Welcome to THE GLOSS - *Advent Calendar (24th Nov 22)*

The head sculpts for these Integrity dolls could very well work on slim seamless bodies. They look appropriately snooty to be “models”, and not as limited as normal Barbie heads — they have a nice throwback to mid-century glamour.

Awww, can´t stop watching these Sculpts. They have real eye lashes, right ? I´m so close to glue some eyelashes on my expensive Headsculpts and ruin it .  I have to hit on my fingers.

skywalkersaga wrote:Thanks for explaining! And don't worry, take it as a compliment that I couldn't tell between your work and the official Integrity Toys. :'D

I do, thank you !

Stryker2011 wrote:The head sculpts for these Integrity dolls could very well work on slim seamless bodies. They look appropriately snooty to be “models”, and not as limited as normal Barbie heads — they have a nice throwback to mid-century glamour.

Thanks, they are really different from Barbie, yes. Though there are also more and more really nice Barbie heads. One of the upcoming Looks Barbies seems quite inspired by a very much liked black face mold from Integrity.

Ephiane wrote:Awww, can´t stop watching these Sculpts. They have real eye lashes, right ? I´m so close to glue some eyelashes on my expensive Headsculpts and ruin it .  I have to hit on my fingers.

yes, real eyelashes. Happy you like them and keep coming back here
you should be able to try it and remove them without ruining an face up, when using a water soluble glue (I have Aileen‘s Tacky glue, but it seems similar to the ordinary UHU Bastelkleber.) But try it with a less beloved head or a test head first

you can get strings of doll lashes on the web (of course - what not? ), eg:
https://de.aliexpress.com/item/1005002716114673.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.550b6074mz4OVf&algo_pvid=5912a977-c168-470a-a310-acb04dd9ac86&algo_exp_id=5912a977-c168-470a-a310-acb04dd9ac86-5&pdp_ext_f=%7B%22sku_id%22%3A%2212000021833859431%22%7D&pdp_npi=2%40dis%21EUR%21%210.81%21%21%211.55%21%21%400b0a187b16540232997935197efa8f%2112000021833859431%21sea

but careful with the size. I do not know what is available. This is just a very random link. I have only done lashes once when I received a doll with lashes missing on one eye.

simply fantastic! so elegant!

I think they fit in there incredibly well, they bring even more bling to the table. They look like a top 0,1% exclusive club influencing the world.

This one looks very cool. Like she could be Secretary of the..."Democratic States of the United Solar System" or something.


This one on the other hand looks like she got rich through..."benevolent investments in precious metal mining rights and private security assets to help the people of the Congo" or something. She doesn't care how the money is made. Super cold and efficient.


But the best investment is still that futuristic sink light.

The Sexy Vampire Barkeeper has factory flocked hair?

BAMComix wrote:simply fantastic! so elegant!

Thank you

Ovy wrote:I think they fit in there incredibly well, they bring even more bling to the table. They look like a top 0,1% exclusive club influencing the world.

This one looks very cool. Like she could be Secretary of the..."Democratic States of the United Solar System" or something.

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This one on the other hand looks like she got rich through..."benevolent investments in precious metal mining rights and private security assets to help the people of the Congo" or something. She doesn't care how the money is made. Super cold and efficient.
….

But the best investment is still that futuristic sink light.

The Sexy Vampire Barkeeper has factory flocked hair?

Thank you - you always have such cool  ideas
In the good old days, these ladies actually came with storycards from Integrity Toys. Of course the stories were about models and owners of cosmetics companies and stuff like that but it was kind of nice because the different head molds had their own character. But the stories were stopped some years ago.

They still have their individual names and come with a kind of a subtitle, so as to differentiate between the various incarnations of one mold (let's say just as differentiating between the various versions of Hawkeye by movie title).
Just one sample because it is a special one:
The Solar System Lady is called "Erin Salston - 24K". She is a convention doll from the "Fairytale Convention 2017". All outfits were inspired by fairytales. The 24K was the most difficult to guess. It was Rumpelstiltskin. This is what the original outfit looks like:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jennfl/24123416608/in/photostream/

The blonde is "Agnes von Weiss - October Issue". (Apart from the fairytale convention you rarely have such hands on references or inspirations for their "titles".)

Yes, sexy barkeeper has factory flocked hair.

The sink light is just one of 12 little round multicoloured lights that can be operated by remote control. I am really glad I came up with this ridiculously easy idea at the very last minute.

My 2022 advent calendar is set in THE GLOSS.
I am participating again in the advent calendar of a group of collectors (where everyone makes one or two little presents in the number of participants so that hopefully we end up with 24 different little somethings for everyone)

This year I decorated THE GLOSS to accommodate the parcels.

As the fashion dolls are easier to redress and as our group has a stronger focus on FD than AF, there are just fashion dolls in the pics...

Looks like a fun night out! Great pics!

This is such a sophisticated setting, with such glamorous, stylish characters, that I almost feel out of place just looking at the images. I feel like someone is going to call building security and have me escorted from the premises.

I gotta start dressing better, I guess.

Outstanding setting. You truly have an eye for fashion and a real skill for bringing scenes of urban elegance to life.

Very nice Christmas photos and accessories added to your spectacular Gloss diorama. Awesome figures as well. Well done.

Beautifully done. I spent quite some time enjoying the various details, as usual, but this time with the Christmas items, of which you have assembled quite a collection.

I read 24.11. at first and feared I missed a month.

Such a dedicated group of crafty people who made all that stuff 🥰 They fit the setting very well and the glossy glitzy design increases the winter Wonderland atmosphere.

