Time for an introduction

This blog is going to be all about the odd and interesting life of my Blythe dolls. Unlike my own blog, this will be only about Blythe. Hair, tutorials, critiques and more. Stay tuned for developments!
For now I will just do introductions for my girls.


First, here is Kate.

The first to come, Kate is the oldest in my Blythe collection. After staring at her electric blue hair and pink lips since she came out, I finally decided to start my collection with her in December of 2011. On the day she came in the mail, Kate lit up my face. I remember sitting in the car squealing about how beautiful she was (Which was a complete relief- I hadn't realized she was FBL until after I bought her and was terrified I wouldn't like her.) and how perfect she looked. It took me months to figure out her name and even longer to get her screwed up stock bangs fixed, but I sure do love her. Despite her sweet name and child-like face, she is the darkest and most modern of my other Blythes. She  will most often be seen in black, with the occasional pink ensemble.


Next to come is Amber.

Amber came to me shortly after Kate did. My father surprised me with a considerable amount of money for Christmas, and, while it took some begging, he allowed me to use half of it to order her (even though he certainly never knew what I was buying- definitely not the biggest fan of my doll collecting). Two weeks later, this little one arrived. I remember how different she looked sitting in front of me with her frizzy stock hair and warm skin tone. Nevertheless, I was smitten. I was fascinated with how old she looked compared to Kate, even older than I initially thought from her stock photos. After I straightened and rolled her hair up, I just could not stop staring at her. (I was late to bed that night!). It also took quite some time to name her. I originally wanted to name her Amarillo but it just didn't fit when she arrived. After days of contemplation and some help from my mother, I named her Amber.  Amber is my little seventies girl. She has that beautiful but wholesome look that 60s and seventies teenagers had, with her natural makeup and long, amber middle parted hair. She will more than often be seen wearing old-looking clothes from countless different time periods and very often be pictured with her dreamy, ageless blue eyes. (Never in her front-facing orange ones-have to change those soon)

And last but not least, is Fantine.

Fantine was an distant dream of mine from the moment her promos came out. The first of her kind, Fantine was the first Middie Blythe to be released by Takara and so she was very much out of my budget (Around 200$+ when I found her). Regardless, I enjoyed looking at photos of her on Flickr and dreaming about what it would be like to own her.

And then in April of 2012, my uncle came to visit. I was originally indifferent about seeing him, as I have never met any of my uncles or aunts, but I instantly loved Andrew and Patty when I met them. They were funny, intelligent (and it was nice to hear Aunt Patty call me pretty), and I could gladly spend several hours hanging out with them. And then, a couple hours after meeting them, they give both my brother and I an envelope. Upon opening it and reading the card, I see the bills and smile. I didn't know how much it was, could have been five bucks, but it was nice to recieve a gift from them. It wasn't until later that I opened the card again and counted the money that I realized how much it was. ''Ten dollars for every birthday we have missed'', I remember them saying. Needless to say, when I got home I immediately started searching Ebay for this little girl and  found one at exactly the same amount. I spent two weeks waiting for her to arrive, in which I sat nervously hoping she wouldn't come with a botched fringe. Upon arrival I was stunned. Not only was her hair perfect, but she was absolutely adorable. It took a day or two to get her hair as perfect as I needed it but it took months to figure out her name. Then one day, after taking a rather interesting photo shoot with her, the name came to me. Now she happily sports the same name as the beautiful and interesting character from Les Miserables' (which I habe only seen a little of but I adore Ruthie Henshall's version of 'I dreamed a dream').

Fantine is small but not unintelligent. I instantly thought she had an ageless, wise quality about her. She reminds me of female characters from vintage horror films and sixties photography. I don't have many outfits for her but she will always be wearing something old or old-looking.

Well, there are my girls! Expect updates in the future if I don't forget about this blog.