Yellowhead Sticky Syndrome: Can it be fixed? 🎀🧼💛 Doll restoration 

Soaking in Denture Tablets for several days, changing it out daily, using two tablets each time, works better, and you can monitor the progress until it's the shade you want.

That glue that mattel used before is disgusting some of my monster high dolls have a yellow face too 😿

The Hello Kitty and My Melody dolls with the Steffi face sculpt are so beautiful and (in my opinion) perfect. I wish they would re-issue these dolls. You did a great job with the doll.

I find that 'retrobrighting' works well for removing yellow discoloration. This is just a matter of using peroxides with UV light. Not all plastics respond the same to all peroxides, so it's often a good idea to try retrobright with hydrogen peroxide, benzoyl peroxide, and creme developer for hair in succession. Often one of these will do the trick where others barely do anything. I like to use a UV light chamber with LED lights rather than natural sunlight, but I don't have convenient access to sunlight all year long.

Adding doll restorer and CURLING MASTER to the resume, I see! She looks awesome!

Wow!!!! Look at you, you did a fantastic job restoring her from the yellow head to even curling her hair! She looks amazing friend you should be so proud of yourself!!!❤️❤️❤️

This is absolutely brilliant! My mom gave me my childhood's Little Orphan Annie doll from the 80s. The doll is so sticky, her face is oily. I'm definitely trying this and will report the results. I'm excited and super happy that I can save my old doll!

Everytime when I buy Dolls from 2nd Hand Stores they sometimes have a glue seepage, but I was able to fix it with cornstarch.

Congrats on getting her. I used to want this doll so bad but she cost so much. I'm glad you were able to fix some of the yellowing.

Barbination to the rescue! Miss Kitty is forever grateful!

Repainting is sooo hard! The eyes are really tricky to make them look normal - def noob club here too 🙋🏼‍♀️ - I can reroot but it takes forever!! Great vid ❤️

Wow she came out great! I’ll have to check out my dolls , I may have a few with this problem. Sunlight can do some real damage. I’ve had pink boxes get bleached and faded, the plastic will go yellow. So if you have windows with a lot of sunlight use some window shades or re-arrange often. I love her curls as well!!! 🙂

She looks fantastic! And what a nice decor you have for her too with all the little details in her bedroom

awww she came out great! i’m glad the stickiness went away 💖 also love the restyle

Omg Arjen you’re amazing!! I wish i could give you all my dolls and have you give them all makeovers!😂 you should feel so proud💖💖💖

I recommend checking out a thousand splendid dolls as they have a tutorial on saving decaying dolls. Also your tutorial is quite good too.

She is fabulous maybe my favorite face. Well done😘✨👑

Thank you for taking us through this journey! Awesome tips and your doll looks great! 🤗

Beautiful! You did an awesome job styling her hair.

It's an amazing doll, you made a great job!

Fabulous and learned something new today. Thanks Arjen!! 😻

She looks amazing. Good job. 👍😀

Wow, those are impeccable results! 😮

Omg I saw this doll on marktplaats and just because of her yellowhead I didn't buy her so proud of you for bring her a new beautiful life😍😍😍

She turned out so pretty!!! Glad it worked out so well...

Wow she looks adorable 😍🥰

She's beautiful! You did a fantastic job!

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I have a Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz who’s yellowed over time & I thought this irreversible! 😩 But not now! I’ve used Oxi-Clean to remove stickiness & glue from hair but I’d never thought that it could help with yellow discolouration! ☺️

She turned out so well😇 really enjoyed this video!!!!

Great work with her. She is so cute. ❤🧡💛💚💙💜

Congrats she turn out awesome! Thank you so much for the great tips. I love the doll she is so pretty

Bravo! Barbienation to the rescue! She is all shiny and new. Absolutely purrrrfect!

This is one of the most beautiful barbies I ever seen, I would like to buy her in the near future... 😉

Great work as always, restoring dolls is amazing! Keep it up!

Great job in leveling up your restoration skillz! Yay! Clap clap

On the glue still being in her hair after soaking, I usually change the water and add new oxi clean more than once to ensure all the glue is gone from their hair. Now a question: does anyone out there know if this will work on the plastic barbie horses too? I have marzipan from the nutcracker movie and she has some yellowing on her but I don't want to ruin her just testing it out.

