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last updated 7/31/04

Where questions about customizing and repairing can be asked

Barbie® having a Bad Hair Day! What's a girl to DO!

The Doctor's In!

Introduction

This is where the fun begins ;-}

Way back when -- I was speaking with a friend of mine who was telling me about her Barbies®. She said that she only had a few Barbies®. When something would happen to one of them, her mother would send the injured doll to the Doll Hospital! She said several times over her childhood, her Barbie® dolls would be sent away to be returned to her good as new. This started me thinking along the lines of repairing, refurbishing and customizing these older and played with Barbies®. So this web page is dedicated to this idea.

Index of articles

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• Introduction
• How to Start
• Simplest Reconditioning
• Most Common Older Barbie®
  Doll's Simple Repair
• Simple Customizing

Special Articles

• Stories about special Barbie® Dolls
• Sherri's Collection

How to Start

• Identification of Doll / Identifying the Face mold
• Collecting needed tools of the trade

Simplest Reconditioning

• General Tips for cleaning
• Barbie's® Hair

  An example of hair reconditioning

• Barbie's® Bad Hair Day: Before
• Barbie's® Bad Hair Day: After

  An example of hair cutting and restyling

• Brunette Totally Hair Barbie® Her hair has been trimmed and permed!

Most Common Older Barbie® Doll's Simple Repair

• Split in vinyl at Neck
• The Dreaded Green Ear

  Example:Short hair TNT Francie with bad Green ear

• American Girl with a bad hair day

  Before

  After

Simple Customizing

• Custom Outfits
• Head Switching
• Hair Cutting
• Simple repainting
• Changing Hair color with Ink
• Rerooting Hair

  An example of Custom Outfits

• Xena side shot
• Xena front shot
• Commerially available Toy Biz Xena

  This is a Teresa head on a Kayla body.

• Water Goddess
• Water Goddess close up shot

  This is a super hero Barbie on a Shani armed body. I got the idea of this doll from the Mattel Prototype the Water Themed Barbie. Too bad Mattel did not make that set of dolls :-{

  An example of Head Switching

• Red's Fashion Avenue
• Original Oshogatsu Barbie® Doll
• Kira as the Oshogatsu Barbie®

  An example of Hair Cutting

• New Courtney with hair cut and New body
• Tropical Miko with short bob
• Before picture:Cut N Style Brunette
• After picture: Cut N Style Brunette

  Examples of Restyling Hair

• Enchanted Evening Repro as Jackie O

  I had this great idea! I wanted my own Barbie sized Jackie O...I took one of my brunette Enchanted Evenings - undid her ponytail. I was going to root her a part and bob her hair BUT - I just pulled her hair into a very loose ponytail at the nap of her neck. Put my Pink Pill box hat on her and There was Jackie! You don't see the rest of the Ponytail behind her and I fluffed the front so it really looks like it is cut short but it isn't ;-}

• Pretty Hearts Barbie with Flip
• Locket Surprise Kayla in European Party Fashio
• Tropical Splash Teresa with hair rolled in New Fashion Avenue

Example of Changing Hair color with Ink

• Tropical Splash Barbie

  I love the Tropical Splash face and makeup...I was just tired of all the blonde hair :-{ So I took a Jumbo Black Sharpie ink pen and gave her black hair!!! Worked very well - but just DON't get her hair wet! The ink is dry but has a tendency to bleed on everything if you get is wet again. So all styling has to be done before you color it!

  Examples of Rerooting Hair

• Swirl Barbie Enchanted Evening Reproduction Ponytail Barbie rerooted as a Swirl Ponytail Barbie
• Number #4 Rerooted Ponytail Barbie - all she had left was her bangs!
• MOD Era Hair Fair Rerooted Barbie She was total lose as far as her hair goes and she had very white face. The Pantone pens brightened her face and I love the way the white curly hair turned out!
• MOD Era TNT - Rerooted in Titian Barbie She had wonderful color and great face paint - just no hair!

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Created by:

Sherri Rhein

Email her at:

info@shersdoll.com

Disclaimer: This web page is not my JOB - I have other full time work. It is a labor of love. If you email me, it may take awhile for me to get a response to you - please be patient. I do welcome questions and repair tips that you wish to contribute.