I have now put some mileage through her, so I thought it was time to do a follow up both of the doll itself and what I have learnt about being a doll owner.
About the doll:
Paint
The paint is rubbing off as can be seen from the fair areas in the pictures below. The paint is however not peeling except for two small spots on her back. From what I have understood, this happens with all dolls regardless of how many layers of magic paint the manufacturers claim to use. I think the proper solution to this problem would be to dye the silicone itself, or to make the outer layer of silicone translucent and put the paint under it. Some manufacturers dye the material used for the orifices, which in my opinion is a really good idea and I wish they could do it for the nipples as well. For now, since I don't use the doll for photography, my conclusion is to order my next doll without shading, only painted veins, nipples and crotch.
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The head is okay. The paint on the nose has rubbed off a bit, but it is not too noticeable. Eyelashes keeps coming loose which is annoying. I gave up on her teeth - since they are not attached to the gums, they fall down, which makes her look weird, so I took them out. The result is that her lips bend inwards when I kiss her which sucks.
Body
Over all I think she has held up quite well. There are a few puncture marks, but nothing major. The orifices are a bit worn, but not too bad and I have not had to repair them. The fingers keeps poking pretty much whenever I touch her, so I have had to glue them many times. As I suspected the skeleton on the elbow (see my initial review) poked through, so I had to glue that as well. The feet has a few cuts, and the paint has rubbed off.
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The skeleton is now quite unevenly tightened and it has become quite difficult to bend her back and shoulders. The reason is the lack of mechanical advantage I had in the beginning when legs and arms still had stiff joints. The knees have become very loose, hence they have a tendency to give in whenever I stand her up if I don't lock them. The shoulders are completely loose, so the arms fall down if I let them go, see film below. It would be possible to reduce these problems quite easily by using brass rather than steel washers for the skeleton, but I have only seen one manufacturer doing this. To fix the problem completely it would be necessary to use spring washers, but this is as far as I know not yet available from any manufacturer. As far as I know Zelex now has better finger and neck joints, but I think the rest of the skeleton still is as bad as mine.
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Maintenance and cleaning
For the body I wipe her off with anti bacterial baby wipes as neede, and shower her every few months. I have however noticed that her joints become a bit stiff after showering, so I try to do it as seldom as possible.
I don't put body fluids inside her, instead I use a femdom - super convenient. In the beginning I tried using dry lube (corn starch) between the femdom and the doll, but it didn't work out for me. Instead I lube her up once a week which works fine as the lube contains a lot of preservatives (check shelf life - it is several years). I clean her out by placing her on the toilet and flush out the lube with an irrigator designed to clean the butthole on people, the black thing in the picture below, attached to to the shower hose (pretty crazy product, who would risk getting 4 bars of pressure up their butt, whatever, good product for dolls). The irrigator is a bit expensive (50 EUR) but super quick to use. I then dry her using drying sticks (the white thing in the picture) which is so much easier than the aquarium pump I used in the beginning. I got 4 drying sticks for 10 EUR including freight on Amazon. I just put one in each orifice and leave it until the next day.
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Storage
I stitched up a storage bag from the blanket the doll was delivered in which I pull over her whenever I put her away. I made a hole at the top of the bag for the hook. I keep her hanging from the garment rod in an IKEA closet next to my bed. It turns out the IKEA closets are not designed for dolls, dolls are too heavy, so what happened after a few months was that the bracket holding the rod broke in the middle of the night and the doll fell out from the closet and crashed to the floor next to my bed. Besides the excitement, the doll did no sustain any damage, perhaps luck but I also think my DIY storage bag helped protecting her. I had to repair the closet, where put a screw through the bracket and into the closet wall. It is holding up for now, but I've noticed that the doors have started to scrape against the frame of the closet, as if whole closet frame has started to warp from her weight. My plan now is to throw out the closet, hang her from the ceiling instead and place a curtain around her. The lesson learned here is to be prepared to spend some cash on storage if you are new to dolls.
Usage
I can't speak for dressing and living with a doll. She is either in the bed or in the closet, and I only carry her to the restroom. What I have learnt however it that it takes a very long time to get used to positioning and manoeuvrering the doll during fun time. The doll does not cooperate one bit, and it takes a lot of focus to change her position (in the beginning you basically have to take a break for a few minutes). My advise is to not expect a great experience until after a while. It took me almost 6 months until I could do cow girl for example, but now I am slowly working through averbeck70's list of sex positions with her.
My doll weighs 35 kg. In the beginning I found it quite hard to carry her around, but now I no longer find her heavy. A very positive experience is that she has given me a physical revival and I am no stronger and fitter with more vitality than before I got her - I guess plenty of sex has that effect on people
. I live in the northern part of Europe. The major problem I have had during the winter is that she becomes very cold. I've tried electric blankets, but it is not good enough. My conclusion is that I will never buy a doll without heating again. I have found one manufacturer that offers heating with multiple sensors to give an even and constant body temperature for their dolls.
Doll experience
I have not developed feelings towards the doll. I have barely named it, but her name is more a joke than a real name. Before I got her I was a bit worried that I would fall in love with her and that it would cause problems for me, but luckily that hasn't happened. What has happened however is that I have started to dislike removing her head, which is not something I anticipated before I got her. This is something I've heard other doll owner say as well. I also feel sorry for her whenever I poker her fingers which is also a bit funny. Another thing is that I've started referring to the doll as "her" rather than "it".
Updated short list
I read through the short list of things to look out for from my old review, and there are a few things that I found annoying and important back then that I've gotten used to now. One thing is her small head, it doesn't bother me any longer. Now I think it looks just fine and I have learnt how to attach the wig so that it doesn't fall off. Another thing I've gotten used to is her tiny feet. Her weight is fine, 40 kg would probably also be fine, but 30 kg is probably the best. Less than 25 kg would be too little, it is actually quite nice to roll her on top of me and feel her weight (and tits) against me. Other things have proven to be much more annoying such as not having hard hands and ugly and hard orifices. I also keep getting annoyed by her fat thighs and short torso.
My current short list looks like this:
- Mold can grow more easily inside dolls TPE compared to silicone dolls - choose silicone.
- A lot of people seem break their first doll, sturdy dolls are good.
- Paint fade on TPE dolls, while it seems to be prone to crack or rubs off on silicone dolls. Unpainted silicone dolls are probably the best (body, not head).
- TPE contain mineral oil, which may be bad for my health.
- It is easier to clean a head than a body after use, but get two heads one for oral and one for kissing.
- It is hard to pick a doll without any prior practical experience, hence my first pick may not be the best - no longer applies to me, but it was a good idea to buy a cheap first doll.
- Excellent LHP.
- Movable jaw and ROS, but make sure you can close the mouth completely.
- Hard hands. Regular hands are squishy, which kind of ruins the mood and they are also easy to poke.
- Hard feet. Bolts are unpractical since they damage the floor this is particularly annoying when you want to bathe or shower the doll. Regular feet are also squishy especially since the toes are boneless.
- Length of torso compared to legs, MTV at least 70 cm.
- Narrow hips and relatively thin thighs.
- Soft orifices.
- Around 30 kg in weight
- A face which is not expressionless.
- Glued in teeth.
- A vagina that does not gape when you spread the legs.
- Implanted but relatively short hair could be nice, but not if it falls out.
- Shrugging shoulders are not important if you only use the doll for sex and never dress it, in fact it can be a bit annoying.
- Heating
//J
. It also doesn't help that you have to level up your skills like a fucking hentai protagonist to get the most enjoyment. But, seems like they win you over at the end 
