Peppermint Pirate: My Fakie Revamp

[Snapdragon]

Hi everyone! If you have been keeping up with the Customs forum, you may have seen the Save the Ponies contest that's going on! (Linkie: http://mlparena.com/mlp/index.php/topic,284026.0.html) For my entry, I used a fakie from Colorscapesart (thanks again!!), who used to look like this:

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Then I rehaired her in an alpaca/acrylic yarn blend, and brushed it out to make this!
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After a few delays (the first fakie fell out of her box in the mail! and then I caught an awful flu!), I managed to finish her up on the LAST DAY of the contest! Woo hoo! Here is Peppermint Pirate!

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 (Don't mind the brown thing, that's her sword belt.)

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I'm ready for my closeup!
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Details: Rehaired with an alpaca mix yarn and brushed out for the 'perfume puff' look, she's got light pink and white stripes to match her peppermint-y symbol! Her eyes were accidentally damaged with acetone during the paint-removal stage, so like any good pirate, she wears her hair over her 'bad' eye as an eye patch! (No one says you can't wear makeup under an eye patch, of course!) She's painted with craft acrylics, both on her peppermint-y symbol and her new eyeshadow and eyelashes.

Her accessories are a hand-braided four-strand leather sword belt (with a suitably piratey sword to match!), a bandana to help hold down her hair over her eye with some shiny trinkets dangling off of it, a gold hoop earring, a feather for her tail and a shiny gold bracelet from her latest treasure hunt!

Her favorite activities include brushing her beautiful poofy hair, applying her hot-pink eyeshadow, and hunting for buried treasure, of course!

Thanks for reading! ^_^

[True]

oh wow! these fakies are turning out great! I love the hair!

[Morosan]

oooh! she's really cool! I was wondering what was gonna come from her when i saw her lovely poofy hair!

[kaoskat]

Very cute!!! Her hair looks so soft!

[Shajana]

I really like your changes on the fakie great job!

[kittybethy]

I love the wild makeover!

[prowlsgirl]

Where did you find the little sword?

[sillybaypony]

My favorite kind of fakie! Beautiful custom =)

[Izrabeth]

Great job!!!

[nuttertasha]

she looks fab i love the hair

[jadeyfish]

Brilliant job there - she looks great as a pirate love the bandana!

[Snapdragon]

Thank you so much, everyone! ^_^ I appreciate all of your kind words very much! I was surprised how well (and quickly) the symbol turned out, I usually have to redo it like, 100 times before I like it - could it be that I'm improving!?

Where did you find the little sword?

I found it at Ralph's (the grocery store), in the wine section! It was with all of the other little swizzle sticks/olive spear-ers for martinis. It's supposedly real steel, and when I saw it, I KNEW I had to get one for Barnacle! And now I have one for Peppermint, too! I found them several years ago, but they might still be around? It's worth a look!

[jupiternwndrlnd]

she is cute! i love the symbol ^_^