Modification Baby's first rhinoplasty: nose complete May 5th

Heya!
This is my first ''drastic'' mod, as I've never done anything crazier than the usual maintenance stuff. Hopping straight into modifying the face is certainly nerve wracking

Spring has sprung, and face up weather is just around the corner! That means I have to prepare my blank faced dolls for painting! First up is my newest girl Monday doll Zhizhi, who is otherwise perfect, but her side profile... it just didn't sit right with me. It's extremely concave, and as someone who adores big noses I just had to do something about it.

Spoiler: Here's the before picture!

First I edited a mock up to act as a guideline for how I'd like her nose to look like on the side. I wanted the nose job to affect her face as a whole as little as possible, just make her side profile more appealing to me.

Spoiler: Here's the mock up

And then I procrastinated for a week because I was so nervous about this project But today I finally managed to take the first steps! So far I've added mass to her nose with Milliput superfine. I'll sand it smooth tomorrow and see if it needs any additional mass. I'm hoping to do as little of correcting my own mistakes as possible, but knowing myself it'll be ten rounds of add Milliput, sand out mistakes, add Milliput, sand, add Milliput...

Spoiler: More pictures of the current nose!

Now that I'm looking at it from pictures (with new eyes, as my grandma would say), I see that it's slightly crooked from front view ah well, I'll fix that tomorrow.

 

Hello!
Here's an update and some thoughts and pictures of the process
I ended up adding and sanding for about four rounds. I ran into some problems with the Milliput not wanting to stick to itself on the final layer, so I ended up with some tiny pores, but future me managed to patch those up with Liquitex basic acrylic medium while prepping the head for the colormatching. (probably not the most permanent solution, but I doubt it'll escape anywhere from between layers of Army painter)

This is about where I was satisfied with the shape and size of the nose, and from this point on it was just sanding, smoothing and then painting. So pretty much on the home stretch already!

I have to admit, I'm pretty proud of my paint mixing I wrapped the head cap in cling film and just mixed paints until I had a good shade and then added a tiiny bit of white to make it just barely lighter than needed, since acrylics dry darker. I circled the swatch that ended up being the perfect match.

And now it's just been slowly painting her face! I'm not done with the faceup yet, but I figured now's as good a moment as any to post the (so far) final update.

I'm very happy with her nose, and gosh she is going to be dangerously adorable

I do already have plans for my next plastic surgery, but more on that whenever there's more on that ^^

 

Thank you! I set out to have the nose look as "factory fresh" as I could, I didn't want her to have that 'obviously had a nose job' -bumpy look

Thank you both! The cling film idea came from plain laziness, I use it often to cover my palettes so I don't have to clean them, and when I was getting ready to mix the paints for the nose, I just looked at the paints, the head and the roll of cling film and a lightbulb went "ding" in my head