Something white, Something black, Something on a Phone

Everyone says that when they meet Almariel. With Atiyaah, it's more often. "Her boobs. Are. HUUGE."

So who says flat-chested girls can't catch a break?

The only thing cuter than two girls shot, is three girls shot. and the only thing cooler than three girls shot, is Three Wolf Moon.

yes, plz do. That was partly the point xD

Also: congrats on managing what I thought would cost over $500 to do - make a Signature Outfit for a Dollfie, "a outfit a parent would want their Dollfie to be caught at their very best in".

The shoes aren't from you, it has to be admitted, but I think the changes I wound up making to get to this point cost only $200. Amazing. It helped that the skirt had white lining or white blouse under it where it would have contacted my daughter.

I'm alright, I'm alright... But I had to replace my keyboard after all that bashing that was done to the last one using my head. Thank god for multiple redundancies!

More dollfies should call the tailors they really like >:D

it's like comparing apples and oranges - and btw, the only BJD stuff going on at Sunshine Plaza? only KKnM's ShowsDoll display. Everything else is either not BJD specific or not usable by BJDs at all. Let me walk you through what I understand of both areas:

Sunshime Plaza ---

some of the clothes currently at KKnM are meant for Azone Obitsu 60cm rather than DD and may not fit larger busted DDs. There may also be at least one of the showsDoll "90 for 50" DD/DDdy stand kits I reviewed previously last month. Anything else you find will probably be Luts, MSD/MDD or PureNeemo-related (including some recent vintage ltd editions).

The doll display is only a small portion of the store and is only accessible if the main tenants of KKnM are around on the day you visit (the owner of the anime video store that shares the premises is not allowed to access the ShowsDoll display :( ), so I might suggest calling them in advance, or twittering them (@kk_nm) or Facebooking (http://www.facebook.com/pages/KKNM/191168059247) to see if they'll be in. :( As a consolation, they also stock lots of COSPA, figma, figurines and also take pre-orders occasionally for very special items, so check their webpage to see if something else MIGHT interest you: www.theanimehouse.com

Otherwise, as earlier mentioned, very little here that may interest a BJD fan, though there is significant niche shops in the location of possible interest, such as a tailoring service that converts pictures of reasonable quality supplied into BJD clothes, a film photography hobbyist shoppe, a gunpla shop (stocks select simple electronics, plus Mr Super UVcut in various shinies - you want 'matte' for faceup/ low-profile face protection, not any sort of 'shiny'), and one of the laundries has a lady who does awesome small-scale fake foods (usually for charity - she will not be around usually on the first and last weekends of each month, selling at a monthly weekend handicraft for charity fair at Vivo City instead), plus several low-volume printer shops that may be able to supply you with prints in low volume for certain things like non-heat-based permanent transfers (possibly for body tattoos for example)

Bali Lane (Alice 88th only) ---
Alice offers full BJDs from at least three major Chinese BJD companies (no Japanese BJD companies afaik), and has certification from Angel of Dream @ http://aoddoll.net as a genuine and authorised dealer, contrary to some unfair and unfounded rumors that she sells counterfeits on several forums I refuse to name due to their inability to discern fact from fiction formed from apparent observation. Budget up to about SGD900 per doll, including normal amounts of punk/fantasy wear.

She also maintains a small selection of non-anime doll eyes (unless you count empty eyes) in glass/acrylics in select colors, sizes and designs. There is also a limited range of doll-scale leather punk gear, as well as shoes of select colors and sizes/designs.

And if you need to cosplay while in Singapore, she does costume (optimised for Singaporean/Asian physiques) , hat and wig rentals/sales (and she knows how to do this well and to the customer's benefit, maybe a bit too much of both - I have had hints of her lifestyle after hours, and it is violently clear that this is not a business that has her swimming in money. Mopping up a small puddle of it, more like! x( )

Due to the #$*^ing cost of running a major CC terminal these days absolutely anywhere that isn't rolling in the dough, Alice can only accept payment in NETS (the SG-only electronic transaction standard) or cold hard SGD (though if the items being purchased are expensive enough you may be able to settle via CC with Paypal, but I cannot guarantee this!)

As a bonus, I heard rumors that for loyal customers, Alice may have some extra... goodies. One way of becoming a non-welcome customer though is to badger her about these rumors though, the same birdie went, so I am not going to break my good relationship with her by pestering her about these rumors. I guess it's just a matter of popping in and being nice to her at least on a regular basis. (And before you ask, yes, she reads my figure.fm posts whenever I leave the links on her laptop, so I'm hoping even mentioning this rumor itself does not get me into the same amount of trouble, if at all)

Aside from that, there is absolutely bugger all in the way of purely BJD stuff in Bali lane, though digging in deeper in the neighbourhood may net you an exotic variety of choices in terms of fabrics - ideal if you're bored of simple standard fabrics as a tailor of any sort. Also: enough "not-big-Coffee" cafes to make independent cafe fans like my Atiyaah quiver on the street if I wasn't supporting her - and that's even before the caffeine intake xD

Also failed to mention: the neighbourhood that Bali Lane (where alice 88th works) is on the border of is actually also a hothouse for independent SG food, fashion design, music and coffee. Be prepared to have your wallet reamed out even though most of these folks are trying to make a profit while still being reasonably priced.

Domuya elected to shut down their operations in Singapore totally and move over to Hongkong. Apparently, between local philistines who couldn't appreciate BJDs properly and landlords taking too much advantage and squeezing the Clarke Quay area to death, they couldn't stand it anymore. And who can blame them? x( These days, anyone who does BJD stuff in Singapore does it as a sideline. Forget bread and butter, you couldn't even afford butter doing just BJD stuff - the last CQ holdout that did purely BJDs shuttered in May at nearby Liang court.