You can use expression-descriptive words, such as "arrogant" or "gentle" to help explain the expression, but if you do so, try providing an example picture. You can also describe the way you wish the strokes to be drown, for example if you prefer them to be thicker and wider apart, or thinner and more feathery. You can describe the shape, the length (short or long?), the thickness of them, and anything else you think is important, such as whether they should curve in any particular area. Eyebrows are very defining in the overall expression of a doll, so should be given a lot of thought. Here you will want to describe the shape and the colour. This is also where you might simply state "done like Lucas" or similar if you wanted their overall concept to be similar to a certain LE. You can say a lot or a little, but it is better to try and keep it to a concise paragraph of 3 to 4 sentences at most.
You can describe their personality, such as "so-and-so spends a lot of time with friends, and is always talking and laughing, always easy-going", or "so-and-so is a distant, lonely, melancholy individual, who often seems to have an air of sorrow surrounding them". For example, "kind and caring, friendly and often smiling", or "haughty and arrogant, with an intense gaze and a serious, daring expression". You can describe the basic concept of their personality, or the basic expression that you want them to show. This is where you describe the overall idea that you have for your doll. Again, as above, you can be as generic or as specific as you want. Here is what you will want to consider when describing your makeup order. Volks have laid out the makeup order form in a certain way and so ask for the information in a specific order, and I often find it easiest to lay out makeup orders in the same fashion. Note: Please submit copies rather than your originals of any pictures you want to be used as they will not be returned to you. (For example, 'plum' or 'rose' means different things to different people, and more so across languages!) For the colour, you don't need to submit a picture of the colour on a doll's faceup if you can't find it you can just do something as simple as drawing a square in a Paint program and printing it out on a colour printer. If you are very specific about the colour that you want for anything, it's recommended that you submit a photo or printout showing exactly what the colour looks like, as people interpret colour names differently, and this interpretation becomes harder when translating into Japanese.
You can submit multiple pictures for one part, too for example, one picture showing the eyebrow shape you are after, with another picture showing the eyebrow colour you prefer. You can submit plenty of photos with your order to get your idea across separate photos of the eyebrow shape, lip style, eyeshadow, blushing, lower eyelashes, etc, that you are after. Please only submit photos of Volks dolls - if you try to submit a photo of a non-Volks doll unfortunately they are not able to accept it. You are welcome to and very encouraged to submit photos or drawings along with your faceup in order to clearly show what you are after.
Anything you like! You can also ask for faceups based on one-off models or FCS models shown in any of the Volks books or catalogues just be sure you know the name of the book and the page number of the doll and Volks will sort out the rest. You can even ask for a cross between LE faceups for example, an "Okita" style faceup but with "Isao" style eyebrows. You can even ask for an LE faceup but with different coloured or styled individual parts, for example, asking for a "Madoka" faceup but with paler coloured lips and different blushing. If you have a particular style or look in mind that you are after, it is better to be as specific as possible when ordering your faceup.Īlso, you are more than welcome to ask them to do your faceup in the style of any of their LE dolls, or one-offs that you have seen pictures of, or the like for example, you can ask for a "Lucas" faceup, or a "Sylvie" faceup.
However, please be aware that most of the Volks FCS artists have a certain basic style of faceup they do, and the less specific you are (ie the more free reign you give them) the more generic your faceup will be. You can be as generic as you want or as specific as you want the choice is entirely up to you. This is the type of makeup you will choose if you want to specifically decide what sort of faceup you would like your doll to have.