Ruin of Felice, part 2 - Hair

Yes, I got Felice with the intention of making her a doll for play. A couple of things that bothered me were; after her neck 'bone' had broken, the head would fall off or the neck joint would behave awkwardly, and while playing with her with a wig on, the wig would slip or fall off and so on. With regards to hair, yes it kinda does bother me that she doesn't have eye brows at the moment; which as it turns out is a neat secondary to what we are trying to do now.




The tools of ruin.

I bought some hair clips/toggles. The cost $25 each. You can cheaper ones, you could even get wigs for that price, but the hair quality didn't seem as good, so I went with these instead.

Needles.

Silicone for Glass and Aquariums. Why this particular silicone? Well it turns out some other silicone you can buy contains anti mold in it, as so isn't recommended to be around food or water. Also this silicone is an 'acid cure' silicone which is the same as the one from the Arte Tokio repair kit.

CD marker. Nothing sticks to silicone, so marks made with this pen will get rubbed away.

Tweezers

& 'Cuticle' scissors.




First we mark where we want to place hair.




And next we place the hair in. This was a trial run, taking about a half hour. At first I made a hole with the needle, then used the tweezers to put hair into that hole with a bit of silicone. I decided this was going to take too long, so I thought of a different way to do this.




Several days later I applied more hair. The time I've spent on sticking hair on at this stage is about 3 and a half hours. At this rate I've estimated that it would take 100 hours to do the whole head. I'm hoping I get faster. To be fair some of this was done while watching TV. I decided to kinda 'sew' hair in, apply some silicone, then cut the little bit of hair that sticks out. I could have it coming through, with the end result having hair that is half as long as the strand sewn in, but I kinda like the length I'd set so I've decided on this method for now.





Some days later, after a bit of play, some strands of hair came loose.

In light of that I decided to use a more robust, time consuming method to stick her hair on. Using some sewing and knots for some strands (depending on the length of hair).

Later I found that it turns out there is a way that I can pull out the hair I bought so that the length is effectively doubled. This way I can use the other sewn method I had intended, where the hair is sewn in, then out, half coming out either side, while stuck in silicone in the middle.

Also, I decided that I'm not going to sew in hair a strand at a time.



At this stage it's 11 hours of sticking hair on.



14 hours



About 18 hours here.



20 and 1/2 hours



22 1/2 hours


30 hours


39 1/2 hours



40 1/2 hours



49 hours



57 hours


73 1/2 hours




79 1/2 hours
looks rather like male pattern baldness at this stage



100 and 1/2 hours


This is what she looked like when I was playing with her at this stage.


150 hours, also by this stage, a packet of hair had been used up.


182 and 1/2 hours


195 hours



199 hours


at this stage Felice's hair looks quite complete from the front.


215 hours


216.5



and finally at about 217 and 1/2 hours, the hair sewing is complete.







unlike a wig you can see skin at a parting;


and a hairline.



Now the hair needs to be cleaned up a little bit.