Fixing Saran Doll Hair

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Hi y'all, it's Canterbury Trails farm, and this is one of my weird off one-off videos on doll repair and I am repairing two Sweet Sue's from the 1950s. They have Saran hair and the way you this will work for any doll with a plastic kind of hair. Like a Barbie, you want to just soak their hair in human conditioner or detangler. You can use that too either one or liquid fabric softener just softens and the hair and makes it so you can comb it out and set it again. So they've been soaking overnight, I'm going to take them over and rinse it out and then we're going to roll our hair in curlers and okay. I got it rinsed off and I'm starting at the bottom and I'm working my way to the top. When you get it through there nice now, this one was in really rough shape. When I got her, sometimes you get a doll that is just so matted that your best bet is just to take it off and wigger. But whenever you can try, I mean definitely try. First, sometimes uh you'll get lucky and you'll find people just selling the Scout part of these dolls, which is weird but um, because the rest of the doll obviously was trashed. They were able to usually it's the hair that gets trashed before the doll, because girls, this was the era of the Tony permanent doll and and they were rolling their doll, hair and curlers and just doing all kinds of atrocious things to their daughter. So usually these some of these Sweet Sue's and the Tony dolls, their hair, will just be just it's been rough so and then they've been sitting somewhere for letter. We 50s 70 70 years now came out in the 50s to the 60s. I believe when I'm doing the bangs, I'm combing them down on their face, because bangs want to do all kinds of I'm sure you've seen dolls from the 50s or 60s, where the bangs are just all kinds of mess foreign, because it's been cut at a slant. I was never I had one doll, quick curl Skipper that I actually cut her hair out of necessity. If you were in the 70s, you were heading this quick curled dolls. It had some kind of gummy stuff in their hair which made it curl. It was really weird so after a few years it just turned into a big mass of gum on the head. It was a mess, so I really had to shave her head. I cut it really close. Didn'T really have the money to get a doll wig. It seems like I got: I traded one eventually it was a Barbie one from a friend, but it always looked odd, so Skipper just I put her in a lot of hats. Okay, I'm not gon na totally go around, and even it up, because I don't want to make it too short. Okay, once you, when you set your doll's hair you're gon na, have to let it totally dry, so it's they're probably going to be sitting for a few days with the curlers. Until I know, there's just no way it can still be wet and you'd be surprised. How long the hair can stay wet because it's like it's remember it's it's. It'S Ran, So it's sort of a nylon, rayon plastic, I'm not exactly sure the makeup there all right, so I've just got curlers that I normally use and I'm not going for. Like a you know, super curly perm here I just want to put some waves in her hair, so I'm just going to do a few sections, since her hair is so messy we're gon na try see how these work. Here I have enough hair. It'S just really. Frizzy, let's try that she just doesn't have enough hair to go on the rollers, so comb it straight just going to roll it trying to over the two just trying to curl roll it like a curler on that one tie it just whatever I can do to Get a little curl in her hair when we comb it out. She just really doesn't have enough hair to her bangs look nicer. They were like sticking straight up, so at least there's that okay! Well, I don't know: what's gon na happen with her it's sort of a mess here, but we'll let her sit. Okay, I have finished the Auburn girl's hair. I think it looks a lot better turned out. The curl is really cute and I'll post pictures her bangs are a little flat, but that's because I had her Lane on her face. While I was working on her back over here, but she's really cute and she's ready to be sold now and um. Let me get let me get pictures of the brunette and we'll look at how her hair turned out too. Her hair turned out really nice. It really held the curl and the other girl's hair was a lot rougher. It'S a lot more sort of frayed and Frizzy, but her hair turned out really pretty and I'm really happy with her hair. So let's look at the other one. All right and here is the brunette. Her hair was a little rougher, but it turned out cute enough. Not as curly as the other one, but it held enough curl that we were able to give it a cute style, put some vintage millinery Flowers in her hair and a bow, and it was really cute. So I'll post. Some pictures of her too, and I don't think I have a before picture of her - I do have a before picture of the Auburn haired, one that I bought when I purchased it from the seller that I have a picture of her before so I'll. Put that one up but uh, so those were the two sweet zoos. These are both from the 50s and I was showing how to fix Saran hair and how to clean it and how to reset it. And I think it turned out good and both of these dolls are now ready to be put up on eBay and so on, and they look cute and they're vintage sweet Sue costumes. So that's that's how to fix Saran, hair and uh. This has been Canterbury Trails, Farm hope you enjoyed this foreign. Thank you.