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DOLL FAQ

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:bulletred: :bulletred: DOLL FAQ :bulletred: :bulletred:


What are these dolls?

They are called Ball-jointed-dolls (BJD) and they come from different asian companys - from Japan, China or South Korea for example. You can move every part of their body because of their ball-joints and elastic strings inside their body. They have wigs, changeable eyes and if you want you can change or remove every part of their body too. And of course you can give them their own style with selfmade make-up (called face-up). Also usually they are anatomical correct with every part of their body, so it's a shame to compare them with Barbie dolls!

Are your Dolls for sale?

We don't sell any dolls. They are our own collection, so please don't ask for selling them! Thank you for understanding!

How tall are they?

There're so much different sizes. For example you can find very tiny dolls (about 10cm), Yo-SD (about 25cm), MSD (about 40cm), SD (about 60cm) and also you can find dolls taller than 70cm, so we saw dolls with a height of 90cm too! Our Dolls are 21cm - 68cm.

How much do they cost?

You can find Dolls in different price categories. The companies make their own prices, you can get BJDs for about 100$ (tiny dolls), but there is no limit for taller dolls.

Do you take Face-up commissions?

Usually Michi only takes commissions from Germany (and sometimes friends in Europe). But at the moment she has a break for rework our own dolls.

What do you use for your Face-ups and Tattoos?

Michi works with watercolor (aquarelle), pastels and sometimes with acylic, but everything have to be oil-free! Clear acylic paint (from Tamiya Color) for shiny lips and eyes. Mr. Color Thinner for removing the old face-ups. And Mr. Super Clear FLAT (MSC) and Purity Seal for fixing face-ups.

And what do you use for Monster High and Pullip repaints?

MH/Vinyl dolls - acetone-free and oilfree nailpolish remover for removing the old color, MSC flat for sealing before and after painting, soft pastels and aquarelle/watercolor. Everything oil-free of course too.

Pullip/Blythe - superfine sand paper for removing the old colors (no thinner or nailpolish remover please!), MSC flat, soft pastels and aquarelle/watercolor pencils. Everything oil-free again.

How do you do Face-ups in detail?

At the moment we don't have a face-up tutorial yet, but we really can recommend AndrejAs YouTube Channel! She's a fantastic Face-Up Artist and answered most of the usual questions in her Videos. Please take a look: Link

Where do you buy your Dolls and Clothes?

We buy our Dolls direcly from the manufacturer, middlemen or on second hand markets. No Recasts! We support the original artists! Clothes we usually buy on Ebay or other BJD online stores too. For example: SW&Doll, Tatas Paradise, Alice Collections. But also we sew some things by ourself!^^

Where do you buy your Dolls wigs?

www.eluts.com/
www.leekeworld.com/
crobidolls.com/index.php
www.lichtbjd.com/

How you get into that Hobby?

We have always watched Animes and read Mangas. So since a very long time we love Japan. And also we love to collect Manga PVC Figures and some day we saw many photos of these beautiful dolls in the internet. We always dreamt about having such a doll too, but as you know they are so expensive. But we've got many informations about sizes, prices and price differences and since the beginning of 2011 we have our first own Dolls too! :D

Can I use your photos as stock/reference?

No. Usually we don't give permission to use our pictures in any way, especially not for commercial use. We only take photos for fun and sharing with you, please understand our decision~ We tolerate it when they are credited and linked back to us. But if you find stolen photos (on tumbr, FB, ebay or other websites) without crediting, please report them, that would be nice! Thank you!^^

If you want to learn more about these dolls please visit Wikipedia or use Google.

Thanks for reading! :dance:


Clipsy & Michi (prettyinplastic)

:iconclipsy82: & :iconmi-chi:
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Interview

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Hi dears! :heart:

It is such an honour for us that we had the chance to be interviewed by Setsuu! He's a long-time BJD admirer and with writing this blog and doing interviews he keeps on saving for the first doll^^
Please visit his blog: ball-jointed.weebly.com/ :heart:
And the interview with us can be found at: ball-jointed.weebly.com/blog/i…

Thank you a lot again for all the nice praise, although we really don't feel that popular and there are a lot other BJD collectors here that are much more popular than us... But we're happy we could help you to discover the world of ball jointed dolls! :heart:

Clipsy & Michi

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Hi dears!

Is anyone going to DollismPlus in Hong Kong this weekend? Please visit MASKCAT and their gorgeous dolls! You can see all Maskcat Dolls there, also you will get 5% discount for dolls and 20% discount for items too.^^



More Info about HKDP: www.dollheart.com/news/dollism…

CLipsy & Michi

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Hi dears!

We're coming to Dolliverse in The Netherlands on June 29th and we're bringing some Maskcat stuff for you! Here's a list with prices! (But please note: Reservation time is over!)

1/3 heads - 100€ (Face-up by Michi: +30€)
www.maskcatdoll.com/13dolls.ht…
- Ruolan Human in normal + pink skin
- Xilv Human in normal + pink skin
- Nerine in pink skin 2x
- Nerine in normal skin
- Ruolan Elf in pink skin *reserved*
- Xilv Elf in pink skin *reserved*
- Nerine in pink skin *reserved*

1/3 girl body in pink skin (can choose head) - 380€ without Face-up (or 410€ with Face-up by Michi)
www.maskcatdoll.com/m13dbody.h…

Tinies - 130€ (Face-up by Michi: +25€)
www.maskcatdoll.com/specialsiz…
- Aruna in pink skin
- Belina in pink skin
- Ceci in normal skin
- Ceci in pink skin
- Aruna in pink skin *reserved*
- Aruna in normal skin *reserved*
- Belina in pink skin *reserved*
- Belina in normal skin *reserved*

Moon House Doll (new Sub-Brand of Maskcat, presented and painted by charmingdoll):
www.maskcatdoll.com/moonhouse.…
- Aaron head 2x
- Abel head 2x

Mmi Outfits (7x various designs for Tiny+Pullip+Blythe size) - 12-19€
www.maskcatdoll.com/mmioutfits…

We also will have some Tiny Boots, 3x new Maskcat SD wigs, headbands and necklaces!

We would be happy to see you on our booth! Let's have a great day together! :heart:

Michi & Clipsy

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We wanted to write about this issue since awhile. But we accidentally found an anonymous confession on tumblr. So now we want to try to explain why we post photos of Maskcat dolls so often and do advertising for their website!

It's because we are a part of the Maskcatdolls company! It's our task to do the advertising for them! Banyo (the sculptor of these dolls) contacted us october 2013 and offered us a job! We decided to do it for free, although she offered to pay us. So we're very sad to read people think they're annoyed to see so much photos of Maskcat dolls in our galleries.

Also, if you google "Maskcat" or "Maskcatdolls" you only find official pictures by Banyo and pictures taken by us. It's because Maskcat is a very new company and not much people have bought their dolls yet. And you know a lot of people are lazy to take photos. So please don't be annoyed, just wait awhile until more people have their dolls too!

Thank you for reading! We hope you can understand it a bit better now!


Michi & Clipsy

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