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4. What are some things to watch out for when you MTL?

Hi everyone,

After trying every method to deal with the persitent glue-seepage problem, I have finally arrived at one solution that seems to work. I can’t take credit for this, because I read about it somewhere, but unfortunately I can’t remember where I got it from. I’m sharing it here, because I know that many of you are fed up with the greasy residue left behind by the glue. This is what I do:

1) I don’t bother washing the hair. The hot water simply melts more of the leaky glue and I haven’t found a detergent that successfully deals with the grease.

2) I remove the doll’s head and rub talcum powder or baby powder all over the scalp, working it in until all the excess oil has been absorbed. If any of you have used dry shampoo - it’s much the same process.

3) Leaving the talcum powder in the hair, I then make a simple funnel out of a piece of paper and completely fill the head with talcum powder. I then replace the head on the body.

4) I then brush and brush and brush the hair until all the talcum powder has been brushed out. The result is totally grease-free, full-bodied, flowing hair. Yay! :-)

Some extra notes:

* Rubbing talcum powder through the scalp is a great temporary solution, but the glue will continue to seep unless you fill the head with the powder too. Filling the head seems to stabilise the glue. The excess powder keeps absorbing the grease from inside the head, where the seepage originates.

* This works best on dolls with pale or pastel hair - Lagoona, Ghoulia, Rochelle, especially Frankie because her hair is already gray. If you have enough patience to keep brushing until all the powder is removed from the outside, you can also get good results with dark haired dolls. I have successfully degreased my Picture Day Cleo in this way. 

* The other methods I have tried included removing the glue from inside the head using a crochet hook, but this did not work because too much of doll’s hair came out with it and I ended up getting a wig for her.

* Tea tree oil is good at removing the grease from the surface, but it doesn’t stabilise the glue inside the head. It also leaves the doll smelling strongly of tea tree oil. It’s not a bad smell, but it’s not pleasant. Talcum powder / baby powder smell so much nicer.

* I have also tried Goo-Gone and a variety of detergents and clafirifying shampoos. I have had varying success, but at best this was a temporary fix because the glue kept on leaking from inside the head, even if I washed the hair completely clean.

* I hope this helps everyone whose MH collection is slowly being destroyed by glue seepage. It certainly helped me! It will also work for other dolls. I have tried it on some greasy-haired Barbie Fashionistas and they look so much better now.

Basically, the talc/cornstarch/baby powder methods only treat the surface of glue seepage, and the glue that remains inside the head will continue to seep out over time.

Tiffy did a lot of experiments to figure out how to treat the glue itself, and found that a cleaning product called LA’s Totally Awesome will neutralize the glue, meaning it will no longer continue to seep out of the head over time.

There is also a specialty cleaner called Triton X-114 that does a very good job of neutralizing the glue if you follow the directions closely

Anyway.

trans women can't do anything about this. if they try to argue back, they're framed as AMAB freaks wielding their male privilege by the people who are attacking them. it's an unwinnable situation because trans women, as a class, are not capable of oppressing the people who are ideologically dumping them. it's happening in droves in "AFAB queer spaces" by covert TERFs who are literally recruiting them. it's low key incredibly terrifying to see.

Human rights organizations, genocide scholars, and advocates warn that the United States is in the early stages of a genocidal process against transgender people. Experts point to an escalating wave of hostile state legislation, restrictions on gender-affirming care, and public rhetoric aimed at eradicating trans identity from public life.

there was a recent ruling (6 days ago as of my posting this) that states can exclude TRANS WOMEN AND GIRLS SPECIFICALLY from sports teams. this gives LEGAL PRECEDENCE for states to, specifically, discriminate against trans females (in this sense, meaning transsexual women and girls).

i can't write in third person about this anymore because this is terrifying.

we're being sent to men's prisons. those prairieland protestors, including two trans women, got sentenced to 556 total years in prison, essentially life sentences, for "left wing terrorism." in mens prisons we are systematically raped and murdered, including, often times, by the guards.

this shit with the TME qweerz is actively dangerous because its peeling off part of the overall trans community to be used to isolate us. it is an obvious ploy by TERFs to remove the few people who have generally been our allies so that we are more vulnerable. do you think these people don't have think tanks funding these things? they are trying to eliminate trans women from society. the president of the united states has explicitly said such.

it’s hard to be an immortal child :/

I’m still very slowly but steadily working through sampler after sampler with pleasing results. Also frustrating just bc I have so little time and so much fatigue.

This is one sampler from about 6 weeks ago that I think is particularly pretty, and a nice break from regular fans and footsides. There are some tensions issues; i’m working on that.

Pricking from Ulrike Voelcker Discover Torchon

Image description: Digital art of Umineko: When They Cry. Battler Ushiromiya, white as a statue, has an arm raised in triumph, but his bloody fist is closed around nothing. His own head has been severed from his body and is lifted up by the silhouette of Beatrice. He stares forward in shock. Above his head hovers a forward-facing head of Medusa, wide-eyed, grinning with boar tusks, tongue sticking out. The background dissolves in loops of smoke between brick-red, dark yellows, and blues, with chessboard-square motifs, the scissors of the Fates, and the abstracted bodies of some of the people on Rokkenjima curling behind Battler. End ID.