Dead Tired Wave 3 Lagoona Blue

Hey Guys! Here is a quick doll review of Monster High's Dead Tired Lagoona Blue. She is the wave three version, and came out relatively recently. I was very excited to recieve her in the mail though, and forgot to take a pic of her in her packaging. Whoops...  Anyway here she is:

The Dead Tired lines are pretty much the 'Slumber Party' Lines, so they come ready to party in their PJ's with their slippers, eye masks, and a party treat to share. The Dolls themselves have the standard body and articulation, but their features are all muted for a more 'natural' look for before bed.

I'll start with the hair. This Lagoona has mid to regular-length straight blonde hair with minimal blue highlights, with a middle part (Which is slightly off-centered on my doll). The hair in front is also pulled to the sides and tied in the back.

And as with most (if not all) Lagoonas, she includes the removable leg fins.

Lagoona has some of the most adorable ears ever, but when she first came her ears were covered up by her hair. So I pushed it back and tucked it behind her ears so you can see them better. They are so cute!

And now for the face. Lagoona has large, sort of droopy-looking eyes. In this Dead Tired version, because of the sleepy, more 'natural' look, her makeup is all pastels. She has purple eyebrows (which I find slightly strange considering her hair isn't purple. Shouldn't they be blue or something?), green freckles, and forest green eyes with a olive green section on the bottom. She wears green eyeliner and an aquamarine eye-shadow that (In my opinion) looks very good with her hair and overall aqua color-scheme. She also has muted pink lips, but mine came scuffed, so I may repaint them to a shade of teal to work better with her eye-shadow.

All the Dead Tired dolls come wearing pajamas, and Lagoona is no exception. She wears a black and hot pink shirt with a drooped sleeve, a supportive strap and a printed Lagoona skullete that wears an eye-mask. In addition, she wears a pair of aquamarine shorts with printed scales and bubbles, adorned with hot pink trim and a drawstring. Even though they look like pajamas, when paired separately, they could easily pass for regular clothes. The black top in particular (despite the eye-mask wearing skullete) could work great as a regular shirt.

She also wears a pair of furry, high heeled, teal slippers that have a printed face complete with yellow eyes, red fins, and a fanged smile. She also wears an aquamarine bubble-print eye-mask with pink dots, black trim, and elastic to fasten it in place.

 All the Dead Tired dolls come with a Slumber party treat, and Lagoona's is especially cute. It is a teal beverage that oozes down the sides of the hot-pink scallop shell cup and has marshmallows floating inside. Even though we dont drink anything like it, the marshmallows make me think that it is a monster-ized version of Hot Chocolate, which makes me love it all the more ;)

And that is Dead Tired Lagoona! In conclusion, this Lagoona is lovely with muted makeup and hair, a cute and versatile outfit, and an adorable drink accessory. Here is one last shot of her swimming through the air :)

Restoring and Repainting a Signature Monster High Draculaura

 Hey Guys! A couple weeks ago I came across a listing on an auction for a broken Draculaura. No one had bid on her (presumably because she was broken) and the seller said that after this auction if no one bid on her, she would not be re-listed (I assume this means she would be trashed). My heart immediately went out for this poor, neglected and mistreated doll. So, with free shipping, I bid two dollars on her. 

She is a signature (original) Lala, but her hair was frizzy, her legs were broken, she was missing her arms and hands, and her face was partially rubbed off along with having a case of eye-wonk. Here she is:

Here you can see her broken legs, and below you can see her wonky eyes and scuffed lips.

First things first-- I needed to fix her legs. The previous owner had already tried to fix her and drilled two hole on both sides of her legs:

 Luckily, this is what I would have had to do anyway,so she saved me a step (Though I probably would have drilled only one hole). Next I found two gauges of wire and tested both out. The thicker one fit snugly compared to the thinner one which was slightly loose, so I used the thicker wire.

After trimming the wire down to size, I super glued it into place.

Since I couldn't string her legs till the glue was dry, I wiped her body down with rubbing alcohol to get rid of any unwanted germs, residue and mold release.

I then Restrung her hips with elastic:

Next was her hair. I gave it a boil wash, and it looked much better, but I was unsuccessful in getting the bangs to lay flat like they would fresh from packaging. I took this opportunity to rip them out. I don't usually like bangs on dolls, and this Draculaura was no exception.

I added a few plugs of a black hank i had lying around, but funny enough the back I added has a brown base and the black hair she already has had a blue base. This ended up creating a really cool two toned black effect. You can see this if you look closely in the second picture.

After my order of new arms came in the mail, all that was left was to sew her a custom outfit and repaint her face.

When repainting I initially painted her eyes a dark brown, but it looked awful (real dingy and boring) so I changed it back to her fantasy shade of purple. I gae her shimmering silver eye-shadow, delicate eyelashes and intricate eyebrows (that, though you cant see much in these pics, are painted hair by hair). I then painted her lips a dark cherry red (or blood red--Hehe) and added some killer fangs. AND NOW SHE'S DONE!!!

Before:

After:

What do you guys think? Please post comments below :)

Custom "Dessa Peer"-- Repainted "Picture Day Spectra Vindergeist"

I would like to share with you my first full repaint. She is a custom Monster High doll and I used a Picture Day Spectra as her base doll. 

Her Custom name is Dessa Peer and she is the cousin on Mattel's officially released Invisi Billy-- Son of The Invisible Man. 

I repainted her eyes bright blue and gave her killer lashes. She then received some peach lipstick and delicately painted eyebrows, and she is finished.  

Anyway, here she is:

Hopefully I will eventually add blue and white streaks to her hair, but for now she is fine the way she is. 

She is wearing "Monster High Skull Shores Lagoona Blue's" Swim shorts and a simple blue plaid tube-top style shirt I made myself.

Please comment below and tell me what you think :)

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Hello there, and thank you for stopping by my blog. My name is Pabu and I am creating this blog to share with y'all all of my doll adventures! Here I will post occasional Doll Reviews, Doll Photography, Doll Craft Tutorials, Doll Repaints and Restoration, and maybe even a Doll Giveaway from time to time. I hope you find everything you need and if you have any questions feel free to Email me and I'll do my best to answer as quick as possible :)