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Eureka! Part 2 of 2

BUT I have finally solved the nasty, cigarette and nicotine stench in doll hair!

I am so excited! Because it’s so easy, and accessible to almost everyone!

Her hair (and everyone else in this lot) was so disgusting I gagged when I smelled it from a few inches away.

Step 1:

Soak the hair in Windex for 30 minutes, rub it in a bit, and then rinse thoroughly. 

It’s THAT easy. And it works so well.

As far as I know, Windex is just ammonia, water, dye, and fragrance. You could mix it yourself to save some money if you’re careful. 

I haven’t had any issues with the dye discoloring anyone’s hair.

If you want a more intense clean, soak the doll’s hair and brush the Windex through with a toothbrush a few times.

Warning:

This does damage the hair. The texture is changed.  But smell it now! Get your nose right down in there. It smells fresh and clean! A little ammonia scent will linger until it dries. 

You can stop here if you don’t mind the hair texture being kind of rough. It’s hard to describe what, exactly, it feels like. Brittle, dry, and rough don’t convey the texture, but it will feel wrong.

Step 2:

Conditioner! The texture will be restored immediately upon being coated with conditioner, but I like to let it sit a while so the plastic strands can reabsorb as much oil as they want after having been stripped by the ammonia in the Windex. 

You can leave it as long as you’d like, it really doesn’t matter. The hair will stop drawing in oil when it’s saturated.

Any conditioner will do. I like human hair conditioner because it doesn’t smell as strongly as fabric softener, doesn’t make me sneeze, doesn’t make my hands itch, doesn’t leave the hair feeling waxy, and is a lot easier to rinse out. I am NOT allergic to fabric softener, but when it’s in an undiluted form it irritates my skin and sinuses, so I prefer not to bother with it.

Here, I’ve made a mix of Herbal Essences conditioner (which was terrible for my hair, but turned out to be wonderful on synthetic hair) and water so I can soak multiple heads at once. It smells nice and does apply some light perfume to the hair. If you want unscented hair, find an unscented conditioner.

Shakira’s hair made me gag, too, and now it smells so nice. They all do. They smell lovely and clean.

And I’m thrilled, knowing that I didn’t just cover up the smell, I actually cleaned it away.

Unfortunately, their vinyl heads still stink. I’m working on figuring out a fast fix for that, but for now, they’re scheduled for a stint in the de-stinking box.

Now it’s been a couple of days and the scent from both the Windex and the conditioner have faded away. There is still a little bit of a smoke smell in their hair but it’s tolerable whereas it was disgusting before.

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I took a million photos of this, so I guess it has to be two posts! 🤣 Back in 2021, Loungefly rolled out blind box G1 My Little Pony pins, and I was like… I GOTTA CATCH EM ALL! Now G1 merch is slightly more commonplace, but I was desperate to get a full set at the time! But I delayed photographing them until last week. 🤣 So tomorrow we will see what I got! 💖

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Finger Paints is feeling glamorous! 🌈

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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

I'll post a few conference sketches today. Here's a well dressed male Barosaurus (should have been posted a little earlier, in 2013).

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🧜‍♀️ Toys from the Lady Lovely Locks Enchanted Island advertising pamphlet by Mattel, 1987 🧜‍♀️

You can find the full pamphlet here!

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Hanging out with old people rules because after a while they trust you enough to confess to murder totally unprompted

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(via @woofknight over at the Ex Bird place)

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Galaxy, another of my favorite twinkle-eyed ponies

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bisons are so underrated. like? they live for 25 years, CAN run faster than horses, can also jump 6 feet?? like please give my big babies some love!!

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Reblog if you ARE a woman in STEM, SUPPORT women in STEM, or ARE STILL BITTER about Rosalind Franklin not getting credit for discovering the structure of DNA and the Nobel prize going to Watson and Crick instead.

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learned something today. my mom found a beanie baby bear that's posed to look like it's praying, and she bought it to sit on her car's dashboard so it could "pray for us that we don't get killed by these idiots on the road"

but I didn't know ty made anything like that, so I looked it up and nearly had a heart attack when I saw this:

BUT

I did more research and it turns out these prices are supposedly justified by the beanie having a "tag error".

Except as far as I can tell none of these ridiculous listings have ever sold. It's very easy to find this bear (error or no) for much cheaper prices too.

But for whatever stupid reason, some people are convinced in the year of our lord 2024 that people still want to pay thousands for beanie babies.

I don't what what to do with this information but I guess mass delusions are alive and well in the toy reselling sphere.

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Does anyone one else remember that terrible Tolkien adaptation called The Lord of the Rings Musical?

It was super weird, very expensive with a moving stage, used almost none of Tolkien’s actual songs and was quickly forgotten…

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The owl didn't see it coming

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debating if it would be funnier to have a bumper sticker saying "my other ride is a [exact make and model of the car the sticker is on]" or "my other ride is a [equally shitty but different car]"

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what do red pandas even do