Erica LaClaire

girl doll
Owner: Tayua
Manufacturer: Iplehouse
Line: J.I.D Basic
Model: Tania
Body: Mobility type
Size: 43cm / MSD
Customizing: face-up, body blush, manicure&pedicure, sueding, 3 ear piercings (all customizing made by Purplie)
Ordered: November 2008, http://www.iplehouse.net/
Arrived: 23 Dec 2008

Character

Name: Erica "Eri" LaClaire
Gender: Female
Birthday: December 23
Age: 21

Erica's parents are from France but they moved to Canada, Québec, and Erica has born there. However, in Erica's opinion, Canada was not busy and urban enough and so she moved to New York. She also wanted to study there: Erica deeply loves photography and is quite good at it. Erica studies photography in the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her camera is her treasure.

Erica is temperamental and a bit airheaded person. Erica lives with Shane and Lucie. They are friends and lovers in an open V-triad Shane being the hub (= Eri and Luc are with Shane but not with each other). The relationship between Eri and Luc is sometimes bordering on intimate: they're not platonic but not sexual either since neither is interested in women.

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Info on Iplehouse Tania and J.I.D body

What I like about the J.I.D body is that it looks very realistic. It has an adult woman curves and looks nice in photos. However, there are some problems (like with all dolls)... Since her butt is so big, normal MSD clothes don't fit her. Making pants for her is also difficult. When she stands side by side with other MSDs, she looks a bit big, not too much but still. Her hands are quite small compared (can be a good or a bad thing depending on what you like ;) and so are her feet, so many shoes are also a bit big. Of all our three dolls, Tania is definitely the most difficult to make stand on her own. I haven't succeeded in making her stand with one foot, but in one meeting one of the girls succeeded in this, so it's possible, it just takes some patience.

The torso bends from under the breasts so there is no seam in the midriff and this looks much better in photos with a bare midriff than the dolls with the seam in the waist. However, due to this Tania doesn't bend so well forward or backwards. Her sitting position leans a bit backwards, but if you bend the body enough it looks straight. She has pretty joints and good knees. The thights consist of quite many parts, so stringing can be a bit annoying but on the other hand, it makes the body bend more naturally. There is this small part in her wrist which sometimes falls off. It's nothing serious, and the doll looks good without it, but I'd still rather not lose it...

Her face is very convenient, it's rather easy to do face-up and it looks good no matter what direction you're photographing. The headcap is attached with magnets and it comes off rather easily but wit Blu Tack it's no problem.

Doll
The blank face of Tania.

Doll
This is how the naked body looks like, this is already blushed. Unfortunately, I don't have posing pictures and right now. I recommend checking the gallery, there are also some posing pics in Making of.