Inners and Serenity

My Inner Senshi Styledolls arrived last week, and I actually deboxed them for once!!

Jupiter and Mercury are DEFINITELY my favorites, which is no surprise because they're usually my favorite Inners of the vintage Bandai JP lines too lol Jupiter's hair needed a lot of work (had to layer her ponytail to blend in the stupid short tendril they cut at the top) but Mercury only needed a slight trim to even things out!

Mars is third favorite! Her hair is a little too short imo but looks mostly correct and only needed some flat ironing to curl the ends more consistently. I don't love the way they added crimps to her bangs but it doesn't look horrible and it is pretty accurate to her design, I'm just really annoying about doll hair being as organized as possible lol Venus is definitely my least favorite; her hair is like half an inch shorter than Mars and her half-up style is severely over-engineered in a way that is incredibly confusing to me- she has an entire thatched parting under the half-up ponytail that stretches horizontally across the back of her head, and the ponytail can't lay flat as a result so it looks really wonky fresh from the box. I had to brush out the parting and redo the entire style to get it to lay somewhat correctly, but it's still too short and I hate her bangs lol Aside from Jupiter, none of the Inners have a lot of gel in their hair- maybe a tiny bit on the bangs, but otherwise it is incredibly soft and smooth nylon! Overall a really excellent set of dolls! They won't be dethroning the vintage dolls for me, but they're well made and very nice to handle. Much looking forward to the Outers whenever they get made, and hopefully Eternal Sailor Moon and Sailor Cosmos! While I was at it, I also deboxed and restyled my Princess Serenity that I got months ago! I have been hesitant to debox my Styledolls because it was an absolute nightmare trying to iron out the factory kinks left behind by the heinous amount of elastics in SSM's hair, but I decided to test fate and Serenity turned out to be much easier to style. From this:

To this!

I absolutely hate the way Bandai has done her hair so far, but I've been collecting SM dolls long enough to have figured out a relatively low effort way to get mostly-accurate Usagi hair that satisfies my personal vision for how her hair should look on a doll lol Still, Usagi is a lot luckier than Chibiusa when it comes to factory hair:

Her odango are literally just....spikes they cut into her hair. Probably the worst attempt at Chibiusa hair I have ever seen, and I will likely never debox her as a result (unless I decide to spring for a reroot lol).

Slowly

Sloooowly

Sloooooowly getting something done!

Pictures of my Sailor Moon Collection 8 / ∞

I love the old sailor moon dolls so have an Usagi in the Italian Serenity doll dress!

Princess Serenity Museum Doll

I wanted to buy this doll at the museum but it was sold out when I was there. One of my best friends went two weeks later (I missed seeing her in Japan by 5 days... which I could have went later in the month but that would not have been possible with work).

Purchased via proxy and provided some extra bonuses. The additional items were not sold when I was there and were from the previous merchandise cycles for Part 1 and Part 2.

Back wrapping for doll with goodies.

Bottom of the doll box.

I will not be pulling the doll out of the box this time.

Back of box.

Side of box.

Top of box.

🌙 Custom Usagi Tsukino 🌙

What have I been doing?? Carrying around one of these ladies.

I’ve had them since the early 2000s when I was delighted to find affordable versions with noses. They’re kind of under-articulated and their faces aren’t the best, but I need to finish my Star Darlings customization before embarking on a multi-doll project. So I’m going to have to enjoy them as is, which I honestly do! They are a bit nostalgic as the thing that drove me onto eBay at 13 was wanting to buy Sailor Moon dolls.

Sailor Moon Says

Have a nice day bitch!!

Irwin Sailor Moon Spinning Doll of Rini (Sailor Chibimoon)

Mis Amadas ♡

Hey, what’s up!

I just impulse bought like, five Sailor Moon Irwin dolls (old childhood dream, I love their face paint and brushable hair is always adored) and my soon-to-be Sailor Jupiter is missing her boots.

The only Irwin 11.5in Jupiter in my price range (the bulk set was really cheap) are the old sculpt “ugly faces,” and I was wondering if their body sculpts were the same? I just can’t find the info any where, and I don’t want to eye ball it and end up with this doll that could be put to better use, all for a pair of tiny rubber doll shoes,

I’m fine with her barefooted for now, I’m going to want/need to clean all their sculpts when they arrive anyways, but it would be nice to know if I need to disturbingly track EBay and Mercari prices for just the Pretty Face Jupiter, or if I can buy one of the many Uggo Face in need of a home!

I certainly am not opposed to just buying one and finding out, the old paint has grown on me, but I do actually just want the boots at the end of the day.

I found these scattered throughout two aisles at The Goodwill. As much as I consider the series to be one of the wonders of the modern era, my first instinct is to sell these bitches off! Lol. I’m tempted to restore them but will sell them as is. These are the Irwin deluxe 11.5” dolls released in 2000. Any inquirers, feel free to inbox me for details.