requiemart:

This week’s pattern is “Riding Hood”!

Don’t worry, the hood can be made with or without ear holes 😉

dollocalypse:

dolldirt:

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prostheticthinking:

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ijustliketoys:

dolldirt:

I finally bought a reroot tool. Now to wait for it to arrive…

This is like a right of passage in the doll world right?

I bought one and I just kind of stare at it because it’s so intimidating to me for some reason.

My queue of bald heads is too long for intimidation D:

My only concern is having to glue inside the head because I just don’t trust this method…

Sorry I meant to comment something on that.
I heard it depends on which glue you use. I have been advised to use polyrethane glue (liquid fusion). I have used it on a MH to hlue some eyes in the head. It has been a year and so far no problem on the glue side (on the other hand my sealant fucked up).

The liquid fusion I have is liquid enough to grab the strands of hair and has a elastic finish that prevents it from cracking.

I have not used it for hair specifically however. So someone would have to confirm that. But it’s a really good glue and sets slowly (1h to grip, 48 hours to cure completely) so no risk of melting.

Thanks for the glue recommendation! I read some tutorials and they said to use Fabri-Tac glue. I still have plenty of time to pick up glue but its good to have options.

Omg yes, I was about to come in wailing about Fabri-Tac and it’s huge benifits (it contains acetone and that helps shrink the rooting holes!) but now I’ll only give my other advice lol…

Don’t have the needle out to far!! Have it short because if there’s too much hair pushed into the head it’s rrreeeaaalllllyyyy hard to glue and I NEVER see tutorials mention that. 

Oh that is good advice! All of the tutorials that I’ve seen just ram the needle into the head and move on! I assumed that was too much hair but wasn’t sure.

Yeah I have mine about 10mm from the end of the needle in the tool to the very tip. I’m gonna assume you haven’t done a reroot before but if you have but just used a different method ignore me lmao.

(This is assuming you’re buying the hair and not salvaging from a doll) Some hair separates nicely into sections you can use as plus and others are just like a mess of brushed out hair and it’s really hard to pick sections out, if it’s your first reroot try and use the hair that separates because it makes it a lot easier. You can tell but the photos normally because they look sort of stringy but once you root them and brush it out they look like normal hair.

I have a really bad sense of how much hair is enough and ruin needles all the time using too sections that end up too thick.

Also I’d buy from RetroDolls if I was you, you’re US based right? I know there’s a few stockists in the states but I hear horror stories about DollyHair a lot so I’d avoid her.

Melanie the lady who runs RetroDolls is SUPER nice and her choices of hair is first rate, she’s got loads of funky colours and all the main hair types, she even stocks thermal colour change hair and glow in the dark hair, I’m still looking for an excuse to use them because they look so damn cool.

Sorry if you’ve already done this stuff and I’m being really patronising lol.