My review of IronTech 155cm with Jane head (Izabel), after about 5 weeks of newbie experiences.
Hello! I´m a middle aged german guy with no previous doll experiences. Tried bits of handy TPE toys like a Meiki and PDX big hip though. Never had any probs with RL gals (beside usual hassles that can happen in any relationship), but was just curious about feel and usability of that TPE that I read quite often about when browsing the net as most guys do I´d guess. Sooner or later I stumbled on doll related sites, vendors, manufacturers and some XXX although rather rare yet few years ago. Didn´t take long and I was most appealed by that more and more real looking plastic gals, not just for my sexual desires but also simply looking at female prettiness like is any passionate admiring of arts, like pictures, landscapes or favorite music.
This also was the time I discovered TDF (around 2013/14 I think) and thanks to much of its content beeing public I got more and more attracted to the idea of purchasing a TPE doll rather sooner than later. But prices was the main reason I knew I had to reject this idea for still some time to come. In the meantime I started saving money for something I needed for my household, although it wasn´t of that big of importance that I couldn´t wait for buy a lil longer. Then not long ago (early 2019) I figured that doll prices weren´t that far off from the money I saved already and then became a single guy again. Quite suddenly I felt the need to check some various doll vendors (outside TDF) again and see what I could possibly do with the money I´d on hand right ATM. Figured lots of 15x cm dolls were barely in range and at last settled with investing my money right there before I´d start thinking twice. So it was a 6ye 150cm head 17 redhead I´d decided to try from a german vendor at ~1100 EUR. As I still had bits of doubts on my possible decision I´d sent some email with question to this vendor. Well.... I´m waiting for an answer until today (it´s 3 months gone). While waiting I took the opportunity to register at TDF at last.
It didn´t take long til I got first vendor PM incoming just after making a few introductory posts here. Among those was Shane of IronTech and I became most surprised not just by that quick contact, but also to that irresistible offer he made. I´d seen IronTech dolls oftenly in the net before and the 155cm in particular remained stuck in my mind and heart. That Anna on white couch promo made me factually fell in love with it.
But prices.... well, not without an additional half year of further saving. Yet Shane (of IT) got me hooked and convinced I do not need to wait nor save any longer. So a "dream" came true. An IronTech 155cm and right now!
After bits of negotiations on doll details and head (decided for the lovely "Jane" one) my order and money went out on 29th of march.
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Doll and head details as ordered:
IT 155cm C cup body
"Jane" head
"Tanned" skin color (agreed that would be more of standard caucasian to me)
Dark tone areola and labia (can´t exactly tell what IT specific color that is)
Standard skeleton and head connections
Standing Feet Option
Hollow Breasts (which is IT default)
4cm areola size (selectable option)
Fixed Vagina / bald (IT default)
Green Eyes (from options)
Default Make Up
Black hair wig (#5 from options)
Pink flesh nails (from options)
a random white dress
and standard IT accessories included with every doll (I think)
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Factory pics received thereafter:
After that most exiting waiting phase (will shipping and customs work smoothly, how would she like be, considering future dress and accessory purchases...), she finally arrived on april 24th. That was way sooner as I´d hoped. XMas time.
The UPS guy helped carrying to my apartment and there then stand that big cardboard box. The moment was almost unreal, but I tried to keep calm and precede in a "professional" manner. Grab some opening tools and keep the cellphone at hand for first pictures.
Unboxing:
Comparing box and content with factory pic, the box quite apparently was openend during shipment, most likely at customs. Sloppily repacked, the wig off its bag and otherwise not that orderly. After getting off all the packaging materials and her in sitting stance I soon figured to my dismay one her feet got damaged. One the bolts at the foot sole poked through the TPE to the outer rim quite obviously from a strong force. Whether it was from wrong storage during shipment or anything else I just can guess. But I know for sure she didn´t leave IT factory in this condition. Oh well. Since I spent some considerable time following various TPE doll repair videos at YT before, I´d figured this an opportunity to apply my own repairs at later times. No need to send back and let IT replace, since it´s not their fault. Although the foot damage looks ugly and prevents any contacts with water (bathing, showering), the standing foot ability remained entirely unaltered.
