Ken Doll Head Swap Project: Trimming the necks off of your Ken dolls 

I have already cut the neck on the Ryan head and put him on a wheelchair Ken body, and he looks pretty good in my opinion but they fit on the modern bodies with their necks longer also, I just prefer to have a more natural look and a slightly bigger range of motion. Sorry I didn’t take any pictures of his on the body before his neck modification, but I’ll upload a comparison video if I find any more Ryans at the thrift stores.

I like how you cut the neck of the doll heads because I have a rooted ken doll

Check out my newest video, I had done this process around the same time but didn’t film it, so I went and filmed one when I saw your comment

Yes most of the standard Kens are a match for wheelchair Ken and more vintage or movie Ken’s are a match for Looks Sean doll

I do not have a video for that, but probably your best bet would be to build up a new mouth with either milliput or some vinyl glue in slow layers until you have it the way you want it and then repaint the lips and mouth. The problem then comes into how to match the colors but customizers do it all the time on insta

My general rule of thumb is if I can already squish the head I don’t bother heating them up, and if you watch a few of my other videos I do occasionally break a neck here and there but that tends to be on fashionista bodies thankfully

I basically just washed his hair gel out and then boil washed his head to set the style a bit more

@@disneydprince oh so u didnt cut of his hair on the side? :) btw, I just tried this cut method and somehow I ended up with a long neck still and mobility was same 😭😭

It depends on the Ken doll, some of them are semi compatible but the neck widths can be kind of tricky

@@disneydprince thank you for reply! I am looking at them again this morning with a growing appreciation of their heads & faces. The artwork gives them a quirky bizarreness, like a Picasso. They’re cute with no clothes - they have molded-on tighty-whities, and the bodies are incredible! They feel good in your hand, they’re fun to manipulate- really high-quality workmanship and materials.

With older dolls like that you would have to break the neck and actually put a modern Ken head inside the older doll head to attach it to the newer bodies, not something I advise for rarer dolls like Grandpa Ken unless you are willing to ruin the doll.

I’m not much of a hair stylist, but I would probably start with a long hair rooted Ken because you have more room to work

@@disneydprince how to make the cutlet? in my case, the doll's head is not pierced, I'll have to paste. some diva or video?

I haven’t re-rooted anything but a Disney store rapunzel doll, way too much work for me

The actual fasteners on a Barbie are smaller than a Ken doll, and the necks are about half as thick, so you could but it would look more like a bobble head than a doll at that point

@@disneydprince i see