Easy Barbie Doll Hair Replacement Method- Viewer Inspired

Live which works out great for the people who don't watch the lives they watch afterwards because it's up there. But but if you look forward to the streaming sessions, I know it's easier to catch them. When I like, post at least a few hours in advance to let you guys know about it, but it'd just be like that sometimes so it is what it is, anyways um. So what we're gon na do is I'm gon na show you guys what I did to this doll. Firstly, of all I got to give a huge giant Monumental, shout out to my homegirl Janine Janine has like seven different usernames all over different social media, but if you're following her on Instagram, go to her Pages at totally spelled the way totally spelled Jazzy j-a-z-z-i-e. That'S what she uh posts, all her doll content on, so go over there and follow her she's got pictures up there that she posted it's a new account. It'S a baby account so she's still working on it, but you don't want to miss um communicating with her because she's so smart, you guys she's so smart! So me and her were texting and I was telling her how frustrated I was trying to make a freaking wig for this head right here. This doll - and this is the kit sculpt by the Barbie - looks series and she's model number three from the first um wave and, of course, her face is beautiful, hi mini G, but her hair just is so not interesting to me, like I can't style it. I can't do anything with this hair, so I got really um frustrated because I was like trying to figure out how to elongate her hair but yeah. I already know how I do I'm way too lazy to root an entire head. I don't got time for it and my wig making efforts were getting very just a hot mess like I couldn't get the wig the way I wanted it to be right and something Janine had pointed out to me was even, if you finish, the wig you're, always Going to have that little millimeter of space between the scalp and the hair, so it's not going to look natural any way. You do it with the wig, and I was like you know what you write you right you're right, so he was brainstorming. So she comes up with this brilliant idea and she's like why? Don'T you just do it like this, and I was like, oh my God, that is amazing. I so need to try it right. So last night I tried it. These are the results of the method that she showed me that I that I should do, or I shouldn't say she showed me, but she suggested it to me and I was like girl if this works, I got to God to give you credit because uh I Wouldn'T even thought to do it unless you had suggested it to me, so I'm gon na show you guys what I did. It'S real simple. You guys, and I'm saying it's simple because like if I'm saying it's simple, you know it's simple because I'm I just don't like to do extra extra work with my dolls. So basically, what I did was I fused both ideas, though the method I was using to make my wigs and the rooting technique that I was like, I'm not trying to do this to a whole darn head. We just fuse them together and what we did was we created a style where it's versatile and she can style her hair right now. Let'S part it off to the side, but actually this this hair, the way that it's rooted doesn't have any part at all. So I can move the part around as I need to and um she can pull her hair into ponytail and do different styles, but all I did was we did half the hair rooted and half the hair glued and you'll see here in the back. All this hair here is glued in. I know it's kind of hard to see because my camera never likes to focus when I have faces in the way so we're gon na see. If we can, maybe we can move some of these dolls out the way. So it's not trying to focus on their faces. Maybe that will help you turn around. Don'T look at us, okay ghetto anyway, all right, so let me show you guys what we did so um. First of all, of course, I stripped all the hair off of this doll's head initially pulled all the hair out and she does have flocking that goes around, so I had to use acetone to get all the flocking off and I did the paint that they used To color the scalp with here, this paint is much stronger if that makes sense than the paint That's underneath here, underneath the hair, the scalp hair. This, if you put acetone on it, the paint will just come off real easily, but even though I rubbed acetone into the parts here, the flocking came off, but the coloring didn't go anywhere, so I didn't really want the color to go anywhere. So I just left it like that, but I'm just letting you know in case you're, one of those people that wants to like strip the head completely and then start over again and paint your own base. Color then keep that in mind. Okay, so all we did was, I just took patches of hair and that I clipped off of another doll and then I made I guess you can call them little wefts, but they're they're not really wefts. But I guess that's the closest thing you can think of to like kind of explain what they were, but you just snip off a piece of hair right and then you put glue on like regular Elmer's Glue on the top end of the hair, so that all The hair will stick together, so it's nice and flat right and you can handle the hair instead of having just strands of hair flying all over the place. So you'll see right here, there's a little patch here and that's a weft of hair that I glued down. So this part here there's another layer here on top right and you just keep on going just like if you guys know anything about gluing in weave right. It'S the exact same concept. So if you need a visual, go and watch a tutorial of girls, gluing in extensions in their hair and you'll, see what I'm talking about. So it's the same concept and just on her bald scalp, I just glued the pieces right that I want it to go in there, but before I glued the pieces, what I first did was root half of her head, so the part of her hair. That was this hair, that's rooted in here, the short hair I just rooted in longer hair, where I wanted um the hairline to be. I rooted all the way so thick, there's a there's already holes in the doll's head. Obviously, because she's got hair rooted into her head already, and I just rooted the hair all the way in