Unoa Chibi Roron box opening

I actually got the Unoa Chibi Roron on Thursday late afternoon, when I was going out, so I could only open her at night. I didn't have time to edit the photos and resize them until just now, but here's the box opening for the Unoa Chibi Roron I bought off Mandarake :)

First of all, she arrived really quickly, I used EMS, but I'm still surprised by how fast it is. She pretty much came to me 5 days after I paid (4 days for shipping), and the only thing weird about the shipping was how Speedpost (the Singapore website) didn't update the tracking, so the parcel was recorded as "processing" when she was already on her way to my house. But anyway, that's a small error, and I did get her before I went out, so that's all good.

This is the box she came in, which is a Mandarake shipping box. Mandarake always ships their stuff in their shipping boxes, I think they have different sizes for lots of different things, because I got different boxes for the wigs and faceplate I've bought from them last time.


Flipped the box over to open from the other side so I won't have to peel the EMS plastic off, since it's always really sticky. So you can see this is actually the bottom of the Unoa box, because I did open the outer box from the bottom. There's a bunch of bubblewrap and paper to cushion the box, nothing fancy but well packed.


And once I took out the box, the Unoa box itself had a layer of bubblewrap.


They even have this plastic thing to hold the box so it won't open, which is nice.


Then the main part, the doll! I wasn't completely sure what I would get exactly, because even though Mandarake takes photos of everything that would go in the item, the photos are kind of small, so I was waiting until box opening to know what I got exactly. There's the Unoa Roron with faceup (slightly chipped on one eyebrow), and she's wearing some green glass eyes. There's also a blank Roron default face. So you know the default Roron comes with 3 types of teeth/mouth parts. I got all three (in that little package on the right), but it basically means I only have the fullset of teeth for one of the Rorons, and the Roron with the faceup only has one set (which she's already wearing inside). Basically,. I have 4 teeth parts to share between 2 Rorons, when I think usually I should have 6, but anyway I don't know why I have two default Rorons faceplates to begin with so...

Ah yeah, there were also Glastic 12mm eyes (default Unoa ones) and a furwig (also default Unoa ones I presume), the eye mechanism, and a little solid rod of resin that's supposed to be a tester for faceup and solvents. There's also the certificate/instructions, and some wires (probaby for restringing?)

I didn't really look at all the items super closely to be honest, because I was already kind of overwhelmed since there's more little items than I expected, lol.

Anyway, a closer photo of the doll. She has body blushing, and I think she also has MSC sprayed all over the body, which is chipping at the joints. I don't know if I'll remove it but for now I'm definitely just going to leave it because I don't have the time to clean her up properly. The body blushing isn't fantastic, but it isn't super bad either, so it'll be okay until I have time to go clean her body up.


And since I actually bought this Roron for the body, and not the doll, I took out the two Unoa faceplates I already have (they're the ones with eyes in the photo below). The Rorons are on the top, and the ones I already own are below. Mandarake wasn't sure what skintone the Roron is, and to be honest, I don't know either. Both my Unoa Lilin default and Unoa Lilin Roar are supposed to be fresh skin, but they are slightly different shades. They kind of match the body, and they also kind of match the two Rorons, but since the kind people on UnoaFreaks already told me that Fresh and Normal skin are pretty similar... I don't really know what skintone the Roron and the body are. But anyway, they all match, mostly, so it's not an issue. (Also, I did sand the Roar faceplate to get rid of the shininess, so that might affect colour as well).

Ah, and I just realize you can see the shiny rubs of the MSC on the hip/thigh joint in the photo above. Yeah, the MSC is chipping in her joints. But ah well. It's not very obvious.

Then I tried the faceplates onto the body. I didn't really take a lot of photos because I got distracted, but here's a photo of the Lilin default, with the Unoa wig:


And one of the Roar face, with her proper wig and eyes. I don't know what to name her yet, but this little girl is the official owner of the chibi body. :) She's really cute. I haven't really decided on what I want to do for her faceup, and I'm thinking I might just wing it as I go... we'll see. If the weather is okay, I might spray MSC on her tomorrow, since I have to do a commissioned faceup as well.


Also I don't have photos, but the Chibi body is chubbier than the Unoa 1.5 body. Chubbier fingers and chubbier calves. It's so cute. :D :D

And oh yeah, the Lilin default will probably be a body snatcher until I decide what to do with it, so she (he?) is still a floating faceplate. The 2 Rorons I'm probably going to sell, once I take proper photos in natural lighting. They're not as cute as the Lilins I already have, which is lucky, because I don't think I can take having so many faceplates around. I also need to take photos of the green glass eyes to sell. I don't even know what size they are though. Anyway, sorry if I don't sound too enthusiastic, I'm typing this at 2am, and I'm sleepy. Plus, the actual logistics of selling the extras and getting the faceplates I do want faceupped is a to-do on the back of my mind, so it dampens my excitement about the new doll, lol. Either way, I'm going to go and sleep now. Goodnight!

