How To Detangle, Fix And Restore "Kanekalon" Doll Hair
- Posted on 09 July, 2019
- Long Hair
- By Anonymous
Here's a tutorial on how i fix my dolls their tangled, dry and frizzy "KANEKALON" hair. I'll also show you how to clean your doll. :-p
Instead of an avocado hairmask, you can also use an olive hairmask. :-)
If you have any questions feel free to leave a comment down below.
Hey guys today, I'll be talking about how I changed my secondhand shop dolls from his grubby tangley mess into something a little more fabulous like this I'll, be talking about how I repair the hair and how to clean the faces and body. I'Ve already provided a list of the necessities needed for this particular tutorial, so once you have those ready, we can begin now. Remember you'll be doing this at your own risk. So please be careful if they have those hair elastics in their hair, don't even bother snip them out. It will make it way easier to remove if there's still any factory styling semi stuck in there. Please remove this. This won't be needed anymore. Take a doll brush, preferably a monster high or Barbie brush and gently start brushing out the knots in the ends. This will make the whole process a lot easier. After doing one side, you flip the doll over to the other side and do exactly the same thing. Once done the tangling ends, you can go ahead and work the knots that are in the middle and a little higher up down. I do this by doing sort of a tugging motion with a brush, not too hard. You don't want to make a bold just enough. So that you can fully brush them out through the ends that you had already detangle before flip the doll over heard from time-to-time repeating this process when you've made your way up to the scalp, I do the same. Tugging motion gently tugging, the knots down just be careful. You need to do this gently while holding the head and hair so that you don't pull out any of it. After that repeat this process, all around the head until all the tangles from the roots are gone once the knots are out. I brushed the hair one more time, just to make sure it's all smooth now keep in mind that your door will lose some hair. You just can't prevent this once the hair is all brushed out. I repeat the same process with a wide tooth comb after that has been done. I repeat the steps again with a fine-tooth comb until all the knots are finally out it takes a while guys, but the end result is worth it trust me once a hair looks like Hermione's in the philosopher's stone, you can go to the next step: Taiyo doll's, Hair back with a hair elastic and then get the warm water running after a day of tugging on her locks, I'm pretty sure she enjoys bar day when she's all wet get your secret formula. Not really it's just toothpaste, don't use anything extreme. Just regular toothpaste, work! Fine on sudo has had a facial use, a toothbrush or a nail brush to scrub. In a face. Please be gentle, you don't want to scrub off her face paint make sure to get everywhere under her chin and her ears. I mean the back of her ears and the back of her head rinse, your dolls face with warm water and get ready for the next step. Do the same thing on our legs. They'Re made out of his similar materials, so also attract dust and dirt. Toothpaste scrubbing the head and toothpaste covering of the legs, equals brand new, dolly same story as the face make sure you clean everything really well, there's always that one little bit that you kind of forget and then you later on, don't really feel like doing it again. So I rather do everything right now. Instead of having to go back then rinse and you're all good, then slowly rinsed take your dolls hair tie out and grab the shampoo. It doesn't really matter what shampoo you use. I wouldn't use anything too expensive, though I mean it's just a doll rub the shampoo thoroughly through the hair. This one will get clean and also soft after that, you rinse it with warm water. Using just shampoo on Kanekalon hair will make it soft and clean, but then it will remain dry, brittle and dull. Luckily, a ton of conditioner will kind of help with that. So rub the conditioner thoroughly through the hair and then again take a brush brush the ends. The same way we did in the beginning and slowly work. Your way up. This technique is again pretty similar to what we've done before when the hair was dry. Flipped it all over and time to, tie in and make sure you get all the tangles out while the conditioner is still in there. Please do not rinse it out yet, after brushing the hair, I switched to a why tooth comb and after the why tooth comb, I switch again to a fine-tooth comb, then rinse, the hair, very well with warm water. After rinsing the doll's hair. I try to find her original part line again. This can take a while, sometimes - and please take your time with this once the original part line has been put back into place, I go