Skintone Jeans - Yellow

For fear of stating the obvious, these are the 'Skintone Jeans' in yellow, modelled by the superbly sublime 'Sushi'  from the 400 Club series. I just love the 400 Club girls, they really are beautiful and I think would be the hardest to part with as they were the 'first' commercially available Sybarites. They are over 15 years old now ... Wow! that time has flow by but I still get that 'buzz' when I look at them!

I think this is probably my favourite combination in this series of pictures I did for the jeans; yellow is my favourite colour so that's possibly why, but 'Sushi' is a perfect model for anything yellow or lime and she carries these off with pizazz.

'Sushi (LE 75) is modelling the 'Skintone' jeans in yellow, the silver paillette jacket from 'Apple', blue pearlised leather shoes  and belt from 'Meeow', 'Rock-It' hot pink PVC belt,  'Librium' wig,  'Rosemary' ankle socks and 'Disguise' yellow/blue/pink colourway scarf all by Superdoll.

400 Flamingo

This is 'Skye' who is the last of the 400 Club series by Superdoll and was a Haute Doll Exclusive in October 2005. I decided that I did not 'need' her and was happy with my trio of 'Sugar', 'Sushi' and Sabbatha' ... and so it remained for quite a while. 

What triggered the change was the doll I bought with the money I got from selling 'Sabbatha' and, as mentioned in the previous post, I could just not get over the fact that I had made this mistake and every time I picked up this doll, it just reminded me of the fact.

All was not lost however, as a fellow collector posted that they wanted to trade the doll I had for their 'Skye' and I jumped at the chance! No she was not 'Sabbatha' but I was delighted with the swap and have never regretted it one bit. Now I was all the more determined to find the absent sister!

'Skye' is modelling the 'Candyache', gown, pink fishnet hose and wedge sandals, 'Bloodhound' bangles and 'Colorshop' blonde pigtail wig all by Superdoll. Vintage kimono silk bandana by Doll-scum.

Never on the Sabbatha

Well as you can see my "only the one" Sybarite vow was well and truly out of the window and this gave me free reign to order 'Sabbatha' from Haute Doll in October 2005. She was offered with 'Skye' and they were a slightly higher edition than their 400 Club sisters 'Sugar' and 'Sushi' at 95 pieces each.

'Sabbatha' sold out pretty quickly but 'Skye' proved less popular and took quite a few weeks to sell out. they both came in the same underwear, fishnet knee socks and stilleto boots as 'Sugar' and 'Sushi' ... 'Sabbatha' in red and 'Skye' in black.

I stupidly sold my 'Sabbatha' in October 2006 to buy another Sybarite and instantly regretted it but luckily, I did manage to buy her back almost three years later (and at over twice the original  price), so lesson learned hopefully! The reason it took three years and cost double is because she is still one of the most desirable Sybarites and seems to be most people's favourite from the '400 Club' quartet.

'Sabbatha' is modelling a mesh and lace bodysuit from 'Cross' black pencil skirt from 'Will, checked obi, tabi-geta shoes and parasol from 'Marigold, red fishnet hose from 'Librium' and platinum wig from 'Blade, all by Superdoll.

Yo! Sushi

This is 'Sushi' and she is the second Sybarite that I bought (after the usual "I only need one" justification to oneself) a few days after I ordered 'Sugar' from the Superdoll site. If she had sold out quicker I would not have had the choice/excuse but she didn't and, nearly 10 years on, I am still so glad that I did hit that 'BUY' button!

She is one of my most redressed girls and anything pink/green goes straight to her. She suits all hair colours and like her sister 'Sugar', she is going nowhere. I just love her!

'Sushi' is modelling the complete 'Thyme' outfit from the 'Fashion Victim' series and the Ginger 'Fro wig  from the 'Colorshop' Wig series, all by Superdoll. Diamante hair clip by Facets.

Pour some Sugar on me

Moving on with the 'my first' Integrity/Ashton Drake/Tonner theme, it would be downright rude and dare I say a diabolical liberty for me not to give a mention to my first Sybarite, who was the darling 'Sugar'. She appeared on the Superdoll site on 6 October 2005 and the rest is, as they say, history.

Although she was LE 75, she did not sell out immediately as there were not a lot of Sybarite enthusiasts at the time. She appeared with 'Sushi' - who was even slower to sell out (maybe because she was a bit more funky with neon yellow underwear and boots; 'Sugar' had coffee coloured). At the time a few of people painted her odd eyes (one brown/one blue) to match ... didn't get it myself! 

I love her just as much now, if not more, than that first day when I unzipped her silver travelling bag. My experience is that you can't say that for many dolls you've had for almost 10 years! She is still my favourite out of the four '400 Club' girls and easily in my top five.

'Sugar' is modelling the mink-trimmed parka, Superdoll logo tee and pin sequinned mini skirt from 'Superdelic' all by Superdoll. Pink leopard boots also by Superdoll. lace hose from an unknown maker. Directors chair by Ashton Drake. 'Kiss Me' bag, hairpiece and orange mongolian skin wig all by Doll-Scum.

DC or not DC?

That is the question that was asked recently on a Sybarite board that I post on. Actually the question was along the lines of "what is your favourite Sybarite sculpt?" and my answer was the DC sculpt. Superdoll have several sculpts and mainly use the Venus sculpt for production dolls ... the DC sculpt is saved for special Limited Editions, for example Superdoll Events, OOAKs and exhibition collections.

I do not have many DC Sybarites  (my favourite dolls are owned by other people and they mostly happen to be the DC sculpt). However I am very happy with the ones I do have and 'Librium' and 'Cosma' who are pictured above, just happen to be DCs!

I was craving a splash of colour on this cold, wet, grey January day and this has satisfied that need. The added bonus is that it also shows off my favourite Sybarite sculpt!

'Librium', on the left of the picture is modelling 'Sweet', the platinum afro wig from 'Sushi', hose from 'Iguana Blue' all by Superdoll. Jewelled hair clip from Facets. 'Cosma' on the right of the picture is modelling 'Sour' and the auburn corkscrew wig from 'Powder'. Bird hairpiece by Doll-Scum