This project has been sometime in the making and feels like its taken FOREVER to complete.. (due to lack of hobby time, 9 month old baby's don't look after themselves! hehe) I almost gave up on it, but am glad now that I didn't as I can happily say my Tokidoki look-a-like is now complete (apart from no shoes) . Of course she is not exactly the same as the original Tokidoki doll but hey! lets be honest, who wants to create something that is exactly the same???
This gal is my first custom OOAK. Not a bad effort for a first timer!
To begin with, I didn't wipe the face off completely, I just enhanced her features and changed the lipstick colour
All the clothes are home made by yours truly. Tattoos are temporary tattoos with clear nail polish over the top to seal them.
The hair on this doll has always been in terrible condition ever since I bought her from the secondhand shop. I tried washing it several times, poured boiling water over it several times but nothing seemed to work! UNTIL I tried washing it one last time with an Avon shampoo that really did work a treat. Prior to using the Avon shampoo, I was at my wits end with the hair and decided to cut half of it of and flock the side...that way I only had half of the terrible hair to work with!! Its like there was glue inside the head and it had seeped out into the hair! I think I have read about other people experiencing issues with glue and hair also. Mattel, what are you doing to these dolls!
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| Before repainting the face |
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| You can see in this photo how stiff and stringy looking the hair is. VERY unmanageable! |
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Adding some flocking meant left less of that awful hair to work with!   |
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| Tokidoki whom my OOAK is modeled off |
