Comments: Here's my problem child! ::laughs::
^______^;;........
Bronwen was the originally the third custom doll I ever made, and my
second A-type head. I was pretty inexperienced with customizing, and not comfortable
at all with a paint brush. She was a sorry sight! I had boil-permed her hair,
not realizing that the prerooted A-type heads were rooted for straight-across bangs.
I braided her hair and boiled her head for only 14 seconds. The results was a
poofy, raggy mess ^^;;;.....I tried tying back the sides of her hair, because I couldn't
cut her bangs, but it just didn't look right. At that time I wasn't
comfortable with painting the A-type head, and I used up a lot of paint trying to keep her
eyes even. Not to mention the fact that I completely screwed up her eyebrows
^o^! Oh, she was such a mess, I didn't know if I could do anything with her
^^;;;.........but then I found out about professional strength nail polish remover ^^!
I had heard somewhere that Liquitex blue paint stains vinyl, but I
managed to remove Bronwen's face without any problem. (Yellow paint does stain, though, so
be careful!) Her eyepaint was so thick it came off in chips. ::throws up
violently:: O_o....
But I still had to do something about that hair! How I wished that
I had never done anything so horrible to that lovely prerooted head! I popped a
plastic sleeve over her head, pulled the front section of her hair down over her face to
make bangs, and boiled it on medium heat for 15 minutes. Her hair was still wavy in
the back, like it had been crimped, but at least I took care of the front ^___^!
And then I painted her. It wasn't that hard. I do love the
old prerooted heads, they look so boyish and healthy compared to the smaller ones Volks
sells now. ^^ ;;;;;.......
Leene's Comments: Well, I say, love knows no boundaries---but I do
draw the line at incest! ^^
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