to about this point here, where it's um. I guess I don't know like the middle of her head and then I also rooted here on the edges. Going down and here on these edges going down just one row, but this part here in the middle is actually fully rooted, so that way she can part her hair in whatever directions. I need the part to go. She can tie her hair up in ponytails. I can actually gather all this hair up here in the middle to do like a half up ponytail style um, because all this hair is rooted here and it's moving with the doll. It'S all scalp. You know you know what I'm trying to say and here on the edges, all this hair is rooted as well, so it's going to be able to be styled and pulled up into ponytails and hide the hair that has the glued in spots right the glue once It dries it dries clear, so you for the most part should not be able to see it, but because we have so much of this part at the top rooted in. I don't know if you guys can see it hold on this part on the top is rooted, so it's covering the very last layer of hair - that's glued see like here. If I lift this hair, it's not going to go like this. It'S just gon na see. It'S just gon na stay down for most of the the rooted part here in the in the top, that's close to the root of her head, because this, like half an inch, is glued down flat. So um it's covering it's covering the hair with the hair on the top and when you first rooted the hair sticking out all over the place, so I basically the way that I got the hair to settle. Was I tied it with a hair band? I wrapped it around her head and then I didn't wet her hair. What I did was, I put the whole doll's head inside of a plastic bag, and then I dropped the plastic bag into hot boiling hot water, and I let it just sit in there for, like - maybe I don't know, maybe 10 minutes or so just until the Water started to cool off then, when you remove the doll out of the bag, her hair is not wet because the bag is protecting it, but the heat from the water has had enough of a time to like set the hair, basically in the direction that you Need it to lay so if you want it to be flat against her head or if you want it to have a middle part, or in this case a side part, then you can do that by using the heat to set the hair, and it's not going To make the the glue Come, Undone and everything gets all messed up. I didn't have to worry about any of that. So in my in my vision I felt like you know I liked the aesthetic of this doll, but at the same time I just felt like something about the way she looks. She just looks like she would be a lot more believable with longer hair, and I just wanted to see what that would look like on this doll, so I had to try it. I was thinking about actually giving her red hair too, but for just for the sake of this experiment, I wanted to try it with just neat. You know um seamless, hair, and this was the neatest hair that I could find in. My stash of you know, doll parts that I could use to do this with so the hair that I used for this is actually this hair um. It'S originally hair that comes on one of these dolls and I happen to have a floating head, because I used her body for a donor so - and I already have two of these dolls out on display. So I didn't need that head. So I just started snipping off hair from that doll and now she's bowled, but I can give her more hair by doing the same method and changing up the hair, color or the hairstyle for that head. If I decide I want to do that, but I just thought this would be a cool experiment to try and when Janine suggested this to me, I was like literally like in an instant. I was like. Oh, my gosh, that's gon na take so much pressure off of me because I hate rooting dull hair, like it takes so long for me. I don't have the patience. I don't want to do that, but it's the most seamless way to do doll, hair and for it to actually look good and like do what you need it to do and then, with the with the gluing method. Even though the gluing is easier, when you get closer and closer to the top and the front like the hairline of the doll, the gluing method is like a bruh. You got to be like a magician to hide the glue when you're looking at the doll up. Close, you know what I'm saying so to me that just wasn't an option to glue the hair directly onto the doll's head. If that meant, I had to do it for the whole entire head, so this method kind of fuse the two together and it made it. So that, at least from the front, you cannot tell that the doll has glued in hair and the hair is behaving like it's rooted in it's like. I can brush the hair. You know what I'm saying and then also from the back you can. You can take pictures of the doll from the back and videotape them from the back, and it's not gon na look like they have glued in hair. You feel me, so this method just worked really good. I'M really excited to try this with other hair, textures and colors, because I have a couple of dolls that I kind of look at them like they're, incomplete dolls, even though I love their faces. I just I can't bring myself to put them on display because I don't like their hairstyles or the hair length. It'S just something about the Herring right and I need to get it together first, so I just have them collecting dust pretty much, because I don't really know if what I want to do with them. Um, this doll honestly she's, not the main head that I have on this body - she's, not the head - that I prefer to keep out on display right now. It'S this this version of the head, but I have I want to say I have a a different one that isn't even out of the box that I consider like the head. I like the most because you know how all the heads are slightly different: the way that they do the makeup is a little bit different or like the symmetry of the facial features, are a little bit different, so I'll compare all of them to see which one I like the best and that's the one that I consider the main doll. That'S in my collection, even though I might have duplicates of them um. So this was really just my experimental head, but I like it a lot. I think I'm just gon na keep this head on her for the time being, unless I decide to pull out the the