White Afro
I have had this idea running around in my head for a while now after seeing some nail decorations in the Japan Centre down at Piccadilly, about making a disco diva doll with a white afro, silvery/blue makeup with sparkly stars and other tiny jewels.
Started to look around for a white afro – with no luck.
So decided that I had to make one myself but was not sure where to find the ‘hair’.
Looked around normal wig shops but the ‘curl’ were a little too big.
Even considered getting a Momoko doll and cutting her hair of but decided that that would be a little too expensive and rather stupid. Why waste a whole doll just because I wanted to make a wig?
Then, when in DK in September I picked up a Panduro hobby catalogue and just before Christmas actually had a look through it and DING! They sell doll curly doll hair by the bag!
When home for Christmas I made sure to pop by one of their stores and grab some white curls in a bag – or three of them.
Only used one, but tangled half of it up so glad I bought the extra bags – maybe I will make another one some day ^^
Took the most of Sunday, while watching the three extended versions of Lord of the Rings at the same time to make the head-cap and sew all of the hair onto it.
Lessons learned:
Use more than one strand of curly hair – use at least up to five or six at a time.
Make the head-cap a lot larger than you think it should be – the attaching of the hair makes it shrink
But, it worked anyway and it looks the way I wanted it to – apart from it being slightly ‘shorter’ than imagined.
Modelled by Cinnamon who is my guinea pig for most of my experiments (guess that is why she is getting increasingly dirty…)
Tags: Wigs