Dawn to dusk or dusk to dawn, depending on whether you see the photos from top to bottom or bottom to top. Anyway, Dennis has his body back, after lending it to Freddie for months... I dressed him in something different, and made him 2 necklaces and a bracelet that you can't see because his sleeves are too long. SD13 dolls wearing SD17 tops are my current aesthetics for their dressing, lol. But anyway I just realized you can't see those either. I should have taken more full body photos instead. Ah well.

And speaking of Freddie, I did an OC tag on instagram for Freddie, which I realize I never posted here, so here it is:



I don't think I write about my characters much nowadays. Half of it is because I find some of their stories a bit ...juvenile, like it's pretty obvious I wrote it when I was a teen, and I've not gotten around to reworking it. The other reason is just that I'm lazy, and I spend my free time playing with dolls without caring about their characters (pretty pretty things) or writing fanfic for other stuff so... But they do have some character/characteristics that's related to their stories, so this is Freddie's. She's actually a cute little girl on the inside, lol. Nah, not totally, but she has her girly points. And she's also in a poly relationship with Caillen and Zeke. Those two had a bunch of issues before, with Caillen taking a long time to come to terms with the fact that he's not straight, but yeah, they grew up, matured, got over that. I'm not making it sound very interesting, I think, but I don't know, I always feel a bit lame typing their stories. Which is weird, considering I do write fanfics, and I did write a poly fic once. But well. My OCs are my babies which I don't want to show the world, ahhahaa (or something like that). Ignore my rambling. Just scroll back and enjoy the pretty pictures of Dennis, yeah?

Wee, the Unoa Roron is available. I just paid for her, and all I have to do is wait. :) The faceplates will finally have a body. Crossing my fingers that she'll match with the faceplates. (i.e. hopefully she's fresh skin, instead of normal skin, even though normal skin won't be too far off but you know, the closer the match the better). If the photo is accurate, I should be getting 2 Roron default faceplates, one with the default faceup, one blank. The faceupped one is definitely going to be sold, and if there is really the blank one as well, she will either be sold or become an extra faceplate for the Roar face. I still haven't decided if the Lilin default fp will be a different character, but at least they can all share bodies.

Also, side note for myself when I order from Mandarake next time. If you use paypal and there isn't enough paypal balance in your account for your purchase, they'll just charge the whole sum to your linked debit/credit card, instead of splitting the payment (i.e. charge what they can to the balance, and charge the remainder to your debit/credit card). Kind of different from when I ordered from other places like ninestyle, but it works out since I didn't really want to touch my paypal balance anyway.

An update. I went ahead and put the Unoa Chibi Roron to my cart on Mandarake. Now it's time to wait to see if she's still available. One thing is, I'm not too sure if she's fresh or normal skin, because the staff don't know either, but I'm hoping she'll work for a body for the faceplates. Hope everything goes well... It's been so long since I made a large-ish purchase for doll stuff and ughhh, I feel so nervous. :/

Just wanted to edit something. And I went for the heavy edited effect, cos why not? They look so moody here haha. Also I did some new thing with my watermark, not sure if I like it this way? But whatever, we'll see.

On a side note, I don't know if I should get the Unoa faceplates a body before Freddie and/or which body should I get for them. Definitely a Unoa Chibi body for at least one of them, I suppose... But should I? Should I? There's a deal that seems pretty decently price right now but ughh, I so didn't plan on buying anything and I'm not sure if I should. I am super stingy with my money spent on dolls lately, because of other expenses :/ Sighhhh. I feel like I should sleep on it, but I think the deal will be gone tomorrow when I wake up, lol. Though I mean, that's a decision too, I guess.

Company VS Crew tag

I did the company vs crew tag on instagram a few days ago, and since I crossposted it on tumblr, I figured I should put it here as well. Did the whole thing on my phone, so there's no words on the pictures, but it sure beats having to align everything manually on Photoshop. Gain a little, lose a little I guess? Haha. Anyway, all the top row photos are the company photos, bottom row are mine.

I arranged them roughly by storyline (like how I did on my doll profile page), then the order I got them, but to be honest, I forgot who I bought first so really, just ignore the lack of order in this thing. ._.

#companyvscrew Let's go!


L-R: Gabby (CP dreaming Lishe boy), Dennis (Luts Bliss), Nat (Migidoll Jina boy)

They totally changed the company photos for Luts Bliss and Migidoll Jina and I figured I'll use the new ones. The old Bliss photo is so feminine I thought he was a girl...