ahead and comb her hair down the hair should fall into a more natural-looking Physician kind of like this. Now, here is where it gets interesting. I'Ve accidentally made this discovery quite a few years ago, but using an avocado hair mask the kind you use to repair. Your hair is actually also rather convenient when fixing up doll, hair, well, Kanekalon hair, at least since she has long hair. I rub this stuff all throughout the hair, the roots that ends everything if you're wondering why I didn't rinse the hair out. Yet it's because you have to leave the hair mask in for about 8 to 15 minutes. I'D usually do around 10 minutes, while her hair is soaking up that lovely avocado potion. I prepare some boiling water in a bowl and put it on our towels. This way things won't get as messy before your donker head under into the boiling hot pool of doom, give it another brush just to be certain all those last tangles are out. I usually swirl her around just to make sure that her hair won't curl up into one position, and I do this for about 20 seconds. Then I take her out and brush her hair down now be careful plays. This can be really hot small note by the way people I keep the hair mask in the hair, while I'm boiling it - I don't rinse it out after brushing her hair straight. I don't go in for another 20 seconds and then repeat the same process with a fine-tooth comb once the hair is all detangled and straightened. I tried to find her original part lying back again and put it into place when a part line is looking desirable. I come a hair down and get ready for the next step. Take the ball of hot water and recreate the scene of puss-in-boots in Schrag to comb your dolls hair into the position you wanted to stay in and then rinse all the leftover hair mask out with cold water comb, the rinsed hair through and you're done, washing get Your trusty hair straightener, ready at 120 degrees Celsius and derived the wet hair into small locs slowly, but not too slowly straighten the lock of hair until it's dry combing it in between this is always very satisfying to me, mainly because you get to dry your hair And also see instantly how well it has turned out after all that work now, even though this is the most satisfying part, and it's also the most time consuming. This took me about 30 minutes. I think it depends on how long your doll's hair is and how much she has so turn on the telly or watch your favorite youtuber, because this is going to take a while, after wasting your life, fixing up dolls and not socializing and going out with friends. For another evening, your dolls hair should look a little like this. It smooth, shiny, pin straight and also it doesn't feel dry like Kanekalon, usually does it feels hydrated, and it will stay this way well. I hope this was helpful to some people out there. Like comment. Share and subscribe and I'll see you in the next video bye you
Comments
Jennifer keeponfighting: I found this today, I am a 40 year old mom with quirky hobbies and I adore Barbies. This was amazing!!! Love you already subbed!
TyPlaysGames Flawless: I was just frozen at how beautiful the doll looked. She really went from 0 to 100
Gina Cable: I can't believe this has got dislikes on it! Who hasn't had to throw away a doll because the hair. You're the vidal of the doll world!
Holly Donahue: That was an outstanding video I have been reselling Barbies for about 20 years, and you’ve taught me something new :-) thank you
TwistedBarbie: This is how I want ALL my dolls' hair!! Best transformation I've ever seen, and I've seen lots of them.
Christine Z: Cannot wait to try this on my granddaughters’ dolls! Thanks so much!
Silvia Logan: Your doll's hair looks so much more beautiful by the way that you fixed her hair. Her hair looks so silky, shiny, smooth, and lovely.
Carols CurrentObsession: This was really helpful, thank you! Plus wow, beautiful job on the hair! ❤️
Zheng Tae: OMG I just tried this on a BJD wig, and it went from being tangled and ratty to feeling like human hair fresh out of the salon! The hair mask really made a difference, and my doll smells soooo good because of it. Amazing, thank you for this.
Candy Vergara: Thank you so much! This tutorial was amazing, it really helped me ❤️
Emmy LTW: “Luckily a shit-ton of conditioner” I laughed out loud. Thank you so much for this video!!! I am in the process of restoring my old Bratz dolls for my daughter!!
DiamondStar2012K: Wow! Amazing! ❤️Thanks for the tutorial!
jessica esposito: Omg this is amazing!! Thank you so much for posting this video!! I'm always picking up second hand dolls for my daughter and their hair has never looked good even after brushing and brushing you could clearly tell it's an old doll! I am so happy for have found your video!! Can't wait to go fix my daughter's dolls now!
Janna Crimando: Great video, the doll looks very happy! I can't wait to try!
