Hope for Hope!

Hope is one of my three girls designed by the Australian artist Kaye Wiggs, she is MSD size which is approx 45cm tall, fully jointed BJD in 'sunkissed' resin.  She's lived here, from new, since 2012.  When she arrived I wasn't overly impressed with her default faceup, in fact I thought it was horrible.  The shading was very dark, almost black, and her lips were outlined in the same dark colour.

Arrival photo showing default faceup:

I removed the lips and redid them myself but left the faceup as it was because once the lips were lightened, so the shading didn't look quite so bad.  I also removed the horrible spidery eyelashes too and gave her some slightly softer ones.

But today I decided that I want her to have a whole new faceup as her default one really doesn't compliment the sculpt.  Hopefully she will go to Sweden in the summer to be repainted by a very talented faceup artist, who's work I really admire. 

I took some photos of her today in the garden with a lambswool wig that I made for another of my dolls.  Hopes regular wig has been stolen by one of my Gregors, so I will have to replace that later when she has her new face, if not before.

As Hope looks today:

Some other wigs I've tried on her and rejected:

Redhead - Monique Gold Geneva (I think) in Carrot Red

 

Brown - Monique Gold Ginger in Brown with Electric Blue 

 

Blond - I think this one is from Elfdoll and is synthetic or modacrylic:

And finally, this is how I would like her to look with her new faceup.  This Hope was done by the same faceup artist and the photo belongs to her, isn't she beautiful!