Antebellum Ghost: A Monstrous Journey
I have three thrifted dolls with the "Nicki" face sculpt. Here are Taneisha and Denise, above. Since I already had two characters with the same face, I chose my third Nicki to be the Woman in White, a ghost out to get revenge on the living. I didn't want her to have the open-lip smile, however, so my first step was to follow a tutorial by Broken Dolly TV on YouTube. After cutting out the doll's teeth with a box cutter/craft knife and super-gluing her lips together, I cut off the majority of her hair to prepare for re-rooting. Here she is with her hair and face-up removed, above. I wanted to paint the entire doll white, but for starters, I painted her scalp so I could start re-rooting. The white residue at the corners of her mouth is super glue from closing her lips. It turns out I am a messy super-gluer. The pink is her factory lip color that I didn't get totally cleaned up. (I have gotten better at removing face paint since making this doll a couple of