#dye experiments
Well goshdarnit monkey fudger, client likes Amee the disaster blue gradient barbie so much she wants me to recreate that. Well, blue is all that I have on hand so i guess I’m trying again but with that $4 amaya harvested white nylon. Not messing with kiwi again. I wonder if I can recreate that accidental dark brown made with a spoiled pink hairdye? Hmm. Must find gloves and dog towels. Tomorrow. Today I’m wiped.
What I’ve been up to:
Deflocking Tokyo Eitan and painting over his tag holes, adding more dolls to ebay (at saffyruth - i’ll ship anywhere except USA and Canada until I do some postal tests), I did have a bunch of “head only” customs but I’m gradually bodying everyone as they sell better to the french audience.
Doing some kludged gradient dye tests: the wine pink was first dyed with blue ink except the roots, it mostly washed out but left enough stain for a greyish lilac. Not sure there’s enough for a barbie reroot but there’s plenty more wine mermaid dye (it’s my own hair stuff - mix with peroxide and 30 minutes will give you 3 months of shockingly vivid hair) - it takes quite long to develop alone but gives a nice solid colour if you’re willing to wait overnight. The blue was dyed with the last drops of semi permanent blue. I’m using hair harvested from a $4.50 bait Amaya head as it’s tough iceberg nylon instead of easily snagged (and hard to reroot) kiwi.
Not yet willing to blow 10-12€ each for a Cyan Magenta Yellow + Black set of semi permanent dyes from amazon for something that may or may not become part of my skillset. But I spent $8 total on cheapo yellow + blue and am willing to give it an honest try! If it’s something that works out, sure okay, I’ll invest in supplies but eh, I’m not looking to make dolls with human looking hair - I far prefer working with saran and using gradients for that glossy fantasy hair look.
Like sure i’m cheap but also not that excited about learning 1/6th scale colorist skills right now: the blocking required for 7mm dark roots took a lot of mental engineering work (it worked though: a clean cut off of dark wine over 18mm using twisty ties and a soap bar).
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