...
I have never used either wefts nor mohair before, so this was a totally new experience for me. I figured it would be best to start at the outside edge of the scalp, and sew it in quite tight with extra strength cotton and a thick needle...
I got about half the scalp done in the first sitting, but had to stop when my thumb just couldn't take it any more! So I left it, and returned the next day.
I got it finished in the second sitting, and all in all it only took about 3 hours to complete the whole thing!
I would definitely use wefts again! It was so easy! At the moment it just looks like a big mass of black fluff...
Lol! I will style it when I put her all together again. I aim to pull it into little bunches!
I then moved on to the face up, which I will tell you about a little later on :)
Sarah
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