I was both nervous, and excited to buy my first official Blythe doll! She is the 2011 Rainbow Sorbet Neo Blythe, and she had never been removed from her box. I bought her in 2012, and I hung on to the box til this day purely for sentimental reasons. She was so gorgeous!
Story fell in love fast! They were two peas in a pod!
I actually shied away from working on Trixie for quite a while, and even purchased another doll beforehand. But, in 2014 I finally got to work. I still kept the carving very simple, shaping her lips, her nose, and her philtrum. I kept her original lashes, but used patterned vellum paper with modge podge to dress her eyelids up, and gave her sleepy eye.
What I was most excited for with Trixie was her piercings and her skull eye chips! To be honest, I am completely aware that I did not do a very good job on her face carvings. But I still very much love her and her unique personality. 🙂
Her hair… was a failure. I don’t quite understand what I did wrong here… I followed all the directions and used the right dye products that you tube videos told me to, but I just couldn’t pull it off. SO… I gave up and painted her hair with acrylic paint. Really though, with the cut I gave her, and with the rest of her features, her overall hair style turned out well and fits her just fine!
I love Trixie just how she is… but I may possibly go back at it to try and correct some of her sharp lines. In person you can’t see them as much as you can in the photos. but they still bother me a little. We’ll see!!! All I can do is keep learning, keep practicing, and hopefully get better!
Together we Blythe 