Harajuku Sweet Tooth Redesigned

Harajuku Sweets Redesigned

Commissioned request of a custom pony figure of the generation 1 My Little Pony named Sweet Tooth, redesigned this time with varied candies for the Twice As Fancy body work. So I call this Harajuku Sweets instead of Harajuku Sweet Tooth~ only components of this custom that hold Sweet Tooth’s design, are the body, hair and eye colors.

Pony base is a pose I engineered from two different generation 3 ponies (did some head/body swapping).

Coated head and body with a layer of Gesso to give a texture for the acrylic paints to bond to. Full body repaint in aqua acrylics, eyes painted in my realism/fusion style in Sweet Tooth’s purple color. All paint work sealed in Artists Varnish.

Mane and tail are re-rooted in dollyhair’s nylon mlp hair in the color Heartthrob, which is an exact match to the original g1 Sweet Tooth pony. I made a few “hair extensions” from white curly hair that I attached to the tail, blue curly hair, a tuft of yellow mohair and a rainbow lock of hair I cut from another pony that are wrapped around the original bun I made on the pony.

Spent an evening twisting together various colors of hemp cord and gluing the strands together in light coats of Tacky Glue to create lollipops, rainbow candycanes and bon bons. Used golden metal rhinestones for the bonbons and detailed their wrappers using ribbon. Glued them all over the pony’s body and sealed in mod podge.

Next, since I was waiting for hair to arrive through the mail I went ahead and crafted the leggings. Hand-stitched bias tape, various laces and ribbons, detailed in little bows I stitched on, buttons and some strings of beads.

Also while waiting on the hair I pre-strung the bead work on floral wire then set it aside. Some of the beads are glass, antique, purchased from Shibori Dragon, a store that specializes in traditional Japanese textiles and accessories.

Also added fruit beads and Easter eggs, glued rhinestones to the larger leafs beads on the front. Hand-stitched a fan from red swan fabric, pleated purple polka dot lace and stitched it along the top. Made a piece of shushi from white leather, wide black ribbon and dotted it in gray acrylics and glued it on a leaf at front. Did some mild rhinestone accents on the face to finish.

Tied a pale green ribbon around the neck finished it with a few rhinestones.

To put it simply, looking forward to making more projects like this~