TheBdoll

1. First off; wash the Barbie. Use water, shampoo or other liquid soap.
2. Try to remove the stains with the nail polish remover. This is usually helpful with the body, but don't touch the face. BE AWARE! Pure acetone can melt the hard plastic parts of the body and WILL remove the paint on your dolls face.
3. When the doll is clean, it's time to detangle the hair. Soak the hair in hair conditioner or detangling spray and carefully start detangling it. Begin by using your fingers. Star combing from the ends firdst; Take a strong hold of the full hair and go through the ends first working your way up towards the scalp. Be careful not to pull the hair off the scalp. Move upwards until your comb goes through the hair with moderate ease.
4. Even though the hair is now free of tangles, it's still fluffy. It is time to straighten it out. Boil some water (water boiler is hot enough) and begin by pouring the water on the dolls head. Comb carefully and be careful not to burn your fingers! Pour the water onto a big shallow plate and lay the doll on the plate. Continue combing the hair on the plate, and once your metallic comb goes through without difficoulty, change into the eye lash comb. Soon the hair will shimmer in the water like it was brand new. (When the water cools off, change as often as necessary.)
5. When the hair is straight, you will have to set it. (You can use your own creativity here of course, but this is one way to do it: ) Turn the Barbie face down into the water with her feet away from you. Comb the hair straight (from her point of view straight upwards.) Little by little lift the Barbie onto her ead and down on her hair while combing the hair as you doi it. This way you will set the hair in her neck into a more natural position, especially if she's had a pony tail for the last 10 years this is important. ou can also use a spiked comb here or other spike to push the neck hair closer to the neck.
6. When the hair is straight, you can set it with the water as well. If you are lucky enough to own a steam cleaner, you can use that. You can now let the hair dry off or continue on to curl it. If you want to keep it straight but find it static, you can use some hand cream or body lotion to set it a bit. Use only a little, for example rub it into your hands and before it fully absorbs into your hands run your hands on her hair.
   
   Now you have a clean straight haired Barbie, and you can decide on what to do next.

You will need:

• Bendable hair curlers cut in 4 pieces. (Use the cheapo ones.)
• Boiling water
• Pot to boil the water in
• A mug

If you want to curl your Barbie's hair, it is easiest if you have straightened it first. (Instructions above.)

Do the curling normally on damp or dry hair. Pay attention to which way you are curling, and imagine how you will set it later on if the curl starts "on the wrong foot". You can also use perm paper or similar, but it's up to you if you want to.

Boil some water on the stove into as hot as possible. Dunk the head into it, but don't let her sink into the bottom so it won't melt! Hold her in the pot for some time, then pour the boiling water into a mug. Leave the dog standing in the mug with her feet up until the water cools down. The hair will curl with less time, but tends to loose the curl in some time.

Take the doll out of the water and let it dry. DO NOT USE A BLOW DRYER, no matter how impatient you are, it can spoil your doll's hair for good.

When the hair is dry, take the curlers out and try to figure out a way to style the hair beautifully. (It's difficoult to give a general advice.) You could use a hair band, bandana, ponytail, hat etc. Use a spike of some sort to open the curls, sometimes brushing is good, but brush can turn the hair into a big friz. If you brush, it's good to use both hands and brush the whole hair at once.

So how about that?