You need to color your fondant mass first to get all the
colors you need.

For the skin color I use little ivory and soft pink. Make
enough for hands legs and head.

FAIRY 1 (Pink Fairy)

Choose your dress, accessory and hair color and prepare the
fondant.

If you don’t have  mold for the face make one from gumpaste and dry it for  few days

Mold for the face is made from this doll.

Prepare the plate or a base for your figure. I always cover
any base with plastic wrap. It will make it easier to get your figure off from
the base to put it on the cake.

I always start from
the legs. Make two legs and place them in the position you want on the base.

Position your molded legs the way you want

Then add the body. You should make the body piece inside
pretty skinny as you will be adding fondant to it and it can became easily very
fat looking fairy.

Add the body. It is good to add some gumtex in the fondant for the body so it will keep its shape. You don’t need to add gumtex for any other part except if you want the hands to
stay up without support.

When you have made the body, make the head and start with
the skirt or dress.

I use here for the skirt flower petal type pieces

When finished with the dress I make sure that I haven’t
pressed the pieces too tight on the board. With a thin spatula I unglue them
and change their places. You could also put some icing sugar on the base for
easy removing later. It is easy to do if fondant hasn’t dried yet.

If your body mass inside is the color you want for the upper
part of the dress mold out  the hands, if not, start making the upper part of the dress.

Then add  hands and arms to the body

If you want to decorate the collar then now it is the time
to do it. Also add the pre-molded head & sleeves if you wish.

You notice in the pictures that pink fairy will be much
chubbier looking than the white one. White fairy doesn’t have extra layer of
fondant on her upper part of the dress

Basic hair then add tiny rolled lines to make curly hair.

This is the part that takes most of the time making the
figure.

Now paint the face and detail on the dress.

Wings from petal shapes and finished fairy.

Note: For an extra realistic effect, you can create realistic edible wings

FAIRY 2 (White Fairy)