Failed Attempts at Face-ups and How They Make You Feel

Aww.. I love a good vent. ^_^ Do we get to see pictures of the final triumph over evil staining when she is ready?

 

Did you seal the head before you did any work on it? What did you use to seal it? It doesn't sound like it did a very good job. Fortunately you were able to get everything off.

 

It doesn't sound like you are sealing the head! You need to seal the head before doing any faceup, that will help with not staining. Also use a Mr. Clean sponge it will work wonders to clean the head, and be very careful about using nail polish remover, unless you are using the Non-acetone type, you could also try 90% Alcohol that works well with taking of faceups.

 

And try not to use any nail polish remover - rubbing alcohol is much, much safer for resin.

 

Yeah I was gonna say that going by the way this is worded, you haven't sealed the head once before attempting a face up. Any time you do a face up without using a sealant first it WILL stain the resin. You are lucky that it came off. Always be sure to use a sealant spray like Mister Super Clear or Testors Dullcote, leave it to dry for at least 15 minutes and THEN attempt to to the face up. You can spray on layers of the sealant between parts of the face up so that if you get one part you like ie the lips and one you don't ie the eyebrows you don't have to completely wipe the face up to re do it. You just wipe the layer that went wrong, seal again and try again.

If you are using either of those and it's still staining the doll when you try to do their face up then there must be something wrong with the batch or something because the whole point of the sealer is to stop the paint and pencils getting onto the resin. But yeah nail polish remover is really not the best thing to use to remove the face up either.

I hope that this issue can be sorted for you and a good vent always does one good. Good luck with the future face up!

 

Well, I now have rubbing alcohol, which is doing the job nicely, smells better than the nail polish remover and doesn't do weird things to my skin.

I normally seal or prime resin before painting it (although bear in mind I'm far more used to painting horses than doing faceups!), but I honestly can't recall if I did or not these two times. But - just checked the can on my desk and it appears to be about empty, so it's possible I was incredibly absent minded and didn't notice nothing coming out of it And thinking about it, I don't think I did when I used the pencils

So luckily the head is clean now, I just need to seal and try again

There will be pics when I get it right (but none of the head before it got cleaned!)

 

yeah when the can gets really low..you'll get more air than sealant..

another helpful thing, get a mirror and when you are doing the eyebrows hold the head in front of the mirror so you can see its reflection.. our eyes play tricks on us and you won't notice if the eyebrows are uneven or not. also it sometimes helps to do eyebrow opposite your dominant hand first then turn the head upside down and do the other..it helps.!

 

Oh I wish I had a pic of my first it was pure.....crap.... for lack of a better word >.>

 

Well, since my girl is still on the way, I'm slowly starting to think about what face-up I'll do on her. It will be my first time, but strangely, I'm not afraid xD
Doing face-up is reminding me of doing a normal make up in many ways, well except the coating with MSC xD All those shades and eyelines and lashes...sounds like fun to me xD

But still. I didn't do it yet, so it can turn into really big fail. I'll see and report for sure xD

 

I don't have a BJD yet but will soon. Is there a special type of pastel, pencil, paint etc. to use on faceups? Also what do i use to seal it and remove it? Thanks so much

 

Ah, I still have yet to do my first faceup >_<
I will update when its not so windy out and I can get it done!!
Wish me luck!

 

My first faceup... my only faceup so far is on my girl, Hana/Hotaru. She's a Luts Honey Delf Pudding. Everything is splotchy, her lashes are horrible. Though I am proud of her eyebrows, considering. I don't feel bad about myself, you know? I don't think, "I'm such a horrible artist!" The only things going through my head was, "OMG! Poor Hana! T.T I messed up her face!!" I accidently smeared some black paint on her cheap from her lashes... and I convered it up with an X. >< She kind of looks like a circus girl now. T.T I'm so sorry Hana!

 

Oh man, pretty much all of my attempts have been failures to some degree. I just laugh and wipe and try again. So far at least it has only been frustrating once - trying to paint my Beryl. I was SO excited to get her home and thought, "Golly, I've been doing this painting face-ups thing steadily for almost a year, I'll get her blank! Then I can make her look *perfect!* " ...despite all evidence to the contrary, I somehow thought Beryl's arrival would motivate my silly hands into being talented and steady. She's currently wearing face #3, and will probably be on set of eyebrows #478920574839 sometime this week. If I ever get one that doesn't make me cringe, I will spam the holy ever-loving crap out of the gallery!