head that I haven't d-boxed yet and then like do something different with the hair on that doll, because I just can't I can't do this. I can't keep her out on display like this anymore, like it's just irking me and my OCD is eating me alive, like I just can't do it and I want to pose this doll. I want to put her on display. I want to see her next to the other dolls. You know I want her to have a spot on my main display, because I do like her, but guys her hair was just stressing me out so much so I'm glad that I tried this and it worked out really good. It didn't take me that long to do the most painstaking part of this honestly is the rooting itself, but you don't have to use any specific rooting method. Whatever rooting method, you like, I would say, just use that method you don't even have to root. As far back as I I did - and this would probably work just great Crossing season - this is Janine you guys and Janine is the one that that basically inspired this um. This whole thing so make sure you guys are following her over on Instagram, like I said her Instagram account is totally at totally Jazzy j-a-z-z-i-e and make sure you're following her, but like um you can. I mean you can pretty much do whatever you want. With this hair, you can put her in pigtails. You can do like a high ponytail, even because the way that I I glue the hair on the bottom see when you pull the hair up, I made sure that it was glued in such a way that you can pull the hair up and it's not gon Na show that there's glue or that it's not rooted and there's spaces. You know what I'm saying. I don't know if I'm explaining this good enough, but do you understand what I'm saying you guys kind of like almost like a lace front, wig the way that it behaves? That'S how I did the edges. So that way you can style the hair almost any way. You want, and you don't have to be restricted and all I used was Elmer's Glue. I didn't use any special glue. I didn't use a hot glue gun because I felt like it was gon na be too hard to control the Heat, and the glue itself is a little bit thick. So, even if you like, try to press it into the scalp you're, just taking a risk that you're going to end up with some um lift in the hair once it's dry with just the glue gun glue, I feel like so that's why I didn't use that Glue another reason I didn't use the glue gun glue is because it dries kind of white. If you're, not careful - and I didn't want there to be a bunch of white flakes just flying all over the place. So for me, I found it easier to just root the hair in first to get the hairline the way that I wanted and because I'm pulling the hair you know through the head and all that stuff. So it's just easier when you don't already have hair in the head when you're trying to root it and then the rest of it after I had already rooted the parts I wanted rooted, then I put the the gluten Parts in and I just separated the hair. So that they wouldn't get mixed up with each other, that's all I did as I was doing it. I was thinking like you could even do this with dolls, where you don't need to do a full reroute necessarily, for example, I don't suggest you do this with this doll, but I'm just using her as an example. Let'S say I love this hair, but I I want her to have you know different colored hair on the bottom, so I would remove half the hair from the back and then add in a different colored hair on the bottom, by just gluing it and leaving this Part rooted, so it just looks like the whole thing is rooted, and I don't have to go through all the hassle of rooting. I would also suggest you could use this same method if you want to just add in color, like you like, for like something like this, you want to add in a couple of strands of color, you can glue little teeny tiny pieces to the tips of the Hair close to the roots inside the hair, like you know, just part the doll's hair in between and do it in different random spots, um, just a teeny, tiny little dab of glue will do when it's like almost dry, then just stick it on there with, like Tweezers and you're gon na have to use little tools because your fingers are too big. They'Re gon na get in the way you're gon na mess things up. They'Re gon na just be gross looking, but if you use toothpicks and tweezers and little, you know things that you can um handle these little small parts with and that's going to be a lot easier for you to control everything. So that's just my suggestion and I feel like you could also use this method. If you have dolls like this one that has already rooted hair, but maybe you want it's only partially rooted and you want more hair on the doll's head. Even if you don't want to change the color or even the length you just want to blend it with whatever hair they already have on their head, this may be a method that will work as long as you can cover up the tracks, the the tracks you Can cover up the parts that are glued um like you're, covering up tracks? That'S why I keep comparing it to actually gluing in weave to your real hair like go and watch some tutorials of girls doing this they're all over YouTube. You guys it's all over the place and you're just scaling it down down to doll size. That'S it it's not anything like it's, not brain surgery. It'S very simple. Do you know what I'm saying so, if you're unfamiliar with it and you need like a bigger head demonstration, so you can really get the the gist of what I'm saying. That'S why I'm suggesting to watch some videos of women gluing in weave hair to their hair and then you'll see what we're talking about it's the exact same method. So it worked for me, I'm so glad that it worked because now I feel a lot less stressed out about my other dolls that I want to do this with that I've been like nervous about you know doing their hair mind you, because you're gluing in hair, Some of the hair will shed some of the hair is going to come out and that's just part of the deal. It'S not a big deal, it's okay and over time, as you're brushing the hair and doing different things to it. If you're messing around with the hair a lot you're taking the risks that it is going to start to shed over time, but and it's not going to shed