Full on celebrating and documenting the unwrapping of each present seems like a lot of fun and hard work at the same time.

I like how the table, once some candle holder, now has candles on it. Candleception.

davidd wrote:This is such a sophisticated setting, with such glamorous, stylish characters, that I almost feel out of place just looking at the images. I feel like someone is going to call building security and have me escorted from the premises.

Great description of the experience haha.

Very beautiful seasonal decorations! The Gloss looks fabulous!

I have to admit that I did not understand the concept of the collector advent calendar. Are the presents exchanged between the participants on each day ("1/6 Wichteln")? Sorry for my ignorance...

BAMComix wrote:Looks like a fun night out! Great pics!

Thank you! I hope to have a lot of fun there until Xmas.

davidd wrote:This is such a sophisticated setting, with such glamorous, stylish characters, that I almost feel out of place just looking at the images. I feel like someone is going to call building security and have me escorted from the premises.

I gotta start dressing better, I guess.

Outstanding setting. You truly have an eye for fashion and a real skill for bringing scenes of urban elegance to life.

now, that was a good laugh  
Thanks so much for your kind words. I am glad you enjoy it.

Stryker2011 wrote: Very nice Christmas photos and accessories added to your spectacular Gloss diorama. Awesome figures as well. Well done.

Thanks for stopping by again.  

GubernatorFan wrote:Beautifully done. I spent quite some time enjoying the various details, as usual, but this time with the Christmas items, of which you have assembled quite a collection.

Thank you! So happy you had a closer look. I hope the pics are big enough to see the details well enough... I only saw now that the nutshell had tumbled over again... I need to fix this  

Ovy wrote:I read 24.11. at first and feared I missed a month.

Such a dedicated group of crafty people who made all that stuff 🥰 They fit the setting very well and the glossy glitzy design increases the winter Wonderland atmosphere.

Full on celebrating and documenting the unwrapping of each present seems like a lot of fun and hard work at the same time.

I like how the table, once some candle holder, now has candles on it. Candleception.

davidd wrote:This is such a sophisticated setting, with such glamorous, stylish characters, that I almost feel out of place just looking at the images. I feel like someone is going to call building security and have me escorted from the premises.

Great description of the experience haha.

Thanks for pointing out that I had messed up the date format again   ... (fixed it now)

Like last year, you will be plagued with the contents of the teeny weeny parcels on a daily basis  

Randam Hajile wrote:Very beautiful seasonal decorations! The Gloss looks fabulous!

I have to admit that I did not understand the concept of the collector advent calendar. Are the presents exchanged between the participants on each day ("1/6 Wichteln")? Sorry for my ignorance...  

Thank you once again!

I did not want to go into too much detail about this for fear of being boring, but as you are asking:
This year 20 people think of something they create (not buy) 20 copies of. (Ideally we would be 24 making 24 copies each, but only 20 participants signed up. Four of us make 2 presents each so that we ended up with 24 presents in total: 20 copies each of 24 different things)
Everyone sends their 20 copies to ONE person. This person repacks the parcels so that everyone gets one copy of each of the 24 different presents and sends them back to each participant.
We unpack the parcels kind of together each day in December and show pictures in a German forum. Some make funny stories around this and it was really very nice last year. Two participants are kind of detectives who try to guess which item was made by whom. That is also a little photo story each day.
Does this clarify it?

So a sort of Secret Santa thing...

GubernatorFan wrote:So a sort of Secret Santa thing...

yes, that sounds like our German „Wichteln“ that Randam has mentioned.
(„Wichtel“ is a little friendly laborious helper, the word is often used in the Xmas context regarding Santa‘s helpers)
A group of people put their names on a piece of paper in a bag and everyone gets one name to make a present to and you have to guess who was your „Wichtel“, so who gave you the present.

I'm not much into Christmas decorations and tend to keep it subtle, but the Gloss can definitely get away with it and looks like a great location for a Christmas party!

My favorite scene is the lady on the couch. She's in my shopping cart due to the recent mention of her black dress, and I really like her look. I will want to repaint her face though. Maybe sculpt it a little. Will see.

So wonderful. Every December I vow to make a Christmas picture of characters. Your pictures are so inspiring that I might be able to do this this time. Thank you for showing me.I love the barman's facial expression. He is an expressive character.

These figures have character, set they are in helps a ton too. They look like a fun bunch.

Diana wrote:I'm not much into Christmas decorations and tend to keep it subtle, but the Gloss can definitely get away with it and looks like a great location for a Christmas party!

My favorite scene is the lady on the couch. She's in my shopping cart due to the recent mention of her black dress, and I really like her look. I will want to repaint her face though. Maybe sculpt it a little. Will see.

My 1:1 decoration is very limited too, but as with other stuff (jewelry, fancy clothing...) it's easier to just go to extremes in 1:6
The lady on the couch comes with a black all-in-one suit. She's a curvy baby as you surely know, so it is a bit difficult with clothes. But some think of her as one of the best Barbies ever, and I do agree.

Ephiane wrote:So wonderful. Every December I vow to make a Christmas picture of characters. Your pictures are so inspiring that I might be able to do this this time. Thank you for showing me.I love the barman's facial expression. He is an expressive character.

Looking forward to your Xmas ideas. They will be surely fun!
yes, Lukas is an interesting character - always aloof and grumpy, even - or especially? - in the Santa Outfit

Theboo-bomb wrote:These figures have character, set they are in helps a ton too. They look like a fun bunch.

Thank you!!

What might work is the addition of a piece of clear plastic to place in front of the view of the city. It would reflect the room and the characters.

Fantastic scene! I can feel the holiday cheer through the pics!