{"id":2686,"date":"2012-09-30T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=2686"},"modified":"2015-07-15T11:06:56","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T15:06:56","slug":"mellifer-gets-a-haircut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2012\/09\/30\/mellifer-gets-a-haircut\/","title":{"rendered":"Mellifer gets a haircut."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poor Mellifer. Unlike my other Soom Faery Legends, he doesn&#39;t stand around looking cool all the time. He sits around looking inquisitive and slightly anxious. I don&#39;t play with him as much as I do with Flower and Ginevra.<\/p>\n<p>I thought the reason might be his annoyingly messy hair. Whoever designed his default wig wasn&#39;t thinking very well. It&#39;s dark brown, with long ringlets to the back of his knees, except for two sections at the front of his center part that are straight and shoulder-length. Naturally, these shorter bits pop out almost straight from his head, looking silly. Furthermore, though the ringlets look very romantic, they&#39;re a real pain because they frizz really easily. It&#39;s a wig that does not look good right out of the box.<\/p>\n<p>In an attempt to make Mellifer more photogenic, I restyled his hair slightly. I used some small butterfly clips to pin back the straight parts of his hair. I also trimmed the worst flyaways. Then we went outside on the porch to take some pictures.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oddpla.net\/blog\/dolls\/mellifer\/haircut\/IMG_0036.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oddpla.net\/blog\/dolls\/mellifer\/haircut\/IMG_0053.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oddpla.net\/blog\/dolls\/mellifer\/haircut\/IMG_0141.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oddpla.net\/blog\/dolls\/mellifer\/haircut\/IMG_0155.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He was somewhat happy with his haircut, and so was I, especially since I could see the details of his cute little face better!&nbsp; ^_^ As I scrutinized him, I realized that he has very <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pre-Raphaelite_Brotherhood\">Pre-Raphaelite<\/a> features, especially the mouth.<\/p>\n<p>But we still felt that Mellifer was not achieving his full aesthetic potential. I identified the cause: Mellifer&#39;s extremely dark brown hair, coupled with his black outfit, gave him a somber air, even though his character is much brighter [like Flower!]. He was not wearing the right type of clothes and hair.<\/p>\n<p>I am currently thinking that Mellifer needs a long, bright red, center-part wig. I think that would go a long way toward lightening him up. Of course, doll purchases have to wait until I pay off my credit card. :p<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poor Mellifer. Unlike my other Soom Faery Legends, he doesn&#39;t stand around looking cool all the time. He sits around looking inquisitive and slightly anxious. I don&#39;t play with him as much as I do with Flower and Ginevra. I thought the reason might be his annoyingly messy hair. Whoever designed his default wig wasn&#39;t&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2012\/09\/30\/mellifer-gets-a-haircut\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mellifer gets a haircut.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[728],"class_list":["post-2686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mellifer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5214,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686\/revisions\/5214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}