The Laziest Luxe Life Top 10

I am a new collector this year! I don’t have a lot of knowledge or experience yet, and this year has been a whirlwind of dolls for me! As a new collector there are a lot of dolls I don’t have any versions of yet! I don’t have any Poppy! Hardly any main line FR, and sort of a random collection so far. That being said I don’t have to worry about having “too many” of a particular sculpt yet, and I’m just starting to get into some of the older characters (I saw someone comment somewhere that Natalia should retire, but I think her last two releases were pretty fierce!?)

 

Most of the convention dolls initially did nothing for me, but then quite a few grew on me quickly the more I looked at them. When I saw other people redressing their dolls then a few stood out that I hadn’t seen the potential for!

Quite a shock to myself to see THREE Poppys on the list!

So here are my top 10 picks in reverse order (though honestly the order is mostly imaginary!)

All photos credit to my eBay recently viewed list!? It feels SO tacky and tasteless to do it this way, but this way you can all really see into my psyche!😹)

 

Sort of an honorable mention, but she made the list anyways, #10: Gold Snap Poppy Parker.

She seemed so plain and a bit basic, and a revamp or tribute to an older look I have seen very recently. But she is really quite lovely, she has great neutral tones, and when viewed as a whole with her accessories: gloves, fur, boots, necklace; she makes a great doll for a beginning collector like me.

 

#9: Diving Evening Victorie Roux. (Really: Divine Evening, my autocorrect changes it, but that’s okay, I found her diving through eBay and saw her there before I saw any photos of her on Flickr.)

Her price and availability should make her much further up the list, but the more I look at her and others (and make more poor eBay choices) the more I can live without her. I really liked her expression and her hair color, though I would want to take the updo down. I liked her dress because I love the color green, but my brain wants to compare it to Sea Devil’s gown and it begins to fall short. I love the accessories and jewelry for this doll, the gloves and over-the-top necklace are pieces I might try to find separately.

 

#8: Lemon Frost Poppy Parker.

I liked the look of the her when the first photos of her at the convention came up on Flickr. Then I overloaded on eBay images, and in all of the, where she is in the box she looks washed out and terrible! Almost ghoulish in some photos!! eBay did not do her coloring justice, but she still had cute accessories, gloves, jewelry... then I saw this: www.flickr.com/photos/disenchanted-2012/45085270394/

Just about shat myself. So now she is on the list! (I hope it’s okay that I just threw the link in here Deb Buckner!😉😻)

 

#7: Luxuriously Gifted Natalia

I. Really. Like. Her. She is so affordable she should absolutely be higher up the list, but I have reasons.

I’ve been staring at the fashion of Monogram Echelon recently, because I kinda like it, but not enough to get it. This feels like that same look, super classy suit, but still a bit silly and poofy. With the black bodysuit under the jacket the look feels so much fresher. I like her makeup, the pink and purple eyeshadow is fun, but I would probably tone down the over-filled lipstick on her top lip! I know she looks gorgeous with the full lip, but I like the pout that following the line of her lip sculpt gives her. I would also absolutely take her hair down, and am so glad people are seeing her potential now that people are restyling her!

All of that being said: Resurgence Natalia already has an understated top lip AND her hair is down, and she’s such a nice skin tone, and her outfit is GORGEOUS, and her accessories, and how cool would she look wearing young and fresh from the Lovesick Collection, so, she stays down the list.

 

#6: A Fabulous Life Rayna

Oh is she gorgeous!! I love everything about the doll, and I love all of her jewelry and accessories. Love the red and black, the skulls, the jewels. I want to re-style her hair in crazy ways (does anyone remember the old MTV Cartoon Aeon Flux? Or the movie remake with Charlie’s Theron?)

She looks like she is going to be super versatile, dressed up or down I’m sure she will look good in anything, and be able to pull off any look. The only reason she is so low down my list is the affordability, I think! Maybe down the road I will find her nude for a song!

 

#5: Affluent Demeanor Agnes

She wowed me when the centerpiece photos started being posted! I loved her look. I don’t know how I feel about her dress, I want to think it is a bit silly with all the poof and sparkle, but I don’t dare because I just like her so much! I don’t know if that make sense!

