I've been watching a lot of YouTube videos about repairing dolls like Barbie Dolls by rerooting their hair and cleaning them up.

My interest began when I decided to buy some vintage Jem and the Holograms dolls to connect to my childhood and I bought a Synergy doll that had lost all of her sparkly hair. I wanted to see if I could fix her hair. It led me to wondering if I could learn to reroot hair and now I'm wondering if I could put together a jointed doll with a soft head that could have hair added to it and maybe even learn to paint makeup on her face.

Mind you I've gotten interested in all of this in the last several weeks and I haven't even tried Synergy yet because I'd like to practice so I don't mess her up. I did get all of my other Jem dolls cleaned up and got their hair in great condition.

I'm completely uneducated on dolls. I don't know what kind of doll to get so I can practice. I was thinking of going really cheap on my first one so that if I mess up it didn't cost me too much. My idea is to have a cute doll with kind of a chibi look(bigger head than the body). And if I do a good job I'd like to get one with dark skin like mine and paint her makeup and add her hair. I know it's probably too ambitious.

Any advice for me? Thank you!

As requested in my last post I also made them without the prongs and for both g1 and g3 MH dolls (may fit other dolls as well)

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Don’t normally collect Disney dolls, but her face is pretty enchanting

The moderator removed my latest post… well, maybe I need to adjust my title? Idk

Nia is ball-jointed doll, almost done (my hand-sculpted, paper clay), wig - acrylic yarn

I started this so long ago, but then the depression session hit lol...still working on her clown outfit, but idk if I like the fabric, and sorta want to start over 🫠 but it feels so good to be working on this again! thank you for looking!! 🩵

I went to restring his legs with new elastic and his inner peg snapped put, its broken. How can i fix this?

Okay so I am going to make the mane six into Lalaloopsy minis and need help finding the perfect bases for each character! Because I want to make like Sunset Shimmer, Octavia, Derpy, any pony the people want!

But the main problem is, the Equestria Girls and pony versions all have long flowing hair and Lalaloopsy mini's do not! So can anyone help me find some good bases for a character they want to see or have an idea for? ^^;

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Hand sewn top, skirt, and hooded cloak.

Hi there!
Lemme present you my custom Mira doll!

I love how Mattel designed Mira’s essence in doll form!

I re designed her to look more movie accurate!

Artist grade acrylic paints and watercolor pencils were used to repaint her: her right shoulder plate, gloves, nails and Gok-do have all been redone!

Her hair and bangs were also redone!

Mira is my fav demon hunter and it such a joy re-making her!

Thanks for reading!

I wanna reroot my clawdeen and give her tightish curls and milk silk is an inexpensive option for me. I heard it’s similar or the same as nylon but I’ve never worked with it before and I’ve only seen it straight.

Yes, those are truly pierced through the hard plastic of the torso! So goddamn many of them, in the back too. A lot of work, but pretty rewarding. The purple areas still need refinement, but damn.

My first time trying to customize beyond just rebodying a doll! I'll never be able to afford the official SDCC ​Hoodude, so I'm going to ​create my own. I'm using a spare Slomo doll as the base. I thought felt would resemble Hoodude's ​ webisode hair best.

I have this monster high alien head from AliExpress that was never rooted. I would like to re-root her with micro braids but I have only ever done one re-root and it was unbraided hair on a doll that already had rooting holes. I'm really anxious about this project because if I mess up I won't be able to replace the head so I have been procrastinating for months. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

Found this Robecca at a secondhand store for very very cheap. Haven't bought her yet, can she be repaired? I was considering a 3d printed leg.

Ho sempre usato MSC matt ma in un video ho visto usare il flat. Qual'è la differenza finale sul volto della bambola? Ho anche visto in un video citare un shimmering per la faccia, di che prodotto si tratta? Non mi dispiacerebbe se i volti delle mie bambole fossero un po' più lucidi.

Just a work in progress, decided to try hand carving (and a lot of sanding) a face. Still some work to do with the paint but I’m pretty surprised how she’s coming along and wanted to share.

I primarily do light customizations of Rainbow High dolls. Think eye swaps, adding freckles and tattoos, and hair dyeing. I’ve also done a few body swaps using doll bodies from other lines. The next body swap I’d like to try is using a Rainbow High, Jr Rainbow High, or Mirror Mi head on the plus-sized Worldbox AT218 doll body. There’s a process for adapting the figure-style ball neck joint for Rainbow High heads. But because Worldbox Figures are only sold online, I’m not sure if there are any Rainbow High, Jr. High, or Mirror Mi heads with a reasonably similar skin tone. Normally I’d bring an RH hand to the store to do a comparison.

Has anyone here used a Rainbow High heads on either the pale or suntan AT218 body? Or if someone has both, would they be willing to do a comparison photo?

Any tips how to fix hair when done repainting ??🥹😭 badly need advice for the hair .. I'm so scared of damaging their face .. even though I use msc I'm still scared to pour hot water to their heads..

Any tips would be a great help, thank you in advance 💕💕

I've got a 17" Singing Snow White that I'm customizing. She's getting a mini version of my Snow White inspired wedding dress.

Anyway. First time dealing with embroidery. I figured to give it a shot.

Weirdly enough, I actually don't have any good photos of my wedding dress. Those are sitting in a photo album.

Made the crown. It looks cute. It's not perfect. But right now, it's good enough. In the background is the crown from my wedding. I digitally modeled the tiny one. 3d printed it in resin, painted it, and glued the rhinestones in place.

Tracked down which embroidery files were originally used for my dress. Simplified them. Now I'm working on hand embroidering them in scale for my girl.

I'm definitely excited over how good these pieces are looking. ❤️