Happy 3rd Bday Coco!

And I can't believe it, to be honest. Monday May the 9th marked already three years since she arrived, and she is my queen! However, I have come to realize that Coco doesn't like her B-days, because she makes my life impossible regarding this! I have the "B-day dress curse" that implies that all B-day dresses I sew (including my tinies') will look horrid to me at some point, and then when I start to warm up to then, Coco will look ugly with all the backdrops.

For this time I had a very precise idea that, of course, turned terrible. I had to re-do the background for times, and even broke one of my backdrops in the process (the checkered black and white).

Anyways. The thing is that after I did the steampunk dresses I felt capable of doing something nice, and found a specific outfit from a Turkish drama named Intikam that was so Coco I couldn't resist. It is worn by the actress Beren Saat she is so beautiful I can't even, and the dress in question was this tuxedo dress.

I'll leave you with a photo here, and more rambles under the cut, as always!

Well, the tuxedo dress was going nice until I tested it almost before the snaps, and I didn't like it at all! I don't know it felt so plain! So when I dressed her fully, I added some shiny leggings, and the pathetic fake pearl necklace I have made last year, and I think the outfit turned nicely. Surprisingly, the flap was a fight to do it, but it turned out decent.

After my fight with the backdrops, all the poses were so pathetic! I must confess, I forgot three times to make the slits on the skirt (three!!), and therefore it is really tight and Coco has a very small range of motion on her legs. I was completely blocked, so decided to google the original images of the tuxedo dress, and had an idea: let's do Beren Saat's poses! I attempted to duplicate some of them, and I think I got some nice shots.

And then, when the photos were done, I didn't actually liked them so much, so I said "screw it!" and attempted heavy editing and black-and-white photos. You know, I never do B&W. Last time was for DoA's 2015 Triathlon, and because it was requested. However, I need to thank Tsumo and the people from the Discord BJD chat, because they gave me some nice tips on editing this set!!

However, my original idea was making a banner of glittering letters that said "happy B-day" (I even asked permission to Fantasywoods to do it), but I couldn't make it work. The only picture that I managed with the banner is the following, and it isn't as pretty as the others.

The good thing is that I got two sheets of the glittering foamy -one golden one silver- and I think I got a perfect idea to use the silver one with my tinies. I just hope I don't blew it up like I did with this one. Anyways, hope you are doing great, and have a nice weekend!! :D