Integrity hands sculpts

There has been talk about the new hands sculpts launched with the Fashion Royalty line's Hands Speak System on the doll boards. Together with Amanda I have made a list of all the Integrity hand sculpts. The old non-removable hands will be names H1, H2,... and the new exchangeable hand types will be EH1, EH2,...

The old type wrist articulated hands:

• H1 The second FR body and MZ hands. Tiny and with all fingers parted.
• H2 The third generation FR and MB/NU tall body hands, index and little finger parted. The pinky raised in the right hand
• H3 The Misaki hand with index and little fingers parted. A tad longer than H2 and less elegant.

The new type exchangeable hands:

• EH1 Fingers mainly flat w/ the pinky raised in the right hand (the Nu Girls came with it on, as well as the Basic Dolls, Interview Dania & Deconstruction sight -- it was also the painted hands for Deconstruction, Optic Agnes, Interview Dania& in the basic dolls)
• EH2 In both hands 3 fingers are very curled inwards -- spare hands for Eden & Erin, the hands that came on Optic Agnes.
• EH3 3 fingers lightly curled in left, right fingers are arched, all the fingers are individual -- extra hand with Giselle & Basic gals, the hands that came with Statuesque and the monogram dolls after her).
• EH4 Life Ball hands are from the same sculpt as the second generation Valia's, but cast from different, more translucent material that gives them a bit scrawny look.

• EH5 DG hands. Still unproportionately small with parted little finger and a ball shaped joint.
  
• EH6 A new hand scuplt for Monogram doll Blue Chip. All fingers separate and the left hand pinky curved-raised.
  
  
  
  
  
  

From left to right: H1, EH5, H3, EH1, glove painted EH1, EH3 &EH2

 

The Homme hand sculpts (All names HH since they are not interchangeable with female ones):

• HH1 The original Homme hands. Flat and all fingers tohether.
• HH2 The new Homme hands for holding stuff. left hand with a trigger finger and right with index and middle finger straight, others crabbing onto stuff.

From left to right: HH1, HH2

 

Thank you Amanda for your support and pictures!

Giselle vs Agnes comparison

There have been many people asking me do the sisters Agnes and Giselle share the same face mold so I decided to dedicate a full article for the matter. But first of all I want to apologize for the poor quality of my pictures. I took these aver a year ago when the matter was debated at the W-club and their point was merely to illustrate the point and fast without any artistic considerations including lighting. Later, I sold my Aggie and wasn't able to take new photos. I even thought I had lost these ones, but fortunately I was able to find them from the club archives.

As dolls in general the main differences between Agnes and Giselle are the body and skin tone. Agnes generally features the pale FR1 skin tone (with the exception of the Australian exclusive Firefly) as all three Giselles released up to this date have has the Caucasian FR2 skin tone. Another difference is the body type. Agnes is a part of the big busted Fashion Royalty line with the twist and turn body (see body type comparison post for reference) where as Giselle is a part of the Model Behavior aka NU.Face featuring the small bust shared by many other Integrity Toys lines such as Misaki, Dynamite Girls and Monsieur Z.



And now for the face mold themselves. As you can see from the front view Giselle has a face that is a bit more narrow and defined as Agnes´s features are more soft and round - especially in jawline and cheekbones. From the profile below you can see that Agnes´s cheek is more forward as Giselle´s slopes down from eyes and that her cheekbones are more distinct on the sides. Also Giselle's jaw line reaches back more under the ears than Aggie's. The nose is very much the same, I'd say identical, but the lighter skin tone does make Agnes´s nose to seem a bit bigger. Most lightly this is only an illusion caused by light reflection (black looks smaller white bigger) The mouths are identical.