so much that you're just gon na have a bunch of bald spots like you know what I'm saying Guys - and you definitely want to work with um hair that you have enough of to actually give the doll a full. You know head of hair, you don't want to be sparsely glowing in hair, because you only got a couple strands to work with in the first place for her, it took one whole head of hair from one of those dolls and like a small row of hair From another one that I needed to fill in some gaps, but that's really only because initially I had used this hair to make a wig with and a lot of that hair I lost strands while I was trying to glue the hair onto the wig cap. So I'm cutting it off of that to put onto this doll's head now, and it was just too many transfers. Basically, so I probably would have been fine with just one doll's um head of hair, but that's how I sourced the hair - and I'm only telling you guys about this, because sometimes we think we have to go and buy brand new doll, hair from some place. Man, if I look through my stash of dolls that whose heads I just pop off, so I can use their bodies as donors - I have so many just floating heads that are just going to waste, because I don't really do anything with the heads ones. I don't need the bodies anymore, so I'll either hybrid those dolls dress them up and sell them on eBay, or I keep those parts because I might end up using them for something like, for instance, their hair and that's what I do so, I'm just sharing that With you guys in case you're like where am I gon na get a doll hair from well there's doll, hair right in your doll stash, you know um. Another way, too, is also you can Source hair from dolls that have extremely long hair. That doesn't need that. Much length on the doll's head, so even if you don't want to just go and take all the hair off of a totally fine doll's head, for example, I have a doll that is what is she called rainbow? Something doll I don't know. She'S she's got like really really long black hair, but she also has rainbow colors in her hair, which I love, but it's so long. It'S like all the way down to her like ankles right she'd only hear that long. So if I wanted to cut her hair down the line, what I would do is, I would snip off whatever length I want to. You, know snip off and then turn those links into wefts so that I can glue them onto another doll's head down the line. If I decide I want to do something like that, but it's that's just a way for you to recycle hair without having to like, go and buy hair from some place or something like that. Just some ideas. It may not even be a Barbie doll. Maybe you've got some other kind of doll laying around that's got hair that you can afford to snip off and you're, not gon na miss it because you're not really doing anything with that doll. So those are just some ideas for you guys on how you can Source hair and use this method and um hold on. Let me read your comments. I definitely need to try this a method for my kit, which glue did you use? I just use regular um, Regular Elmer's Glue like school glue, and then I used a paintbrush to control. How much glue I was using at a time is addicted into the container, and the paintbrush was how I was controlling the amounts that I was using and then to keep my um paint brush from drying out in between. I would just dip it in some water like when I wasn't using it. I would just keep the the paintbrush inside of a cup of water and I will just dry it off and then go and get the next bit that I needed. So, that's all that I did. It was so simple. I literally just did this last night when I was like up watching TV and that's another thing too. Why I hate rooting is because I like multitasking, when I'm doing things that are kind of like boring and mundane with my dolls. So I'll have my dolls out that I need to work on and then I'll be like either watching something or um listening to something. While I'm doing that - and I just I can't do that when I'm rooting doll hair, because you have to pay such close attention to what you're doing and the rooting method that I use it. It'S similar to the method. I normally use hi Blake, but um for this one. This is what I like to do. Okay, I like to I like for the needle to go through the doll's head from the outside in but a lot of times when you're, just using like a regular, sewing needle to root hair. You have to do it from the inside out. If that makes sense, because the hair is sealed from the inside part, but what I did was I made my wefts and then I rooted them from the outside in and I made it so that when I pulled the the needle through the knot that I had The part that was like keeping the hair all together so that it didn't come back out. I would force it through the hole from the inside. If that makes sense, I know it might sound confusing unless you like see what I'm talking about, but those of you who are familiar with rooting, you know what I'm talking about so that just to me, is a lot easier, because I can see exactly what hole. It'S going into, whereas when I do it the opposite way, I have to hope that the needle is going to come out of the hole that I wanted to come out of, and it's just too much maneuvering too much manhandling and I've poked myself a couple of Times doing it like that, and I have to keep to, I feel like I have to keep heating the head up so that it's very, very soft in order for me to work with the head that way, it's just not as much control as what I would Like so I don't know, I can't do it like that. Um hi, oh Blake, said I was gon na watch it later, but it's better live. Do you think so? Well, I guess, because you guys interact when you were doing it, live like you're, not just like a quiet bystander. That'S just watching the show and then eating popcorn like I'll, be chiming and telling me your thoughts and your ideas and asking questions so for the interactive people. I feel like yeah, it's probably better to just do the stream live, but that's that's why this is a good method for me, because it gives us the opportunity to actually interact with each other, while also giving people an opportunity if they miss it, to see what We were talking