Our Generation From Goodwill Gets A Rainbow Wig! Meet Sorbet!

Greetings and Salutations Doll Friends,

Back in July, I made over a Madame Alexander Mary doll with a rainbow wig. I thought she was so cute when I made her over but the more and more I looked at her, the more I thought perhaps I'd made a mistake. Maybe it's because I'd named her originally Mary after Jesus's mother and so changing her name felt like a bit of a betrayal or something? So I decided to order a different wig to put her back to her former self. I'll be posting a blog about that soon because her wig came about a week ago and she looks stunning in it! Meanwhile, since I decided the rainbow wig wasn't for her, I had it as a spare. I wasn't sure who was going to end up with it? Until...

I happened into Goodwill recently and found this little pale blonde lady with chopped hair... And I knew immediately she'd be perfect in the light pastel rainbow wig. 

She was in perfect shape other than her hair... And honestly they didn't do too terrible of a job with her little bob hairstyle. I already had the wig or I might've tried to work with it to see if I could make it look nice as it was. 

She was only $1.99 and the American Girl Doll shirt she was wearing was worth at least that! I have one of this shirt already because it happened to be the shirt my daughters first American Girl Doll of the Year came in! So I am stoked to have two so I can use them as twinsies outfits!! Fun!

So here she is before her makeover. Notice her little tights have holes and runners in them? I am totally even going to keep them. I'll put them on a doll as a ballet dancer because ballet dancers always have holes and runners in their practice wear and that'll be a cute detail! 

Here is the back of her... See what I mean? I might've been able to work with that hair but... I also thought she'd look totes adorbs with the pastel rainbow colored hair and so I cut it all off. The more dolls I customize, the more easy it is to just go for it. I mean, for $1.99 with that shirt, she was basically a free doll. So, I'll make her over with reckless abandon, right? Haha.

So here she is standing in Frann Doll's bedroom to show you her hair. She is a bit shy but she whispered that she loves it! I decided to name her Sorbet because her hair reminds me of an icecream shoppe. 

And here she is with Mary in her new wig!! See what I mean? Mary looks gorgeous! Her original brown hair was pretty but this new raven black wig from Muzi Wigs on Amazon makes her even more beautiful. I've changed her back to her original name, obviously. Since Jesus was from the middle east, I think she could've reasonably had brown or black hair and so it still works pefectly. So, I am happy with how it all worked out and love both dolls after their transformations!! I tell you, doll makeovers are addictive!! 

Side note, Muzi Wigs on Amazon seemingly have started their wigs on the cheaper end until they establish themselves. I bought Mary's black wig for $13.90 and it has since gone up to $19.99. So... I think I may go make a wig order on the remaining ones I want while they are still on the cheap side. I've had a couple on my wish list that just came out in late August that are still $9.99 and I think I'll get them while they still are! Here is a link to them, they have like five different colors available (look for 'options' drop down menu). These wigs are pretty great although obvioulsy they aren't quite as nice as the Beautifully Custom wigs, the prices are much more palatable! I've purchased several now and have been pleased with them. Although I think Daenerys's wig might drive me a little batty with it's volumes of curls! Not a style I think I'll order again because the tangle factor will be strong with that one. LOL. 

Better run!

Till Next Time!
XXOO
Heather

Journey Girl Giovanna Gets A New American Girl Doll Wig!

Greetings And Salutations Doll Friends!

So... As I mentioned in a previous post or two, I found a great deal on authentic American Girl Doll wigs on eBay and... Well... I might've bought a few. You know me, I love to give dolls make-overs and finding quality wigs at a good price is a rare thing. So, when I do, I tend to stock up. If I don't have a doll currently that needs a wig, one is sure to come along. 

A while ago, I found a Journey Girl Kyla at a Thrift Store and, of course, I bought her. Ever since ToysRUs went out of business, I've kind of decided that when I see a Journey Girl second hand, she'll probably come home with me. If I have said doll already in my collection, she'll get a makeover. Which is exactly what happened with the Kyla doll I found recently. 

Last year or so, I also went through a bit of a 'rainbow wigs for everybody!' period with my dolls. I've kind of gotten over it now although I do have a few rainbow wig in my wig stash that will, more likely than not, find their way onto a doll. However, during that rainbow wig time period, I may have gone a bit nuts in my decisions of which dolls to make over. Case in point? When I cut off all of Giovanna's hair in order to give her a rainbow wig. Then I didn't like it. At all. Ugh. So much so, apparently, that I didn't even show you on the blog. (I just looked for a post about it even). I ultimately ended up giving her a dark wig by Beautifully Custom and liked it well enough... 

