#studio it

The parcel contained 6 Mattel glue heads, 4 normal heads, 1 small bust body, 1 Fairytopia Lumina body and some ramie hair.

I decided to start with the non glue heads:

Internal monologue was like: ooh I wonder who she is, she’s gorgeous but wow that nylon has felted bad. who would do this?

neck damage... oh! I know exactly who did you dirty: disney with their stay in the box, don’t brush ‘tude and THAT anvil neck anchor where the top part is somehow made from the hardest plastic known to man.

So post hair removal, I remove some staining with alcohol and do my injection while I’m at it, then acetone, then benzoyl peroxide and two days on the sunlit balcony for this gal.Then a boil and we’ll choose new hair or a wig.

Kitty! With a cool spot pattern and dip dyed hair of some kind.

Now you might think that looks like whiteboard felt tip, go with alcohol! but I took a photo to show why that’s a bad idea: alcohol smears felt tip so go with acetone or vaseline and soap or something like the WD40 stain remover pen. Kitty has pink ink stains to her lip and cheek so it was ok to remove the blush so I used acetone. She’s soaking right now just in case the hair dye was done with acrylic. She’ll get acne cream later.

Snapstar Lola. Let’s disregard the 80s blue eyeshadow and white based blush, her makeup is uneven: the lips are to the side slightly but the lower eyeliner/lashes are totally different sizes. top liner is uneven too. The eyes are half round hollow 10mm like LIV but unlike LIV they are lined with a very thin layer of white paint which scratches just from pushing behind the eyewells. Easily remedied with some acrylic paint but an odd thing. Same with the neck-hole which extends deep up to her nose.

I removed the lower eye makeup, added a brown and red pastel blush to even things out a little. Note: the eyewells tear very easily even with undersized eyes. Snapstars are just not my jam.

Wildhearts Jacy has thickly and beautifully rooted nylon hair but the neck and eye design baffles me. I gave her a quick cupids bow and reset her hair. I’m thinking her sclera need that pink over painting, I can felt-tip the eyes brown or dark green and add some blush then see where to go from there.

I prepped four glue heads to go in the ethoxylated alcohol solution, by brushing the two i could, detinselling Cleo and putting them all in tight buns. I used monkey sized orthodontic elastics that will withstand the solution without melting or snapping. I need to find the right containers tomorrow. Probably clear plastic cups.

Summer is from the fashionistas era, they went from nice earth tones in the Cali girl era to Raquelle who’s blue eyes went well with her jet black hair to uncanny looking pale eyes with heavy eyemakeup that somehow looked off. I wasn’t able to save her. She’d need new eyes and a new frontline.

Rochelle’s adorable as always, if a little glue stained around the edges. Boil, superglue and a side part if she gets a reroot for sure.

Protip: after removing icky sticky glue, rub petroleum jelly on the doll and put some inside the neck to swish around during a wash. Petroleum jelly on a paper towel or a rag will clean up your instruments good as new.

Lumina’s body is going to be perfect for PJ! It has a yellow stain to her hand which I’m not going to try and bleach, yellow takes forever or doesn’t budge at all. The legs were coated in green so I gave them an acetone wipe (you can see the difference in the first photo) then I sliced down the neck by a couple of mm, slightly more at the front, added a touch of glue to stabilise the anchor then wrapped it in teflon tape to avoid neck melt. it’s drying right now so photos later this week.

Finally here’s rebodied Janay Blue (from the body in the first parcel) looking radiant dressed as a spring princess.