Softness of body. Knowing before one can never expect a mass of TPE feeling as soft (or firm at appropiate places) as a real female body, I got fairly surprised nonetheless. With the body modeled quite fleshy at all parts one expects from a feminine build female, there´s lots to squeeze and grab. Legs are gorgeous all over the length, as is butt (I love it), belly (very important to me), back and arms. Boobs feel less soft than "expected" despite beeing of the hollow type. Wouldn´t say they´re not soft, since they really are, but different to RL gals quite noticably. Also figured it depends on where you squeeze which might come from the exact position of the air filled cavities. Nonetheless, I love them, also for their perfectly shaped C Cup size. I´m more generally of a butt admirer though.
Jane head. As beautiful as expected, although looking/beeing smaller with the wig off. With wig on, all looks beeing at perfect size, in relation to the 155cm body in particular. Her mouth and lips are gorgeous and invite to instant kissing (and more)! Fell in love with her just as she is.
Green eyes. Think they look really nice and are well made. I initially wanted brown eyes but found IT ones beeing too dark in color. So green was my next best alternative.
At later time I measured her overall length while being laid flat on a wooden board. Made sure the skeleton is as straight as possible to avoid any major measuring inccuracy. Turned out she´s 155cm exactly. Since I´m not interested in her standing height (for what purpose anyway) I left it at that. The overall dolls weight is advertised at beeing 30kg. I have no weighting device so couldn´t check on this. When I first time pulled her out of the box she turned out quite a "heavy" weight for sure. Now 5 weeks later I feel much less of her weight for either me beeing better trained or having learned appropiate carrying technique. However, no problem at all.
Accessories: A USB hole warmer, comb, cavity cleaning bottle, small user manual.
What else..... a yes. The IronTech 155cm - Jane head (my Izabel) is a sex doll (although anything but limited to that).
The soft, smooth skin and nicely squeezable body parts are mentioned already. Likely suffice to tell she "wiggles" where you´d expect to wiggle. Not of huge importance to me, but she does nicely.
Her lady parts: I found them sculpted exactly to my liking (knew from other pics what to expect). Her vaginal entry is rather tightly built at first 1-2 inches (~1,5cm diameter) but widens some deeper in with bits of variation along the full 18cm depth. Her inner vaginal textures give a really really close impression compared to a RL gal particularly when lubed plentifull. Her outer labia has nice detail and is most fun to lick, but maybe not quite the right thing for real pussy eaters requiring bits more. But I love it.
Vagina and butthole placement: Can´t compare with other dolls, but with RL gals. Think everything is where it should be. It looks correct, it feels correct and little Ragnar finds his way with ease. Need to tell I really don´t want to measure for true to life milimeter correctness. She remains a doll and not a RL gal, which are oftenly different to each other as well. So... all big expectations fullfilled here.
Oral: First to mention the Jane head is a gorgeous kisser! Not just the inviting big lips but I also found her TPE teeth firmly molded with the head gives sorta almost real impression of a RL gals tongue! That really surprised me! Some really nice and most arousing tongue plays are now firm part of any my foreplays.
Also worth to mention is that neither her eyes pop, nor any gross facial distortions during oral appearing. But I´m not Goliath like built so I can´t tell if it would be different then. (I noticed from some previously watched XXX doll porn that things like that can happen, so had bits of negative expectations here as well). So...no problems for me.
Now some things more on the negative side.
The damaged TPE foot. Not IT fault.
The stiff joints with waist and shoulders in particular. They´re not stiffer than the other joints actually but the short leverages make it way more difficult if you don´t know the proper posing techniques. And here´s my critique: While part of accessories is a small user manual it doesn´t tell of of any proper posing methods. There´s a diagram of the various posing "possibilities" but at last it´s not really of use for actual posing, particularly for the more difficult to move joints. I´d wish for a future improvement here, particularly newbies will benefit the most! I refer to my Izabel´s Diary thread here for I got my posing issues all solved. LINK
The hand-fingers construction: Well...unfortunately I found it little durable. Internal finger wires detach rather quickly if not handled in most cautious ways! But detached does not mean "broken". The wires themselves seem durable and offering lots of detail finger posing before something bad might happen. But the connection to the so called handplate has some more or less serious problems. This leads to odd finger twistingand oftentimes the ends of single wires poking through the finger tips TPE. This could be a problem for further damage since the ends of wires are not rounded or otherwise protected with sort of a security cap. I still can pose hands & fingers well, but right ATM more from my gained experiences and less from leftover finger capabilities.
