Faceups Iplehouse Face-Ups: Promo/Custom design Pictures vs. Actual Face-Ups

Well, this is not a default face up but a custom face up. I requested the face up of another doll for my girl.

My girl is a JID Soa with Bianca's type B face up with a more pinkish lip color (my request) they followed it perfectly



Hope this helps!

 

Storm's A face isn't very popular so I thought I'd give it a go as it was closest to what I wanted out of all 3 of his types. Though I have since changed it.


Looks much better in person, though my guy is Realskin and ther pormo is NS, the colors don't really change that much. I remember asking them before buying him if they take into account the difference in resin as the lips on the NS are very pale. They said they do make the colors darker according to resin tone.

Also I do have a B type Eva

All the B types I've seen on the forum and pretty spot on. Not in a Barbie mass produced kinda of way, I could tell my girl in a line up, but they all have the same basic face with slight differences due to different artists all doing the same face.

I recommend them myself having 3 Iple dolls and one on the way.

 

My Claude is a B-type. I think the real thing actually looks even better than the promos did. Most of the promo shots for Claude did a poor job of showing the eyebrows on the B-type though. The wig was always in the way.

My Sigfried:


Promo:



No wig (from his box opening):

 

But Claude is available...through Iple's CDS...

 

Here's one of Eva faceup C! Mine is peach gold as opposed to realskin. She's a nice warm color in person, she looks a bit paler in this particular shot.

 

Airike: I know that with custom face ups you can have anything but it would be too expensive to pay for custom face up if you only want a different eyebrow shape. It's better if you ask Iplehouse that question, they are quick to answer and have great customer service!

 

They want you to pay a custom face up price if you even want the eye lashes changed to a different color on a basic face up!
Crazy isn't it?
They custom face up service is very good though, I have one custom face up from them which is very pretty and very accurate to the photoshopped picture I gave them.

 

Here's my ws Carina with Iple's photo of the faceup. Her lips are a lot pinker than I thought they'd be. ...huh... with all the talk about re-casts lately, I sometimes wonder, since I bought her second-hand, but I got the box and certificates and all... and her makeup looks much like it the photos... except for the hot pink lips and the touch of blush on her chin... She's got nice hand-painting which is Iple-like. I'm just being paranoid... Cool that I could compare them for this Picture Request, though!

12-08-carina_basic_dt11a by aprilllee, on Flickr

 

Hm... with your Carina, the difference might be because of the difference in skin tone! It would make the colour show up differently, as well as the artists using slightly different shades depending on skin tone.

(She is lovely, by the way!)

 

Here's my Realskin Kamau with a Face-up B type:





The colours are actually the same as the original and the face-up is gor-geous! This is the promo picture:

 

Lahela with Faceup B

My Molly has several noticeable differences but the overall look is similar enough. Both Molly and Iple's sample are real skin. The biggest differences I've noticed are the length of her lower lashes (much longer on Molly) and the color of her eyebrows (a redder brown on Molly). Also, Molly doesn't seem to have as much glow to her eyeshadow, but that could be more of a lighting thing.






Great idea for a thread, BTW.

 

I think you're right. The realskin or peach has more yellow in it, which would make the pink go more orange/red... And the blushing shows up more on white, so it looks a little different. I've seen other ws Carinas with the same makeup, so they either just go a bit more pink on the ws, or it just happens that way... but it seems to be typical for them. Anyway... interesting to see how close the faceups are to the examples!

I was only being paranoid... the buyer had lots of feedback and I have the box and papers and all, so I wasn't REALLY worried. Thanks, though!

I actually love Eva and the SID body, too. I'm going to try and get her sometime next year...

You don't really want the super-shiny eye shadow... I have it on my Theo and often it shines like little white dots around his eyes, which is a little odd on a guy! (tho he still looks great).

I love Lahela so much. Yours is gorgeous!

