Pullip Princess Customs - Rapunzel

While I love my custom Pullips dearly, only one of them had the correct eye color. Rapunzel, while beautiful, had big brown eyes instead of big green eyes. Merida’s eyes were flat green instead of blue, and Howl’s eyes were grey-brown instead of flat green.

So, after consulting with one of my more knowledgeable Pullip-collecting friends, I went off to CoolCat, the leading online store for Pullip eyechips. CoolCat has an enormous selection of chips – flat colors, matte colors, double-colored, you name it – and most are only $3.50.

I was a bit leery of ordering at first – they’re based in Taiwan, and the last time I did an overseas transaction (my very first eBay auction, poor newbie who didn’t know about the AG grey market), it never arrived. But CoolCat was great at communication, shipping was only $3.00, and the package arrived safely and well within the estimated time.

Now, I had some experience opening up Pullip heads and poking around. Merida’s head had been opened when I installed her Obitsu body, and Rapunzel had some eye problems from the start. Whatever had crushed her box and smushed her nose had also damaged her eye mechanism. One eye had been jammed closed, the other wouldn’t close, and the lever that controlled her eye direction had a broken piece. The night I bought her, I spent a fair amount of my evening bent over my worktable, painstakingly repairing the eye damage. I spent a lot of time not breathing, and mentally repeating “I only spent $40, if this goes pear-shaped, it was only $40.” The good part is that Pullip eye mechs are pretty self-explanatory, so it was easy to tell where things were supposed to go.

Just as a note – Pullip eyemechs, when out of the head? SUPER CREEPY. Like, these two huge staring lidless eyeballs attached to this hellish plastic contraption. I have a pretty high tolerance toward creepy doll stuff, but I did my best not to look at those eyes until they were reinstalled.

Pullip Customizing Bonanza!

Okay, I KNOW I said that I was going to slow down on the buying and appreciate my collection.

I KNOW.

But, like I said in the Cecile post, I am easily snared by a good bargain. So when Beastsbelle of the adorable Never Grow Up blog posted a picture of the beautiful Pullip Peter Pan she found – for $40 – at Tuesday Morning, I couldn’t let that pass without at least investigating.

I went to two Tuesday Morning stores in two days (ah, the advantages of living in a metropolitan area), and found not only the Peter Pan Pullip, but the Taeyang Captain Hook! They both came home to join my customization to-do list.