Very Nice Work! Been a vintage collector for almost 3 decades and I've seen varying styles of restoration. You do lovely work - love how you handle eyebrows. Thank You for sharing:)
I'm jealous of your eyebrow work! Do you have any videos of your process, including paints? Actually, I'd like to see how you get all of the touch up work looking factory set. Thank you for sharing your successes!
Love every single one of them! Restoration or OOAK : you did an amazing job considering how hard it must be to find the correct hair texture and color these days
Thanks! Finding the right hair fiber is much harder than people realize. You can only buy the hair from a few sources, and the recommended colors are almost never an accurate color match to the original. And texture and sheen is even harder to match.
I would leave her original hair in place if it hasn't been cut. You can usually restore Swirls to a lovely appearance without rerooting unless they have significant hair loss or bad haircuts. And it's very difficult to get a fiber match to the ash blonde hair color, to my knowledge the fibers offered by the doll hair companies are either heavy Saran, which is much too glossy anyway, or something like Kanekalon, which just isn't a match to the original. I find the closest match to early Ponytail hair is actually acetate hair, but the color range offered is very limited.
Generally speaking, out of the box it's a bit hard to tell, but the brows on the 1970 dolls are generally a darker brown than the 1969 dolls. The brows on the earlier dolls are about the same color as the long-haired TNTs from 1967 and 1968. It's not relevant for my doll, but the hair on the 1970 TNTs also tends to be a looser flip hairstyle, with larger curls at the ends.
Do You know anything to use for dark around the earrings holes. It must of been treated for green ears is whyit is dark around the ears. it a # 4 Barbie.