I hope this clears things out a bit. I promise to take better pictures if I ever get a new Aggie. I'm quite madly in love with the upcoming super exclusive Optic Nerve Agnes, but only future will tell if Ill be able to get my greedy little hands on that jewel. ;P

The FR Monogram dolls - intro, sculpts, skin tones

Photo by JennFL

The latest addition to Integrity doll family are the highly exclusive FR Jason Wu Monogram dolls that feature fashions from Jason's runway collections. The first in line was the Life Ball charity doll, now followed by Statuesque, Best Drama, Black Party, Blue Chip and the Jeffrey NY OOAK designer dolls. Actually the Jeffrey NY dolls are not all OOAK, but use 4 different dolls as canvas with the exception of Jason Wu and Aggugini. Jason Wu's doll is Life Ball with new hair do and features a combined look of Statuesque jacket in black and Blue Chip dress in purple and orange. Aggugini used the 1st type doll but gave the doll a beautiful make up in vibrant shades of red making it the only true OOAK doll in the collection. Kudos for Aggugini for that!

The four Jeffrey NY base types are:
1) Pale raven with peach lips and grey eye-shadow. Used by Balmain, Bottega Veneta, Burberry, Celine, Gucci, Jil Sander, Missoni, Narciso Rodriguez, Prada and Thakoon.  
2) Caucasian blond with peach lips and grey eye-shadow. Used by Adam Jones, Lisa Perry, Michael Kors, Miu Miu, RM Collection, Rodarte, Stella McCartney, Thom Browne, Versace and Yves St. Laurent.
3)  Tanned brunette with pale lips and light purple eye-shadow. Used by Dior, Dolce&Gabbana, Givency, Haider Ackermann, L'wren Scott, Mastermind and Valentino.
4)  AA brunette with fuchsia lips and light purple eye-shadow. Used by Alexis Mabille, Christopher Kane, Giambatti Stavalli, Isaac Mizrahi, Jimmy Choo, Oscar de la Renta and Sophie Theallet.

Photo by Baris

"Created specifically to benefit the 2009 Life Ball, this gorgeous collectible marks the debut of Integrity Toys' new FR Monogram™ collection. An extension of the Fashion Royalty collectible line, the FR Monogram collection features a new custom face sculpt (body is the same size as the Nu.Face body), as well as the hallmark of Fashion Royalty- miniaturized couture fashion with impeccable attention to detail.

Many of you have been waiting for another Jason Wu women's collection fashion to be miniaturized and your wait is over! The 2009 Life Ball Doll wears a replica of a chic evening gown from Jason's romantic Fall 2008 women's fashion collection. The gown is constructed from custom-printed fabric in a floral pattern that has been realized in perfect miniature. *The 2009 Official Life Ball doll is limited to 250 dolls worldwide." (W-club newsletter 31 of May)

 

LBD with hands from Aerodynamic Vanessa 

Thank you Kevin for donating this picture

The Life Ball doll features a new beautifully proportioned bust size between the MB/NU and FR, but uses the same lower torso as MB/NU (without the twist and turn mechanism of FR). Also the hand sculpt with all fingers sculpted together is different for FR and MB/NU lines and seems to be the same one used for the new and more articulated Integrity resin doll Valia Pivoine. However, the hands do come off just like with any other 2009 doll and could be replaced with another set of hands from the new "Hand Speak" system. The closest matching skin tone available should be FR2 (the regular Caucasian tone), although LBD skin tone does have a slightly more pink hue the match is quite good as shown in the picture above.

Here is the Life Ball doll compared to MB/NU body illustrating the new bust size:
Thank you Baris for donating these pictures

As well as a new body sculpt the Life Ball doll features a new Caucasian skin tone with a slightly pinkish hue.

For comparison pictures between FR, Monogram and MB/NU follow these links to Wilbcliches photostream:
Side view
Front view

The Monogram skin tones all differ slightly from the FR ones so its hard to keep up with them. However, I try to give the closest matches from FR tones.
NOTE: The OOAK Jeffrey NY dolls marked with capital letters are unconfirmed info based on photos!

