Love to hear your thoughts! Also, this pic is not using any kind of wax fyi. I have another dollmoondesign wig with hair vents and it's essentially like, a crimp in the weft, but its so darn tiny I have no idea how it was done. 

Similar to the way this BJD's mouth works.

I haven't actually had an Imomodoll before, so I wondered if anyone here had any experience with carving out the mouth area for a custom opened mouth. Are the heads very stiff and hard, or are they more squishy like the small Obitsu heads? If you've reshaped the eyes, your experience with that would also be helpful for deciding whether or not this is realistic for me to try, or if there would be special equipment needed, etc. Thank you!

Her before look (ink marks all over etc)- I felt someone broke a blue pen and "bless" her with spots

Tanned Project 05 girl by Sam's Bits and Pieces, on Flickr

Disassembly

Tanned Project 05 girl by Sam's Bits and Pieces, on Flickr

Getting ready for Dye

Tanning project by Sam's Bits and Pieces, on Flickr

1st soak was a failure- She turned grey. This was no good, I rewash her and got another pot of dye

Tanning project by Sam's Bits and Pieces, on Flickr

I used Coffee brown and Golden yellow in my 2nd pot of dye

Tanning project by Sam's Bits and Pieces, on Flickr

Drying up

Dollfie dream Dyed by Sam's Bits and Pieces, on Flickr

By the time she dried and coated with MSC, it was really late at night..

Night shot with flash

New lease of life by Sam's Bits and Pieces, on Flickr

With her original eyes

My dyed little goddess by Sam's Bits and Pieces, on Flickr

Morning shot

Miss Tanned 05 in the morning by Sam's Bits and Pieces, on Flickr

With my Sasara

Miss Tanned 05 in the morning by Sam's Bits and Pieces, on Flickr

She will be heading to x3Ashley for face up. I still am thinking to redye her joints after sanding.

Thank you for reading!!!

And because I have two little guys in the works right now, might as well start with them.

These chubby tiny things are going to be a red panda and bunny respectively and it was my first adventure into the realm of airbrush. Not the cleanest work, but I decided to just roll with it and say the little particles are part of the look. The wig there is not cut and styled yet and I am still waiting for the material to do the ears and tails.

The other current project is technically already finished, I just have to see if I still have a wig for his big ol noggin.

Bonbon Galaxy did great work with that doll, the proportions are so cute and it is pleasant to pose and play with. I got the resin version, so it also has a nice weight.

And for future projects ... I caved in and grabbed this banged up DDH-10 from Manda today. I just really like the sculpt and what is already there from the mod, so I am looking forward to polishing and finishing this poor thing. Thankfully the headcap seems to have got it worst in terms of staining and that doesn't really bother me. I might also modify the eye faceup instead of removing it completely, but I will decide that once I have it here.

I purchased a UFdoll and the previous idea I had for it ended up going to a different head. Now I'm considering something else for it: Gear 5 Luffy. Because I'm a dweeb and I love him (I have so much gear 5 merch) but the thing is, this head has a sculpted smile:

So my question is: Is it possible or even feasible to give him anything like either smile below with ONLY paint. I'm not doing any crazy mods

Like has anyone done it without looking strange and can show me pictures? I'm not awesome at visualizing a lot of times.

Or do you think it's best I simply give him a calmer smile a lot of merch has?:

OR alternatively: do YOU have another opinion who this head could be?🤔

I will be updating this list as time goes by. In order to keep clutter down please only post with an actual contribution!! It will keep the thread more organized.

A proper post should have a straight shot and two profile shots from each side minimum. Additional angles welcome.

Mark your post clearly in this format:

Pictures

Mold name

Skin color

Default eye size

And example would be:

Pic pic pic

Mai Shiranui

Normal skin

22mm

This format answers most basic questions when trying to make a custom dollfie I believe. If you think I should modify the form PM me.

Here is the list of all limited models, any ones that share the same head mold will be lumped into one. Any limited that have been posted below will have a ☆ next to the name. ((Note all Sabers are the same head except Lily, even the new one coming out))

