First warm the head to remove from the neck and squish a little to take a look at the glue: how degraded is it? what’s …
Ethoxylated alcohol degluing part 2
Here’s the problem I ran in to: Depending on the state of the glue there comes a time (4 days for Elisabat who had barely …
rerooting thick yarn
Any advice for plugging 12ply yarn? For the front row and parting: With a big needle, place a yarn plug once every three plugs then …
adding streaks with a gradient effect
When the contrast between two colours is strong and you want to soften it you can add streaks and gradually space them out more to …
rerooting fragile heads? use foam
stuff foam into the head with hemostats or tweezers, remove the same way when done. no stabby, no rippy.
Rerooting with braided tinsel.
“100 Yards Multicolor Metallic Thread” turned out to be 7 twisted tinsel metal strands.Used a cut size 5 needle, most plugs rooted around the outside …
Rainbow High Eyes:
-12 plastic cabochons (Amaya’s were lifted from cheap 20mm eyes with a cone dome, The two others from 22×16.5 from aliexpress.com/store/2825042) cut with wirecutters to …
Reroot glue
I’m thinking of doing some doll rerooting, and was wondering what would be the best kind of glue to use inside the head to keep …
Rooted lashes
Want to ask about Bratz head from “Karma update” post. The colored fake lashes – are they just rooted with doll hair or it is …
Yarn rerooting: not looking like dreads
I’ve been working on a technique to make a doll that can have big sculptural hair as the client wants but also let it down …