 

Since my photos are large, and because I have so many, I'll just give you links:
SE Zera (A bit NWS):
http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/chimera_kite/5614541/970575/970575_original.jpg
Re-release EG Claude (LB resin):
http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/chimera_kite/5614541/966609/966609_original.jpg
EG Barahan (RS resin):
http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/chimera_kite/5614541/954647/954647_original.jpg
EG Claude (RS resin):
http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/chimera_kite/5614541/939788/939788_original.jpg
SE Arvid (LB and RS resin (error)):
http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/chimera_kite/5614541/924889/924889_original.jpg
http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/chimera_kite/5614541/923409/923409_original.jpg
CDS Eva (RS resin, NC face-up):
http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/chimera_kite/5614541/921848/921848_original.jpg
EG Lahela (RS resin):
http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/chimera_kite/5614541/920372/920372_original.jpg
SE Felix (RS resin):
http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/chimera_kite/5614541/833809/833809_original.jpg
NC Carina (RS resin):
http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/chimera_kite/5614541/823226/823226_original.jpg
NC Tedros (RS resin):
http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/chimera_kite/5614541/836104/836104_original.jpg
http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/chimera_kite/5614541/837924/837924_original.jpg
SE Luna (RS resin:
http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/chimera_kite/5614541/633602/633602_original.jpg
SE Akando (RS resin):
http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/chimera_kite/5614541/393995/393995_original.jpg
Apparently I don't have a good one of Akando. I should probably do something about that.

 

I have an NS Arvid with default make up


an NS EG Claude with default make up

His lips don't look quite as orangey in real life

And a RS NC Tedros with an additional tattoo I had done



here you can see his eyebrows better..an older pic.


overall I'm pleased with all of my guys' defaults. The one with the most variance is my Claude whose lips don't look exactly like the default

 

http://img.iplehouse.com/co_img006/iplehouse/etc/Felix_basic_dt11.jpg



Felix RS Faceup A

 

http://img.iplehouse.com/co_img006/iplehouse/etc/JID_kassia_04.jpg



Kassia NS Faceup A

 

Promo shot


My girl Phoenix


Elemental Guardian Bianca human version in RS with makeup C.

Phoenix looks quite pale in my photo but she's darker in real life. Her makeup also looks more orange in person than in pictures but she's still really pretty.

 

I am going to add pics of EID Special Edition Roger, because Iple did such a great job on his face-up, especially the expression, and you can see that with my Ravi, they followed thru in the real life version almost to the eyelash! IMO this is one of the most outstanding male sculpts that Iple has done so far. This guy just sends me into orbit and I love him so much.

Promo Pic


Ravi with same position of head as promo pic


Ravi close up to show the beauty of Iple's painting

 

Here is my JID Ryan (Circus version) Real skin default face up.


100_2792 by Lucky XIII, on Flickr

 

EID Bichun, NS, faceup A: Iplehouse did a gorgeous job on my Jusse, and the faceup is almost exactly what I expected from the A promo picture! In fact, I like Jusse's eyebrows even better than the promo picture's--you can't see this because of his wig, but they're a tiny bit thinner, which suits me perfectly. The only faceup detail that I didn't expect and didn't really like was the fairly heavy blushing on his chin. But it photographs well, and even after just a few days, I already don't notice it in person.

 

So youre wanting to get a Eva too? same here :3 thanks for putting up this thread, i cant wait to see others

 

Yesss... been staring at her for weeks now. I am hoping that I would get to order her for my birthday - not sure if I would want to use Iplehouse faceup or go custom but I just love love love her faceup C

 

Ash by Jen Savage, on Flickr
He's real skin on muscle body.


Larissa by Jen Savage, on Flickr
Normal skin with medium breasts.


Stef by Jen Savage, on Flickr
Real skin on muscle body.


Lee by Jen Savage, on Flickr
Peach gold skin on model body.

 

Yeah that's really weird! Though when I bought my Kyle there was no other faceup. And only one choice of body. If they'd had choices at the time I'd have gone for A but I like his faceup so it works out well.

 

I was kind of disappointed with how pale IP's Normal Skin was... I actually though there was some kind of mistake and contacted IP asking them if my any chance they sent me a White Skin doll instead of a NS, but apparently there wasn't any mistake... IP NS is super pale when comparing to other companies like Soom.
That made a lot of difference in the faceup as well.

I orderer an EID Arvid in B type Make-up

This is how my doll looks:
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* Depending on the light, resin color and faceup can look a lot different. I sometime edit the colors in my photos as well.