REI Ayanami

Nemu Asakura

Kasumi Yashiro

Sayaka and Kotori Shirakawa ☆

Nemu Asakura Sleeping version

Tamaki Kousaka

Manaka Komaki

Haruhi Suzumiya

Ayu Daikuuji

Mayu Tamano ☆

Estel Freesia and Feena Fam Earthlight

Konomi Yuzuhara

Yuki Nagato

Mikuru Asahina

Erika Sendo

Kiriha Kuze

Excellen Browning

Latuni Sabbota

REI Ayanami new/WS

Asuka Langley

Al Azif

Etheldreda

Airi

Escalayer

Kanu Uncho

Ryomou Shimei

Saber /Saber Alter WS/ 2nd alter /extra NS/santa/pendragon

Yoko Littner

Nia Teppelin

Nanoha Takamachi/Fate T. Harlaown

Ilya

Rin Tosaka/v2

Sasara Kusugawa /gothic ver

Louis

Mai Shiranui ☆

Mashiro Mito

Yuki Morikawa

Rina Ogata☆

Yui Hirasawa☆

Mio Akiyama

Sakura Mato

Maria Ushiromiya

Miu Amaha☆

Sakuno Uryu

Mari Illustrious Makinami

Reimu Hakurei

Marisa Kirisame

Saber Lily

Beatrice

Noumi Kudryavka

Neris☆

Airy☆

Sakuya Izayoi

Millhiore F. Biscotti ☆

Haruka Niimi

Lucy Maria Misora/princess☆

Sakuya/crimson

Rise Kujikawa

Cirno

Sakura Shinguji

Haruka Amami

Miki Hoshii

Melty/Christmas ver

Aoko Aozaki

M.O.M.O. ☆

Kosmos ☆

Asuna

Alice Kuonji ☆

Chihaya Kisaragi

Yukiho Hagiwara

Hatsune Miku/snow miku ☆

Yaya

Erica Fontaine ☆

Youmu Konpaku

Prisma Illya

Rin Shibuya

Ranko Kanzaki

Alisa/TV ver

Makoto Kikuchi

Sheryl Nome☆

Ranka Lee

Uzuki Shimamura

Sinon☆

Mio Honda

Kirika Towa Alma

Takane Shijou ☆

Arle

Kagamine Len ☆

Kagamine Rin

Anastasia

Yayoi Takatsuki

Iori Minase ☆

Freyja Wion

Kirito ☆

Asuna Titania

Emilia ☆

Ruler/Jeanne d'Arc

Sailor Moon

Luka Megurine ☆

2B

9S

Volks Standards:

Candy/Mirai

Towa

Karin

Liliru

Volks Akihabara:

Moe/Natsuki ☆

I use water color to do eyeliner and lashes on my doll heads, and I’m not sure how to make it look smoother, currently it all turns out really blotchy because everytime I stroke my brush to make a certain area darker it ends up sorta cleaning up the paint instead ;-; does anyone know how to prevent this?

I'm thinking about dyeing a imomodoll (when i purchase her) and I'd like to know your tips and tricks.

How did the process go? any recommends for dye!

I'm a total newbie to dyeing so give me your everything please!! T-T

I'm new to the forum and somewhat new to collecting dolls, hopefully this is the right spot to put this. 

So I recently read on some resin BJD forums/groups that just sanding resin for faceups requires a respirator + filters as well as sanding outdoors because the resin dust is toxic. I'm aware that you need the same respirator + filters when spraying MSC as well. But is sanding vinyl the same? It's really hard to find any people talking about whether it's safe/dangerous etc, only posts about MSC. Is an N95 mask enough for sanding vinyl or should I wear a respirator too? I have been wearing an N95 for doing mouth mods on my vinyl dolls, but after reading about resin dust being toxic I'm pretty scared of the complications with black lung and the like so want to be careful and make sure. Thanks all

The head in question is a Miko so it has open eyes and the decals I want to buy are these :

 : 

It's *really* not much to look at now but I'm hopeful that I'll be able to improve over time!

I’d love to know if anyone is willing to share any good tips and resources on fully blushing a DD body. Most of the tutorials I find are for resins and I’m unsure if the skill crosses over? She’s also tan but I doubt that factors in much? 

As a side note, the lovely lady I wish to blush has a silicone chest mode which I’m assuming needs to be airbrushed instead? I have an airbrush and all the equipment needed to use it but have only used it on gunpla painting forever ago for very basic things so I’m not very confident with it at all, lol. So I’d prefer to use pastels where I can! 

Thanks in advance in you have any tricks! Time to stock up on MSC. 😆

The thing is, I’ve always sealed the hands with Mr. Super Clear — sprayed about 15-ish times over the course of an hour. I’m not sure if I just need more layers, or to wait more between spraying. Or maybe MSC isn’t the right tool for the job? What does everyone else do?

I’m also wondering if it’s because Imomodoll’s vinyl hands do something weird with MSC that makes it never completely set…

First thing's first, I got lucky rather recently. Managed to get my grubby hands on a very mischievous looking Cat Cocoa head from Shoushou Doll and I already have a body for him in mind. I saw this head on a MDD body in DoA and a Imomodoll body here, so I planned on giving him one of those two (likely the MDD one since I prefer it). So I wanted some ideas on ways that I can put a resin BJD head on a vinyl body and allow it to stay. I want to know as many techniques as I can before figuring something out.

Thanks for any advice!

My first thought is to use an air dry clay? But I'm worried if I can't get it off if I ever want to change it in future. I don't know. Let me know if you have an idea