 

I've done three faceups on Yuriko, and I think I'm up to 2 or 3 on Kimimaro and he needs his redone again soon.

Although you can't really see it in this picture, Yuriko's blushing is horribly uneven and I think I'm going to try going back to the watercolor pencils next time for eyebrows/lashes because I just can't seem to get it right with a brush. I either don't use enough pressure and next to no paint goes on, or I use just barely too much pressure and the lines all look terrible. I also need to buy some more pastels, because the set I have isn't very good and doesn't have the right shades for anything, really.

Also need a better camera because blurry pic is blurry, but Mom's digicam is better than my $50 P.O.S. ... if marginally. Gonna try messing around with the film SLR we have and maybe one day I'll get decent pictures.


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Oh wow, failed attempts??....hmmm I can honestly say that almost every one of my faceups has had something go wrong but I either cover it up, adapt the error, or live with it a while until I can justify redoing the whole thing.

The failures make me feel frustrated, disheartened and annoyed with myself intitially but after a while I see them as a fate's way of making you sit back, slow down, and it keeps you from trying to get ahead of yourself. Plus it can also encourage you to try new techniques.

My list of failures include:- Overspraying Testors at the end of a faceup which resulted in a yellow lump of goop right in the middle of the doll's forehead, it also made the pastel on her lips run..the doll is WS too which made it worse!
:- trying to be smart by using way too strong a red on the first layer with the not so genius idea that adding flesh tones on top would make the lips look realistic when I finished....the poor boy looked like he'd been eating tomato soup.
:- changing my mind at the last minute and thinking black watercolour pencil would look be a great touch for the eyebrows right at the end of a faceup.....well it wasn't
:- spending ages painting scales with iridescent watercolour paint then having another not so genius idea of covering said scales with gloss without sealing first......the paint all ran and smeared....bravo me

 

My first face up was terrible! It was an Obitsu Haruka head, and I can't really say I knew what I was doing at the time. My friend and I still joke about that thing.

I've gotten a little better, but I'm by no means good. My hand just isn't steady enough, and I've had way more failures than successes. It's completely frustrating, especially since I have a fear of failure. I haven't attempted one in a long while ever since the time my work on one head (which wasn't perfect, but I was proud of) was bashed pretty badly where they thought I couldn't see it - no constructive criticism at all. I scrapped the project soon after and pretty much lost my confidence.

 

I just got my first "naked" head and have been looking at videos and such trying to figure out exactly what I need to attempt a face-up. Does anyone sell a "kit" with the basic stuff? That would be marvelous for beginners.

 

=u=;;; For monetary and other reasons, everyone gets their own tools. Please read the stickies.

 

Strangely enough, my very first face-up turned out beautiful but my second and third... they seemed to deteriorate. Maybe it was because they were on a smaller doll... I dunno. Anyway...
All my hobbies are art related and I'm not utterly outstanding in any of them so I'm rather used to that "didn't turn out as you planned" feeling. That doesn't mean I don't get frustrated with my constant blunders though. I don't really get upset if my face-ups don't look as good as I wanted, because I can wipe it off and try again, but having to start all over on a perfectly good face-up because the gloss stripped off every layer of pastel is a bit exasperating. All and all though, the thing that I feel the worst about is the waste of time, effort and pricey sealant.

 

I failed spectacularly on my first face-up but I saw slight improvements on my second. I still failed but failed slightly less... Watching my friend and all her face-ups has shown me that practice and more practice really does help. The more you do, the better you get, even when it doesn't seem like it. Cliche but true :\

 

v_v I am having the inevitable faceup-newbie feeling of depression-because-oh-god-I-ruined-her-head. I keep looking at the pictures I took of my Nanuri when she first came to me and I feel like I ruined her. T_____T someone gave her cute little teeth and I feel like I've destroyed them. And she's got scratches etc.

I finally gave her nice eyes and eyebrows at the cost of every other facial feature I was trying to put on. I know she's not finished yet and she could look lovely by the time I'm done, but right now I just feel rotten. Practice head or no. *headdesk/sob*

 

Ah, now thiiis I can relate to OTL;;;

First- the supplies. Apparently there is not a single craft store in my state that sells acrylic paint thinner.
And every single brush I've ever gotten FRAYS. Not after an extended period of use, because that I could totally understand. But no. This is after the second use- completely frayed.

This proved really troublesome when I tried something really simple- just give my boy eyeliner. Faaaaaiiill. It went everywhere, and to top it off I settled for some cheaper paints so it wouldn't come off no matter what and I ended up having to wipe the whole thing.