But I didn't glue it on and so know I wasn't really 'settled' on it. 

  

So I decided maybe I'd try giving her blonde hair again...

Here is Lynn, a doll I got from my amazing friend Crystal because she said the doll reminded her of me. She sent a darker golden blonde that she thought reminded her of herself, such a sweet gift! I'll have to make a post about it soon... So many posts, so little time... I digress. Since she was already dressed in a hair stylists work clothes, I decided to make her the stylist that gave the two girls makeovers. 

I decided it would be kind of a fun 'pretend' that they are best friends and decided to get the same hair cut. I think they both look fantastic!! These are going to be glued down as soon as I feel patient enough to do a session of wig glueing. It's kind of nerve wracking and so I leave it until I am having a particularly calm and relaxed day. Meaning I haven't glued in recent memory. Hahaha. Nice thing about these wigs is they are tight enough that they stay on rather well without glue so for now they'll be fine. 

Here they are shopping after their make-overs. 

I still haven't settled on a name for the Kyla-as-was. She is obviously going to be a twin sister to my other Kyla doll. 

I had to have the twins meet at the mall, right?

Do you like how they turned out? I think Giovanna was just meant to be a light blonde, it just works well with her coloring. I love the shorter style on Kyla-as-yet-to-be-named as well as her original style. 

Win-Win!

I am writing this on Christmas Eve so... In case I don't get my Christmas post up before the end of the day...

Merry Christmas!!!

I just ran out of time to write because my kiddoes and I have plans to hang out today and I blinked and it's time to get ready...!

Oh, these are some photos I took of her right after I put on the wig. It was a sunny day and I thought she looked so pretty in the sun...

Till Next Time!
XXOO
Heather

Thrift Store Kingstate Doll Makeover with Rainbow Wig!

Greetings and Salutations Doll Friends!!

My goodness, I am so behind on getting my drafts written! I may have said before but the way that I do my blog is I take photos with my phone and upload the photos into Blogger App but then do the writing from the computer. Suffice to say I've not been finding the time to make it to my computer in off work hours... So I am hoping to catch up with a few of the things I've recently uploaded into drafts to tell you about! The first one will be my recent thrift store doll find...

I got a Kingstate 18inch Doll with brown hair and brown eyes... Her hair was a fright!!

It was in such a mess that I knew I wouldn't even bother trying to fix it, I'd just give her all new hair... I have a bag of doll wigs at home that I've gotten on good deals on eBay or that I've purchased for other dolls and then not liked the way they looked on them or whatnot... So I pulled off her messy wig and started trying on others. 

Here she is as she arrived... Her dress is really cute and probably worth what I paid for her all by itself. 

See? She was only $1.99! I couldn't leave her at the store!! Right? 

The thing about Kingstate dolls is their heads are just a smidge smaller than other 18inch doll varieties... I had originally purchased this rainbow wig on eBay not knowing it'd be a bit too small for the 18inch doll I bought it for. I've tried it on a couple of smaller dolls and liked it but never well enough to glue it down. So, I tried it on this doll... And I love it!! I think she looks adorable!

The wig quality isn't as top-notch as some I've seen but it's a definate improvement over the wig she had when she arrived! She loves it too! She told me so. *winks-eye* 

I haven't decided what to name her yet... I'll take suggestions! I haven't glued on her wig yet but mainly because I think it looks so cute I haven't wanted to take it back off and also, it fits pretty well and unless I were going to let children play with her, I think it stays on pretty well on it's own. 

I hadn't even cleaned her up otherwise when I took these photos but just loved her look and had to take a picture. 

Stay tuned to upcoming blog posts for a group photo of her with the other Kingstate dolls I have in my collection. They really have a cute face mold and this one is totally different than the other three I have but I love her face mold as well or more than theirs... Dolls! Who would've ever guessed there is such a variety, huh? 

Till next time!

XXOO
 Heather

Our Generation Abrianna Goodwill Doll Makeover!!

Hi Doll Friends!!

As you may know if you read this blog often, I am a bit obsessed with doll makeovers and recently with rainbow wigs... Most of my doll makeovers are done on dolls I find at thrift stores because I feel like I am doing two things 1) saving a doll from a toy box nightmare or landfill grave and 2) I am saving money on buying them new as I'd be tempted to do if I couldn't ever find them second hand. The only trouble is that certain dolls are a lot harder to find than others. One doll that I've nearly considered buying new just to make her over into one of my rainbow haired beauties, is Our Generation's Abrianna. She's so pretty and I just have thought, since I started making rainbow wigged dolls, that she'd make a great one. Then, last week at Goodwill, low and behold, who do I see laying on the shelf?

