Old Hollywood Vibes

 As soon as I saw this robe on Etsy from DollsFancyWorld I knew I had to have at least one color for my girls. I love the glamour of Old Hollywood and this robe reminded me of that time period. The robe came in several different colors, but since  I just paid downpayments on the JS Go East collection as well as my balances on Bonjour Paris, my funds were limited so I chose to go with the pink first. If it's still available when my coffers replenish I'll probably go back for another color. I chose Nicole to model first, as she's new here and I wanted to spend a bit more time with her in front of the camera.

I should have taken my makeup brush to her face before I started the photo shoot.........the darker resins pick up every last bit of dust, but she's still beautiful.

I'm so thankful I was able to pick up this version of Nicole. She has quite a bit of attitude and I love her makeup.

Premier Nicole

 I came to the Jamieshow Muses collection later in the game. It was during the leftover's sale from the Summer Kisses collection that I first decided to bite the bullet and ger my first Muse (which was Summer Kisses Sasha). Once Sasha was home, I knew I was in trouble and that this line would become a focus for my collection journey.  My hope is that I will eventually own one of each of the sculpts in the line. Nicole was one of the sculpts I had not acquired yet. My favorite version of her was her Premier version, but she didn't come up for sale very often, so I had no illusions of being able to add her. My hope was that eventually there would be a version of her that I would like as much.  Last week, the opportunity arose to add Premier complete as she came, and I jumped on it, even though the timing wasn't the best with balances for Bonjour Paris due and preorder deposits for Go East due as well. I'm not sorry! She arrived yesterday and is really lovely.

I chose Look 6 from the Enchanted collection for her to wear in her first photos. It suits her really well. Nicole's resin is the darkest of the resin shades offered by Jamieshow up to this point. It is called "chocolate", and while it is a beautiful resin color, it presents challenges to photograph. (at least for me), I had to play quite a bit to get the white balances right.

The darker resins also show dust much more than the lighter resins due and sometimes you can't even see the particles with the naked eye, but the camera picks them up.

I'm really glad to have a representative of Nicole here in the chocolate resin. It will be fun to compare the three darker shades once Michael and Sabina arrive, who have two new shades of resin, Cappuchino and Mocha respectively. I love the variety with the Muses line.

The Power of Paint

The 2022 fall/winter collection of the Jamieshow Muses went up for preorder this past week. The men are sitting this go around out, which I would have thought was a good thing for my budget, but I'm finding it REALLY hard to narrow down my choices among the 6 women in the offerings this time. We have three new Muse sculpts this go around: Natalie, Lan and Sakura. The other three offerings are Bella, Sasha and Lilly. Upon first glance I thought I would go with the three new sculpts, but as I noted in my last blog entry Bella called to me LOUDLY, so she will be coming home. I'm also having a REALLY hard time convincing myself that I don't "need" Sasha. Below are the 6 new lovely ladies in the Go East collection. Promotional photo is by Jamieshow/Owensu.

As mentioned above, upon first glance I thought I could pass on Sasha as I already have two versions of her, Summer Kisses and Dangerous Love, but this Go East version of her is so "soft" by comparison. It almost doesn't even look like Sasha. Below you can see the two versions I own compared with the new Go East version on the far right. VERY different, right? Just goes to show the power of a face up.

I'm thinking I may just have to bite the bullet and preorder her anyway, or I might live to regret it when the actual owner pictures start showing up. In the meantime I got Dangerous Love Sasha out for some new photos today. She's a very sultry version of Sasha. In these shots she's modeling a gown by Santiago Lopez (on Etsy).

Sasha isn't my favorite Muse sculpt, but she is very expressive and I do really enjoy photographing her.

Bella

 Just a bit of fun playing with Bella today. She wasn't a doll that was on my radar at all when she was introduced in the 2021 Jamieshow Fall/Winter Dangerlous Muse Doll Collection. I looked at her promos and thought, she was an easy pass. As is often the way though, when she was delivered and new owners started sharing her on the boards I had regrets that I didn't fully realize her potential from her promo shots. Luckily I was able to pick her up in the leftovers sale. Over the past year, she has become a doll I reach for often to photograph. Ginnie still remains my favorite Muse sculpt (on the Femme side), with Alexis close behind her, but Bella is a firm third place for me. When I saw the new version of her released in the most recent Go East collection for Fall/Winter 2022 I was immediately drawn to her (and she WILL be coming to live here.) Not going to make the mistake of passing on her this time and living to regret it. Today I decided to get Bella out to model the last outfit I have from the Enchanted collection, that has not been photographed on a Muse doll. Look 6. Look 6 is a frothy confection of cream lace.

This outfit wasn't on my radar when the Enchanted collection was released either and I didn't preorder it. The promo shots had a huge head piece that wasn't to my taste. I also ruled it out thinking the skirt might be too big.  Below photo by Jamieshow/Owensu.

When it was available in the leftovers sale, and I had a little bit of leftover funds to be able to purchase it, I took a chance thinking it would look good on Ginnie with her tan skintone, or maybe Sabina, who is coming from the Bonjour Paris collection. I had every intention of letting Dangerous Love Ginnie model it first, but she's currently wearing the green caped gown (Look 13) also from Enchanted and I like her in it so much I didn't want to change her. I started looking at the rest of my girls and thought since Bella has become my resident redhead, that maybe she would pull off this gown well. I do think she looks quite stunning in it.

Since I didn't purchase any of the headpieces I wanted a wig with a little volume on top, and I think this one fits the bill nicely.

With Bonjour Paris collection due to arrive at the end of this month, I wanted to get the last of my Enchanted items photographed in order to be able to fully enjoy the Paris collection as it arrives. Come to think of it, I still have an outfit from the Dangerous Love collection that I was saving for the fall to photograph. Hmmm..............guess I need to look around the dollroom to see which of the girls might like to model that one. In the meantime, one last parting shot of Bella.