That, and I'm rather frustrated since I broke down and ordered acrylic paint thinner online (since it'd be about the same, if not less, than store brand and I'd be getting three times as much, and that's including shipping). Only the darn Amazon ~store~ I ordered from still hasn't shipped. I ordered four things AFTER that bottle and they've all ready arrived!

I'm currently in a maddening love/hate relationship with the entire face up process :C

 

So here is my failed attempt, it was my first, and then my second one were both fails. At least to my standards, I am really hard on myself since i do the art thing, and I try my hardest to make it the best i can. Like the second post to this thread was all too true, I cleaned off the default faceup *cries in corner*.

In which that was a major fail.

The first attempt wasnt too horrible, but with the bad lighting and the crappy MSC knock off from walmart (i know i should use MSC but i am poor and live in a small town) that specifically said it works on resin and acrylic. I used some powder oil free makeup, along with some soft pastels and water color pencils...

can we just say after sealing over it... it looked like a muddy mess... i was up til 5 am trying to do it, then clean it off.

Today (well later after 7 hours of sleep) i tried again. Again... muddy mess with a good nice blushing achieved though.. Had to take it off..

Then again i tried. Just doing the blushing thing, by this time I have the body blushed which turned out pretty well... but that damn FACE. my hands smell like acetone and resin and sealant (which actually aside from the acetone i do kinda like the smell of sealant and resin) and still do, its hard to eat finger foods... I did it this last time with acrylic paint, just keeping it at blushing since my hand shakes with paint brushes and eye brows.

It just frustrated me... so i took it off because it look cakey after sealing it...

The sealant kept getting sticky even after a while of letting it dry, plus i wasnt sure of anything and decided to do a crash course... still gonna work on it, but not 3 times in a 24 hour period. Moon's face is sore and he wont let me touch him with another brush U_U

 

So far I haven't done many faceups. I was pretty satisfied with my first (it took four attempts before I was truly satisfied), but it has received so many bad criticism that I'm thinking of redoing it, because if I'm the only person who likes it, it must be very wrong

I'm currently working on a full-body tatto (it's making me crazy... I've had to remove it completely eight times... Thank God is a small body...), and a faceup, which has been critisized because of his eyebrows... Which are not finished, by the way. I'm expecting another can of MSC before I keep working on it, and it will take a while, so...

But I get very frustrated every time my faceup is completed but not up to my standards... I'm trying to get a not-exactly-but-near effect (if that makes any sense) for the head, and I keep getting an odd effect... Well, I'll keep trying, I don't give up just because of this (I hope...)

 

Terrible. I felt terrible... Not only because I wasted a lot of MSC and I'd have to travel some ways in order to obtain some more, but because I kept messing up, making things turn out the way I hadn't expected it to. And it feels like everything I try to do these days, I have to do twice in order to get it right... I guess it's good though, because I'm learning...? :/

 

@Shikatani You shouldnt let others really get you down like that! If you like it then that should be good enough for you. Just keep at it and if you are happy with it then dont take too harshly to others opinions.

 

I've been doing my own faceups for over five years now, and I change my dolls faceups pretty frequently. You'd think I'd be an expert by now, right? Flawless eyebrows, wispy lashes and all that? WRONG.

Five years of practising have brought me to a point where most of my faceups still look pretty amateur. Sometimes I luck out and produce a faceup that looks more finished and sophisticated, but more often than not, my eyebrows are too bushy, and my lashes look clumpy and way too heavy. The only thing I'm pretty confident in is my blushing.

The thing is... Often I like the faceups anyway, because while they may not be perfect, they give the doll the character that they were meant to have. But I still sort of feel bad, as if I'd somehow damaged or de-valued my dolls with my faceups. And I know that's stupid, because they're my dolls and if I wanted to paint clown faces on them and were happy with it, that would be well within my right, right? Besides, faceups can be removed.

Still, I can't help but feel a bit defeated that I'm just not improving much, especially when I see other people produce fabulous faceups on their second or third tries!