FR0 - Porcelain / undead
Dolls: Black Party (pinkish), Blue Chip (yellowish),
FR1 - Japan / pale
Dolls: Statuesque, Jeffrey NY 1,
FR2 - Caucasian / regular
Dolls: Life Ball (pinkish), Best Drama,  Jeffrey NY 2, 
FR3 - Latina / Amber
Dolls:  Jeffrey NY 3,    
FR6 - Black1 / AA
Dolls: Jeffrey NY 4,

The Body Type Comparison

As requested, here is a comparison picture if IT dolls - with one barbie doll for reference.
You can see the range of their articulation in the position of their hands.

Body types from the left:
Mattel Pivotol for reference and Integrity Toys Monsieur Z, Dynamite Girl, Misaki,
Model Behaviour / NU.Face, Fashion Royalty, Homme.
Note that most of the heads are not on their original bodies.
(Click the photo above if the Homme is cropped)

The MZ, DG, Misaki and MB/NU use the same torso but different limbs.

The MZ and DG body are very close to each other, even the legs use same mould but the material of the legs is quite different - MZ´s is more smooth, heavier and better quality. Their hands are same in proportions but DG have a much better range of articulation. MZ´s also have more creepy scrawny fingers than DG.

Misaki have a one more point of articulation compared to others - angles. The new Poppy Parker dolls and the NU.Fantasy characters Yuri and Kumi also have this body type.

MB/NU and FR share limbs but have different torsos. MB/NU. shere the small bust torso, but the FR dolls have a big bust twist and turn torso also used for RuPaul dolls.

For more wide reference see these links to photography by Michael Williams published in Haute Doll January 2008:

The Usual Suspects line up

The Sitting Pretty comparison

Hands

List of Head Sculpts

As more new characters with reused sculpts appear many collectors feel confused. I have promised to list all dolls made from each head mould and I´ll attempt to do so.

As time goes by, I hope include Fashion Royalty (FR), Hollywood Royalty (HR), Homme, Misaki, Model Behaviour (MB) /NU.Face, NU.Fantasy, Monsieur Z (MZ) and Dynamite Girls (DG) lines. Listing head sculpts by category in order of appearance (Thank you for Amanda for providing the shots for the sculpts I didn't have):

Fashion Royalty / Hollywood Royalty
Veronique Old (since Spring 2003, retired 2008)


Adele Old (since Spring 2003, retired Spring 2004)

Adele New (since Spring 2004)


Kyori /Ginza (since Spring 2004)



Isha / Luchia (since Spring 2004)


Vanessa (since Autumn 2004)


Natalia Old (since Event 2004, retired Autumn 2006)


Agnes (since Event 2006)

Eugenia (since Spring 2007)


Natalia New (since Spring 2008)


Lana Old /Tatyana / Jordan (since Spring 2008)


Lana New / Dania (since Autumn 2008)


Josephine Baker / Dominique (MB/NU) (since Event 2008)



Elise Jolie (since convention 2009)
Pic coming soon!

Homme

Pierre (since Spring 2006)

Francisco (since Spring 2006)


Darius (since Spring 2007)


Lukas (since Event 2007)


Takeo (since Event 2008)



Model Behaviour / NU.Face / NU.Fantasy
Erin (since Spring 2006)


Nadja /Colette (since Spring 2006)


Ayumi (since Spring 2007)

Giselle (since Autumn 2007) NOTE: as some may think Agnes and Giselle DO NOT share head sculpts!

