#doll curls

You ever goof up so bad you just stare at the mess in front of you unsure how to react?

If you can’t tell, I melted my foam rollers and fried some of the hair on my Holiday ‘96 Barbie because I forgot that foam rollers have a lower melting point than straws and I forgot to check the temperature dial on the oven.

“But why the oven, Zak?” Because I did not want to deal with boiling water, plastic bags, and finding an appropriate sized vessel to dunk her. Luckily, I caught it early on so the damage wasn’t too bad.

None of the melted plastic from the rollers fused with the hair which is what I was most worried about. You can see how fried some of it got.

I brushed out her hair to assess the damage and to see if maybe I could still get away with it, but no. Even though most of the damage would have been hidden under her hat, I wasn’t satisfied with the curls anyway. Best to fix it and do it right, right?

Thankfully, the flat hair iron was able to straighten the fried kinks. However, there were some sections that, while still brushable, were visibly and texturally damaged. Oh, well.

Not bad.

Okay, take two! This time I’m putting her in a plastic bag and dunking that in freshly boiled water. I had to go up a size with the rollers since, you know, most of them melted.

Crossing my fingers.