#styling head

#35, Ignatius Itt Mini Styling Head, Just Play

I saw this 1971 Barbie Beauty Center relisted on shopgoodwill.com a couple times and it’s rare, but they did drop the price on her after a couple relists.

She was $40 shipped instead of $50... Goodwill uses FedEx which is EXPENSIVE.

Anyway, she looked like she’d be a challenge and I’m a little bored of working on ponies, so I went for it.

Her box is all but destroyed. The whole top is missing. That seems to be pretty common. The front is cute but I didn’t take any pics of it.

She came with all this stuff, most of which isn’t even hers. As far as I can tell only the yellow compact, large curlers, and green brush are hers.

I pulled her out of the box and was grateful she doesn’t smell like cigarettes, moth balls, or storage stank (mold/mildew).

Also grateful that the 1971 Beauty Center is NOT Quick Curl. The 1972 version is.

I despise Quick Curl.

I still thought she MIGHT be a challenge.

It took no time at all to get her face clean. Melamine sponge FTW.

I’m disappointed, honestly. When I splurge on something like this I’m paying for an experience since I have no interest in the product itself. I’m not even buying to resell, I’m buying for entertainment.

Her hair was not fun to fix at all. All it needed was washed, conditioned, combed with the metal dog comb, then combed with the metal flea comb and she was done.

Fixing her compact took more effort.

It was covered in “makeup” and then I went and chunked up the remaining powder, mixed it with rubbing alcohol, and let it set.

It’s chunky because there was a layer of glue on the bottom of the powder and I didn’t get it removed properly. I can go back and try doing it again and straining out the chunks, but honestly...

Don’t care that much.

It looks better, though it’s cracked while it dried, and that’s all I wanted.

So. Yeah. That’s done. (Ignore the mess I have a lot of projects going at once and it’s chaotic.)

I put her hair up in a hair net overnight while it dried.

Of course I also cleaned her accessories. The brush is adorable.

I have no idea what most of this stuff is.

The Libby Lee compact at least has a name on it. That was a brand of cheap toys you could get in a bubble card at gas stations and discount stores.

The pink pin and brush came from Quick Curl Skipper.

The orange thing is a handle for a file.

I think the yellow brush is just a generic baby hair brush. It has the ultra soft nylon bristles my little brother’s brush had when he was a baby.

Pink triangles seem to be broken hair clips though could be some other kind of clip.