Four Faces of Emily

Emily was my first Blythe ever, a PWP ADG and I have put her through so much, from a really bad dye job (cause ADG hair is just not very versatile) to a blue bob wig she wore for over a year while I re-rooted her old scalp with Thermal changing orange saran. I'm really happy she hung in there and is still around while others have left.

I have to say that the thermal changing orange saran and I guess the whole thermal changing series of saran colors are just a dream to photograph. Since the hair itself changes from orange to yellow and back in response to heat and touch, you never know exactly what you're going to get when you play with it! I just love that! It's so experimental and alive. I get my saran from My Little Customs usually and when they're out of what I need I go to Restore Doll. Both are superb resources for Saran and rooting tutorials as well as other dolly custom materials. I can't wait to get started on my alpaca re-root. I'm hoping the coolcat scalp will get here sometime this week.

Does anyone know how to perforate a black scalp? How big do you usually male the holes? What pattern do you usually use? And what about thatching? I'm still a bit intimidated by thatching but clearly I need to get over it so any advice or tutorials you can offer out there in dolly land would be greatly appreciated.

St. Croix Blythe

We're all back from vacation feeling relaxed and renewed for the time being. Three days at work and I'm still feeling a little afterglow. And in my dolly world there's already a lot of activity going on. I came back very determined to continue and complete Emily's thermal change orange re-root and I'm happy to say I have made  lot of progress and have very little left to do. I am at the very edge of her scalp and hoping what I have left of the saran will be enough. I may have to skip a few holes in the back as a I go. It's a heck of a lot of hair. I've learned that it's not necessary to fill the holes with large hooks of saran to get a full head of hair. But I went a little crazy when I started a year ago and probably wasted a lot of saran.

For my next re-root I will try to be much more economical. And yes, I already have the hair and just ordered a coolcat scalp this morning. This re-root is intended for my Hollywood Blythe Whitney who I am still in the process of customizing. I actually ordered the hair while I was still on vacation and it arrived yesterday from Stephanie A Smith. It's an ounce of pink brushed suri alpca and I'm not a pink person but I saw it and couldn't resist. If it was just a flat pink I would never have bought it but this has gradients of pink, fushia and even brown in it. And I've been dying to do an alpaca re-root since I saw my first alpaca re-root Blythe at an NYC meet. It is so insanely soft, it's unbelievable. I can't wait to get started but I absolutely will not touch it until I am done with Emily's. She's been wearing a wig for the longest! LOL!!

Brushed Suri Alpaca for re-rooting

So before I left for vacation, I was already not looking forward to returning to work and decided to order something to make me happy upon my return. I know. It's like that. What can I say? So I purchased "Roller Maze" Lagoona from Amazon. And then while I was in Palisades over the weekend after I came back to the states, I saw "So In Style Trichelle" at Target for a reduced price. I have been looking at Trichelle for a long time and just loving her but never found her at a price I thought was reasonable. This time it just seemed right. Plus she was the last one one in that section. I will be looking to re-body her though because I really don't like Barbie bodies very much.

"So in Style Trichelle"

I just love Trichelle's face. It's so sassy and cute and something else. I really like that Mattel created this unique mold because she actually looks familiar to me like a face I would see in New York. In my mind, she's from the Caribbean. She's Caribbean American but she was born in Brooklyn like me. Haha!!

"Roller Maze Lagoona"

The first thing that struck me about "Roller Maze" Lagoona is how much yellower her hair is than "Skull Shores." I have to get used to her pink lips as well. It's always weird for me when I get a MH duplicate in a different series, especially when I love the first one as much as I love "Skull Shores" Lagoona. But I definitely like "Roller Maze" a lot. I was bit disappointed though that she didn't come with a brush. Not that I don't already have plenty of MH brushes but I kind of look forward to them. That Barbie brush bitch in me has just never died. LOL! Other than that, her skates, helmet and knee pads are so dope! The wheels are real and she has a little Shaka sign hand on her right arm which I adore!

I haven't deboxed Trichelle as yet but will probably get to it this weekend. Until my next update Stay cool!

Thermal Orange Color Changing Re-root

My main concern with the ADG scalp was that with the holes so widely spaced, it might show the scalp too much when I was done. But the further I get I can see that when it is done and the hair is lying down, it should look pretty good and not show the scalp at all.I'm far from done but I'm really excited and proud that I even got this far. Now, I'm just worried that Emily is going to look like a clown when I finish because uh, yeah, this is Orange!! But my plan is to give her a "face up" so that her make-up more closely resembles a doll that can carry off orange hair that sometimes turns yellow. Exciting!