happyThis is Injeong, a lucky eBay find over the winter. She came with a horrible faceup (including gloppy Pepto-Bismol-pink lip paint), but also with the original special Dollmaster-release box, all her paperwork, and a copy of the Dollmaster DVD, which I had never seen. AmyAngel redid her face for me, and I think Amy really captured the "old CH" look that I was hoping for.
I was calling her "India" when she had the pink lipstick, but when she came home with her new face, she looked so perfectly Korean that I had to change the name. Granted, the Dollshe Aluminum eyes don't look as Korean as the rest of her, but I figure goddesses get to tinker with their eye color for fun.
Injeong's hanbok is from Sonokong, made back when they released the Rheia doll. I know this wig isn't quite right for a Korean traditional style, but it's as close as I could get with the wigs I have around the house right now.
Outtake (!@#*#$&!^ stray hairs!!):
I've been reading a mystery series set in North Korea, and one of the interesting background points is just how much traffic goes back and forth between the Korean peninsula and the Asian mainland (the former-Soviet-Union parts as well as the Chinese parts). In the far northern rural areas, at least as this series has it, it's tough to sort the Koreans from the Siberians from the northeastern Chinese--there must be some interesting (and pretty) genetic combinations.
I was kind of fascinated, this past semester, to find that one of the three Korean students in my afternoon remedial-writing class had both a Chinese name and what looked like Chinese features/build to me. I would never have pegged him as Korean, especially next to the two typically Korean-looking kids.
Edited at 2011-07-12 01:07 am (UTC)
Echoing batchix, there's a Korean actress Go Ara who has natural green eyes:
Genetic variation, proximity of the northeast Asian mainland, yup. Aluminum eyes, justified! *snerk*
You have to tell me what you thought of Dollmaster! ;) I have a copy of it, too.
She's a lovely treasure, and I'm so happy she's come home to you ^__^
(Hey, I used to run Andi's Home for Wayward DJs . . . maybe you're running Cynthia's CustomHouse Refuge?)
-- A :D
It pisses me off so much that the knockoffs/recasts have tainted this lovely doll. I'm glad you found the real thing and are showcasing her as she deserves.
ETA: not being able to take pics - that's my problem with Bitte! It's like I can't properly look at her through the camera, I'm so distracted by her sitting there in real life. I can't distance my eye, if that makes sense. So pics never, ever do her justice.
Edited at 2011-07-12 03:01 am (UTC)
I'm pissed off along with you--and on top of the knockoffs/recasts, CH's collapse has tainted the wonderful early dolls even more. I wish this hobby had more of a sense of its own history; one thing I love about Volks is that both the company and its loyal customers really are invested in knowing, remembering, and preserving at least some of the early work.
I will admit that I held my breath after winning the auction for Injeong, until she arrived; the auction smelled right to me, and usually I'm on target with those things, but the pictures in the listing were pretty bad. With all those knockoff/recasts on the market, I couldn't be SURE until I dug into the outer box and found all the original ephemera.
I'm so pained by the turn CH has taken. I agree re: sense of history.
You know, I hadn't quite thought about that before, but . . . hmmmmmm, what is it about Hypermaniac that makes us trust her even though pictures don't really show the dolls' full selves? MAGIC DUST IN THE RESIN! MAGIC DUST IN THE RESIN!
I can never take a photo of the image I see though the view hole. I makes me sad ;_;
I am completely thrilled with the way she turned out!
I just wanted to add that she looks perfect in her beautiful Korean clothing :)))
If, as I suspect, Injeong is a royal incarnation of Gwanse-eum, the Merciful One, Sejong will have to settle down and be a loyal general for her armies. I don't think he'll mind too much. ;-)
Minion, hff.
;-)
If Injeong ever wants that IpleHouse wig, please let me know -- I have it, still in its package, *and* the no-longer-sold IH hanbok set, which has sat in a drawer for several years, since the girl I'd planned for it prefers sleek leather and spy gear, as it turns out!
-- A <3
^_^
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What is the name of the series you are reading? I'm always on the lookout for new books.
The mysteries I've been reading are the Inspector O series, by James Church (a pseudonym--the author is supposed to be a former intelligence agent who spent a lot of time in Asia). I usually don't care much for the terse hardboiled kind of detective thriller, but these really grabbed me. Another good series, though longer-winded: Qiu Xiaolong's Inspector Chen series, set in Shanghai.
wow. I love her.