This is my first total re-root. I also redid her lips and eyebrows a bit. When I got her she had no hair at all hardly and half her face paint was off. She originally had lashes too, but I didn't try to replace those. I just had to save her. She'd been so abused, poor thing! I just really liked her eyes which were an usual shade of gray. I didn't change them at all.

I actually did her while we were on vacation. I took her to the beach and rooted her in the shade while everybody swam. I got a lot of strange looks from some people, but the kids all thought she looked great when I was finally done! It took me the whole week and more to do this girl but I do think she came out okay.

She has a pretty intricate hair style going. It's not just gathered up and braided. There are braids wound around her head and all too. There's also a longer braid that's supposed to come over one shoulder, but I forgot that when I was taking her picture, sorry. I just wanted to do something more like the AA women in my community tend to do their hair. I wanted the braids even smaller, but I couldn't handle doing tons of really tiny micro braids on the beach. It would have been too crazy, I was watching kids swim at the time, but maybe next time.

She looks great. Nice job on her new 'do

Very cool

You did an awesome job with her!

Thank you, everybody.

I've got another one, a Kennedy that I am in the midst of doing. Same deal, her hair was cropped to nothing when I got her so I am giving her a new head of hair and some new lips because her lip paint was coming off.

They were both throw away dolls. I got them for free actually because the woman I bought the lot month before last at the flea market wouldn't sell them with the messed up hair, makeup and all. There's a Barbie retro doll too that I want to do a ponytail style on.

I don't know that I'd deliberately re-root a doll with perfect hair, but I am going to be more on the lookout now for MS dolls that have nice faces that I can have fun with that way. I used to just ignore them, the bad ones, but I had fun with this one so I am up for doing more, I think.

Ok, I am off today, and my friend Barb is coming over. We're doing the trade thing so likely I'll have a new pile later today. Maybe some new MS, yay! Maybe I'll post them in another thread later if there is anything truly cool in there. I've got a lot to catch up on picture-wise.

I so did not need to lose that computer! All those pics I have to redo now! Plus I've still got some I haven't done, plus Barb wants me to take pics of what she's got so she can Ebay a bunch. I'm going to be snapping pics for a month just trying to get it all done!

That's awesome, can't wait for your new make-overs!