Claudia Black: "Luckily a shit ton of conditioner will help with that." That comment brightened up my day, Thank you.
KC's Babies: Sorry guys, I’m not coming out tonight, I’ve got to wash my dolls hair New subscriber...
JonelleElise: You did SUCH a good job with her hair!!
Malene: I tried your method on an old doll, but without the hair mask (because I didn't have any) and she looks gorgeous now. I don't think the hair has ever been washed. Thanks!
JustMelHobbs: I cannot believe how this turned out!!! Her hair looks so amazing! I purchased a few barbies from a second hand-store for my daughter and 2 nieces for Christmas this year. I decided to save the money and fix them up on my own. I hope mine turn out this great! p.s. I watched all the way until the end and you had me laughing. - Thank you
Heather Steyn: This was a great video! Her hair looks amazing
Lady_Destructo: Thank you for taking the time for your awesome tutorial it's definitely the most helpful and best results of the tutorials I found out there. And did all while being a male nf playing with dolls and being perfectly fucking okay with that. You rock, thanks!
Tiko Lopez: Man, I wish they had YouTube when I was growing up. I could have fixed all my little cousin's Barbies. She put those poor dolls through it. I took care of mine. She destroyed hers. Could have saved her mom money.
tuckywilliams: There is nothing about this video that I don't love
Beansprout.2131: I'm definitely gonna do this to my daughter's barbie dolls. ❤ thank you!!!
Holly Lane: I just bought a Rapunzel doll and am going through you tube videos for ideas of how to repair the hair. This was incredibly helpful! Thank you for all the info. I'm actually excited to try this and it looks fun and relaxing...oddly. ;)
Jenny Mamman: I'm having a barbie spa day for my girls barbies today. Thank you for this!
Yukiokoba: This video is the reason I went out of my way to try and find this doll! Who would have thought the Fairytopia movies had such amazing dolls! At the time they came out I was still a child and there was no way my parents would ever buy me one of these girls. So to ebay I went to find me one of these girls. Thankfully the one I bought still had her factory hair intact so the washing process wasn't as rigorous for me. But MY GOD was her hair feeling dry and brittle, as I was slowly making my way up to the scalp being careful not to snag her hair I noticed a lot of flaking, bits of hair just falling off. I'm assuming the hair just broke eventually from being in the same style for fo long, eventually I was able to run my brush smoothly through the hair and moved on to cleaning, I didn't have any hair mask or conditioner so I simply washed her with some delicate shampoo and afterwards used fabric softener, this hair was super straight afterwards and smelled amazing as well as feeling super soft! Sadly I don't have a hair straightener so instead I simply brushed her hair down as it was still wet and let her dry overnight. The result was super similar to your final product, the hair fibers are so thin that the slightest wind made it look like one of those shampoo commercials lol! Tho I have to admit that I still had a few scraggly ends, I'm assuming using the hair straightener makes sure that all the hair is bone straight. Mine is mostly straight with no wave and just the ends having some scraggly hairs. But yeah this video was super helpful and I'm so glad I bumped into it. I now have one of my favorite dolls as part of my collection~
Joti Thind: You are a master at this. Thank you. Now I can save my daughter's dolls
Kam Craft: Thanks for the cleaning ideas, it is really helpful
V Santiago: This tutorial was awesome! I will be trying this with 2 Barbie horses (Nibbles and Star Stepper) Thanks for the inspo
Judi Bangkot: Wow, lots of work but the end result was amazing! I learned a lot! Thank you!
Lei Gut: Fantástico tutorial de recuperação capilar de kanecalon. Parabéns!
Sally De Natris: Thank you so much for posting this! I got given an old doll to give to my niece and she needed some work. I decided to try your method and it worked amazingly!!! No idea what type of hair she had so I was a bit concerned about the boiling water and hair straightener - mine only went as low as 150, but it turned out beautifully and I will have one very happy niece now!
