dollsorwhatever:

Recently taught myself to do 60’s flips on my dolls in order to assist in my WIP vintage barbie restyles (using a modified version of this tutorial- I use coffee stirrers instead of bobby pins and I secure the rollers to the head with straightpins instead of holding them with elastic, and I also do two layers of rollers instead of one) and I cannot stop flipping my dolls lol

First Quick Curl/Doctor Barbie Repro:

(the pins were there to keep her tendrils down until the hairspray dried lol)

Then Walk Lively Steffie (On a repro body bc the WL body is annoying):

And now my duplicate 2001 Hello Baby Licca-Chan:

I’m pretty ecstatic to have finally learned how to do this in a way that satisfies my intense perfectionism, because not knowing how to do a flip has been one of the few reasons why I haven’t tried to get into Mod Barbie dolls, and also because it’s been a LONG time since I’ve acquired such a new hair-related skill and it was really exciting to try something so out of my comfort zone lol