about later and just you know, skim through and get what they need to get out of the video. So even the people who watched live sometimes they'll come in towards the end of the video, so they missed all the discussion in the beginning. Sometimes they can only stay in the beginning and then they have to leave early. So doing it like this, I think kind of gives everybody everything they need and me personally. Does it sound crazy? You guys, let me tell you, let me tell you okay, ah, so this is what I do when I, when I do the lives right. I because nothing is scripted and other than the topic that we're discussing for the most part. I don't even know what I'm gon na be saying until after I already started talking. So what I'll do is, after the show I will you know it has to render or whatever and then it'll post as a public video, the same night I'll, let it play and then I'll just kind of watch it to fall asleep too, because for some reason, Listening to myself, talk makes me sleepy, and I have horrible insomnia, so I'm gon na take what I could get like. Whatever methods I can use to help me go to sleep, that's what I'm doing um I'm giving her a fake, a faux piercing. This is her little eyebrow piercing that I'm giving her and I'm trying to decide if she needs a nose ring or not. I don't know well, let's see, maybe I'll hate it and then I'll take it away. That'S the great thing about this method that I'm using for the piercings, because if you don't like it, you can just scrape it off and then start from scratch or just leave it alone. You don't have to have anything there, so kind of don't have no reason to not try it because there's nothing to lose. Do you know what I mean unless you spill paint all over your doll, which is not a good idea, but I mean it is what it is. I think I'm gon na paint her nails because she doesn't have her nails painted. I think I didn't end up doing anything to this doll when I was trying to customize some of my other dolls and I gave them um painted nails, wait. Why am I using the acrylic paint when I can just use puffy paint? I really prefer the puffy paint over the acrylic paints right now when it comes to um, fake, fingernails and piercings, because it makes it it's like 3D when it dries. So it looks more realistic. It'S more looks like to me. It looks more like when you go to the nail salon and get your nails done and you get those uh. What do you call them? The acrylic nails it kind of reminds me of those when they dry. You know they're just just puffy enough that they come away from the doll's finger tips and it and it gives it some texture, some Dimension. So it looks like they actually have nails, but not so much that it's like dripping and drooping all over the place, because it's not watery. So that's just what I like to use, but the acrylic method works. It looks just more flat. It looks more like nail. Polish that you do at home, like my messy nails, I can't pamper myself, so I rather just pamper my dolls, like don't be mad at me, okay, yeah, I'm saying I do go to the nail salon once in a blue moon, but I'm just lazy. It'S like too much hassle. I don't want to go through the process of making an appointment or even just walking in and then I have to tell the Vietnamese. Ladies, what I want - and they talk so fast and they're very aggressive, sometimes, and they be trying to tell me what I should get and I'm like uh hold up. Let me think I'm trying to figure out what I want and they'd be like you want. You want John Young, you want jonell you're gon na go for your fingernails like uh. Maybe I don't want gel nails right now. Maybe I want something else. Damn it. Let me think, and they just won't. Let me think, and then I get frustrated, then I have anxiety and then I have to make a quick decision and then I can't ever figure out what color I want someone hassle. It'S like I have to commit to this nail color, for I don't even know how long as long as they're gon na last. Like really can I just please. I need to figure out what's going on with my with my outfits for the next three weeks. Thank you. I can't answer these questions right now. It'S just too much. That'S all! I don't have a problem with the nail salon. It'S just like. Oh, I need to think you know what I'm saying it doesn't occur to me when I go to nails shops that maybe I should have put some thought into this before I come here, because it's always impromptu, like my my my lives like, I never have it Planned, I don't know a week in advance that I'm gon na go get my nails done. It'Ll be like three hours before and I'll say. Oh my nails look jacked up and then Adonis will be like we'll go to the nail salon. Then here here's some money. Go and I'll be like huh what right now! Well, you got something better to do or no, I do not so just go. Do it and then I'm stuck there looking crazy trying to tell the Vietnamese. Ladies, what I want um, let's see Blake said: oh my gosh, I hate rerouting. I would much rather pay somebody to do it. I happily pay for that service. Yes, Amen, brother, because I feel the same way. Okay, I feel the same way and I'll be collecting my doll heads because I'm like I'm gon na, send these off to go, get rooted, but then, by the time I'll be ready to do that. Whoever it is that I was thinking about it's doing that with might not be available and it's just like and I got ta wait longer. I don't know what's going on, you know, because I'm just lazy, I don't want to root um Temperance said you did a great job. She looks wonderful and thank you um Shawna Joshua said greetings. Do you use metal thimbles while rerouting the ones that I have are actually kind of rubbery feeling, and I put one on this finger and one on my thumb to pull the needle through, because it's very difficult and the needle that I'm working with is like crazy Long, it's like freaking long as hell, and I mostly used my big long needle um to do this, but I also have a couple of skinny needles that I I used around the edges of the head like this first row of hair. Here that's going around her actual, like uh hairline. I use my skinny needle for because the the holes there seem so tiny and I didn't