This lovely girl is a Sasha Studio doll from 1962.  She is all hard plastic and as a studio doll, of course, was completely handpainted by Sasha herself.  She is an excellent example of Sasha's beautiful use of color and shading.  She is also an example of a technique that Sasha seemed to use often; that of dragging the end of her paintbrush (or other sharp object) through the eyeliner paint in order to create lashes.  On this girl, she also did it from the iris itself in order to create detail in the iris. 

This nice  boy is circa 1967 English production Sasha.  Like the girl above, he is completely handpainted and also has the dragging of the paint from his eyeliner down through his irises to create shading.  While Sasha did paint some of the early production dolls herself, it is possible that this boy was done by the factory eye painter under Sasha's supervision, or copying Sasha's studio work.  Sasha sat beside the eye painters, teaching them how to give each doll that special Sasha "look".  Very soon after this, the factory began stamping the eyebrows which gave the dolls a more uniform appearance.

This boy was made soon after the boy above, circa 1968.  He is from the English production and is crudely and freely painted in a heavy style used on the brunette boys at the time.  By now, they were using the new "philtrum" headmold for the boys.  All of these early brunette boys with heavy painting have a right eyebrow that is in an arched shape.  Sasha never painted her dolls with two eyebrows alike, in keeping with the assymetrical appearance of the doll, and she clearly trained the factory eyepainters the same way.

 

Pandora is a sweet 1966 girl and a very early no philtrum headmold doll from the English production.  The earliest dolls had no lashes.  Her eyes are a simpler, flatter style, it seems, from the blond boy above.  She is interesting with her pupils close to her eyeliner, giving her an upward, sort of dreamy look.  In the small photo, she is shown with a sweet 1969 English Sasha, also in the blue cord dress, on the left.  By this time, the eyebrows and whites were being stamped on in order to guide the painter who could probably work quicker with guides.  Eyebrows are difficult to paint, and eyebrows can change the entire expression of a doll.  For speed's sake, it was probably easier just to keep them uniform and add handpainting to the eyes at this point. 

Scraps is a fun little doll.  She is a 1966 no philtrum doll from the English production.  She is unique in that she has two little eyelashes, each pointing to the left, giving her a sideglancing look!  She is a very early doll and perhaps this eyestyle was experimented with briefly.

 

 

This little baby's name is Erika.  I am including her because it is extremely rare to find a baby painted almost entirely by hand, including her eyebrows!  She is from 1969 and was one of the first babies.  Her hair is quite long, so it's been pulled back and is a softer texture than the rough texture usually used on the brunette babies.  She has a stroke of handpainting in each eyebrow and at the tips of her eyes are hints of a little eyelash.  One sort of trails off onto her face!  Her whites are also handpainted in a quick, free style and sort of smudge out of their usual place.