Soom Dia (Valentine)

I finally got some time to myself to paint my Soom Dia (and yes, I officially changed his name to Valentine). Soom Dia is such a fun sculpt to paint, it's very versatile.

The character I had for Valentine is a posh and sassy younger cousin of Lucien. Unlike Lucien, Valentine is neat individual with obsession of the fashion world. He loves expensive/ luxurious brand names and fine wines.

Here below is the WIP pictures I took as I painted Valentine. In the first picture I sprayed a few layers of MSC and painted the head with my air brush. I used natural colors (light brown & flesh pink) Then I seal the face up with MSC. In the second picture I darken the brow bones and lower eyelids with dark brown soft pastel, I also added a little bit of maroon to the brow bones and sealed it with MSC. In the third picture I used my paint brush and dark brown soft pastels to shaped eye brows, I also used kneaded eraser to get rid of my mistakes. Then I added light beige and white to create contrast to the upper brow bones, and sealed with MSC. In the fourth picture, I thinned out my soft body liquitex acrylics to the proper consistency and painted the eyebrows, creases, eyeliners, eyelashes, and lip lines. Before I sealed it with MSC I added Crobidoll's Pearl Powder to the face up so that it will have a slight shimmer to it. And then lastly, I glossed the lips (x3) and the top eyelids/eyeliners (x2).

Here is the better quality of the face up + brown lashes. And he's claiming this pair of Oscar Eyes (Winter Violet in 14mm). 

Look at those fabulous eyeliners.

Most of you know this, I'm weak against luscious lips and cute teeth. 

And now Valentine's is finally complete~

Thanks for reading, and tell me what you think of my face up. All feedbacks about the face up are welcomed. Till next time. <333

Welcome home, Vincent!

I've been quite busy these past months, but I'll try to be more active. Anyway, my Soom male Dia X-Mas Kit arrived on April 27th, 2015. I put him on layaway back in late December and PIF on March 16th. He was kind of an impulse buy in my opinion. Usually, I take months to convince myself to purchase a doll. However, I have a weak spot for Dia sculpts... those lips are just too tempting. Plus, my Doll Clans Kien floating head, Lucien, needed a body and I thought that once Vincent (still unsure if I will stick with this name) gets here he could share his body with Lucien (in my story they're cousins after all). Moving on, here is the box opening!

Looks a bit beat up, but thankfully everything was in perfect condition.

The X-Mas Kit comes unstrung. Soom did a good  job bubble wrapping each pieces securely. I also ordered a wig (Soom's idw1113) with him.

Woah, even in blank he looks drop dead gorgeous. <3

He came with Soom's silicone eyes, Soft Magenta-D08, elastic string, 1 big S hook for the head, and 2 small S hooks for wrists/ feet. I will need to buy a pair of small S hooks for him when I string him.

He came with Soom's old Super Gem body (3-Divisions Torso), which I don't mind at all. Less muscular than their new body, but still very nice. His resin was very smooth, no noticeable seam lines as far as I can tell.

These are the inside shots of his head. More rough than what I expected, all my other doll heads are very smooth and nice on the inside. I'm not sure if this is typical of Soom dolls since I have nothing to compare with. Luckily, I don't mind it too much.

Vincent looks sophisticated with his wig. I like the honey brown color, and plus points for softness.

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This is a comparison between my Doll Clans Kien head (made in 2013) and Soom Dia (made in 2015) These photos are unedited and taken indoors. Kien is on the left and Dia is on the right. First off, Doll Clans has more of the yellow undertone to their NS, while Soom has pinker undertone to theirs. Not 100% match, but fairly close. Dia head is also larger than Kien, but their neck size are the same.

It's not very noticeable here. Also, I'm unsure how much my Kien has yellowed since 2013, but he was kept in his box, bubble wrapped as if he was new since I bought him.

This picture is more noticeable when put them next to each other.

The neck and the head fits very well. And proportion wise, he looks great. With face-up and wig, the color differences shouldn't be noticeable.

Lucien stealing his cousin's wig.

Till next time~ ( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