Thank you so much for this! My Samantha doll is very old and nobody has ever tried to fix her hair before so I thought it might be unfixable but this helped so much and her her is back to being gorgeous!
My 1997 Felicity (my first AG and the only I had as a kid) has a loose spot in her wig cap as well and I think it’s due to age or just wasn’t glued the best in that spot in the first place. There’s an activity in the old American Girl Club handbook of the 1990s for trying [bobby] pin curls on yourself and your doll. For the doll, it’s only meant to be temporary (same as the directions in the old hair care kits with curlers) so no hot water dunk or anything. The curl design also looks different. The activity comes from her Changes book where she did pin curls. You did a nice job on your Samantha.
Thank you for sharing how you fixed up Samantha’s hair. I guess we learn by trial and error. I tried to fix up an old Samantha but instead of boil dunking I used steam and then the freezer. It looked nice at first but it didn’t hold. Boil dunking seems to work better. I see what you mean about the bobby pins. She still turned out good though! 😊
Brand new subscriber here. I think you did a great job with Samantha. And I imagine her wig cap was loose already at the back - sounds like she was enthusiastically loved ;-) If you get time, I'm curious about your thoughts on my approach to hair restoration - I have a video of me restoring Kira's hair in a Tutorials playlist on my channel and we have several steps in common, but do a few things differently. Anyway, very nice video and I'm looking forward to watching more of your videos.
Thanks for watching Kristie! I am by no means an expert but I did watch your Kira video. It looks like the main differences were that you steamed instead of hot water dunked the curls and used foam rollers. I found that the hot water dunk really helped to exponentially improve the softness and texture of the hair even more than the straightening for me, but I could see how steaming might do the same thing. I’ve never tried it, but I think it’s the same principle behind the two and you had some amazing results! I liked your trick of using pins with the rollers to not leave a dent, I’ll have to remember that for when I get some! I definitely think I will buy some to get those bigger, looser curls.
Hi again. I am wondering if you know what dolls have the Nanea face mold (mould? Don’t know spelling). I like the Nanea face look but don’t know if I want the actual Nanea. Thanks!
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Thank you so much for this! My Samantha doll is very old and nobody has ever tried to fix her hair before so I thought it might be unfixable but this helped so much and her her is back to being gorgeous!
Yay, I’m so glad it worked out for you!
My 1997 Felicity (my first AG and the only I had as a kid) has a loose spot in her wig cap as well and I think it’s due to age or just wasn’t glued the best in that spot in the first place.
There’s an activity in the old American Girl Club handbook of the 1990s for trying [bobby] pin curls on yourself and your doll. For the doll, it’s only meant to be temporary (same as the directions in the old hair care kits with curlers) so no hot water dunk or anything. The curl design also looks different. The activity comes from her Changes book where she did pin curls.
You did a nice job on your Samantha.
Thanks for the info!
Thank you for sharing how you fixed up Samantha’s hair. I guess we learn by trial and error. I tried to fix up an old Samantha but instead of boil dunking I used steam and then the freezer. It looked nice at first but it didn’t hold. Boil dunking seems to work better. I see what you mean about the bobby pins. She still turned out good though! 😊
Thank you!
Brand new subscriber here. I think you did a great job with Samantha. And I imagine her wig cap was loose already at the back - sounds like she was enthusiastically loved ;-) If you get time, I'm curious about your thoughts on my approach to hair restoration - I have a video of me restoring Kira's hair in a Tutorials playlist on my channel and we have several steps in common, but do a few things differently. Anyway, very nice video and I'm looking forward to watching more of your videos.
Thanks for watching Kristie! I am by no means an expert but I did watch your Kira video. It looks like the main differences were that you steamed instead of hot water dunked the curls and used foam rollers. I found that the hot water dunk really helped to exponentially improve the softness and texture of the hair even more than the straightening for me, but I could see how steaming might do the same thing. I’ve never tried it, but I think it’s the same principle behind the two and you had some amazing results! I liked your trick of using pins with the rollers to not leave a dent, I’ll have to remember that for when I get some! I definitely think I will buy some to get those bigger, looser curls.
Hi again. I am wondering if you know what dolls have the Nanea face mold (mould? Don’t know spelling). I like the Nanea face look but don’t know if I want the actual Nanea. Thanks!
I know the new girl of the year Summer does. There are some truly me dolls as well but I don’t know their numbers. You’ll have to look it up!
@@agtwins7198 I did see a couple truly me. I never noticed that Summer does. Thanks! I guess the blonde hair threw me off lol