Yuri / Kumi / Eden / Lilith (since Summer 2008)

Misaki

Misaki (since 2006)

Amelie (since 2008)

Monsieur Z / Dynamite Girls
Closed mouth MZ /Aria / Gavin (since 2005)

Open mouth MZ /Jett /Reese /Rufus Blue (since 2005)

NOTE:
In the new Boogie Beach collection
Aria has the open mouth sculpt and
Jett has the closed one!
Confusing isn't it! ;P


Sooki / Eltin / Dayle (since 2008)
T.J. / Jasper (since 2008)

Jason Wu Monogram Collection doll

Reference Links

To gain more detailed info and complete listings of Integrity Toys dolls follow the links below:

The Fashion Royalty official site

The Nippon Misaki official site

LBX Fashion Royalty reference list

Amanda´s Doll Info:
Fashion Royalty reference guide
Fashion Royalty story cards organized by the year
Dynamite Girls
Monzieur Z
Eve Kitten

FR Masterlist

Monsieur Z

MZ1 - Japan
Description: The same pale skin tone as FR1
Dolls: Fly Girl, Fierce, Fine & Dandy, Caliente, Fierce

MZ2 – White aka blush
Description: Same regular Caucasian skin tone as FR2, warm tone with a peachy hue
Dolls: First Class, , Park Avenue, Splash, Sizzle, Style Kit #3, Style Kit #2 (pink one)

MZ3 - Latina
Description: Tanned skin tone with a pink hue, FR3 (Natalia)
Dolls: Super Fly, Global Babe

MZ4 - Indian
Description: Tanned skin tone with a greyish hue, FR5 (Isha)
Dolls: Cool It, Playa, Style Kit #1 (blue one)

MZ6 – Black1
Description: Afro-American skin tone with a cold hue, FR7 (Josephine Baker)
Dolls: Jungle Fever, Wilde

MZ7 – Black2
Description: Darker Afro-American skin tone with a cold hue, FR8 (Muse Adele)
Dolls: Flaunt It

Here is Muse Adele in Flaunt It body compered to Nadja

For a complete listing of MZ dolls see Amanda´s reference listing!

Dynamite Girls

DG1 – Japan
Description: The regular pale skin tone with a greyish hue, FR1
Dolls: Eltin

DG2 – White
Description: Regular Caucasian skin tone, FR2, warm tone with a peachy hue
Dolls:Jett, Sooki, T.J. C, Rufus Blue,


DG3 – White2
Description: Caucasian skin tone with a yellow hue, close to 1st body Veronique tone
Dolls: Jett

DG4 – Tan
Description: Regular tanned skin tone with a golden hue, FR3
Dolls: Aria

DG5 – Black1
Description: Afro-American skin tone with a yellow and greyish hue
Dolls: Reese, Dayle

DG5 – Black2
Description: Afro-American skin tone with a warmer but slightly greyish hue, very close to FR6 (regular Adele).
Dolls: T.J. AA

Nippon Misaki

Sorry that this picture does not yet list all the Misaki skin tones.
I hope to getter better one soon!

Note that the Misaki archive is still full of uncertainties and needs to be double checked!

M0 - Gothic aka super pale
Description: Extremely pale skin tone with a greyish hue
Dolls: Anti-Social Girl, Dreadfully Cute, Posh Girl, The Outsider

FR0 vs M0
As you can see the Misaki tone is much more grey.

The difference between M1 and M0,
not much but visible.

M1 - Japan aka pale
Description: The same pale skin tone as FR1
Dolls: Puppy Love, Casual Affair, Tokyo Here We Go, Get Graphic, Patent Please, Metallic Moment, Autumn Champagne, Best in Brocade, Perfect in Paris, Ciao Japan, Summer Blues, Pretty Sweet, On the go Destination: Paris / New York / London / Tokyo, Pretty Party(?) , Trendy Girl, Pure Evil(?), Red Rabbit(?), Witchie Witch(?), Paranormal Willow(?), Amelie(?).


M2 – White aka Blush
Description: Regular Caucasian skin tone, warm tone with a peachy hue,FR2
Dolls: Summer Love, Summer Storm, Crazy Girl version 2(?).

M3 – Tan1
Description: Tan skin tone with greyish hue, close to FR3
Dolls: Harajuku Honey, Sassy Stripes, Summer Crush, Crazy Girl (?)

MB3 (FR4) vs M3 vs FR3
As you can see the the Misaki tan is very close to FR3 latina tone.

