a question for you people with dolls

[robinsnest]

I know several of my friends on here are literate in the world of dolls. While cleaning my room I was looking at Felicity and thinking about how sad she looks. What should I be doing to help her look less.. haggard. I got Felicity on my 9th birthday and we were pretty much inseparable for several years. My best friend Caitlin had Kirstin and we had hours and hours and hours of immaginative play out of them. My mom often said they were an expensive up front investment but worth every penny for the amount we got out of them. But Felicity's hair has...suffered? I don't remember abusing it particularly but it's super kinky and yucky on the end and the back of her head is pretty much bald from my bad ripping attempts to brush it. When I worked at AG they said to wet the hair before brushing with a wig brush..but any one here know any ways to help her poor hair? 

Comments

[bauhausfrau.livejournal.com]

I know nothing about AG dolls but if her hair is really bad you can always buy a BJD wig for her.

[isabelladangelo.livejournal.com]

http://store.americangirl.com/agshop/static/dollHospital.jsp

You can send her to the doll hospital where they will help her to look herself again. :-)

[sewloud.livejournal.com]

if I do that they just replace the head. and it'll be with the "mattel" felicity head and I'm quite fond of her head as is. Otherwise I'd have sent her to the doll hospital when I worked there.

[isabelladangelo.livejournal.com]

Any doll hospital should be able to add plugs to the doll's head to make the hair look reasonable again. A quick search shows some ones that look to be within a decent drive of you.

[quincy134.livejournal.com]

I don't know if this will help dolls hair, but some folks wash wigs with fabric softener to de tangle.

[bellamissella.livejournal.com]

I've heard this too, and I'm not super sure about AG, but there are tutorials for adding hair to the plugs yourself (I'm assuming it's plugged?) usually it's for changing the hair completely, but you could probably either add more if you can find a similar color, or do the whole head. Or like Isabella suggests, send it to a different doll company.

[sewloud.livejournal.com]

It's not plugs it's wefts like on a wig. I have one of the really old Pleasant company ones. I probably could just sew new wefts on I was just hoping to make her own hair "relax" a little

[bellamissella.livejournal.com]

Try the conditioner thing and then maybe search for tutorials on fixing Barbie hair. You could try the "boil perm" method with larger rods to just smooth it out and give it a loose wave again... I know there are other ways to get kinks out.... Sorry I'm not more help!