Finished my head mod and I’m very satisfied. Still waiting on those new damn boots though.
Was a tad more work than I’d expected but repeatedly waiting for the apoxy clay to dry probably made it feel like it took way longer than it actually did.
After undoing the plait on the new head, it became immediately apparent that there’s no way you could ever style that Barbie hair properly. Hair was only punched in at the front of the forehead and the back of the neck so I just ripped the hair cap piece clean off and got to dremelling.
Took the magnets out of the hideous stock smiling head so I could still make the hair pieces detachable. That’s where the real work was but ultimately it’s not that tricky.
Once the magnets were aligned, I sculpted on a headband, painted it, then gave the face several new paint apps; lipstick, some cheek blush and other subtle blotchiness, green eyes, smoky eye shadow, thicker eyebrows and lashes and matched the hair by her ears to the main hair colour- oh and I turned the grey hair white. Definitely looks better to me.
Pre-painting
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Finished
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I took an ‘under the hood’ video showing the magnets in action but it’s too large to upload so here’s some caps.
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Yes, I prefer this over the stock haunted mannequin/ dehydrated crack whore heads.