One more post about the MIM doll for today.

We really had some fun playing make over girl. I am not very good at this type of art but it is so much more personal than just getting a factory face up. Doing this work truly makes her mine.

I finally did it, pierced MIM Taylor's ears. While I was piercing her ears, I buffed her with a cloth wheel and blushed her with my Conte pastels. I highlighted her washed out little freckles with my pastels and a brush. I put blonde eyelashes on her. I tried to get eyelashes on with Elmer's glue but I ended up just using the glue that is on the eyelashes when they come new in the package. The Elmer's is usually recommended because it is not a solvent glue that may damage the doll. The school glue just didn't stick to vinyl. Taylor is still so petite and pale, I can barely tell I did anything to her. She actually looks paler now than when I started. I had to buff her because I scratched her a little trying to pierce her ears. So the sequence is pierce, buff, blush, spray with Krylon Matte Finish a couple of times, put on eyelashes, earrings and matching jewelry. Now I hope I get the guts to do something like this to the Minifee. I think I got the Goodreau doll for 25 bucks, so it wasn't too traumatic to take out my Dremel and get to work.

The posing is so much better for her when she is not on a slick surface. Here she poses like she is about to run and needs no support at all.