So here's the outside. The advertisement is pretty high up, and I didn't see it at all the last few times I've walked past. I'm still kind of in disbelief about that, considering that I went to search how the outside of Volks Korea look like so I would know it when I see it (which didn't work, haha).
Outside the shop, on the stairs (Volks is on the 3rd floor).
Yup, no other photos inside the shop.
Let me just say that I spent my afternoon just browsing inside the shop, and it was just so nice to see everything in person. I'm so used to online shopping for dolls that seeing everything in real life in a physical shop is a bit of a dream come true/surreal, outside of doll conventions (I've only been to the local ones in Singapore which isn't big enough to have doll companies come down, so we just have local owners selling things :) ). And Volks. I think I have a recent obsession with Volks, and seeing their dolls and items in real life didn't help that obsession, haha.
They have a whole shelf for FCS-heads, bodies, hand and feet parts. The heads are blank and you can really see the difference in head size and features etc. Unfortunately even though I'll be in Korea until the end of December with an address in the univeristy hostel, I can't order any FCS D: The shop assistants told me it'll take 2-3 months for an FCS so they can't let me order. AHHHHH Welllll D:
I then proceeded to shop for clothes and shoes, because Volks shoes are so damn detailed. And I stood there for really long, deciding what to get with the budget I set myself (I wanted to drop by ninestyle cafe as well, but I didn't have enough money after going to Volks, haha. I brought Cypher out for the ninestyle cafe but didn't really take him out in the end, because I ended up not going). Then before I left, I saw the poster they had for the current releases, and omg, Lovely Dress ver. SDGr Tae!
The shop assistant offered to show me the doll (all the shop assistants are damn nice. They came by to talk to me, and even though their English is limited, they do speak rather well compared to my studio mates, haha. And they are really friendly. I talked to another shop assistant about my dolls for a while, and showed her some photos, even though I only have 1 Volks doll, so my photos weren't usually of Volks dolls. I don't know, Volks and their effy rules about Volks only, so I didn't want to be rude but she was totally okay with photos, as long as I didn't take Cypher out.) So yeah, she showed me the box, the certificates and clothes etc. And then she took out the doll, and let me hold her (Just a note, I had to wear gloves to handle the dolls, as do the assistants. Just to be clean about it, I guess. I mean, I understand the idea of it but meh, when it's my own dolls. Okay, moving on...). Once I held the doll, I was pretty much sold. I mean, I've liked Tae and I want a girly girl doll (oh, my tomboy and boho girls. Haha.). Long story short, I caved and bought the SDGr Tae. :D
After that I went back to find my friends and we went to Namsan Tower (yesh, me with my doll...), and I was really tired, so excuse the box opening photos.
The bag of clothes I got at first, and my Tae :D
The clothes. For the boys, really. I think I'll go to ninestyle cafe for the clothes. And maybe the wig for her (I'll think of a name for her soon!)
I skipped taking a lot of photos of the different parts because I just wanted to get to the doll XD
Such a pretty face!
Her faceup looks better in person. I've never really been a big fan of Volks faceups (they're a bit soft for my taste. And I don't mean the colours, but the way they do the eyebrows etc, their eyebrows, for example, aren't the crisp kind I prefer. Too much soft blending for my taste), but she'll have to keep this for a while until I get back to Singapore where all my faceup materials are. Her eyes are hot-glued in, which I've not went to unglue either. But overall the soft dreamy feel seems quite close to whatever character she'll be, so we'll see how that goes :)
And her with the default outfit and wig (not everything cos I was lazy). I don't think she suits black, huh. I like the photo above better (the one without a wig) because she has more potential, haha. But I'm going to slowly think about it.
Also, now that I've officially taken my impulse buying to a new level, I'm most likely going to sell my LLT Roderich head. He's still without a character, and I feel like I'll rather sell him and use that money for other dolls. But it'll have to wait until I get back to Singapore because he's back home, haha. I'm sorely lacking my doll stuff here, seriously. Almost like starting from square 1. I mean, Cypher has his clothes and all, but he's a LTF. Tae is a SD sized girl. Of which I don't have much stuff for, to begin with, even at home, and of which I have NOTHING here for her.