Homme

Listing tones from pale to dark.
H1, H2, H3 and H4.
Note that the dolls have some body blushing
so for best comparison look at their legs.

H0 –Pale
Description:Pale skin tone aka Japan aka Porcelain, FR1
Dolls by default: None
Dolls as exception: In the Mix takeo

H1 – White
Description: Regular Caucasian skin tone, FR2
Dolls by default: Lukas, Takeo
Dolls as exception: Lady Thriller Pierre


H2 – Pierre
Description: Tanned skin tone with a very pink hue, close to FR3, but more yellow.
Dolls by default: Pierre
Dolls as exception: Hi-Fly Francisco


H3 – Francisco
Description: Olive complexion, close to FR3, but more grey
Dolls by default: Francisco
Dolls as exception: Jeffrey NY OOAK designer dolls collection featured Lukas with dark brown rooted hair and pale lips. This doll was seen at least in the duos of Bottega Veneta, Chris Owen, Gucci and Prada.


H4 - Darius
Description: Darker Afro-American skin tone
Dolls by default: Darius
Dolls as exception: None

Model Behaviour / Nu.Face

Listing skin tones from pale to dark.
From left to right: MB1, MB2, MB3 and MB4.
Note that the FR1 example doll has some body blushing
so you get the best comparison by looking at their legs!

MB1 - Japan
Description: Regular pale skin tone with a greyish hue, FR1
Dolls by default: Erin, Ayumi, Eden, Lilith (Also Yumi & Kumi that have the Misaki bodies)
Dolls as exception: None
Body donors: FR1 (Luchia,...), DG1, MZ1, M1

MB2 – White aka Blush
Description: Regular Caucasian skin tone, warm tone with a peachy hue, FR2
Dolls by default: Giselle
*Note: The Japanese exclusive Yuzen Giselle that had the Misaki body also shares this caucasian skin tone.
Dolls as exception: None
Body donors: FR2 (Veronique), DG2

NOTE: To mix things up the 2009 collection tanned The Making of...Erin S. actually has the latina skin tone (FR3) and is a perfect match for any Natalia and Bueno Sera Kyori.

From left to right:
Old Natalia, new Natalia, Making of Erin S. and Colette.

 As you can see there is a tiny difference between the old and the new latina skin tones. 

The Making of Erin S. features the new latina skin tone 

even though the matt finish of the MB/NU body confuses the tones a bit.

This is one of the reasons I prefer the MB/NU body, 

I really hate glossy finish on my dolls and all FRs have it.

MB3 – Tan aka Cashmere
Description: Regular tanned skin tone with a golden hue, FR4
Dolls by default: Colette

Body donors: FR4, MZ3

Finally, after years of waiting,

the Iconic convention of 2009

launched a MB/NU Face girl

with the same skin tone as Adele:

Dominique!

Note!  In order to follow the light to dark linearity I renamed the old MB4 aka Ebony (Nadja) as MB5 and this new Adele skin tone will take its place as MB4.

MB4 - AA aka Adele

Description: Warm African-American skin tone. FR6
Dolls by default: Dominique
Dolls as exception: None
Body donors: Adele, AA T.J. Valentine

MB5 - Ebony
Description: Bitter chocolate brown tone with a cold hue, the darkest tone Integrity has.
Dolls by default: Nadja
Dolls as exception: None
Body donors: Mattel´s Princess of South Africa and the 1st Model Muse Nikki

Fashion Royalty and Hollywood Royalty

Listing skin tones from pale to dark.
From left to right: FR0, FR1, FR2, FR3, FR4 and FR6.
Note that two tones (FR5 and FR7) are missing from this picture!
Also, the Luchia representing the FR1 tone here has been body swapped to a MB1 body.
I try to get a better picture soon!