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L-R: Sion, Hew (both Migidoll Miho), Zeke (Leeke Khal human ver.)

Used an old company photo of Miho for the one over Sion's photo, and the new company photo over Hew. Also, Zeke has a default faceup, but he still looks different from the company photo, lol.

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L-R: Kristolf (Leeke Mihael), Tiyana (Elfdoll Vivien), Caillen (Migidoll Cynical Ryu, nose mod)

These are all the same company photos as when I bought them. Elfdoll isn't producing Vivien anymore though, sadly. She looks so Asian in the stock photo but Tee (Tiyana) is so not... hahaha.

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L-R: Joe (Distant Memory Peroth), Freddie (Volks Olivia Morgan 2nd), Elly (Volks Tae, Lovely Dress ver.)

These 3 have the least flattering stock photos of the lot, haha. Joe's one is from the Nobilitydoll rerelease, and like, they totally can use better lighting in the photos eh... Freddie's forgiven cos Volks released her really long ago and their faceups then weren't that fantastic. There's nothing particularly wrong with Elly's company photo except I'm just not a fan of that school girl style. But overall, put these 3 company photos side by side, and I'm super glad my dolls don't look like the company styling cos it's really not my taste...

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L-R: Jack (Zaoll Muse boy), Cypher (Fairyland LTF Pongpong), Jelly (5stardoll Jadeite human ver.)

This photo onwards is the other storyline. I.e. all the 6 dolls in the above photo and the next one are not in Gabby's story. It's not a big thing, I just wanted to point it out. Jack's the only SD in this story so far, although I want to get Danny, Jack's human/friend/master.

Benja (the OC my Peroth used to be until I made him Joe) is also from this storyline, but given my lack of space, I don't think I will be buying a SD doll to replace Benja. To be honest, this story has 5 main SD/adult characters: Andy, Benja, Kate, Danny, Jack. But whatever. I'll not dollify all of them...(I hope)

Yeah, but anyway, back to the tag, Cypher has a default faceup, but it's cool. Jelly's default is a praying mantis which always amuses me. (Also, I totally won't mind a tan Jadeite as a human boy too...sigh. Funds and space are limited though.)

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L-R: Pebbles (Unoa Lilin sleeping, eye mod), Unnamed (Unoa Lilin roar), Unnamed (Unoa Lilin default)

I know there's 2 blank ones which is not helpful in a company vs crew tag, but amuse me. I wanted to bring the photos up to a multiple of 3. Pebbles (or Pebboos as I nicknamed her) looks different mostly cos of the eye mod and super small eyes. The Roar fp has her wig and eyes so she kind of has a direction, but no body to use, and the Lilin default I'm thinking might be a nice cheeky boy... we'll see. I don't have much to say about the company photos for these, lol. Except that I couldn't get a higher resolution to use. So yeah, sorry for the blurriness.

Also, I sanded the eyebrows off the 2 unnamed fp last Sunday, and also sanded most of the surface of the roar plate cos she's very shiny. Didn't take photos cos I was lazy but yeah. I can technically do their faceups anytime now, but I don't really know what I want them to look like yet, so maybe not.

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And that's basically my whole crew for now. :D 18 dolls if you count heads and fp (15 full dolls, 1 floating head, 2 fp). Hopefully the photos amuse you and also show you how different faceups, wig and eye colors change a doll, and maybe my ramblings amuse you...? (I hope so. I spent quite a while typing. I didn't write all these on my tumblr and instagram)

Some photos of Freddie I took the other day. She's borrowing Dennis' Volks SD13 boy body here, but I stuffed her top with some cloth so she doesn't look so flat, haha.

I really think she needs a thicker body to match her sporty tomboy look, but alas, even if I get a small chested girl body, most of them are too thin. I'm hoping boypink's 60body will eventually be made and sold, if they do choose to cast and sell it. But I mean, who knows? For now I'm still leaving her as a floating head because I can't decide on her body. I chickened out of the Impldoll Star Female body because it's still a bit thin? Like the boypink's 60body would probably be the closest to what I want for Freddie, relatively the same height as my shorter boys (60cm ish) but buff for a girl. Although I don't mind her being taller, as long as she's shorter than Zeke (66cm). But the buffness is important. The other option I was thinking of is maybe modding a Volks SD13 boy body to have a thinner waist and small boobs. But it'll need me to colour match the epoxy so... it's not a very good option for now. Lol.

Anyway, I don't know, I'm super hesitant about dolly purchases because I'm mostly broke and also lazy so. I'm just rambling. I would probably end up changing my mind at some point again, lol.