Dollieh Sanctuary

I finally started re-rooting FF Drew tonight using a slightly different method and much to my surprise I nearly finished her in a couple of hours. Instead of using a needle I used a tiny crochet hook and I definitely liked that method a lot better. I've got a few holes in the very back that I have to finish tomorrow but she's mostly done now. I tried something I've never done on her, remaking her hairline a bit less formal. The first time I ever saw this doll I completely fell for her, loved her red hair what the was of it and her freckles, but her forehead was just very high and her hairstyle just didn't quite work for me. She just looked so typically Celtic to me that I wanted longer, brighter red hair, more texture, more of a mix of colors.

When I was on my trip in March I stopped into a beauty supply place and I found exactly what I wanted a softer type of bulk hair in a rainbow of reds. While it's not quite as soft as the best doll hair the colors in this mix are perfect and the texture is lovely. To me it looks a lot like a particular kind of flaming copper red hair, the slightly messy, kinky (or curly) kind that a lot of people with real red hair have and usually detest because they can't do anything with it. They probably have it locally too but the only beauty supply place here in town that's not strictly for pros is clear cross town and not in the best neighborhood these days and I don't like to go there too often.

I've looked it up and I can get it online anyway for about the same thing, shrug. At some point I want to order some more of this and make a couple of size 5-6 doll wigs so I can use this with other dolls I usually wig. I am also using it with the Edward repaint I have planned to make a Highlander guy. But other than that I'll probably stick to making wigs with it as this stuff is very hard to work with in a small doll's head. It would be near impossible I would think with a larger doll, harder head scenario.

I need more light to do this Drew's hair justice and I want to take some pics of my old Drew and the new Basics Drew together tomorrow. It's funny having them together. Same sculpt, same coloring, but one is so bohemian and innocent, the other is so sophisticated. It's like one is the older sister of the other. As far as I am concerned the Basics Drew is Lara and the FF Drew is Drew. It just seems to work for me and since the sculpt actually has two names, why not?

I have a blond, the 2nd Basics brunette, the two Rebelde RH Roberta dolls, FF Drew (now back to being a RH) and the Basics RH. I'd still like to add the other long red haired FF Drew someday to my little Lara/Drew sculpt collection but that's more than a respectable number of dolls for any one Barbie sculpt so I will probably stop there. When it comes to L/D sculpt I'm pretty much only a fan of the RH's anyhow. The blond was just in a bag of heads someone gave me. I didn't actually buy her. I usually only buy the RH L/D sculpt dolls I come across. The Brunette I actually mean to re-root at some point to dark auburn hair with bangs, mod-style. I wanted the first Basics one for that but I never did run across her so #2 will have to do. Eventually I'll probably do the blond too. She's got a pretty face and would look nice as a light blond-red haired Drew. I want to end up with all the Lara/Drew dolls as RH but with different colors of red, like all my Steffies.

Pictures! Want to see pictures.

I'm almost done. I still have some to do in the back but I'll take pics as soon as I finish those plugs. I meant to do it tonight actually but I fell asleep on the couch reading and it's too late now. It needs to be done before she gets her pic taken though. She's definitely got a bit less hair on one side than the other. She needs just a bit of fill in on her left side in the back. It's not bad but I'm a bit of a perfectionist, and I want her done properly, smile.

Poor girl she's waited a couple of years for a proper re-root and she still has two little spots on her face that I've never been able to remove with anything. They're not that bad but no amount of zit cream worked on them. I was going to give her bangs to cover them up but that would have been very hard with this hair. I really like her natural hairline besides. She looks much more real than she did originally. I'm going to try to use bisque craft paint as a cover up like makeup soon I think. That may be the only way to go about it. I'll have to take her with me the next time I hit Micheal's see if I can't match the paint up to her skin tone there.

Not much of an alternative otherwise. It's not like freckled FF Drews grow on trees. This girl came cheap but she'd be rather expensive to replace with a more perfect model.