That's right! Abrianna herself!! I grabbed her right up and walked strait to the cash register because I knew I'd found my 'find of the week'! She was sadly totally naked but was marked only $1.99! I just discovered, as I was looking for a linky for her on Our Gen's website, they must've stopped producing Abrianna? I had no idea!? So I am doubly glad I found her!

I might've been able to restore her hair but I knew going in she'd be a rainbow wigged doll and so I didn't even bother trying... 

Poor dear had been subjected to a novice 'make up artist' at some point but I was pretty certain I'd be able to get it all off...

See? A steal!!

I think she's adorable!! I was a bit worried that the only rainbow wig I happened to have on hand, being pastel, would be too 'pale' for her... But when I put it on her I changed my mind! I think she looks adorable!! I haven't glued it on yet though because I am also drawn to this wig on Amazon when I originally thought of making over Abrianna. So I may very well order it and change her up. What do you think? In any case, she's adorable in this transitional look.

Gotta run!

XXOO

Heather

Children Of America Doll Gets a Makeover!

Hello Doll Friends!!

In a prior post, I told you about C.O.A.D. Dolls and how two of them made their way to the Doll House. I loved them when I got them and still do... However, as you will see, when took the pony tails out of one of them, I made a very distressing discovery!!

Look at this!? Her hair was only rooted around the edge of her skull and down the middle like some strange mohawk or something?! There was no way she would ever be able to wear her hair down! So... When I discovered that, I put her hair back into a pony tail and put it as a 'to-do' in my mental list of projects, finding some way to 'help' her hair problem. 

Fast forward to recently when I was looking into doll wigs on eBay. I kept seeing these really neat looking ones that were labeled 10inch BJD 1/3 Doll Wigs in amazing rainbow colors and crazy colors! I didn't know, though, if they'd fit an 18" doll and that is who I was shopping for...

So then I found one on auction for 99c and figured I'd risk it and bid. Shipping was about $7 but considering it was coming all the way from China, I didn't think that was too shabby. I ordered a gray one because one of my favorite dolls, a TollyTot named Electra, has gray hair and I love her look. I ordered the wig for one of my BFC Ink Dolls because their hair is a tragic mess...

However, when the wig came, I knew it wasn't going to fit. One of my friends in the doll forums on Facebook had been able to make one work by stretching it like mad and super gluing as she went... I love the way hers turned out but I am not that brave! She even did it on an actual American Girl doll. So... I had a wig that was too small for the one I bought it for... Hmmm... *light-bulb-goes-off* Oh yeah! My COAD Doll needs a wig!! Here is me, trying it on over her hair to see if I like the color on her. I think she looks amazing!!

So... Off with her hair!

Isn't her original hair line kind of, well, creepy?

So here is the first try on after I got original hair off. Doesn't she look fantastic?!

So, I put all the hair up in pony tail holders, even the bangs, to keep it out of the way while I glued it on...

Then I turned wig cap inside out and tucked all the hair inside to try and keep it safe from the glue. 

I've used Aleene's Original Tacky Glue and a sponge type 'brush' to put all my doll wigs on and from what I understand, many doll restoration people swear by it too. You can buy it at Walmart for under $2. 

So, I slathered her head in glue... Pretty liberally... 

All over her head.

Then I use the sponge brush to spread it more evenly over her head until I have a nice white layer of glue. 

You don't want it TOO thick though because it will seep up through the wig. I know this from experience. 

Then, on goes the wig! I've learned to do several trial runs with a wig every time I wig a doll, before I do it with the glue in place. This way you get a feel for where the wig will fall to and where you want it to be before you have the pressure of having glue setting as you decide!!

The bangs are a bit long, naturally, but I'll have them trimmed up... 

So here she is, on my messy desk, drying... I think perhaps waiting for the glue to dry is the hardest part! I always wait for 24 hours just to be on safe side before I touch the doll. Want glue to have proper time to set. 

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Update!

September 19, 2015

This didn't ever get posted back in April?! I guess I never got around to taking proper photos of her "after" and it got stuck in drafts. Am posting without after photos for now because she is in storage and it'll probably be a month before I can get back to playing in the doll house because we have to sell house and move and unpack before that can happen. Boohoo! She looks great tho and much like the photo at the end. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Till next time! XXOO