Lily's finished

Well I finished Lily a couple of days ago. Here's a couple of pictures of her...





Shes a little cutey who looks like Natalie.

I've noticed that my two dolls have different noses. Lily has a little Piggy one where as Kats has smaller nostrils. I think that Kat is more like a Blythe because they seem to have very pinched noses that make me think of people who have nose jobs.

Yay for the nail buffers!

I have just finished Sand matting Lilys face!
From what I read online most people seem to use a type of sanding sponge thing (the name of it slips my mind at this moment) but I noticed someone mentioned nail buffers work and also steel wool.
So firstly I tried sanding the back of her head with steel wool and that just made it look all scratched. So I 'borrowed' Denise's nail buffer and tried that and it worked! After sanding most her face down with the rough side I buffed it up so it was semi matte but not too shiny, nowhere near as shiny as it was before.
The conundrum I came across was that it is hard to sand right in near the base of the nose, and also to sand all the original lipstick off from the crevices of the lips. It looked as though her nose was running!
But, I had a plan! I figured that maybe Denise's battery operated nail buffer with various shaped heads might work...and it did! I even managed to sand a bit more of a groove into the line of the lips with a very small headed buffer.
Heres a picture of Lily as I received her from Ebay and another of the newly sanded face...





Oh how much better that looks! The shininess just does not do anything for a Blybe/Blythe/Basaak...

Which brings me back to yesterdays post...
After some more searching around for the answer to the question of whether my dolls were Blybes or Basaaks, I read that the older Blybes were better quality and had bodies similar to the Blythes. But these days they aren't as well made. Basaaks on the other hand are supposed to be the better made dolls these days.
So..if Lily is a Basaak (as it says on the auction) and Basaaks are supposed to be better quality than Blybes, then god help us to what the newest Blybes quality must be like!

One more quick note, not to do with Blybes but..........
Dragon Age 2 is out tomorrow!! Yay!! It's pre-ordered so we will be there at EB Games bright and early tomorrow morning!

Lily arrives

Lilys body arrived today (and her wig a few days before). I'm slightly confused about this new doll body that has arrived, or actually more so with the previous one. Did I mention I called her Kat? I'm not sure why, she just seemed like a Kat to me. Anyway back to the doll body thing.

Lilys body is quite a bit different to Kats. It's no where near as well made, is a lot more orange in colour and smells really bad. The hair was horrible so I cut it off (I needed to do that anyway to fit the wig). I need to do some more research on this matter I think..I realise there are different Blythe clones available but i'm just not sure which ones I have.
Kat came secondhand as a 'Blybe' but she may have been customized for all I know. The hair is definitely better quality than it was on Lilys body and the scalp has been dyed. Her face was matte sanded which I want to do with Lilys face. It's pale and so is the body unlike Lilys orange looking tan. Kats body also seems more sturdier (harder plastic) and not as cheap looking as Lilys which has chips and cracks and looks like something you would buy from a cheap Chinese junk shop.

Looking back at the Ebay listing for Lilys body it says in the title "BASAAK BLYBE CCE 4 COLOR CHANGING EYES" which doesn't tell me anything. Down further in the article it says I would receive a "Basaak Doll in the outfit as shown in the pictures,a doll stand, one extra dress,a pair of shoes."
I was lead to believe from various online articles and discussions that a Blybe IS a Basaak (Basaak being added to the name so it doesn't sound to close to 'Blythe'). But this goes to show they possibly are not the same.
CCE dolls are obviously different because their wastes don't rotate and the feet slope downwards, so we can rule any of them out from being a CCE.
So then the question remains...Is Lily a Basaak and Kat a Blybe? Are Blybes and Basaaks the same thing and is Lily a rip off of a rip off? Is Kats body actually a Blythe body? (I don't think so as the waste is quite floppy which is a Blybe/Basaak characteristic).

Well, I shall go hunting for the answers!