 

Thank you. I really like my first faceup, and I don't "really" care about what others thisnk about it. It's just that it would be nice for a change to hear someone say that they like it. Or at least offer some improving criticism (other than plain "redo it", I mean)

Did you really use acetone on your doll? Isn't it bad for the resin? Did you use a layer of sealant before blushing? Or maybe you just sprayed the MSC too near the face. I had some problems with spraying from a short distance. Oh, and let's not forget about my wonderful luck... I started the body blush, got it perfect, and when I sprayed the sealing layer, it started raining. It took me two hours, lots of dissolvent, Magic Eraser and warm water to remove the MSC from the plastic (my little one is plastic, yes)

@Zest: Your brushes fray after the second use? That's odd, I'd try another brand. I had that problem a while ago, and I was reccomended this trick. Try washing them with some dish soap in warm water, give the final clear with cold water (the temperature from the fence should be okay), then model them while still wet, remove extra water with paper tissues and apply some hairspray. It worked for me.

@Keladry: I feel the same. But there are people with a natural talent, and the vast majority has to work hard. I'm sure your faceups are not as bad as you depict them, but we all like to judge ourselves thrice as hard.

@I_DekuPhantomme: Don't worry, if she's got nice eyebrows and eyes, she'll probably end up looking gorgeous by the time you're finished with her. Scratches can be sanded or covered, so don't worry. Post some pics once you're done!

 

Thank you. I feel a lot better about it now, so when I've got time and courage, I'll work on her some more. ^_^

 

Oh... things don't go my way so often I have developed a system for dealing with it:

1: The five-minute freak out. Put the doll down, don't look at it, get the "OHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGOD" stage over with.
2: The critical assessment: Where did I go wrong? Can it be fixed? Is waiting until tomorrow going to make it harder to fix?
3. If the answer is 'no' I always wait until the next day at least. Gives me extra time to think up solutions and better emotional detachment from the "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"

Most of the time, the doll isn't a complete disaster, and it can be fixed. Sometimes, it can't. But at least I tend not to screw up the same way twice...

 

I feel sad o.o I have drawing ability and what not but it isn't the best. I just started face-ups a couple months ago. This recent one wasn't so bad but my house is so darn dusty -_- little hairs would get all stuck in the msc

Looks good from far away (Rae- MNF Rheia)



but close up you see the spot(s) i try to cratch off the msc lol a do-over will happen real soon



I also did a face up on my first doll, a bobobie sprite. All epic fails compared to some of the awesome work here You guys are awesome.

Bobobie link- (Warning newbie thread!)

http://www.denofangels.com/forums/showthread.php?364436-New-face-up-AGAIN-BBB-Sprite

 

The hardest time I've had doing face-ups are the eyebrows. It's not really surprising to me since I've NEVER been good at drawing asymmetrical eyebrows, but one of my friends told me they actually prefer it when the eyebrows aren't perfect since it makes the doll look more human. This made me feel a LOT better about them. On everything else I actually had a fairly easy time with and I attribute it to this: While I do draw and paint like some of the people in this thread have stated, I also do make up on people. This gave me a really good understanding of how powders (like if you're using chalk pastels) will blend together or how they'll work if placed on certain aspects of the face. In the case of the lips I understood where highlighting needed to be placed or where an outline would really help the lips pop. The one thing I haven't been able to agree with is how blotchy/speckled the chalk will look sometimes because of the Testors we use. From not further away however it always looks a lot better.

Over all practice definitely makes perfect!

 

I do prefer my eyebrows not to be symmetrical too, because human faces are not symmetrical either. Nothing overly exaggerated, but enough to make them different. It depends on the sculpt, though, because in Elvish faces I'd rather have them symmetrical, to give a sort of "perfect" air. That said, my elf has got different eyebrows (l)

 

My eyebrows are never EVER symmetrical, but that's probably the one thing about my faceups that doesn't really bother me -- I prefer the less perfect look!

 

When I first started working with acrylics, I could never seem to get the viscosity right. The acrylic either ended up too thick or to watery. I was very close to giving up and going back to watercolour pencils. but when I tried pencils, I found I hate the grainy texture it would leave behind. So I buckled down and attempted to figure acrylics out.

My faceups are not amazing by far, but I'm getting pretty confident with my brush work now.

 

At the begining when i did my first face up, it wasn´t so bad, but i put a lot of layers of paint and pastels and watercolours, and looks like a whore -.-
I clean it, and start again, trying to not make the same mistakes, I think i improve a lot betewen first and second. but only in girls, the face up for my boy was a hell, I think I'm in the 4th try and I still have things on him i don´t really like at all :S
My first try,

My second try, more natural, And her actual face up^^

 

Wow you can really tell you improved! I thinks it's kind of the same way with human make-up though that first try I'd always the bumpy one.

