I made a few plugs, but that's as far as I got. Yesterday I tied a couple of curls together and washed and conditioned them and they came out looking like this.
Much better! And I must say that it was nice to have lovely clean fibre to work with - it brushed out so much more easily. The photo doesn't really do them justice - I don't think it could handle the colour too well. They have a really nice pearly lustre to them and I quite like the way they are like little ringlets. It's a shame that I don't really need them for anything. I suspect that I enjoy processing and combing the fibre more than I do the reroots!
I admit to procrastinating a little about starting Poe's. Last night I repaired her scalp and painted it with acrylic paint so I could begin today, but the paint dried a little bit tacky, so rather than get to the end of the reroot and have paint flaking off, I think it would be best to sand the stock brown colour off and just use it flesh coloured. I did read that non-acetone nail polish remover is good to get the stock paint off, but I rubbed and rubbed at it and it didn't budge for me. At this rate I feel like I'll never get started, much less finish the job!
I tried painting a scalp once with this paint/marker that was recommended to me but that ended up being really sticky as well which really frustrated me. I hear that some people spray paint their scalps and claim it works well but I have yet to try it.
ReplyDeleteI have to say from reading your entries on processing mohair it does seem to be more fun than re-rooting it. Whenever I see mohair I like or a doll with a wonderful Mohair job I get so excited like I wanna do another one but I know how pain staking it is. Sometimes just looking at the hair is satisfying enough.
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Hehe yes, I'm still working up the courage to root a single strand of it, but I find myself playing with the mohair whenever I'm in the same room that it's in!
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