I love her hair, and her crown. Her crown reminds me of The Empress Tarot card, a crown full of stars. I really want to see her with her hair down! The stripes are intriguing; after being braided like that it would be wavy too. I think it would be a cool effect to see her hair down in loose waves with the crown back on her head. Maybe wearing something more “gentle.”

I also want to see her with armor on over that dress! Tell me an ornate Spanish breastplate wouldn’t look amazing with that skirt and crown! A conquering queen!

 

#4: The Entire Miss Behave Style Lab Collection Including the Build A Poppy

 

Honestly mostly just the fashion! I really liked a few of the dolls like Lark and Hollis, but not enough to lose it over them. All the fashion sets are so versatile, and so many pieces would mix-and-match SO WELL! Does anybody else get the feeling that each set represents a different style decade? Some of it seems mixed up though! (I swear I recently saw a vintage Black Francie on eBay wearing the exact same outfit as Not Your Puppet Janay!! Cherry Bomb reminds me of the outfit on the old Starr Doll, but admittedly that’s a stretch.)

The prices the dolls and fashion are currently selling at seem a bit high, I will have to check again when the madness dies down and the items are actually physically available!! It seems like a brilliant business plan to go to the convention and buy multiples of everything in the Style Lab, get your three build-a-Poppy dolls, and sell all the stuff you don’t want on eBay from your hotel room. I’m really hoping people did this, and will start selling their fashion off when they get it!!

 

#3: Gilded Oligarch Tatyana

Oh, she is gorgeous. I love the color of her makeup! the deep rich sparkle rose pink lipstick, the dark smoky green eyeshadow. Her glance and expression is great and I’ve seen some amazing photos of her. I really like her, but there is something I cannot place that made me decide just to skip her over and put her out of my mind. I think I can just anticipate having a difficult time bonding with her even though I like her so much!

She is another Luxe Life doll that I can’t help but compare to the Sacred Lotus incarnation. Something about Goddess Tatyana just really wows me. I saw Dolldiva67 say somewhere that she has spooky eyes!! I think that’s why I like her. I ACCIDENTALLY bought her on ebay, so it looks like I won’t be going for Gilded Oligarch in the near future (and now probably not Violaine either😿)

But I do want to get Legacy Janay’s coat for Goddess with Color Clash Alyssa’s pink dress, orange tights, and blue sparkle shoes; something fun and young and fresh to make her spooky eyes pop!

 

#2: Style Lab Jade Wearing Soft Focus

How 90’s is she?!!! I don’t know why I like her, let alone like her enough that she is in the number two spot!

I do like her coloring, and she is pretty cute with her green eyes in simple cat-eye makeup. I really like this floaty floral dress and boots combo, but it is terribly 90’s. Has my excitement for seeing photos of Feelin’ Extra Jade nude-in-box clouded my judgement of this Jade? Maybe! But she is still super cute!

 

#1: Chiller Thriller Poppy Parker

????

I’m not really a huge poppy fan? I really enjoy seeing her, but there hasn’t been one yet that I needed. I don’t know if I “need” this one.

I don’t know!! Look at how she stares at me in all of those pictures! I’m hooked by her gaze! Love her coloring and simple clean makeup. She looks like she could be both soft and sharp, not either/or the way a lot of Poppys seem to be either sweet or bitchy. As with the other Poppy picks on my list, as a whole she has great accessories for a beginner collector! I was looking at her nude because she is so much more affordable, but how could I have her and not her silver boots?! Or gloves?! That jewelry! But really aren’t silver boots a staple in

any Poppy wardrobe? And Gold Boots, so I’ll need Gold Snap too... Poppy is a slippery slope!!

 

I need to calm down and refocus. I already had my sights on Kimiko Gunn for my “first Poppy,” she has been on my wish list a while. After my credit card recovers from this year! For now I really shouldn’t even be touching something connected to the internet where I constantly emotionally shop for dolls and then “accidentally” buy them. We will see what happens when Resurgence Natalia comes out! I think I really want her!!!

 

I still don’t know tagging etiquette and who to tag for the tag game!

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