 

I tried giving a few of mine new faceups but then I realized that I left my pastels in New York (I'm in LA for vacation) so all I have to work with is acrylics and watercolor pencils. I thought I'd give it a try with just acrylics (except for my grey girl's freckles) and this is how it turned out.

Stain (orange hair) and Syvastian (black and red hair) don't look too bad but I have no idea how Aroo came out looking like that. I was going for sweet rave boy and I wound up with murderous maniac. I wound up wiping all three of them, redoing Stain and Syvastian's, and Aroo is being sent out to a friend for a faceup tomorrow. I'll probably end up wiping Syvastian's new one tomorrow and redoing it again. I discovered that if you grate the colored part of the watercolor pencils really finely that it works pretty much the same as pastels.

I find it so weird that I can only do faceups on teeny tinies. With my puki it's just a slapdash job and it turns out looking great. On my SDs I can barely keep the pastel on and everything just turns out horrible

 

Don't feel badly at all. I - unfortunately - used my current doll to practice my face ups. I've redone her entire face at least 3 or 4 times, and still couldn't get her right. This, despite the fact that I've refinished furniture and vases and all sorts of other non-doll art. I was able to do one of the tiny Obitsu's, and she came out looking very cute. Calpurnia (my 1/4 BJD), on the other hand, always looked either zombie-like, or slightly whorish; her final face up was "acceptable" but not good. I think it's hard to face up something that looks so childlike. You want to make them look good, and cool, but not too adult. At least, that's my problem.

 

I think my big problem is that I do a lot of very graphic, stylized, and cartoonish art so I have to fight the urge to use big defined blocks of color. And I always end up getting pastel fingerprints all over everything and even kneaded eraser can't take them off.

 

Well I tried to do Ginger's face up three times before I gave up and commissioned it. It's really frustrating when you try really hard and you see so many other people doing them so well. Face ups take a lot of patience and practice. I definitely plan on doing tattoos on my girls though.

 

I have a good faceup story! After struggling for an hour over the eyebrows, I finally got something that was uneven but I could live with it. I went to spray the final coat of sealant- and I must have overdone it because the right eyebrow started to melt, the colors running down her face. Just the one eyebrow, nothing else! It was so sad and tragic that it became funny, really ^_^;
I did end up giving her a much better faceup a couple days later. At least the practice paid off!

It's very difficult, not only trying to paint on a slick 3D plastic surface, but also using unfamiliar materials at a very small scale. Even repairing mistakes is tricky. But as someone else advised on another thread, starting with the hardest part (usually eyebrows/lashes) and then doing easy blushing stuff last definitely helps.

 

I always start with eyebrows because I know if I don't like them I know I can always wipe the head and start again. Masking tape stencils are a godsend for me, they make everything so much easier.

 

This is an excellent way of putting it. I have had some spectacular failures, but mostly due to a lack of focus and inability to keep the goal in mind. The eyebrows just sort of get off the leash and wander away...

 

Hehe, detail work is my biggest problem right. It currently looks like I took a crayon to my dolls face. ^_^;; I probably need to thin my paint better as well as get a smaller brush to do eyebrows and lash work with. Even though I dislike the two faceups I've done so far, I really like blushing, and find doing that part anyway, very calming. So even though I wouldn't consider them successes they were fun to do. And now I'm off to try my hands at it again on another blank head I have.

 

I have only done two face ups. I discovered that I love blushing, but I was really hesitant to paint the lashes and eyebrows. I actually thinned my paints a little too much the first time around D:

But I honestly can't say that I felt upset when it didn't turn out the way I wanted. I think I was more annoyed at myself because once I figured out what I'd done wrong, it was such a simple thing that I felt I should have known better.

 

i always think that lips look the worst and need the most attention on my faceups. i have done faceups on other dolls, and everything always seemed easy, until i got to the lips. they always end up looking like two pieces of tuna laying next to each other or something. :/

 

Wow, yeah. Mine was pretty bad, but I was pleasantly surprised at how fast I improved. What I found was that I could use watercolor pencils for detail work, and that was fantastic. But my earlier stuff was...bad.

Sorry if that's more nasty than you wanted! DX But I've greatly improved and learned how to apply fake lashes. They make everything better! (And a lot more difficult than I would have liked.)

 

;.; I mean I couldn't even get some eyebrows on! My first faceup attempt was messy and runny and ugly. My doll had to be washed repeatedly for days and afterwards I just brushed on a little pink for his lips and cheeks so he could look at least presentable before I could commission a proper faceup. Feels bad man. Definitely wary about a second try.

