Any doll, home-made or factory-made, has its own unique charm. And the hairstyle emphasizes her individuality. Therefore, when making, restoring or restoring a doll, it is important to choose hair that is most suitable for its appearance, style and purpose.
Hair re-flashing
If your favorite doll's hair has fallen out or rolled off, you can return it to its former beauty. To do this, you need to remove the remnants of hair from her head and transplant new curls. Typically, this hair transplant procedure is performed with dolls such as Barbies. The area to be restored is not too large and the head can be easily removed from the neck.
To reflash your hair, you will need a donor toy, for example, a fat-legged beauty from Soviet times. These dolls are good because their hairstyles were made of durable synthetic fiber, and it, like no other, is suitable for transplantation, since it must be fixed on a new head.
The donor's hair needs to be combed, tangled ends are best cut off. Then each strand is carefully cut, inserted into a thick-eye needle, inserted from the outside of the doll's head to be restored. The curl is fixed by igniting and gluing individual hairs during melting. If you don't have a donor doll on hand, you can use an old wig with synthetic hair of sufficient length.
Homemade textile dolls
In recent years, the funny Tilda doll and other toys that you can sew with your own hands have gained unprecedented popularity. Among them are dolls made of socks, plastic bottles, nylon tights and fleece. All these toys need hairstyles. The most commonly used yarn for this is woolen, acrylic, linen, cotton, as well as floss, iris. Twisted volumetric thread looks especially good on homemade dolls. If such a beauty needs curls, needlewomen use knitted things. They are dismissed, and the wavy threads are sewn one by one onto the heads of rag dolls.
Fantasy dolls
There are self-made dolls that cannot be called anything other than a work of art. Children, as a rule, are not given them, so a variety of materials can be used to create extraordinary hairstyles. If there is a desire to achieve maximum resemblance to a real girl, human hair is glued to the doll.
For figurines depicting forest fairies, you can use natural materials such as dyed down feathers. Also, for creating hairstyles, wire with a soft pile, beads or bugles strung on long threads, fishing line, springs are suitable. In general, any material at hand that is in harmony with the appearance of the doll and its style.
