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Shimmeree13 — First Monster High Reroot WIP
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So I'm working on rerooting a doll for the first time! I got an extra SS Frankie when they were on sale to practice on. I've only finished the rim around her head, I've rerooted her a little too thickly I think. She already has more hair the most dolls and I'm not even half done, lol!
I bought the hair that I used to reroot her at dollar store. They had these headbands with fake hair on them and I used that to reroot her. Her hair is about 14inches long! So I think it'll look pretty cool when I'm all done!
I haven't really picked a "theme" for her yet...I'm open to suggestions!
Constructive criticism is much appreciated!
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I know, lol! I really need to finish it!
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I have to admit, when I saw the epic amount of hair? First thought was 'rockstar rapunzel' XD
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lol, that would actually be a pretty cool theme
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Because you think its a bit thick, you could just put a hat over the bald patch?
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That's resourceful idea! But I'm hoping to finish rooting her. She's my first reroot so I wanna get the whole job done
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This is so cool! I am just contemplating doing a reroot :/ But not sure whether I should order hair or not! Also how did you get the head off? 
P.s. I really love these colours!
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Hi and thanks! Re-rooting is actually simpler than I though. Just a little tip that I found out - use pliers, it really saves your fingers from getting sore, lol! And I got her head off by putting her neck in front of my heater and letting it heat up for a bout 45 seconds. You can also use a hair drier to loosen up the neck as well!
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Okay 
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You're welcome! And ask as many questions as you like! I got a large doll needle. I forget exactly how big it is but it's quite larger than a regular needle. Here's an example: [link] But I got a set of 5 at Joanne's Fabrics for like a 1.58 on sale.
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Okay cool 
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Cool! dollyhair.com has some really nice hair and a great color selection
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Thanks!
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Yeah and they have glow in the dark hair but it always sells out as fast as it comes in...I'm waiting for the chance to get it :3
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Yay!
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That will probably be my reaction!
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I hadn't left a comment, only thought I did! That is super long!!!
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lol! It really is. I really just wanna get her done, lol! But I'm glad I learned re-rooting, so I can customize my dollies now >:3 And thanks for the fav
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You're welcome, I really love the colors, I haven't seen any of that hair at the dt I go too, though, maybe I need to look harder. lol. How did you get the original hair out?
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Thanks! I'm actually running out of hair, lol! I've been looking but every one is out of the bright colors. The hair actually comes on a head band!
I got the hair out by running really hot water into the head of the doll to help soften the glue. There is a TON of glue in these dolls heads. Then I scraped the inside of the dolls head with half of a broken scissors...I improvised, I heard that a crochet hook works best. I had to pour hot water into the head several times to keep the glue soft. Then I pulled the hair and glue out with tweezers and pliers (for the bigger, tougher clumps).
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Oh, and the colors are fantastic!
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Thanks so much! And actually it's a lot simpler than I thought it would be. It's hard work but was pretty easy to actually figure out and do :3
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Your welcome. It sounds cool.
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Wow, this looks great!!
I just did my first reroot too, but I used a special yarn for dreadlocks.
That's not a bad idea to use what you did.
Especially to try it out for the first time.
I bet when you are done, with a bit of work and maybe a boil method, the hair will straighten out.
The colors are really cool, and I like how you staggered them.
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Keep up the good work, can't wait to see her finished.
I ended up with a huge head of hair too, so no worries.
Once you style and trim it down, she will look fantastic!
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Thank you very much! I really appreciate it! I really like the looks of yarn on the MH girls! I'm going ot try that in the future! And I thought it would be cheaper for me to use the dollar store stuff in case I trashed the project halfway through or something but I'm definitely going to invest in real doll hair, I'm sure it's easier to work with than this stuff XD
I really want it to be finished so I can wash, trim and style her hair...it's driving me crazy, lol! I'll have to check out your work :3
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You are very welcome!
Yeah, definitely practice with cheaper materials first.
The yarn I found was at Big Lots for $1.
I rerooted all of the hair on a doll with yarn in one day, but I found it relaxing.
XD
[link]
this is the only thing I have up right now, really.
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Wow, that looks amazing! How did you frizz out the yarn to make it look more like dreads? That's really a great effect :3
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Actually...
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it came like that!
The yarn was super neat.
Each strand was varied in color and width, so I thought it looked more like dreadlocks than yarn.
It seems to work great, so I may try to find that again in the future.
I did try to untwist the yarn a bit on a strand, but it really unwove the yarn too much.
The strand came apart easily, so I wouldn't suggest trying to fully untwist them.
You could probably untwist parts, and fluff them out a bit though.
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ALSO
The closer I got to the center of the yarn bundle, the CURLIER the strands got.
So some of these dreads are a bit wavy~
I had to use the WHOLE yarn bundle for this head though. I suppose I could have used less, since it's so full, but I wanted a lot on there.
(almost all the whole are filled)
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Thanks so much for the info! I really like that yarn you used! I may have to go out and try to find some similar to that. It really looks like dreads, really beautiful :3 I like the dolls to be thickly re-rooted too!
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You are welcome!
I hope you find some!
Hobby Lobby/Michaels are also great places for that kind of yarn.
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Thanks! I'll check 'em out :3
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LOVE the hair colors! Can't wait to see her finished!
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Thank you SO much! I appreciate it, I've been working very hard :3
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(shoot me dead but that soft and very long pastel colored hair reminds me of celestia from my little pony friendship is magic but that's me ... lol)
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Until you said it I didn't see it but the hair does look like Princess Celestia XD Awesome :3 Maybe I'll make her into a MH doll version of Celestia!
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That would be quite interesting
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