DIY The North: Sorry girls, dad's not doing this. You'll have to deal with Dreadlock Elsa lol
Athena Fenstermacher: Wow im so happy i stumbled across your channel!! Totally amazing and spectacular job! :D <3333
Dianne Noneya: I straightened my granddaughter's hair that's super long and it doesn't take as long as you spent on this doll. I don't have enough time to do her hair like that before school unless I started hours and hours early. Luckily my granddaughter has beautiful hair to start with or we'd have to get the scissors out. Great job though. She wants to go buy some avocado mask for her dolls now.
e_kychkina: Great job! A ton of conditioner and hair mask along with good hair styling could do wonders to any hair, this Barbie doll is not an exeption. I’ll keep your tutorial in mind in case I ever have a daughter who plays dolls.
dear sputnik: aaa thank you! i’ve been looking for a video like this that doesn’t use hand soap [it’s kind of really expensive and hard to find right now...] so this will work perfectly! also love the background songs, Hope Has Wings and This Is Me are BOPS!
Daniela Gomez: Omg this is brilliant :0 You saved my dolls life :D Love it!! ^w^
Linda Benny: Wow what a girl has to go through to have great hair! Scalding, freezing & covered in toothpaste, sound like an interesting night out!
Sheetal Kumar: I can't thank you enough for the life saving advice and how to do it. Thankyou so,so much for sharing it.
Veronika Di Laurentis: Fantastic job! Looks beautiful
MystyxxEyes: Really helpful video. I was about to give up on my daughters barbie because lf the ugly frizzy hair and thought of checking youtube for ideas. Now this is really perfect.. simple process that works. Thank you! ❣️
A.P: Great job! Very informative. Thank you ☺️
Michky's Inspiration: This video has been so useful. Thank you.
Mauro Gless: It turn out perfect, well done, love the final result, just amazing ⚡⚡⚡
Billy22: This was very helpful thank you for the video ❤
D. Felix: Thank you! Very helpful video. I just bought three American Me dolls at the thrift store for my 4 year old grand daughter. I’m making clothes for the dolls and their hair is terribly tangled. I’m willing to bet that’s why they were donated. I’ll be trying your techniques to get them beautiful for my grand-daughters upcoming birthday gift. Have a great day.
ROG: Thank you!! Now I can clean all the Barbie dolls. Genius!
Dani Zig: You're a life saver!! A dolls life. Technically it's a horse, but the hair is the same. I'm so glad I don't have to throw my three year olds horse away because if it's nasty hair. Thank you so much for the tutorial!
Ar Mohammad: Amazing ! bringing the old lovely things to live again ! thanks
Ashleigh Nicole Beach: I’m on it !! Me and my 3/4 year old love doing this and now we are armed with your tips thank you ! Shhh don’t tell anyone but I deliberately got her into barbies!!! I don’t know about her but I’m loving it .... again
_Veniel: That’s how I imagine Barbie’s hair to look and feel from the new animation show ❤
hayley loves god: This is the best fixing of barbie hair ever wow looks so amazing
Chase A: Great work I still love these Barbie dolls thanks for all the hard work to make them look new again .
A Rivera: THANK YOU !!!! This video brought my doll back to life.
sunidoll: What a gorgeous result! I too appreciate you turning off the tap to save water :D
nathan ralph: Great stuff, I got job lot of Disney bits and pieces including a real tangled bunch of Dolls. I was cleaning up Pochontas when suddenly it struck me, that as a middle age bloke this was uncomfortably like playing with her
Mummy Lili: This is so useful! Thank you for sharing!!
fourquarks: This is great, thank you so much!
elena Sandu: Thanks so much it totally worked I really appreciate your efforts thanks so much
Spiceolyfe721: Very helpful and entertaining! Thanks for the estimated time line.
My Doll Cabinet: Great video! Love the wind blown shots!
Zena Morgan: This was so helpful to me,I have a bunch of dolls that I got from eBay and they all look horrendous I’m going to try this on some of them. Thank you
Welcome: I do this my 2019 holiday Barbie and this is work ❤ thank you
Mayra Kop Jansen: Thanks for sharing this it looks awesome after the treatment
Mary Beth Angelo: I have to say this is genius. I'm working in a Barbie Dreamtopia Unicorn and this is awesome!
