“May need cleaning”

Yeah, Dave From EBay, I’m gonna go ahead and say this is not a “may” situation.

How about I went to comb this doll’s hair in preparation for washing her and entire clumps of it came out on the comb that had been cut. Like they were just straight cut clumps, not me pulling plugs out, but they had been stuck relatively in place because of the matted ends. She was nearly bald by the time I got soap and water anywhere near her so I just butchered it off the whole way after the secret haircut reveal, it wasn’t worth saving.

She’s mostly clean now. I appreciate that she has the reverse eyebrow problem that I usually have with dolls. She almost certainly will not stay looking like this. I got her bundled with another doll for relatively cheap and largely out of curiosity so re-anythinging her is not high on my list of stuff to do right now, especially because I didn’t know she would have a whole hair episode to deal with.

But there’s that weird little snippet of doll adventure for you today. Maybe when she is dry and drained I will be able to make something short term okay with her haha. Her shipping companion is still awaiting the big wash. News on that situation as it develops.

Here’s Baby Starbow all cleaned up!

When I was a kid I was briefly friends with this girl whose name I don’t remember, but who I think about every time I drive past what was her home at the time. We were playing in her house and she had this My Little Pony. Even though I was probably eight or nine at the time I still considered myself something of a collector more than a child playing with toys and I had never seen this Pony and I wanted this Pony.

The girl did not care about the pony and offered to give it to me. I was absolutely psyched about this and I carried it around the entire time we played together that afternoon. Then, when it came time for me to go home, she told me that she had to ask her dad if it was okay for her to give me the pony. I thought this sounded kind of sketchy, but I was not going to question it.

She asked, and he said NO and I was heartbroken that this thing I had walked around with all day and had a decidedly bonded with would have to stay with this girl who didn’t give a damn about it at all. I don’t even know if I ever hung out with her again. I think she may have later accused me of trying to steal that pony.

Anyway, this is the pony. Or at least it’s another of the same kind of pony that I saved from eBay it isn’t the exact one. But I had to get one after my weird childhood bonding experience with a toy I couldn’t I have for reasons I didn’t quite trust, haha.

Defeated yet more of my ever reviving enemy: brown and blonde eyebrows on dolls with naturally fantasy colored hair.

Some other edits were made also, but the eyebrows were crucial.

Triclops Club~

Haha no one is going to like this doll but me

I rescued this Baby Starbow from eBay. She still needs more time in the sun to take care of her ink stains, I have some paint touch-ups to do after that is completed, and I need to set her forelock in an actual shape, but she’s already recovered so much.

I have a story about this one from when I was a kid, but I’ll wait until she’s all finished.

Wanted to try out the textured curls from The Doll Planet after a friend heard me saying I really wanted to see a fantasy color other than purple on a black doll that was also in a natural texture.

This 90s Christie was the winner selected for a test run because she already had the minty color in her eyes. Most of the repaint is in fact just overpaint, obviously, but I had a good time with sparkle.

She has an unintended Styla Blue of Spectra and the Shimmerons vibe, but even Styla has straight hair, so.

Really enjoyed doing this. I have several proper full paint jobs coming my way soon, so look forward to those, perhaps.

Both repainted Sisu dolls!

Did paint work on the Disney Store Sisu too!

These were fun~

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Did some overpainting on Hasbro Sisu. One of the things I like about her human design is her big mouth with her uneven teeth! Both versions of the doll have them molded, but not painted to be emphasized or anything.

Disney Store Sisu is up next I think. She looks extra weird next to the Hasbro one now, haha