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Creating Fashion Dolls: A Step-By-Step Guide to One-Of-A-Kind Dolls

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This book is meant to be a springboard for your own creations. Ms Guidice shows you how to "enhance" the face the doll came with rather than totally wiping the face and repainting it. (The idea of repainting a doll's face scares me something awful.)

You will learn how to give a fashion doll a "perm", enhance the makeup, and generally glitz up the doll's face and hair. She shows you how to create the costume on the front of the book and then opens her gallery of dolls to see what she has done with this "basic" beginning.

I'd recommend that anyone considering trying fashion doll makeovers to start with this book. It won't overwhelm you with so much information that you lose your vision or (in my case) nerve!

The new book by Sabrina Giudice, "Creating Fashion Dolls", is the most informative start to finish explanation for OOAK designers in the industry. If you are a beginner or a seasoned professional there is much to learn here. Her descriptions of fixing hair and perms were easy to understand. Information on repaints and paints to use, right down to brush size, and use of appropriate blush is extremely useful. Also, if you hand sew or machine stitch your own designs, she gives you examples of looking at fashion in a new light. This is a MUST for serious doll designers and ones thinking they would like to attempt this type of art. Highly recommended.

Had I been able to see really look through this book before purchasing, I would not have spent my money. I believe even beginners would appreciate more in depth coverage on costuming than what was provided.The only "hand sewn" items were the panties and the strap around the neck, both with raw edges. The rest of the items were purchased and glued. I have found better information on both costuming and makeup on internet sites. Needless to say, I found this book disappointing.

This book covers very little that is helpful in the world of fashion doll makeovers. It does nothing about repainting techniques, only "enhancements," which means changing the color a bit. It also uses colored pencils and those do not work on all fashion dolls. Other questionable techniques are presented. The end result is a "Vegas showgirl," but so little is learned and so much of it is wrong or ill-advised. A beginner will be more messed up by following it than helped.

I did not like this book. Although parts of it are helpful, like the hair section, I didn't like the costume section. I think that it would have been better if it gave a few costume suggestions rather than just the one. It did show a few photos of other dolls, but it seemed to more showcase the artist, but did not say what or how she did things to them. It's ok for a beginner book, but I have seen better. I wish it would have gone over different looks, rather than "make this doll that you see on the cover". Also, the doll used isn't widely available like Barbie dolls. The vinyl and hair are different than what is normally used. I just did not like it...

I am new at doll customizing and Sabrina's book is a KEEPER!!! Step by step instructions WITH PICTURES for choosing a doll, face painting, styling hair, designing a costume, beading techniques, accessories and boxing your doll. Lots of added helpful hints that are easy to follow. Its the next best thing to having Sabrina right here showing me what to do. Its a must have book!

I purchased this book in the hopes of trying my hand at trying to do a make-over on a doll. I have never been good at doing faces and Sabrina shows you how to enhance rather than wipe-out and redo! I can't wait to try this outfit...she makes it look so easy! I can't say enough about the book...Sabrina is a great writer and the pictures are great! Good luck on your future books!

As someone who is new to the design process, I found this to be very helpful to me. It had great step by step procedures to lead me. It gave me inspiration from within and made me realize that the design process first starts in your head and then you need a process to follow. I found this to be the book on "HOW TO"....and very user friendly.

I must admit, I almost became swayed when I read the last few reviews of this book. I'm SO glad that I didn't though. I don't understand how anyone can say that this book is not a resource God for beginners! The book is extremely well written aside from some grammatical errors on the part of the publisher - and as someone else in the reviews said, it is more teaching than advertising. Sabrina uses a very friendly approach and starts off this first book with just the basics so that a beginner like me can get a feel of painting and sewing very minimally and still creating something exotic, glittery and gorgeous. I wouldn't part with the book personally. I've come up with a thousand and one ideas just from looking through the pages. Definetally worth the money!

This book was somewhat helpful when I wanted to learn how to makeover dolls. I learned a couple of tricks that I never would have thought of on my own. But, it wasn't quite what I expected. I expected more about repainting the face, but she only teaches how to paint over what's already there and glue eyelashes on.