Prima Peggy: This dolls lashes are beautiful!u gave her a second life!good job
Eara & Earielle: Thank you my doll's hair was very soft before it was so goey after its soft thank you for sharing the video.
hydreg: Ha, great minds think alike, since that's almost exactly the method I've been using for My Little Ponies for past 6 years, down do putting on the hair conditioner/hair mask. I was worried if kanekalon would melt while using hair straightener (nylon hair is fine), but I guess it's fine as well then. Thanks for this video.
Gardenofdelights: It looks so beautiful
DollMadness: This was great! ✨
Enrique José Castillo Rojas: Beautiful work, the fnale result was dammit.. amazing!!!!!!
Gail Villanueva: Wow, thanks for the video! I'm gonna try these on my old Barbie dolls. I've been using conditioner to fix my other dolls hair, and lately tried fabric conditiioner as well. Those 2 items help a lot but not as great as the result of f your technique. Hahaha! I nearly fell off my chair when you poured the boiling water on the doll! I didn't know that the plastic would be able to withstand that heat. Anyway, I enjoyed the video very much and Ithere was never a boring moment. Loved your sense of humor too!
Barbie Hospital: I’m going to start adding some of this into my makeovers too! Thank you, only thing is my hair straightener lowest setting is 150 so I have to turn it off and use it as it cools..not the best
Jane Lienert: I can't wait to try this!
RossKroft96: OMG thank you so much this came in so handy, I got an old 2nd hand Belle doll in the post today and I would love to show you the results, do you have any social media accounts?
trickychick5: I found the Denman mini keyring brush is brilliant for detangling dolls hair x
sennyyx: Wow- That doll has better hair then me Im getting a doll later :^
Lieni brunes Alves: Ficou lindo amei
Mystical Bree: Just bought myself a whole bunch of dolls and some of them have terrible hair. I'm excited to get cracking and fix them up ☺️ thank you
naughty casserole: I'm watching this at 4:30 am and i have work in 5 hours, just because I'm thinking about a doll i used to love when I was little, i hope my mom didn't throw her out so i can do this to her.
Jackiie Cano: I appreciate that you turn off the water when you're not using it
Esmeralda Morales: Exquisito. Me relaje viendo cómo lo hacías y como quedó. Excelente. Exitos.
Kelly Reaves: Great tutorial thank you! I have a question! Would you recommend the same process on Barbies from the 1980s? Or have you not had experience with that?
DodaDolls: great funny and helpful vid! i recently discovered avocado conditioner myself, it is a miracle! :)
Natalia Sokolowski: Just wow her hair looks really good i also did this on my younger sisters dolls and it has worked but her hair is a bit shorter but it still looks nice
J Maxine: My dolls: I want that kind of hair! Me: I want it on my real life hair more but I guess I cant :( AMAZING JOB!
Simona personal account: Thank you for sharing this, I Just did that to an old Cherry Merry Muffin and turned out great!!! :)
Tina Rolfsdotter: Thank you!! I will become the step mom of the year!! Now I only have to find out how to tell the differences between this ad the other type of hair.
BlytheWorld1972: I do this with my dolls and doll wigs i know how hard and how long it takes but its so worth it in the end to get a fab looking doll
cduce1210: You’re a lifesaver! Ours turned out great, thanks to you!
kcjm: We all aspire to have silky hair like this
Vivi Chan: My mom taught me to do it almost exactly like you, except by brushing while conditioning
Tiffany Moore: I’m wondering if it matters what avocado hair mask you use? Store bought or homemade? Specific brand?
Inkpad's Playpad: So this video came into my suggested....I have instantly subscribed! I am so glad to have found you =) Great tutorial!!
T. Silsby: Excellent tutorial. I'm very surprised at the before and after.
Maria Hina: Thank you for this tutorial, it is the first one where someone don´t use fabric softener (to which I am allergic btw) and I really apreciate that. Now I can finally waste a lot of hours of my lifetime to make all my doughters dolls beautifull again.
Scarlett Miami: Excellent! I loved your video! My daughter laughed a lot when the doll was asking for help :) please just asking to show the avocado product so we can be sure we get the same result!
nash nash: Looks Amazing