Rebecca 
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That gaze 
So Sexy! 
Shini’s looking particularly gorgeous today matey… in a two cats circling each other sort of way. 
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Very nice 
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Thanks, dont know which is more fun the lighting or changing her expressions
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thanks, with that expresion ya dont know if shes gonna hiss or kiss
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Wych Hayzel (WM #160)
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FRECKLES!!!
I LOVE freckles
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Cheers DF, it’s the one thing that I can do well with the girls. Well, that and lifelke posing. Fingers crossed one day my other makeup skills and skill with a camera catches up… I’m still at the “take enough pictures and the law of averages means at least a couple will be usable” stage 
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I’m generally adverse to giving others advice on how to do freckles as I use three different colour Berol notewriter pen… Well, one colour, three different ages. Much to my dismay the 40 year old one that does the bulk of the background freckles is running out 
I’m currently experimenting with leaving the top off pens for varying amounts of time to reduce the ink transfer.
The problem is, its easy to get wrong and don’t want an angry mob brandishing pitchforks and burning torches turning up at my door demanding compensation for seemingly ruined £300 heads. I think thats why a lot of repair threads disappeared from UKLDF as its fine telling people how to use a hot spoon with babyoil on TPE but then you get it with both barrels when they mess up and end up with a pink puddle where their prized doll used to be.
On the bright side, like most makeup applied to TPE, in reality, with a lot of TPE blends freckles have about the same life expectancy of a first world war fighter pilot. A couple of weeks and the skin has consumed much of the detail. Two months and its pretty much disappeared completely so you have to start again. You can make it last longer by applying it heavier (longer contact iwith the pen) but it doesn’t look right with the freckles looking more like moles than freckles.
All the best,
Shamus.
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Excellent read @Shamus !
I used brown eye liner a few times. It was an okay result. Nice to get another perspective!
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Love those freckles - how do you do those?
She has a fabulous smile.
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Hi Jedzed,
thankyou for the comment. WM #414’s smile is infectious isn’t it. You walk in the room and get whiplash when you catch her smiling at you out of the corner of your eye. There are three of them here. Sandy (pictured above) who is in Light tan, Bambi in white, and Cherry in tan. For this head I favour the two lighter shades with the light tan being my favourite.
For the freckles I first studied freckle distribution patterns of lots of women (hell of a job, someone’s got to do it 
). Seems that there was a high proportion of quite pale red headed, green eyed women in that study.
You start to notice both patterns and non conformity such as the spread from the grouping at the bridge of the nose, the outlier freckles and the fact that heavy freckling is generally either non uniform colour or tapers off with outlier freckles and generally a freckle or two completely removed from the main grouping.
I use three shades of brown, the lightest is the most prevelant. one shade more orangy and one shade used very sparingly of a slightly darker brown.
The speed of application matters to get it right for the lightest colour I would estimate 6 to 8 freckles per second (yep, my hands going like a sewing machine when applying them) with very light fast touch starting close to the bridge of the nose and working outwards. The speed and very light touch is important so as not to apply too much ink to any one freckle.
My first practicing was on the base of a neck, then on a spare non Jinsan head but have to say this is scary stuff as I use berol notewriters dried out to the right levels so you are applying ink onto TPE and it would be very, very easy to ruin a head so this isn’t something that I would advise others to try to do it my way. My method works for me but then I apply their makeup with artists brushes and basically paint their faces with makeup so its what works for you. DF’s use of brown eye liner is a much safer option than the inks that I use.
Just add a quick get out of jail free card…
Note that the above is a statement of my personal approach and should not be considered advice. My method applied incorrectly can actually damage a head.
All the best,
Shamus.
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Thanks for that. I’ve been using FaceApp to add freckles for photographs, but of course, I’d like to see my girls with actual freckles. I’ve used markers on other parts of the bodies but never on the face. I think I might get a cheap secondhand head and give it a go
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Hi Jedzed,
I’ve been quite lucky on that front in that the Elves are always demanding new bodies. Theirs get handed down to the short ears.
I’m not loaded so often the “new” bodies are good quality second hand ones from people such as the core members here where the bodies have been used for photography but nothing else (I reccon about a third of the bodies here started out at Samurai’s place).
Often the new bodies come with heads that I would not have chosen so I’ve got a load of Irontech and 6YE heads.
In the case of 6YE I don’t rate the factory makeup (and hate that the lippy is melded on) but I’ve found that they can with a lot of TLC (and hours removing that bloody lippy!) they can be brought to life. For example, take a look at this one…
Then add a wig and a body to get to
She actually comes alive rather than looking like a doll.
Also, a few of the girls here I’ve bought kimber bodies for as head stands. I got a job lot of three damaged kimbers very cheaply. They were new but their boxes had been crushed in a warehouse accident. So, some of the short ears here get to enjoy the luxury of new bodies rather than Elvish hand me downs and I get Kimber heads to practice on. win-win 
Here we go, this is Georgie (WM #185 in tan) sat atop a kimber body
They know where they end up if I hear them utter “This isn’t from Jinsan”…
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Lovely shot of Hannah @Andyman65
Océane says Hi. 
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