Stalling on Yamarrah's completion

Yamarrah has hung around without a faceup or a creemee because I've been trying to think of the best method to match her light brown head with her yellowy body. See the mismatch?
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I got her head in Iplehouse "real skin" color because that's the color that the split partner chose who bought the body. I got her body in Domuya NS because, at $145.00 shipped, it was the cheapest 1:3 scale body I've ever seen. If one part of her was WS and the other NS, I wouldn't care so much, but the different between the brown and pale yellow resins requires a remedy.

I'm now currently thinking to prime and spray paint parts of her torso and arms. Her upper torso [she has a ridiculous number of torso joints] and her separate neck ball may be painted some light brown. I'm not looking for an exact match to her head, just something closer than pale yellow. Her upper arms and separate shoulder balls may be painted the same light brown with orange highlights. Her forearms and separate elbow joints may be painted lighter orange with darker orange accents.

So basically the concept is to move from her clear orange hands to light orange forearms and elbow joints with dark orange accents. From there, we move to light brown upper arms and shoulder balls with dark orange accents. From there we move to a light brown upper torso and neck ball.

Not sure if I will get all this priming and spray painting done by the time the weather turns too cold to spray. This doll is taking much longer to complete than I expected. I don't want to do a sloppy, rushed job on her, so I expect that the increased waiting time will pay off.

I hop on bandwagons pretty late.

That said, I do want to watch season 1 of Hannibal. Looks entertaining. 

I have a crush on Shirley Bassey.

She has such a strong voice, relishing every word she hurls forth. I love that rich underlining that her voice gets when she draws out words. She has such a strong, solid, expressive body, made for propelling out song. I love her self-consciously hammy, dramatic little gestures when she sings, as in this 1974 rendition of Goldfinger ["Goooooooooooooooooldfingaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"]. She also has a marvelous sense of humor; look at her glee as she combines sex appeal and playfulness when singing Big Spender in 2001! Like Leslie Gore, she enjoys herself so much when she sings. You can tell that she's working hard, but loving every minute of it.

I don't think I could stand it if Lesley Gore and Shirley Bassey did a duet. I think my ears would explode from the combined power and sexiness of their voices.

I did not know that I Am What I Am was a gay song.

I thought it just ended up sounding gay. But no, it's gay. [The bit about coming out of the closet should have tipped me off. :p] It's from the La Cage aux Folles musical, which is about gay dudes, and it happens to have been written by a gay dude. It turned even gayer when Gloria Gaynor did a single of it.

P.S. How awesome [+ hot] is Gloria Gaynor?!