These pics of Citron make me want to SCREAM! I was making pterodactyl noises editing them. The editing on them is super minimal. Just boosted levels of saturation and a tiny color correction layer to try and reflect true colors. But ohhh my goodness. What a gorgeous girl. She is a Blythe I sincerely cannot believe I own. Scream, scream, scream!
Citron is one of the handful of girls I have where I am somewhat particular and picky about how I dress her, and feel I have only put her in a 'fit that I really like on her a couple of times. Like, my dressup success rate with Citron is middling at best. I really, really want to lean into more historical dress elements with her.
Here are a couple of pictures of her in other 'fits from elsewhere on my blog:
As per my Blythe family page blurb re: Citron: I have grandiose ideas [on how to dress her] but very little wardrobe to support them. Keywords: Lucca from Chrono Trigger, fire magic, metallics, vintage adventurer (think Rachel Maksy), Gibson Girl. I want to absolutely indulge in the steampunk elements of SV's concept when I can. There are so many aesthetic elements of steampunk that I love, but also there's a lot of goofy, overly exaggerated aspects of steampunk that I would like to shy away from, if possible. Liiiike the goofy top hat that's part of SV's stock!
Maybe another mood board is warranted...
Particularly of note in this mood board:
- As noted, Rachel Maksy
- Anne Shirley
- Bree from Outlander
- Chrono Trigger
- the Antikythera mechanism which I have been obsessed with for years (name-dropped it here in 2013)
- this pretty art piece
I have a few blouses and a few long skirts that I can put on Citron, but I'd love, for instance: a vest or something that resembles stays, a chatelaine type of rig (maybe I could make something like that out of jump rings and charms?), maybe some kind of other eyewear that insinuates steampunk??
All that aside, this is a super duper simple dressup, but I love this dress on her, wow! I love the tone of gray and I love the square neckline. In person it actually cuts across the plastic swells of the doll's breasts in a Regency gown type of way that looks appropriately historical for her!
The dress from MissFreyaJ (whose shop seems to only sell eyechip sheets and not clothes now -- I purchased this dress way back in 2013 and you can see it on Plummery in this old post). She's wearing Time After Alice's stock shoes, which match her dark blue nails!
Haha, well, I am going to be posting more batches of doll pics in the next few days, so!! Buckle up, baby. I think posting doll pics every day (or at least on the reg) is more of an Instagram thing, and I might post a small round-up of all the pics I've taken lately there eventually. But honestly, I just prefer blogging 'cause I wanna yap and do mood boards and stuff. I'm trying not to feel self-conscious about a) yapping a lot, and b) posting a lot. I used to post EVERY DAY here, once upon a time!
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