want to poke giant holes in them um because they weren't already big holes. But then the layer after that I used my bigger needle on and it Blended just fine. And I actually skipped a few holes here and there, but because I put a decent amount of hair into each hole, it was fine, it just filled the whole space in and it looked fine when I was um done. I love the eyebrow. Piercing paint is definitely a safer method than messing around with needles and metals yeah, and I can't I can't take those kind of chances on some of my dolls, because some of them, I only have one oven. If I mess their faces up or do any kind of permanent damage that I can't undo later, I know I'm gon na regret it and be so upset. So I I had to figure out a different way to do that and I'm not I'm surprised more people. Don'T do it that way, because these things are so easy to get a hold of. You can probably order them online for dirt cheap or even get like a pack that has a whole bunch of different colors in it. Um, that might save you a little bit more money if you buy them in bulk, so they're not hard to get a hold of, and you don't have to have any special tools to use them on your dolls mini juices. This would be great with a partial wig, this uh well with a partial wig cap for our doll that you want to keep the hairline yeah. Well, if you, if you can figure out a way to um, what's the word, I'm looking for um, I guess modify this technique. Whatever way it's gon na suit your needs. I think it's a good way to do it and, like I said with the hairline like the hairline, is the most visible part of the doll's hair when you're looking at them straight on, so you need the hairline to be on point. You know what I'm saying and also directional rooting is definitely a thing like if you root the hair, with the needle pointed in a certain direction. When you make the hole, the hair is not going to sit necessarily a certain way unless you like, really manipulate it. So that's something to also keep in mind and if you have the patience to root all the way around the head, then that will probably make it look a lot better than what I've done. But, like I said, I'm not planning on styling her hair a whole bunch of different ways. I honestly don't even know if I want to keep it this long to to be totally like keeping it real. I I don't know I I still don't know. If I want to keep it this long because she's a petite doll, she's very short, compared to my other dolls - and this might just be a little too much length for her - but I mean I don't even know if I could say that, because I have another Petite doll, that's part of this line as well. The Tamika sculpt with the burgundy hair and her hair is even longer than this, and she I'm I like her just fine with her hair long um, all the curls dropped out of mine. I got ta re-curl her hair, but this is the one that I have and she's still on her original body, so they're both petite sized dolls, but look how much hair she's got she's got so much hair. It'S very long and I don't mind the way that it looks especially when it's curled properly right now brushed all her curls up. So it's not. You can't even see how she's supposed to look with the curls, but I gave her some really really good curls. With tiny little straws. I didn't use regular straws. I used those, you know those real skinny straws that they have for um coffee stirrers. I guess is that what they're called they're like the little skinny black straws, I use those to curl this one's hair and they came out real real nice spiral, ringlets that were very tight and she don't want to stand up because she ain't got no shoes on Fine, if you want to just keep sliding all over the place, do you homie but anyway, but her hair is much much longer than this. Doll'S hair is right now, so I'm I'm gon na have to play around with her to see what look is best for her. I don't want to snip too much off if I do end up cutting some of the length, because I just want to explore how she looks with the longer hair. I just felt like that's the way that she should have came from Mattel in the first place, but they were trying to be edgy and switch things up and surprise us with this pixie cut on this little Asian looking face, which was very brand new. You know so I'm not hating on it, but just for me and my collection that just that look is not working for her. So I just I couldn't figure out how to dress the doll like she just looks so out of place and everything I would put her in her. I don't know she just didn't look right and then I'm also debating whether or not I want to do some touch-ups of those face itself like do. I want to repaint the face, because this sculpt is so cute and foreign I'd be stuck in the interwebs. Okay and every time I come across a picture of somebody's repaint of this kit, doll I'd be falling in love with the sculpt more and more, which is kind of messed up because think, if you think about it, I'm sitting here going. I like that, sculpt more when I see how it looks not the way Mattel made it like, then I'm like yeah she's awesome. So I don't know. I don't know if there's a compliment or this, but I'm just saying this sculpt has a lot of potential and I want to see what else it can do. So I'm thinking about possibly at least one version of it repainting it maybe, but that's just I just I don't - have the patience right now to do a full repaint either so we'll see, but I'm enjoying her like this with the longer hair, because it's a lot More fun to handle the doll um and when I style her hair a little bit more, I don't know if I'm gon na, maybe curl it or something but the more. I style it and play around with it. You know I'll get an idea of the kind of look. I want to go for with her and then I'll be sure to post pictures here and over on Instagram. So you guys can see what kind of styles we can do with glued on hair, and I just this is a very man. Why didn't I think of this? Why didn't I think of this before? This is why you have to have friends. This is why you have to bounce ideas back and forth between other like-minded people, because when you brainstorm, you come up with Solutions. Let'S see, let me just make