This is Ginger
She began her redo as the girl on the left. Cute but just too generic. I sand matted her face, carved her lips, nose, philtrum, (space between her nose and upper lip)I carved her eyes, her chin, her cheeks just a bit. I purchased new eye chips which were too large for her eyes, so I dremmeled the holes in her eye mechanism larger to fit the new chips. I am getting brave aren’t I. Then I gave her new eyelashes, and some makeup using pastels. Oh yes and freckles, I love the freckles. I also removed her hair and re-rooted new mohair, that I dyed with Kool Aid.
I did her re-root in a very nontraditional way, but the way I am most comfortable with. I used a felting needle to root the hair in strand by strand, It is a real mohair waster, the needle will cut some of the strands going in, so a lot of it ends up too short to use. But on the plus side it looks very natural. I could root it down a little further on her scalp it got rid of the line on the top of her forehead.
So here we are with the 3 girls I have done so far, The dark hair girl was the first, you can see how I am getting braver with each one.
I have one more Basaak Blythe sitting here to play with yet. We will see how brave I get next time. Then who knows maybe I will get the courage to buy a real Blythe and try my hand. But maybe not, I kind of like these girls just fine.
But for sure they all need a new wardrobe, that I know I can do.
I love your dolls! What it is great idea to make hairs.
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Love the curly hair, great colour
ReplyDeleteI love that cool aid.... Her hair is wonderful. What a difference you made to those dolls. Great.
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Kay
Wow what a difference. I like the changes you have done. The one with freckles is cute and different with the curly hair.
ReplyDeleteHow cool Joanne! You're trying something new and you've given me the opportunity to try something new, as well. I blogged about you today, you might wanna' go check it out.
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Meri
Not a doll person.. so wish I was, I am sure these are really great if your a doll maker... so much skill involved. Nope.. sorry I am a bear person. :-) xxx
ReplyDeleteI'm only a tiny, porcelain, doll person - but I'm in love! she's Precious!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comments. It is funny as much as I love to make bears I am a doll person. I love them all. Bobbie I love the tiny little porcelain ones, expecially the little babies.
ReplyDeleteI really like her, more grown up!
ReplyDeleteJoanne, I love the dolls!! And yes, you are getting braver as you go!! I love dolls too but try to keep it down to a minimum. Wish I had room. Love the tutorial. I was telling Janice that I needed to make two of my babies hats.. she has a wonderful hat tutorial on I Wish You Were Here. Now I realize that I can actually re-root the hair! How cool is that! I'm just wondering what kind of mohair you used for hair. Did you just shave off the old hair or remove it from inside the head and did you have to put wool inside the head to root the hair into? So many questions but your pictures have encouraged me to give it a try! Thank you for all that you share!!! Blessings, Ev
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ReplyDeleteI buy the mohair in locks, and I dye it myself. I look on etsy, or just do searches for mohair locks. You want to find them long. I was also just at Sally's Beauty Supply and found human hair that I may try too.
There are several way to root hair, if you can get to the inside of the head like Blythe you can knot the hair and sew it into the holes.
I did scalp the doll by cutting all her hair off and then picking it out from the inside.
You can use a crochet hook and crochet it in. There are plenty of tutorials on these methods if you do a google search.
I rooted Ginger with a felting needle. This is what the reborn artists do. I have done it with other dolls that did not have any hair and it works well with dolls that you do not have access to the inside of their scalp.
Basically you just lay the mohair down and stab it with the needle, you then pull at the mohair and just a few strands will stay in the scalp, you repeat this procedure around the whole head.
It can be sealed from the inside, with glue, but I have read, and found that the rubber will seal itself in a couple of days and the hair is very hard to pull out, so I have not sealed.
There are tutorials on this method also online, look for rerooting a reborn doll..
I am also going to use Janice's tutorial to make some hats, the girls will look very pretty wearing them I think.
Thanks for the extra info, Joanne! I am now on a mission. :o)
ReplyDeleteThis is so cool! I can't wait for my BJD to arrive them i will try to remake her face too!
ReplyDeleteShe turned out so cute, Joanne! I love the little freckles, such a cute added touch to everything else you've done! It's fun to see the "before" and "after" photos! Hugs, Janice
ReplyDeleteLove her locks Joanne, she turned out to be a beautiful babe. Doesn't changing the chips make a real difference to their look? I just purchased a whole heap in differnt colors off eBay. Keep on keeping on, and if I don't get a chance before, have yourself a very merry Christmas!
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