Arker - Icy - Bride doll:  $27.21 (RSP:  $35+)

Arker - Icy - Coser doll:  $27.21 (RSP:  $35+)

Both off of Aliexpress

I've wanted that bride for a while!  She looked gorgeous in so many pictures I've seen of her.  She didn't disappoint...except her hair was a horrible rat's nest!  It took about an hour to comb it out, but it looks wonderful now.  That was a total surprise...the hair looked completely ruined when I started!

The other one was a bit disappointing.  She's supposed to be Hatsune Miku, but the hair is all wrong!  I thought it would look ok out of the ponytails, but it just looks dumb because her hair is permanently indented like that.

At least her outfit is pretty great.  Still, now I wish I didn't buy her!  Maybe I'll reroot her with longer hair or something.

The bride smells gross like the last one, but thankfully the smell came out after a wash.  I wonder what's with these dolls?

Arker - Noblewoman Icy doll:  $29.46 @ Aliexpress (RSP:  $35+)

I've wanted this girl for a long time.  She's just so gorgeous!  I've seen more flattering pictures of her than any other icy doll.

Even better, she has a great outfit too!  I didn't notice until I saw it on the bride doll:

It took almost a month to get her, but she finally arrived.  The back of the box is totally unexciting:

 

I also hate that the dolls I buy from this seller always look so disheveled.  Only 1 out of 3 have been properly attached to their box!



The doll is as beautiful as I thought, but this one was worse than all others for another reason -- she stunk!  Like mold!  It's horrible.  I've read that in some reviews from other sellers, but I didn't expect it from this one since my other ones are fine.

For now I have everything soaking in vinegar, so hopefully that does the trick.  The outfit is wonderful so I really don't want to have to chuck it.

The smell was so bad, I've already chucked the box...even though I normally keep them.  I have 3 more Icy dolls in the mail, so I really hope none of them will smell like this.

Icy doll - "Lovely"

Icy doll - "Charm"

$55.08 for both off Aliexpress

That works out to about $27.50 each, which is way cheaper than anywhere else! 

They're around $40 BIN on eBay, sometimes there are some for $35 on auction...but the types are limited and there's no guarantee it'll stay that low.  They were around $50 when they first came out, so I wonder why the price is so low now.

I wasn't sure how I'd feel about these (especially after I saw that Jecci five doll in person), but it was love at first sight!  I even like them more than blythe.  Their faces are so cute, I can't find any flaws with the sculpt (which I can't say about blythe!).

People say they're the same quality as blythe, which again, is nuts!  I'd say they were about half the quality.  Around the same quality as Jecci five, except the hair is slightly less nice (though still way better than blythe).

The body is even worse than jecci's!  It even made my hands tingle, and I'm not normally sensitive to chemicals.  Yikes!

The head seems better quality than jecci's, just a little.  There aren't any places where the plastic is too thin, but it's still not as good as blythe's.  Somehow, the eyemech/eyes seem a little bit worse than Jecci's, though not bad.

What I really like is, some of the dolls have special designs in their eyes.  The redhead had moons!  I should have taken a picture.

Well, I also should have taken a picture of them inside their box, but I was so excited I skipped that step!

I bought another one from the same seller, and I'd really like to buy more.  I'm just kicking myself though, since I saw some other people got them for $20 just a few months back!!

Not from this seller, but another.  Which is strange, because I never saw the sale!  I did look every once in a while, and I even had that seller in my list.  The sale lasted pretty long too!  It probably ended two weeks before I bought these ones, which sucks.

I was thinking that I wouldn't buy anymore until the seller's next sale, but now they've taken them all down...so I guess I missed my chance.

The only bad thing about the seller I did buy from is, they take so long to ship!  About three weeks.  

There's a sale coming up soon, so I'll try some other sellers!  They'll cost me about $27 each, but with the low canadian dollar, it's going to convert to a lot more.  It almost seems better to just buy them off ebay, at least then I can pay with the US dollars I already have in my account!