An update.
Feb. 7th, 2012 12:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tsubasahomePerhaps my mistake is expecting for everything to go smoothly on the first try... =_=
My hands are still killing me, but I managed to put enough hair in Frankie's head to realize that the hair color is fab. ^___^ I'm glad, I had a hard time finding the perfect doll for it. It didn't look right on the Pure Neemo skin tone.
So...what I've gleaned from this. If your Monster High doll has a ton of glue in her head like my Frankie did(I was literally removing potato chip-sized hunks of glue from her head) and you want to reroot her, this is what you need:
1. A 1.55 mm steel crochet hook
2. A nail scissors
3. A jeweler's pliers
4. Access to a sink
Cut her hair off as short as possible. I mean SHORT. Monster High dolls don't have the hair sewn into the head with interlocking loops like normal fashion dolls. It looks like they just rooted the hair into the head, left the ends hanging, and discharged a hot glue gun in her head. The dolls seem to have varying amounts of glue--Skull Shores Ghoulia had barely any, Day at the Maul Frankie had a TON. I've also heard that Gloom Beach Draculaura is bad. You need the hair to be so short that you can barely see it. Otherwise, the glue will get stuck in it and not come out.
Take your doll head to the sink and run the hot tap into her head hole. ^^ You want the water so hot that it almost burns you. This is to soften the glue and the head.
Using the crochet hook to scrape the inside of the head and the pliers to pull out larger glue chunks, remove the glue and hair from the inside of the doll's head. Make sure you keep your fingers around her ears and don't touch her face too much. The hot water will make the head softer and more flexible. Start at the sides and work toward the middle. When the head cools off, give it the hot water treatment again.
I know the next time will be easier, as it didn't occur to me to heat the head right away. At least my hands have healed to the point where I can type!
My hands are still killing me, but I managed to put enough hair in Frankie's head to realize that the hair color is fab. ^___^ I'm glad, I had a hard time finding the perfect doll for it. It didn't look right on the Pure Neemo skin tone.
So...what I've gleaned from this. If your Monster High doll has a ton of glue in her head like my Frankie did(I was literally removing potato chip-sized hunks of glue from her head) and you want to reroot her, this is what you need:
1. A 1.55 mm steel crochet hook
2. A nail scissors
3. A jeweler's pliers
4. Access to a sink
Cut her hair off as short as possible. I mean SHORT. Monster High dolls don't have the hair sewn into the head with interlocking loops like normal fashion dolls. It looks like they just rooted the hair into the head, left the ends hanging, and discharged a hot glue gun in her head. The dolls seem to have varying amounts of glue--Skull Shores Ghoulia had barely any, Day at the Maul Frankie had a TON. I've also heard that Gloom Beach Draculaura is bad. You need the hair to be so short that you can barely see it. Otherwise, the glue will get stuck in it and not come out.
Take your doll head to the sink and run the hot tap into her head hole. ^^ You want the water so hot that it almost burns you. This is to soften the glue and the head.
Using the crochet hook to scrape the inside of the head and the pliers to pull out larger glue chunks, remove the glue and hair from the inside of the doll's head. Make sure you keep your fingers around her ears and don't touch her face too much. The hot water will make the head softer and more flexible. Start at the sides and work toward the middle. When the head cools off, give it the hot water treatment again.
I know the next time will be easier, as it didn't occur to me to heat the head right away. At least my hands have healed to the point where I can type!
