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QOTW: To sleepy eye or not sleepy eye?
Written on November 23, 2015 at 1:30 pm by MichelleFiled under: Question of the Week
When I was first new to Blythe, I thought that sleepy eyes were just so neat. I gathered up some courage and opened up my first and third Blythe dolls in order to give them sleepy eyes. The only reason that Blythe #2 didn’t get them because it was Belarus (a Love Mission) and she’s an EBL and I was/still am quite antsy about the thought of opening an EBL (or BL, or that matter). I will open up a Kenner if it’s necessary, but getting my hands on the inside of an EBL has me going nope! in a really emphatic way.
But they’re still useful. One of the reasons why I like sleepy eyes because it gives you a great variety of expressions from an already interestingly expressive face. However, I am just not a fan of having many strings – most of the time I just want to swap from on set of chips to the next and I’m not interested (or caring) to have my dolls ‘sleep’ between colours. This is funnily enough the primary reason why the majority of my Blythes do not have sleepy eyes. I have 6 RBLs, 2 FBLs, and 1 RBL+ and only 3 of them have sleepy eyes despite them all being fairly easy to open (all 3 dolls are RBLs, 1 is a full custom and came to me with sleepy eyes). I’m a creature of habit, but also lazy with the strings. Sad, but true!
Do your Blythes have sleepy eyes or you do you dislike sleepy eyes for whatever reason?
All of my three customs have sleepy eyes. I think it’s a great way to show off pretty eyelid art!
I like sleepy eyes on my dolls! But I also like my girls boggled, and sometimes disconnecting the spring for sleep eyes makes the eyes droop :-/, in which case I don’t prefer having sleep eyes.
My custom mohair girl, Ash, has sleepy eyes. I figured while I was having her customized, I’d go for all the options! Ellis (RDP), who I adopted, also came with sleepy eyes. I like sleepy eyes but I don’t find that I actually use them very often!
I wanted to give my first (and only) custom sleepy eyes, but somehow I messed the whole thing and the poor girl ended with a major issue – her pull string doesn’t work at all! (her eyes can be rolled manually with my thumbs). I’ve spent several nights browsing through dozens of pictures and tutorials and everything seems just fine … It just doesn’t work 🙁 But I’m not in the mood of opening her head again 🙂