Twinning Tuesdays for Fashion February

February (and March) is the de jure fashion month with fashion weeks happening in major cities around the globe. To celebrate, every Tuesday in February, we’ll post to our Instagram (@dollphotostudio) Dollsexposed twinning with Chrissy.

Do I consider Chrissy a mini-me?

Nope. I think of him as my avatar.

For one, Chrissy doesn’t look at all like me. His head sculpt is an original Hot Toys Chris Redfield from the Resident Evil game franchise. There was a time when I sported pink neon hair, and so I gave him that.

Chrissy also has a muscular body and he’s on the shorter side (M30 is probably 5’8″ in real life). Meanwhile, I’m a lanky 5’9″.

I do inject a lot of my personality traits, likes and dislikes, hobbies, fetishes, and fantasies into Chrissy (as well as into other characters, but mostly Chrissy). In the Dollsexposed universe, Chrissy has and does (or is made to do) things that I can’t have or do in real life.

I’m not just talking about the taboo stuff, but also simpler things like having pink hair. Since my original hair is black, I had to bleach it to get that vibrant pink color. It ruined my hair and hurt my scalp, and I had to stop.

But isn’t that the essence of having a doll version of us, whether it’s a true mini-us or our avatar?

We live vicariously through them. We make them enact our fantasies. They get to wear (fake) couture, have awesome (or completely fucked-up) relationships, have sex with whomever or whatever they want without worrying about getting VD.

Sometimes they “live” better than we do, or have more interesting “lives.”

At least that’s the case with my Chrissy.

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