doll customizers i need your help!! i’m rerooting for the first time (specifically mh g3 ghoulia and frankie) and i’m having some trouble getting the hair out. i managed to get nearly all of it, but there’s a few strands that just won’t go! i’ve been mainly scraping the glue off, but when i scrape those last few spots it does nothing and i don’t feel any resistance. i’ve heard of people using nail polish remover to dissolve the glue and i’m thinking of trying that next. if anyone has any tips i’d really appreciate it!!
(sorry for the poor picture quality, but you get the idea)
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Gooliope Jellington: Sweet Screams Edition (October 2022)
Base Doll: Gooliope Jellington (Monster High G1)
Clothing Pattern: https://www.etsy.com/listing/265925128/carrolls-muse-dress-sewing-pattern-pdf?click_key=eb0f8b19429e89cab0b606c33a3316fc28733c91%3A265925128&click_sum=be6105e4&ref=shop_home_active_6
Sprinkles: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1281595779/fake-far-out-rainbow-mix-fake-sprinkles?transaction_id=3147439983
Caramel Popcorn:
Gooliope is one of my favorite Monster High characters, and Sweet Screams is one of my favorite lines. So it should come as no surprise that when a collab group opened up for redesigning the MH characters to fit your style, I was excited to partake! This is my first time working with a 17 inch doll, and it posed an interesting challenge! I gotta say, I loved working on a bigger face! I have another Gooliope, Draculaura, and Maddie Hatter of this size in my stock, to hopefully one day we'll do a project this large again. The trick is, it's gotta be a doll I'll want to have out all the time, since they're hard to store. So far this is the case for this one, she's so pretty, I don't see myself storing her too often. XD
My vision for this project was to deck her out in carnival sweet treats. Gooliope is a circus ghoul after all, so it stands to reason that those would be up her alley. I went with pink and blue on her hair and the ribbon details to represent cotton candy, there are buttons made of polymer clay that look like lollipops, and while it's hard to see, her heels are candy apples. She's decked out with a bunch of fabric paint to hold on the sprinkles and look like dripping icing, and then you have my favorite detail, the headband. You can't have a carnival without funnel cake, and adding a little chocolate ripple to it? And sprinkles? Oh man, -chef's kiss- perfection. The sprinkles were honestly a highlight for me. I normally don't use pieces from other crafters in my work, but when I wanted to add caramel corn to her apron (my other favorite piece next to the face), I figured hey, why not? Also, it's hard to see, but I added a bit of a color shifting glaze on her eyes before glossing them, and it's super pretty in person. Gosh, it is hard not to stare at her, I love her SO MUCH.
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Tutorial: MH Creepro neck and Arm fix
Posting this here because I keep getting questions about how I've been fixing my MH Creeproduction bodies to look a little less janky!
Most people already have these techniques in their arsenal (and can definitely do a better job than me) but I keep getting questions on Twitter about how I manage to fix mine so I figure I'd just post a tut on Tumblr that I can link to lol
This is an add-on to my previous post about the neck issue with both waves of Monster High Creeproductions in addition to another issue where the Creepro arms cannot lay flat against the sides of the body.
Tutorial below!
Supplies Needed:
-Shitty creepro body
-Some sandpaper, I've been using 320 grit
-Boiling water
We're going to start with the neck since that one is pretty quick.
This is the neck peg to start with, compared to an original G1 neck peg- the section we're concerned with is the circular peg right above the neck hole:
(Creepro on the left, original on the right)
the Creeproduction peg is significantly thicker, which is causing the head to sit lower on the neck and cause the vinyl to deform. We're going to fix that by sanding the underside of the neck peg until it's much thinner, but not quite as thin as the originals (since original g1 dolls frequently have loose necks lol)
First you'll want to cut out a rectangle of sandpaper and fold it in half; this is both to make the sandpaper less flimsy and also because the folded edge is good for sanding nooks and crannies.
Now you're going to sand all around underside of the circular neck peg shown here, until that whole circular peg is thinner:
Make sure not to use the folded edge of the sandpaper for this part of the tutorial, we don't want to accidentally carve into the "stem" of the neck peg and cause it to snap.
I like to sand off a bit, try the head on and then sand off a bit more if it's still not sitting as high as an original MH neck would. Make sure you're heating the heads prior to removal or you might break the neck peg.
And also chop off that stupid hook on the top of the circular peg, it does nothing but cause misery lol
This is typically what it looks like when I've sanded it as much as I need to for most dolls:
(after on the left, before on the right)
Some characters have heads that sit much higher on the neck originally (like Spectra) so I'll sand off a lot more for them, but ymmv.
Now onto the body!
So, this is the Creeproduction body as-is:
This is the flattest I can get her arms to her sides. Some creepros can get them flatter, but not by much.
Original G1 body arms already tend not to lay flat enough in my experience, but Creeproduction bodies are even worse lol
We're going to fix that with sandpaper and boiling water!
Provided below is an illustration of the general places that we are going to sand:
The notch under the ball joint of the arm, the area directly below the armpit and a tiny bit of the round area on the underside of the upper arm. We're going to sand a little off of each section.
For the notch in the arm, you're going to use the folded edge of the sandpaper to carve out the notch until it's a bit deeper than previously.
No, it's not pretty! Thank you for noticing lol
Next we're going to sand the armpit area, using the other edges of the sandpaper because we don't want to dig into the arm at all accidentally:
As well as this rounded area of the arm , not too much but enough to make it just a little flatter:
I left it raw to better show exactly where I'm sanding; most of the visible sand marks will disappear after washing but you can clean it up more with a finer sandpaper when you're done if you want. I'm just too lazy to do that lol
After all of that, your arm should sit more or less like the arm on the right (left unsanded for comparison)
Much better, but not quite there yet!
Modern G1 bodies have vinyl upper arms that are easy to manipulate with heat, so in order to get them as flat as possible we're doing to boil and reshape them.
I like to boil my water in the microwave, and then dip the entire upper torso into the water until the arms are super pliable. At this point I will pull them out, pinch the arms right up against the body with my thumb and forefinger and then run them under the tap until they set.
Your final result should look something like this:
And that's it! Hope that helps lol
Some shoddy before and after photos lol:
(Spectra was also rerooted lol)
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