in the end, i didn't bring emily along for halloween. but it was a good thing i didn't because i would surely have lost her in the midst of the fun. i don't think i've partied this hard since i was eighteen. lol.
i'll let the pictures do the talking.
so while we started out all sober, posing for photos in the conventional manner, it wasn't long before we were all reduced to outlandish drunkards. and though i was puking my guts out by the end of the night, i say for next year's halloween, 'let the debauchery begin!' ^^
"J'aimerais Tellement"
"I would so much like..."
This thing I was missing.
But I don't have the words.
I disarm myself as if to tell myself dont be afraid to love me.
That strength I used to have.
Let me try.














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emily's completed - finally. she was a three day job. i'm glad i put good use to my days away from work - though involved in not so work related stuff. but those of you who've read my blog since a year or two back will know that i've been procrastinating against finishing emily up since forever. thus, it's actually quite a surprise that i managed to get her done. and all in time for halloween :) i'm thinking of carrying emily around with me on halloween - both of us in gothic lolita getups. i like.
so here, i present to you emily's new look.
total customization work done on emily:1) sandmatting with two coats of mister super clear matte
2) lip carving
3) eye boggling with sleep eyes
4) face up with gothic makeup - deep red eye and lip makeup, heavily mascaraed eyes, crystal accents at eye corner.
5) change of three eyechips to dark blue, silver and gold. left the stock pink chip alone since it goes pretty well with her new look.
6) wefted grey saran curls sewn onto scalp
7) charms on pull strings - red love badge and bird house charm
:)
i made a couple of miscalculations in my customization of emily. first, i didn't know there were different methods of rerooting. i always thought that it was a matter of getting either saran of mohair and hooking them onto the scalp using the lock and loop method. so i originally purchased a pack of light pink saran curls, and i thought that i would do just that. however, what i didn't realise was that the hair i'd purchased was wefted, meaning that all i needed to do was to sew it onto emily's scalp. well, silly me assumed that i'd have to separate the wefts to get the hair into bundles of 6-8 strands. you can guess how this ended up. by the third bundle, i realised something was majorly wrong and googled the way saran hair for rerooting was supposed to look. lol.
anyway, big boo boo aside, i'd wasted the weft of pink curls, so i headed to dollzinc @ wheelock to pick up more supplies. they didn't carry any skeins, but they had more wefted hair. i had my eyes set on a pack of platinum wefted mohair, but they only had one pack and i needed two for emily's head. thus, i picked up two packs of light grey wefted saran curls instead.
and so, with my hands on these, i began part two of emily's customization process - i gingerly sewed on the wefts onto her scalp. for someone who's not very deft with a needle and thread, i think i did a pretty ok job. there is one thing i'm not very satisfied with, but i managed to conceal my mistake, i think. basically, i sewed the layers too close together at the bottom of her scalp, such that i'd pretty much run out of hair by the time i reached the top, so i had to space out the layers more at the top. this wasn't such a good idea cos the wefted parts were pretty visible at her crown. anyway, after sticking in a bundle at the top of her scalp and spreading the hair out, it looked alright, but slight movements still revealed the wefts. so, i basically decided that i'd not give her any parting at all. instead, i combed all her hair back from her forehead and tied it in place. i think i'll leave her hair in this fashion permanently. lol.here are some pictures to show you the process of sewing on the wefts.
tomorrow marks the end of my five year relationship with jordan, my beloved siberian husky. due to the ridiculous rules governing hdb housing, i won't be able to bring my darling with me to sengkang, and so have to put him up for adoption. while it is for the better, seeing as his new owner is a zookeeper and widely accustomed to animals, i still can't help feeling sad at seeing him go. jordan's been a source of great delight for the past five years. he's ever attuned to my feelings, knowing to come lie beside me when i'm down, even placing his head on my lap in a show of affection and comfort. when i'm happy, he's all bursting with excitement, constantly nudging his wet nose into my hands for more embraces and kisses.
there was an incident a few years back when both zhen and elaine were over at my place having drinks. while we were engaged in idle chatter, a roach suddenly scuttled across my living room floor. you can imagine the shrieks that ensued, accompanied by the sound of us jumping onto the sofa to keep our legs as far away as possible from the offensive roach. then, out came jordan from his resting place. he deftly laid his heavy paw over the roach, killing it in one fell swoop. zhen exclaimed, 'jordan, you're my hero,' and the rest is history.
i will miss you, sunshine, for all you were to me. i wish you a better life with your new owner, one filled with more treats and walks. i know i've neglected you on more than one occasion, rarely walking you out of my own laziness. there'll be many more good years ahead for you, i promise. goodbye sunshine. you'll always be in my heart.
the final step i took at that point was to customise one pair of eyechips by adding gold foil behind the chips and painting the pupil and rim black with mr hobby paint. after all that, i was at a bit of a loss as to my next step. i knew i needed to give her a face up, but i wasn't decided on the makeup i wanted her to sport. and that was how emily came to be relegated to some far off corner of my shelf for a year or so.
today, i felt adventurous again, and thus decided to take emily out to 'play'. i'd previously purchased a packet of curly pink saran hair for the purpose of rerooting, so i began by removing emily's scalp from the flange. not a very difficult task, but i can already see how getting her scalp back into the grooves of the flange is going to be a source of much frustration.
using an unpicker, i slowly began to remove her hair. it was a long and tiresome process, during which i'm pretty sure i managed to build up some forearm muscles. but after some time, i finally managed to unroot all her hair. i then proceeded to paint her scalp a shade of dark pink to match the hair i'm going to reroot her with. i wanted so badly to begin the rerooting process, but found, to my horror, that i simply cannot locate my crochet hooks. :< i probably will need to pick one up later this week.
not wanting to waste any effort since i was in the mood for some handiwork, i decided to start on her faceup. first, i sanded her face again, cos it had picked up some stains from being put away for so long. then, i carved her lips a little more. when i was finally satisfied with the base, i started on her faceup.
keeping in mind that she was going to have pink curls, and i wanted her to be a gothic lolita doll, i decided to give her heavily mascara-ed eyes and deep red lips. i also painted her eye lids the same shade of deep red, and i'll work on the embellishments during another sitting. anyway, this is what i managed to accomplish, and i finished her faceup off by spraying her with two coats of mr super clear matte.
*some background info: ris low was crowned miss singapore world just a few months back, publicly humiliated herself on national tv, and lost her crown after getting caught for credit card fraud. and all this before the age of nineteen. youtube 'ris low' to see more videos of her. it's really quite hilarious.
the reroot was a pain to complete! took a lot of patience, but all worth it in the end. it... read more
on emily - customization part 3/3