She turned out so good great price too so lucky ♥️😘💕

I was rooting for you the entire video, OH MY GOD I WAS WORRIED

Good job. She's very pretty.❤

That's wonderful 👏 she's gorgeous 😍

Thank you so much for this! I have a Birthstone Barbie with a slightly yellow head, so I will try this! ✨💖✨

That’s a gorgeous doll. ❤️

That was a really great show and tell ! Thank you so much ! This was very helpful! I love your new doll and i love your Barbie pastel world 😊😊💖💖🤗🤗

Great job! She’s beautiful! Good to know about the baby powder. I have a couple rescue dolls with sticky hair. I will try that. Thank you!!

Beautiful!

Omg you are the Fairy Doll Father as far as doll content goes Arjen i've been looking for ways to get rid of glue since i go thrifting for a lot of my dolls thank you!

Great technique!! Thank you so much this video saved me! I’ve also been using this method to remove old plasticky smell and cigarette smell from my dolls and it’s been working wonders! For smell I only leave for a day.

Ive to agree it might of been the glue but also the product gel they used in the barbies hair the glue inside her hair may have reacted with the gel when it got too hot due to humidity wherever it was and and since some glues and gels do have a faint residue in color may have caused the discoloration. kind of like what happens with the old earrings in barbies ears there's a chemical reaction as the item decays and causes the nasty green ear ( which is hell to remove and just as annoying as yellow face syndrome for barbies)

Such a gorgeous doll I love hello kitty Barbie and the tokidoki Barbie great to know these tips ❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍🤗🤗🤗

Thanks for posting, Arjen, keeping to know more and more about collecting and "cute makeover" thanks to your channel :) It's keeping me at least 20 minutes positive those days. I'm from Kyiv and left all my collection into my apartment when the bombarding started... Enjoying at lest watching other's dolls

I had no idea that this could happen 😮 what a beautiful doll though! Her face is so pretty, so much like the OG Barbie.

OMG you make me smile everytime 😊😊😊😊😊 Loooooooooove it and soooooooooo cute 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

Quedo muy bella =), bien hecho =D.

Enjoyed the video! Very interesting products for removing the yellow/ sticky problem! Also, Twin Pines of Maine has Formula 911 to remove "sticky" ness from vinyl dolls. Of course, formula 911 smells much like Pine Sol.

Your moving on threw the restoration process. Is it weird that I'm proud of you? Darlin I love watching you grow.

Wow beautiful doll ❤️😮

Very thankful❤❤❤❤

I use 40 volume hair peroxide for my yellow sun damaged girlies, It works amazing and it's cheap and quick! It doesnt take more than a sunny day :p just put it on the yellow parts and put her on the sun and thats all 🥰❤️

That was awesome, I love your videos cause they get me thinking. I have 2 mermaid barbies that I have washed several times and their hair still feels stiff and grubby so I may try this on them.

That stickiness is due to the plasticizer leaching from the vinyl. Even dolls that were made prior to Mattel securing hair with glue has this condition . Plasticizer is what makes the head pliable. Over time, the plastic starts to degrade and the plasticizer leaches out. Not sure if heat or sunlight accelerates the condition or causes it.

Lovely❣️

I'm so glad that the entire process turned out so well on her 💞.

"I'm not a chemicist." LMFAO me neither. 😭

omg you are dutch! I don't come across a lot of dutch folks who do this! instant sub

I tried getting rid of the sun damage on my Jewel Secrets barbie with acetone and messed up the plastic. But I know acetone works well on stained heads as well but of course you have to be careful not to wipe of their face paint completely lol. I will try the denture tablet method for sure. Have you seen the Treasa Barbie with articulation and comes with a bike yet? She has the 1990 Treasa face sculpt and is reminiscent of the late 1990s early 2000. I just bought her after weeks of looking.

This is a lovely doll the only Hello Kitty theme I see recently are the outfits. Thats really great the process is effective none of mine have yellowed faces but a few legs were becoming sticky I just dressed them with stockings it might be the rubber or silicone casting material because the Barbie has different volumes for the torso or arms and hands. Acrylic plastic is more resistant

I KEEP MY WINDOW DARK SHADE AND CARTAINS CLOSEED TOO LOVE DAVID

Love your videos 📸👍🙂

love her

I love love the Hello Kitty and My Melody Barbies with the Steffie mold!!!! We have Oxy Clean and others like it here in the States. I have a doll that got ruined an has sticky legs, thank you so much for sharing this!!!! I can fix her now!!! Thank you Thank you for sharing this!!!! May I ask, why the talc? Does that absorb the scalp glue or break it down? She looks so beautiful again!!!🥰

El molde Steffie es el mejor, de ahí que me gusto coleccionar Barbies👍💖

En algunos casos el humo del tabaco también la exposición de la muñeca hace que se ponga las cabezas amarillentas también..