 

My first faceup was utterly embarrassing... The second, not so bad. Granted, I've better materials now and have done more research. They say the third time's a charm! (:
Found this.

 

My face-up failures are phenomenally hilarious, in honesty. I'm artistically retarded so it's going to take a lot of practice and although each attempt is less ridiculously awful than the last they're still... pretty bad. My first face-up... well.... let's just say I learned that Obitsu heads and Watercolours don't mix >.>;; Back when I was a complete derpface and didn't realise that the sealant was to protect the head lol. It has left a lasting reminder of the terrible beginnings though, which is actually kind of nice. Because I can look at it and go 'OH GOD WHAT WAS I THINKING' and do better in future, lol.

I've learned that eyebrows and eyelashes are easier with pencil, that blushing isn't as hard as it looks and that I have absolutely no concept of colour-coordination whatsoever I think, though, that the more I create monstrously bad face-ups the more I will learn from them. If it were simply a case of them needing tweaking I think I'd be a lot more lax with bothering to try and improve but this way I'll be able to work hard to perfect my (minuscule) skill until I can create something beautiful rather than just having something passable and think that it'll do.

 

Thus far, all my attempts at face-ups (7) have been failures and they leave me feeling pretty embarrassed. I start to doubt that I have any business attempting them in the first place. However, I love doing them and want to be a face-up artist - so I keep at it. I try to tell myself it'll probably still be another 15 face-ups before they start looking ...okayish.

 

For me it's always the eyebrows in that, every time I use a masking tape stencil it always ends looking.. rickety (for the lack of a better word), not smooth like the ones in tutorials. And it's always the left one that looks better than the right one. Ehehehe. Four face-ups in and I still can't do eyebrows. XP

Most of my attempts at face-ups are usually kind of fails anyway in that it's not what I have in mind for the character, but it looks normal and presentable, or looks right for awhile until I get better. That or I make newbie mistakes like not spraying before doing anything else.

While fail attempts at face-ups are rather disheartening for me at first after awhile, I sort of get use to it and then either find the funny side of it or feel happy that I'm at least getting better in some areas (well in my opinion anyway). For me, I'm kinda getting use to the fact that fails are normal for me in face-ups and starting to see them as experiments/trial and errors. See good points and repeat what I'm doing and leanr from the mistakes. Which is why I photograph most of my attempts as a way to remind myself how I did those face-ups and see what is consistent about them.

So far, I can body blush and do lips. Cheeks, ears and eyes are my weak points and eyebrows are the massively frail points. Hopefully by my tenth face-up I'll be brave enough to actually start making my doll look like his actual character.

 

Like many others I have problems with eyebrows ^^; BIG problems. Usually I wipe them off so many times that I end up having to reseal the poor doll. I also have problems keeping the blushing nice and smooth. Often I find that I seem to have forgotten to blush great chunks of the face, or the blush has just... vanished! Bizarre.


This was the first faceup I ever did, about two years ago. The eyebrows are halfway up the forehead, I went way overboard with the rim of the eyelid, and I didn't let it dry properly before putting on another coat of blushing so it looks as if he's fallen head-first into a bowl of bolognese. Not to mention the hideous placement of the eyes or the weird camera angle.
>ducks head in shame<

 

I think if this happened to me I would switch to a different brand of pastels and see if that made a difference. What sort are you using?

 

I did my first face-up on a really tiny off topic doll and like a lot of people the eyebrows, the eyebrows, the eyebrows! Like another person mentioned it got to the point where I wasn't really feeling like I wanted her anymore. After a month with that face-up I decided to try again. I'll have to say, a really tiny paintbrush (that I ripped half the bristles out of), a lot of patience, some q-tips, and some flow medium made all the difference. I used the q-tip to take the right eyebrow off at least 10-15 times. Now I love her so!

 

I'm glad I'm not alone when it comes to eyebrows...eyebrows are still a pet hate of mine, and if I can avoid them I won't add them myself because of bad early eyebrow experiences. Sure, I've had little smudges...easily fixed, and specks of dust caught MSC where I learned the true value of patience and toothpicks, eyelashes that just don't want to stay in place...but my eyebrow experiences have left me with eyebrow trauma that made me almost give up on face-ups altogether and believe I just wasn't good at doing face-ups and that this was something better left to those better skilled in such areas. However, I still haven't given up yet!

 

All it really takes is time and lots of practice! I started on a liv doll, and after about 7 faceups on her, I've just now started to get a little better ^^