 

That was exactly my only gripe with Iple dolls, the paleness of the NS. They never seemed to look that pale on the site, but now most of the pictures does reflect it. I was used to Luts and Soom NS so it did seem very pale to me.
I do highly recommend the new peach gold though, much pinker than other company NS but still an amazing colour. All my Iple dolls with be peach gold from now on.

 

I'm a bit late to the party, but I'll add my Asa Type A faceup to the thread. She's pretty much spot on although my photography skills are dubious so my photos aren't a perfect representations of the colors. Unfortunately I didn't get any good pictures of my Bichun's factory faceup before I added to it. Think he was fairly accurate though. I don't usually order faceups from companies, but those 2 were my first bjds and I REALLY liked Iplehouse's makeup pics and luckily their factory faceups are close to the representative pics. The only other dolls I ever bought with factory faceups were an Asleep Eidolon Crystal mermaid which was pretty nice except for the extremely red chin (didn't look that close to the product pics though) and a Cristy Stone Siren head who's faceup looked NOTHING at all like the product pics and was one of the worst faceups I ever saw, even the eyelashes were really cheap and bad. Whoever she used to do her factory faceups was so awful that I was told $5 Bobobie faceups looked better than the one I got.

But I digress... sorry. Here's my Asa comparison:

 

Thanks Airike She's one of my first and still my favorite. Definitely hope the pics are of some use to others later on.

 

Here's Denzel--almost nobody has a Denzel, but he's so great in person--the promos make that Type B look very heavy and stage-makeup like--in person it's much softer. My problem is that Bryan has been out for a lot of photos, and the reds have faded a little from his lips and chin--I have been considering adding a tiny bit on top to refresh that color. (Reds fade easily in sunlight).

 

Thank you Airike! I hope someone posts a Shane here--I almost never see him, either! (and I would love to get one)

 

I have two akando's. Neither of them had the company faceup. On the left picture you can see a company picture of Akando, and on the right my two boys and their current faceups




And my Cherie, on the left the company picture, on the right her current faceup

 

When my Kyle arrives (any day now) I'll add him here, he's got an A type.

 

This thread is very helpful! I love the IH resin options and many more realistic face sculpts but the makeup on the promos is so very good that it is intimidating to try to think what they would look like upon arrival. This gives me much more confidence if I ever can bring myself to purchase something so very expensive. ^.^

 

labeth, I'm reading this old post and was glad to see the Eva comparison pics, as I have one on order with C faceup. I loved the peach gold and hoped her eyes would be the same as the pic. Were your Eva's eyes the same as the pic?

 

Face up comparison (DoA) by Jen Savage, on Flickr

Peach gold skin (medium bust), face up B with freckles.

 

LOL So was I and here he is!



It's hard to find a picture of Kyle without hair all over his face, but this is how it looks in real. Here's Jeff, he's Peach Gold, I think the promo pictures are Real Skin but you can see how they match the tones to the skin.... I mean resin!

 

Thanks! I took that picture specially for this thread.

 

Here is the Promo shot


And my girl Ember with B faceup and small bust in NS. Personally I like how her faceup looks compared to the promo photos even more.

 

So is it safe to say you never what kind of Faceup you will end up with when buying and choosing makeup types?

 

No I think it's safe to say the face ups are very accurate. The only difference really is that the photos on the site tend to be highly saturated so the real thing looks lighter. I've posted a couple of side by side photos that show how true to the site's stock photos they were.

 

What it boils down to is the promo pics tend to be either more artistically enhanced and/or you can't quite always rely on you own computer monitor ... there are tons of warnings/disclaimers on probably every site 'somewhere' that "colors may not appear the same due to monitor settings" or something like that at least.

Many promo shots are done with 'mood lighting' makeup for that will look way different than in ordinary daylight. Think of this... you wouldn't be caught dead wandering around wearing what is used for theatre makeup on the streets. Theatre make up shows normal only under stage lights... same idea. Even changing hair or eye color could make it 'seem' different...
One way to know that your doll will look different is ... is the stock pic heavy with mood lighting? if yes then what you see there will seem different than what you get... but it's not really. It's like the difference of a pic with... or without flash.