FR0 - Porcelain
Description: Extremely pale, warm peachy tone, translucent quality
Dolls by default: Tatyana
Dolls as exception: Queen V
Body donors: None

FR1 - Japan aka Pale aka Alabaster
Description: Regular pale skin tone with a greyish hue
Dolls by default: Agnes, Luchia, Lana (new mould), Elise Jolie
Dolls as exception: Brighter Side Kyori, True Royalty Vanessa, Mastermind Veronique, Colour Therapy Vanessa, Flight Pattern Kyori
Body donors: MB1 (Erin,...), DG1, MZ1, M1
NOTE: Some variations in skin tone may occur even when same vinyl colour is used for different dolls. In a sense, batches of vinyl and plastic may have small colour variations from one dye lot to another much like knitting wool. As a example the Hollywood Royalty Lana Turner skin tone is generally a tiny hint more grey than the usual FR1 toned dolls!

Thanks Isabelle for the comparison picture!

FR2 – White aka Blush aka Natural Silk
Description: Regular Caucasian skin tone, warm tone with a peachy hue
Dolls by default: Veronique, Vanessa, Kyori, Eugenia, Dania
Dolls as exception: Bewitching Hour Luchia, Ethereal Return Lana Turner (old mould = Tatyana/Jordan), Power Game Natalia
Body donors: MB2 (Giselle), DG2, I have also been informed by Dollster that the Silkstone heads are a perfect match for this colour!

NOTE: Some older 1st body Veronique´s have a slightly darker tone with a yellow hue! This might be do to the fact that vinyl yellows with age so FR dolls from even three or four years ago might be more yellow than when they came off the factory line.


FR3 – Latina aka Amber
Description: Tanned skin tone with a pink hue
Dolls by default: Natalia
Dolls as exception: Buena Sera Kyori, Firefly Agnes
Body donors: MZ3
NOTE: The new and old Nat moulds have a tiny shade difference!

FR4 – Tan aka Cashmere
Description: Regular tanned skin tone with a golden hue
Dolls by default: None
Dolls as exception: Miami Glow Vanessa, Paparazzi Bait Adele, Going Public Eugenia, Body Double Veronique, Cruise Control Vanessa.
Body donors: MB3 (Colette), DG4 (Aria)

I was asked a question about the skin tone of Paparazzi Bait Adele.
It is indeed the exactly the same tan tone as FR4 and MB3.
You can also see that the latina skin tone FR3 is clearly paler and more pink.

FR5 – Indian
Description: Darker tanned skin tone with a yellow hue
Dolls by default: Isha
Dolls as exception: None
Body donors: MZ4 (Cool It), Mattel Pivotol Jazz Diva

Here is a Isha repaint in the Mattel Jazz Diva pivotol body.
As you can see the skin tone is a perfect match
but the head is a bit wobbly from the neck joint
as is usually the case with FR/pivotol hybrids.

FR6 – Black1
Description: Afro-American skin tone with a warm hue
Dolls by default: Adele
Dolls as exception: None
Body donors: DG5 (T.J. AA = A hint more grey but a great match!), Dominique


FR7 – Black2
Description: Afro-American skin tone with a cold yellowish hue close to FR6 (regular Adele)
Dolls by default: Josephine Baker (NOTE: Josephine´s head is tad darker than her body)
Dolls as exception: None
Body donors:

Thank you Baris for generously donating the two pictures above 
and the update on Jordan and Josephine skin tones!

FR8 - Black 3
Description: Dark Afro-American skin tone, little lighter than MB4 (Nadja)
Dolls by default: Jordan
Dolls as exception: Muse Adele
Body donors: MZ6 (Flaunt It)

Here is Muse Adele swapped into the body of MZ Flaunt It
and compared to Nadja skin tone. As you can see its a perfect match!

Thank you Baris for donating this picture!
Here are all the Adele skin tones with Nadja tone for comparison!
From left to right: Paparazzi Bait Adele (FR4), Gold Stroke Adele (FR6),
Muse Adele (FR8) and Urban Outfitter Nadja (MB4).