I use 20 vol peroxide and leave them for a few hours in the sun and then wash the doll's face with soap

bravoooo👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾💋

Thanks for the video. I have any expensive dolls with this problem (Marylyn Monroe for example). But their body is yellow and not the head. I think in the the temperature in my doll room was the problem.

I just got a draculaura monster high doll and her arms and thighs are yellow this helped thanks

The baby Powder is a really good tip I’m gonna use that. We will start calling you the curl master 😁

If only I knew ab this trick when I still had my bride Barbie... ;-;

Can oxy cleaner gets rid of stains?

Hi!! Good job!! I'd love to find that doll!!!!!

fabric softener is really really bad for synthetic hair fibres and can degrade them over time, make sure you wash that out and just put conditioner in or boilwash with a bit of conditioner.

Thank you for this video clip. Helped me a lot. I'd like to know more about that. If the doll has yellow stains Can the same method be used?

Jaundice! That’s what the Barbie has!

She turned out wonderful! ❤ Do you think baby powder would also work on a sticky face? Thanks!

AJ you're actually using the foam rollers and the boiled dip I know you love the result of that and I am just like so happy that you took that advice I mean I'm sure other people gave you the advice to but I told you use foam rollers boiled dippet let it dry completely for a couple of days and you put that up forgetting you see the results I learn these things through trial-and-error myself so when I give you the advice to do this or that it's because I've experienced the worst and the best of the results that I can get when I put that enough, and hot water always works so freaking fabulous when it comes to the setting curls or crimps like I said thank you for listening to me and probably many others. It's so cool when you have that ahh haaa!haha moment and the light bulb go's off in your head than you start giving all your dolls with straight hair curls and crimps the boil dip way. That what us girls are doing when we boil synthetic wigs .

I have never had this happen to my dolls, but I have to say, I agree with you, the sun and heat must be the cause here. I store my barbie inside my closet where the temperature always cooler than outside, and window or sunlight, and it seem like my dolls are still in perfect condition.

Oh thanks, I was not goi g to buy a doll at a good price because the head looked orange 🍊 maybe I can fix it! . I had no idea this doll existed. I want to include her in my collection.,,,

I'm not sure why RU-vid decided to recommend me a video with lots of pastels but I like it. I dressed like I'm attending a funeral all the time I'm trying to restart my doll collection after donating them years ago and I want to start customizing dolls so I've been watching a lot of doll content so that might be why. I collect action figures from shows I like so It would be funny to see a bunch of action figures next to a bunch of fashion dolls. I want to create a Ben 10 doll so that would be really funny to see it next to the Alien Force action figures.

Yeah, some of my dolls had jaundice too bc the sellers I bought them from stored the dolls in storage units that weren't climate controlled/ no air conditioner & without ventilation in the Arizona heat where summer temperatures can reach past scorching melting soaring 120° Fahrenheit 🌡with the sizzling heat index & were also exposed to blinding uv rays & sunlight ☀️.

omg i love her lips.

Hello there, I have a question about a Barbie from the 90's I just bought. She is in almost perfect condition except the torso of the doll which is different from the rest of the body. Is there anything I could do to fix it?

I soak the head in Dawn for the greasy face and gluey hair. I heard WD 40 takes the glue out of the hair as well. I had one with clumps and clumps of glue in her head. 😳

Does anyone know how to get the black marks off doll limbs? I have some 18 inch dolls that have developed black stains on their limbs, and have tried almost everything to get if off. Anyone know any tips? And what causes this?

Usually the stickiness comes from the oil leaching out of the plastic

I might try this method with the gold label Pink in Pantone Barbie, she has really bad glue head. Also with the playline Spongebob Squarepants Barbie, she has a sticky head

Does it work for og first wave monster high yellow heads?

So is it the talcum powder that works or baby powder? I want to try this! So many glue heads! (Baby powder doesn’t have talcum anymore)

Hi Gues you're from the Netherlands too. I am a starting barbie collector. I am still finding my way in the searvh. Can you tell something about the ways you find your dolls. Marktplaats and ebay I already search but the most dolls on ebay are from usa and expensive in handling fees as you know. Like your sweet collection. I am especialy searchingfor 70ths dolls

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Thank you for the video. And now about the green face?