#17inch

I’d been stalking ebay for barbie + endless hair/dreamtopia/hair play/large/17inch/43cm/45cm and variations for ages and this $20 with shipping bundle came up so I put in a bid thinking there was a very slim chance I’d actually win... and what do you know? within hours of placing the bid 1/4th Wonderwoman was available on aliexpress so I smashed buy. But hey, as Tiffy can attest, bidding on stuff you definitely don’t expect to win kind of makes the universe decide to mess with the odds. So I had two very large dolls turn up and no clue what to do with them.

First off, a couple of design flaws IMHO: the feet are not flat, they can stand in their shoes but it would have been smarter to design flat feet and shoes that make them even more stable. The neck slumps forward, this is probably to counter balance the weight of the hair. In larger doll design (BJDs for example) you put the neck hole futher back but Mattel has chosen to simply upsize Millie and Asha right down to their copyright dates printed on the back of their necks 2013 for Millie, 1990 for Asha. The bodies are 2015. The neck anchor is just overkill, it’s hard enough to get out given the extra lip on the heads and the hardness of the anchor. Both have lovely saran hair.

Asha’s hair is shredded, I “pruned” the hair but the damage runs deep, especially in the back there’s stripped hair four rooting lines in, probably due to the head ties still being in there and the stupid plastic brush. The hair is melted inside to seal it, I salvaged 36g of 26cm saran in chocolate and gothic purple which is probably about 60% of the original hair. Her face is a lil wonky too. Millie will be restored to like new condition as her hair damage extends to the frontline, 2 rows in back and the parting. She has champagne blonde and pink shock saran. I have plenty of long champagne blonde in stock if she looks sparse after pruning:

First you pull the hair up and brush it with a metal comb and let the small pieces fall, stroke the hair backwards with your hand until you have pulled out all the broken bits then cut them but not close to the head. Now redo the pony tail and use your hand to pull the litle spikey bits up, you can go in close to the head now that other long hair won’t get caught up in your scissors.

I’ll be keeping large Asha’s body until Wondie arrives as a backup for Azul the Rainbow Surprise #2. The neck will need bulking up if I go with this body. I’m not a fan of Barbie’s proportions which I why I really liked the clone night lolita bod, since it’s a downsize of a 1/3rd body it’s chunky and rounded. Endless Hair bodies work for a model-esque body but Rainbow Surprise are stylized cartoony round faces which is why Skye looks so good on a 1/6th curvy.

So uh I need to decide what on earth to do with these two. I’m not using saran to reroot Asha as I’d never recoup the cost in hair/time. I could mess around with PE hair though if her body ends up not being of use. Millie can be made new but I feel like she should/could be spiced up a little and she needs something to compensate for that missing shoe.

First look on the new LE’s @d23expo

LG is teasing the 2026 Gram Pro laptops that will be fully unveiled at CES, including what the company claims is the “world’s lightest 17-inch RTX laptop.” The LG Gram Pro 17 (17Z90UR) and Gram Pro 16 (16Z90U) will introduce a new ultralight “Aerominum material” developed by LG that aims to reduce a laptop’s weight while reinforcing strength and scratch resistance. The LG Gram Pro 17 will…

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