08-25-2016, 04:53 AM
If you've known me for any length of time, you probably didn't even know I *had* a Xiao Fan. I've had her for many years, and I have literally one photo that suggests that she came to PUDDLE with me a couple of years ago, but I never really warmed up to her look. I scrolled through *pages* of custom Xiao's on the forums, mournfully wailing "This girl doesn't look good in ANYTHING!" because I couldn't find a wig/eyechip combo that made her green-tinged faceup bearable to me. So she hid in the back of my doll display for quite some time.
And then I made eyechips, and I needed someone to model them.
_MG_7213 by Raven Gemini, on Flickr
Well. I was wrong. She does, in fact, look good. In everything. Apparently, she had to steal Zephyr's RealChampagne Leeke wig to do it, but she looks pretty amazing in everything.
_MG_7216 by Raven Gemini, on Flickr
_MG_7235 by Raven Gemini, on Flickr
So... the long story is that I put ten different pairs of chips in her head yesterday. But the ones that I settled on (for now. I really love the brown ones too, which was a complete surprise to me.) were...
_MG_7231 by Raven Gemini, on Flickr
These ones! Isn't she adorable? I'm so pleased, it's like having an entirely new doll!
And then I made eyechips, and I needed someone to model them.
_MG_7213 by Raven Gemini, on Flickr
Well. I was wrong. She does, in fact, look good. In everything. Apparently, she had to steal Zephyr's RealChampagne Leeke wig to do it, but she looks pretty amazing in everything.
_MG_7216 by Raven Gemini, on Flickr
_MG_7235 by Raven Gemini, on Flickr
So... the long story is that I put ten different pairs of chips in her head yesterday. But the ones that I settled on (for now. I really love the brown ones too, which was a complete surprise to me.) were...
_MG_7231 by Raven Gemini, on Flickr
These ones! Isn't she adorable? I'm so pleased, it's like having an entirely new doll!