This was my latest comission, I was sent the anime picture and was told it was going to be a Star Darlings Sage so I …

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This was my latest comission, I was sent the anime picture and was told it was going to be a Star Darlings Sage so I …
How to make a pastel rainbow Licca!
Here are the measurements if you’d like to make your own.
(This will work with castle/new gen Licca heads with a slight redraw of the front line of hair for a more modern hairline. See side picture of the bald head.)
So far each colour band (front + back) has taken me 1h30 with the tool method.
The pencil rubs off during the reroot so I recommend doing alternate bands of colour.
The fuzzy no-flash collage is the closest colour match to the real thing: pastel yellow, lavender, a peachy pink and minty/seafoam green.
She’s not as pastel as I’d hoped to make her (the client wanted true pastels but that would mean purchasing 5 different nylon packs including some from the USA) because saran doesn’t have a pale blue that isn’t very green. I tried to dilute the “teal” blue but the blends looked very grey against all these full colours. So instead I darkened the mint with some seafoam so it was approximately the same darkness as the rest.
I’m torn between loving it and hating that it’s not right.
The stripe design worked out great with triple rainbows at the pigtails and options for lots of different hairstyles that show the single or double rainbow. Very very pleased with that! I can see it working with a gradient reroot such as red, celtic red (tomato soup), orange, yellow, golden blonde…
Heliotrope is a new colour that’s slightly more purple than electric purple aka chromatic pink *rose is pink gin, rose foncé is sherbet pink
Catrine gradient reroot – work in progress photos: Paint the head with acrylic + seal with acrylic matte. The acrylic paint chips off in tiny …
New Lush lilac Saran batch from http://retrodolls.uk : New Clover (no longer high denier, beautiful grassy colour) from Retrodolls vs “evergreen” or “seafoam” from other …
Here’s my own cheat sheet (for the tool method aka hair folded in half and for saran, though I use the same amount of nylon …
Lush Lilac saran shifts from pale purples to shades of pink depending on the light. Teal is a less grey, more green version of DH …