Indian goddness in traditional saree

Merinda is an Indian blood lady, the moment she put on the saree that I design, she rock the dress! With her darker skin tone and classic Indian feature, she just transformed into an indian princess. For this time, I have made more jewelleries for her to complete her look. It does look a lot different with those jewelleries! The combination of blue and gold create a contrast on her skin tone, making her stand up in the grassland! The photo shooting is done on the morning where the lighting is perfect, soft natural sunlight making the photos look great and I don't have to stand under the hot sunlight to take her photo and sweating! It feels so good with this kind of weather. The photoshoot last about 1 and a half hour and around 200++ photo being taken. I am very satisfied with the result. I think Merinda enjoying wearing the saree and dance on the grassland too!























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Merinda in 1st couture gown

This is Merinda 1st photoshoot after I done the face up for her. Wearing a sheer organza top with fully beads and laces embellishment, and a simple hair do, she look like a stunning star ready for walking down the red carpet. It took me almost 1 month to finish up all the heavy beading work; I guess this is the most beaded gown I ever made untill now. The photoshoot is taken indoor as well as outdoor. I reused the background I printed for my Valentine shoot and luckily it fit on my 65cm Merinda as well. The outdoor shooting was done in the backyard of my hostel, where is my favourite spot for outdoor shooting as there is huge grassland and trees with seldom people passing by, thus I can do the photoshooting in whatever style I wish to. The skin tone of Merinda look much fairer under the day light, so it is quite different on the real skin tone of her, I wonder why?

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Arrival of Iplehouse Carina, Merinda

It was Monday, 28th Feb where Carina arrived at the office of my hostel after 2 almost 2 months of waiting. Indeed, I sold my Alessandra in order to get her as since the day it is being released by Iplehouse as the belly dancer, I cannot resist to own her. She has the indian exotic look, sensual eyes, high nose bridge and a thick delicious lips! I ordered her by the custom doll system with special real skin tone and it cost me around USD755 but it is all worth. It was when my lunch break hour where I have to rush back to my hostel office to get her. As usual, she came in a large Iplehouse box, well lying in the sponge when I opened the box. Wow, her real skin tone is darker than I imagine, but she looks gorgeous in that tone. Valentine also joined me in the box opening process; she seemed to be excited like I do. haha....Up next is to face up her and I can't wait to see her with makeup and wig on. I named her Merinda, which is my 4th supermodel in the house!

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Valentine's 1st bridal couture, SPARK.

As tradition in NiGel.Chia production, every new doll will have a bridal couture to be their 1st dress, the same goes with Valentine. This is the 1st time I sew for 16' fashion doll, it is much more bigger than those barbie dress I made last time, but smaller than those iplehouse lady which I currently work with, but I the size still enable me to create the detail and save quite lot of fabric when making then gown compare to Iplehouse lady. The 1st thing after sketching out the design is to develop the basic block pattern of her body. Her upper body appears to be longer than the usual proportion but the good thing is she has a tiny waist which makes me easier to add some detail on the waist line without worrying her to look fat. Being inspired by Vera Wang latest collection- White, I have create a high collar sleeveless organza top fully embellished with laces and beads and a randomly layered chiffon dress which complete the look with the black belt with beaded detail. I named the gown as SPARK. It took me around one and a half day to finish the gown and it turn out nicely. But the most important is Valentine are able to rock the dress! Photo shoot was done on New York City night scenery where I printed it out in A1 size for the background purpose. I just love her fierce and high fashion look in all. That is all from Valentine till now; I need to get back to Iplehouse EID ladies dress again. Enjoy it!

::White by Vera Wang, source of inspiration for SPARK::

:: SPARK by NiGel . ChiA ::

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