Tilt Neck Licca Bods

Tilt neck Licca bods with huger than usual boobs

I've been seeing these tilt  neck liccas on Flickr for a bit and wondering exactly where people have found them, Through some random incidental Instagram comments I finally spotted a two-for on ebay and won them this morning. The only time I will ever buy bodies for custom use is when they come like this, two at a time. That's how I bought my neemo bodies as well because one just costs too much. One of them I used in my Black Blythe custom, Castaneda. I still have the other one on my book shelf. It's still headless and throwing up a peace sign but I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it in the future. I only tried them for the first time because I knew they would hold spray paint well but to me they're more like poseable Emo bodies than anything. I like the subtlety of movement in Liccas more. And Takaras at least can wear a range of different shoes. But I do like the attitude effected by the tilt neck option in neemos a lot so I thought a licca with a tilt head could be very exciting.I just noticed though that these liccas (shown above) look a bit like Takara, Licca hybrids because like torsos never have boob that large and perky. It will be interesting to see what they look like in person.

I used to hate Licca bodies but now I think they are so freaking adorable. The only problem I have with them other than the fact that you can't successfully spray paint them (BOOOOO!!) is that it's hard for a licca girl to sit up on her own because the arms are not very sturdy. But I can live with that.
Stay tuned for some licca tilt neck fun!

Whitney Before and After

The original release of the Hollywod Blythe Licca doll had a matte face I believe. And then the second release was shiny. Or vice versa? All I know is there are two versions and my Whitney is the shiny faced one. I adore her to pieces but whenever I see the matte HBs I just fall apart! I love them. Something about that matte surface enhances her soft pastel make-up, serious gaze and just makes her look even more fabulous.

So anyway, I'd been contemplating spray matting her with the MSC for a while but thought I would have to figure out how to take her apart first which I am terrified of doing. After seeing a couple of fabulous matte HBs in Joey and Ole's photostream I just said that's it! I'm going to just do this! I stuffed paper around her eyes, wrapped her body in plastic and her hair in paper towel. I sat her by the window an sprayed a few light layers over her. It was so easy and dried almost immediately! I didn't touch her until the next day though. I have to say, I love Mr Super Clear. It has worked so well for me so far and really does a great job sealing in color. And as I've mentioned before, the matte surface is a dream to photograph.

Mel's Girl!

So as I mentioned a while back, Melly Kay and I have been doing a commissions trade on each others Blythes, a face up for my Punkaholic Peolple Blytye, Hamsa and an AA custom for Takara face and back plates she sent me along with and ADG body.

I sprayed the body and plates this weekend and give or take a few issues with an overlap of paint near the eyes, it came out pretty great. I'm particularly pleased with my job on the glittery gold lips and have decided that I want to do glittery silver lips for my next custom Blythe! I already have a name picked out but I have to be careful this time to try and design her look around a central element of her customization. Like her eye chips or something.

As always,the ADG bodylike a dream. I would so love to get a bunch of ADG bodies wholesale or even one buy one the way you can get Liccas or Pure Neemo bodies on ebay, at least until I can figure out how to paint stickier bodies. I adore Liccas but have never been able to paint one successfully.

Neige Almost Done

Originally uploaded by Zanalee

Okay, she does look kind of cute here with the "Simply Mango" scalp. But I AM NOT KEEPING IT.
...I don't think. I need sleep. LOL!

I put Neige in a bathing suit because it has been a very hot summer weekend! I mean it is humid today. Okay so!

Poor Niege has given me so much trouble (the screws are not even in on her face plates here) that it's been hard for me to be nice to her and I do apologize for that. She was supposed to go on ebay but that is no longer possible since I cannot possibly put something so imperfect on the market so Neige is officially mine. I have another RBL on the way from Lena. I really wanted to use a Licca for her as well but it looks like I may have to get my hands on another ADG bod.

-Two sets of Neige's eye chips have to go. Probably the green and the blue. I want something warmer.

- I'm going to have to get rid of the Simply Mango hairs and tackle to harrowing task of hair replacement again but first I have to get the scalp out of that thing which snaps into the face plates on all RBLs. This may take a bit. Fun times...

-Also, I'm not sure I was ever a big fan of that lip color and may change it again. I'll wait and see how I feel after I change her hair before I did that though.

- I gave her sleep eyes and noticed that I boggled* her quite a bit more than I had intended which is fine. I like it.

*Boggling is when you cut a piece away from the back of each lid so that the lid rests further back and reveals more of the eye so the dolls eyes appear to be wider open basically.  When BL Blythes or Licca Blythes were released they came  boggled and exclusively with Licca Bodies.

I'll trade you my Licca for your ADG

THE LICCA BODY



THE ADG BODY

So I won this new Licca body for Reya on ebay, since the vinyl spray paint didn't dry well at all on the sticky legs of her original Takara body. The Licca body arrived at work yesterday and I could tell immediately that it wasn't the kind I thought it was. I thought it was just a Blythe Takara body without a head but it's called a Licca (that's the material it's made from) Takara body and while it resembles a Blythe Takara body, it's not exactly the same.

It's arms are not hard plastic but flexible and bendy and it's feet are bigger and it's legs don't bend in increments but wax like sort of like Gumby. And I don't even want to talk about those boobs. Please.

So I expressed my dissatisfaction yesterday morning on a couple of huge flickr Blythe pools along with possible plans to sell it and an inquiry as to who out there in Blytheland might have the body I needed.

Hello Jenny on flickr sent me a message later that night! She had an ADG (Ashton Drake) body I could use if I was interested, but wasn't sure what to charge. I said I'd be willing to buy it but that I could also give her the Licca body in exchange. We uploaded pics of each others doll bodies so we could each see what were getting and then made the deal for a trade. I love this!

I wish life was this easy. : )