sure I didn't miss any good comments. Temperance said, I use a water-soluble paint which makes it easier to clean off, but can still run the risk of staining oh um and then Janine said. Sometimes I use nail polish too for fake piercings yeah. I do that too, and I also use real nail polish for nail polish on my doll, sometimes depending on like what color it is, whether or not it's going to show up good on the vinyl um kit actually looks so much better with longer hair. What did you do about the flocking, so the flocking, as you can see, is all around the doll's scalp, where it's not rooted and I had to use. I just used a Q-tip with uh acetone on it and just rubbed it off, and underneath this flocking she's got brown paints all like the whole hairline is colored in brown, which actually made it very very easy for me to know where to actually put the wefts Of hair that I was gluing on because I just followed the direction of the pattern that was already painted there and that's a lot easier than me trying to draw my own pattern in or paint it myself. But it's not hard to do it's just less hassle, because that's an extra step that I don't have to worry about doing so, even though I use the acetone to get the flocking off, it didn't get rid of the the brown paint that was underneath the flocking Hi Tevin um, no you're, not late you're, not late, we're we're we're we're huh what oh go ahead and repaint her. Should I I'll be ready to and then I'll be like. But what if I mess it up, though so I'll wait, I'll be like I'm gon na? Do it next time I'm gon na? Do it next time, but I have so many of these heads that I can afford to mess it up and then do it over and over and over again until I get the right look that I want and also you guys, the the sculpt is like 80 Of the work to be honest when you're repainting it's much harder to repaint on a very, very flat surface for one and for us, a sculpt that doesn't have a lot of detail in it. But if you have a very detailed sculpt that you're working with to begin with, where, like the the lip lines, are very defined, the eye sockets are very defined where the eyebrows are supposed to go. It'S very clear. It'S so much easier to draw on those faces. As opposed to just like any random sculpt, you know so that's part of it. Um the new Hot Wheel, Snickers and skateboard packs are worth work with Ken fresh Squad and world peacekeepers can't wait to buy more they're only 2.97.. Where are they 297 at hmm? 72.97? At he says, sorry, they don't fit the peacekeepers, but luckily they work with Ken and the fresh Squad. I'Ve been stalking walmart.com trying to find these fresh Squad boy dolls. Every time I see one it'll say add to cart. I add it to my cart. That might not go to check it out. It says: oh sorry, item in your card is unavailable and I'd be like. Why would you give me the option of putting it in a cart just to be like sirens? I don't think it's because when I put it into the cart, other people are buying them up and they're just selling out in two seconds. I doubt it. I highly doubt it they trying to trick me. That'S what they trying to do. Have you tried hot glue as nail extensions? I haven't, although I know that, there's a way that you can use hot glue for um nail extensions for your Barbies, but I haven't done that yet because I have this thing where I refuse to turn on my hot glue gun. Unless I have like more than one project to do, that requires the hot glue gun unless, of course, I'm building, but if I'm not building, if I'm just doing like some kind of custom work where I'm just gluing something together, I need to have multiple things that I need this the darn thing on for, because it heats up and then it's like - I don't know it's just such a hassle dealing with the hot glue gun in the space that I'm working in, because I have such limited space in here that I don't like To pull out all these different gadgets and and guzets and equipment, I don't like to do that. It just makes too much of a mess and I get frustrated and then I just don't want to do anything at all. So that's the only reason why I haven't tried the glue gun extensions yet, but I do plan on doing that. Um, I think that'll it'll be fun, but just like myself, you know a lot of my dolls even with using the the paints the puffy paints. As extensions for their nails that I don't like for them to be that long because to me like even in real life, it's not practical to have nails that are so long that you can barely do anything in them. So that's why I don't really do that! Um, because I don't have it's not a necessity for their nails to be super duper long. The aesthetic of it is fun. I guess, but in my mind my dolls are just everyday, regular people that are doing everyday, regular things and they're, not supermodels they're, not princesses. They'Re, not fairies they're, not mermaids, they're, not some kind of creature that doesn't exist for real in real life like they're, just regular people. So to me it's not it's not! It wouldn't seem practical for them to have super long nails, because regular people don't walk around with super long nails unless they're just real fashionable and they don't really got no reason to not have nails if that makes sense like if you work - and you have to Do everyday things you're not really walking around with nails that look like claws that are like super duper long and just filled with all these different designs. You know - and I feel like if I'm gon na have nails that long, they better have some fly design on them, because why are they so long for it? There'S? No other reason. I just want people to look at them. You know so if there was a way for me to do that and then have like the long nail extensions for the dolls and then somehow I could make teeny tiny, tiny little um designs on them. Then I think that would be more motivation for me to turn on my glue gun just to do that, but until I figure that out, I don't know, I'm just gon na stick to the puffy paints for now: um they're fun when you layer the puffy paints Too, like if one layer dries and then you go over it again with another layer, it makes the nails more Fuller and like longer