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coughed and out came another cyber goth doll

I do appreciate that Bratz collector dolls are always trying something strange and interesting.

The first thing in the fashion doll hobby I thought of like this was using Sharpie to do fine lines on repaints. When you're new, that seems like a much better solution than using paint on a brush; when you've been around for a while, you know that the reason it isn't done is because the Sharpie pigment gets into the vinyl and starts migrating away from where it was applied

Another is using acetone to remove paint on bodies. It works fine removing paint from vinyl heads because the plasticizers protect the plastic from the acetone; there are no plasticizers in hard body plastic, so the acetone immediately starts dissolving it

Polypropylene hair fibers. New people think the old people just don't like how lightweight and prone to tangling it is, so the new people think that when they deep condition and gel it so it feels and behaves better, then they've thought of something the older people just haven't. Nope! People who have more experience with dolls know that polypropylene hair fibers will basically self-destruct after 20 or 30 years, due to polypropylene's inherent property of having its polymer chains basically starting to unravel after any exposure to a subset of the wavelengths of UV light