The thick and glass hard eye lashes: While they look nice and give a gorgeous eye/facial expression on the head, they turned out to become terrible hair catchers. This also is/was the main reason the lashes start to come off although they´re well and firmly glued to the lids. There´s rarely a moment when they don´t catch hair and every pull from hairs add to start and further pulling lashes off. I don´t know about better alternatives here (softer lashes, yet still durable), but....
The semi permanent MU, labia and areola coloring: Well, it´s little durable and wears off rather quickly as I found. Particularly if applying any mineral oil liquids (baby oil, vaseline) for skin maintenance or lubing. Not a big problem for me though as I´d initially planned (pre doll purchase) to start on my own coloring mods later. So the sooner it weared off the sooner I could start re coloring for some my more specific needs. Maybe worth to mention at this point is that IronTech offers true permanent colorings at extra rather small prices.
The wig delivered with the doll. Well, I had no experiences with any sort of wigs previously, but I think I can tell that it´s not too high of quality. Hairs fall off fairly quickly, particularly when combing and overally it´s a tangling nightmare, not just when getting caught by mentioned lashes. I could ease some the issues by applying hair oil making it less restistant to any sort of combing, but I wouldn´t use it for anything else but posing. Don´t leave it on head in bed (no matter if just for cuddling or...) as I did initially. You´ll regret. In the meantime I changed for better wigs of the lace front /Kanekalon types which are worth any Euro I got to pay.
Overall evaluation of my IronTech 155cm with Jane head:
I love my Izabel. Think I couldn´t have selected for something better or more beautifull for my very first doll and that at a very affordable price (TDF member discount incl.). Some the more serious to me initial issues I could solve on my own more or less (investigating joints and best, least effort joint movements), while with others I got friendly help from various members of this great TDF community. Like to mention Panther68, Jeff from Booty Call Dolls, Icewind and Dollicious2 in particular. Mishka and MannequinFan are great inspiration and invaluable learning sources as well.
Minor things like wig quality, easy wear off coloring and lashes are of almost no importance to me personally, since I intended to upgrade here as soon as possible anyway.
Also like to thank Shane of IronTech, for his friendly and patient answering all the many my noob questions and overall very good cooperation during ordering and purchase phases. Big thanks also to the creator of my Izabel, it´s Leonard of IronTech I think. "Beauty Inspired Creations" to me is true to the letter and I´m looking forward to more of them in my love inventory hopefully very soon.
Edit: forgot to mention some the personal benefits I got since Izabel is with me, as I find it of some major importance. During my roughly month long honeymoon phase, I lost about 7-8kg in weight, now beeing considerably more fit (despite me beeing a smoker) found a new passion in doll model posing and photo shooting hobby and generally I´ve become a more "activated" and happier guy than shortly before. Never feeled that good as in current time! Can´t tell if it would be different If I got a different doll selected for beeing my first one, but despite some the mentioned issues above I don´t regret any single minute with her. Not to forget, I feel I got my hard saved money invested very well. For current doll related issues (fingers, an ellbow injury and eylashes) I see it mainly from the positive side. Having started as a complete noob just 5 weeks ago, I see nothing but interesting challenges, inspirations and as well enjoying the equally minded great people around at TDF here. Although I (still) have other hobbies keeping me busy and happy, my latest one in fact is crowning my overall feel of satisfaction. Beside that Izabel remains a gorgeous sex partner and I couldn´t have wished for any better, but that´s just part of my overall new experiences and life. Glad I made the plunge. It´s been a big step into the unknown and it simply turned out beeing the right one.