so it's you know it's a process, but it's fun. It'S not like arduous, like it's not like a because the puffy paints they're. Very easy to control they, don't they dry fast enough? It doesn't take forever, but it doesn't take so long that you're, like oh, my god, when is this thing going to be dry already, you know what I'm saying like. I just did her nails on camera with you guys and they're already dry. I can touch them, they're, not gon na smear. You know they're fine and then I can go back over them. If I want to change the color or if I want to make them a little thicker or longer, so I'm fine with it being like that um. Let me see what else I'm missing here. Okay, so Janine said I mean a full repaint, so I can't just do like a half-ass remain job, see this pressure you putting on me. Oh my God tonight I said I love this one. I bought this doll not long ago. I want to change her. I love the face, but two short hair. I felt exactly the same way and this face is so cute that I just felt like I got ta do something with her. I got ta be able to dress her and pose her and have her alongside her little dolly friends, so they can hang out and she's just missing out on all the fun because she don't fit in with the rest of the group, because it's just her hair Is just too what's the word, I'm looking for it's not the style, it's not that there's something wrong with this style. It'S that it's not it's not! That versatile! You know, you know what I'm saying. It'S not that versatile and I feel like for her to you know certain looks like when you're wearing, like jeans and a t-shirt. Your hair is not going to be all fancy. Looking you're just gon na have it in like a little ponytail or something simple right, but if you're wearing like an elegant dress, then maybe you would have a cute little updo or some braids or like you're gon na. Do something fancier to your hair have different kind of accessories in your hair. I, like the option of being able to do all of that. You feel me like. I want to be able to choose between just looking like I'm just going out to the corner store versus I'm going to the club tonight like. I want to be able to show these dolls in different facets because, like in my head, they're just regular people like me and you who would be doing that and we switch up our looks depending on what we're doing right. So that's part of the reason why I was like I got ta re-root this dog I got ta, do something with her because it was just driving me nuts looking at that same hairstyle all the time and she just doesn't look like the kind of person that Would always have the same hairstyle every single day, um Kevin said I bought the skateboard sneaker packs at Walmart. What is that? What do you mean skateboard sneaker packs? Are they? Are they for Barbie dolls, hazik hi, so re-rooting doll is not easy, but I like it. It took me six hours, oh yeah, that's why that's why we came up with this method because for us, lazy folks who don't got all this time to end Devotion to put into rooting hair um for those of you who are jumping in here a little bit Late, what I showed everybody earlier was that half of the hair on her head is actually glued in so here you'll see the very last layer that I did with glue and underneath all this hair on the bottom. Here it's all glued to the scalp and then I glued it in such a way that we can do an updo like this. If I want to do a high ponytail and it's not gon na mess up the hair or come apart or fall off, so the hair can be styled in many different ways. And then this top part, the middle part of the hair and the front is rooted, and I just follow the lines the holes that were already in the doll's hair. Where partially, it is rooted to make sure that I was, you know, doing the right portion of her head so that way it can style. It can be styled in different ways without looking like it's glued in hair, it's just as thick as it would be. If it was all rooted in this is a full head of hair, that's on her head. So it's really versatile and it's an easier way for me to root the doll's head without having to root the whole entire head, because I just don't have the patience for it now. This is not something I would suggest that you do with every doll you want to reroute. It really depends on that doll and the role that the doll is playing in your collection, of course, like if you, if it's like your Grail doll and there's nothing wrong with the doll you just want to switch the hair up. I don't suggest doing this, because if the hair doesn't hold up like how you were thinking it, should you might be disappointed with the results, after you've glued hair onto the doll's scalp right, whereas if you just root all of the hair in then it's permanent, it's There you don't have to worry about anything, shedding or falling off or anything like that. It'S just it's in there. You know so uh. That'S just my my suggestion, but I mean who cares at the end of the day. It'S your doll. Do whatever you want with your dolls? Don'T let me stop you right. Tevin said I think the Hot Wheel, skate packs are exclusive to Walmart, but at least the sneakers fit something it would have. It would have been a waste if they didn't fit anything. What do they fit? I want to know. Um Galaxy doll said I found the male fresh doll at my Walmart inside the store right and there's another thing, and I were like why don't we just go, find some Walmarts in the hood and that's probably where all they at, because we can't find them in Our local areas, I'm sitting here, I'm in Washington state, so I'm like - where is the hood around here? I don't know I don't know of any. If there is one I think Tacoma is like the closest thing to the hood. I guess, like people out here, talk about Tacoma as if it's the hood, so I guess they think it's the hood. So if I can find a Walmart in that area, I'll have to go and Venture and see what they have inside the stores. Tammy barrels are the toothpick paint worked. I made her nails, gold and lips ooh, um Brie Swan said wow. I have no idea. You were on live kit, looks so different. I like it yeah. I apologize for not giving you guys more notice on my live stream.