Balding my Barbie

In my last post I decried folks cutting both their own hair, and their doll’s hair, while in quarantine.  So today, I decided to be giant hypocrite and make Eve bald:

No, this isn’t a joke or a gag or anything of that nature, it hasn’t been photo-shopped to fake it.  That’s the status of Eve’s nearly-head at the moment. 

You see, Eve was suffering from an extreme case of “glue head”.  It was bad enough that before it had even dried after a wash, the hair was sticky and gross again.  I tried all sorts of remedies; home-made goo gone, furniture polish, and vinegar among them - not combined, obviously. Nothing worked for more than a few hours.

Before I removed her hair, I ordered her a couple of wigs. Naturally, I waited until their arrival, and scrutiny, before chopping off her lovely, dark tresses.

During the trauma of the cutting process, I discovered she would have been an absolute knockout with shorter hair, too:

This lovely Trinity look didn’t last long. Call me crazy, but I still like her even with it extremely short. I think it’s simply because of how beautiful her face is:

That’s as far as the scissors could take me, but I was far from finished mutilating my beautiful girl. I borrowed my hubby’s beard-trimmer and pushed onward:

And so, my lovely Eve became virtually bald. I still need to carefully remove her head from her body and pull the gunk out from inside her head - my plans for a portion of the evening.

Knowing that she had a new mane and two wigs for me to choose from made this process much easier. I thought about having her re-rooted, but I can’t imagine sending her off through the post again, and potentially having micro-fractures appear in her lovely repaint job. I think she’s been through enough. We both have.

A wig just seemed like a kindness.

The “hair down” wig is extreme soft and natural looking, and based on her original hair-style, with a middle-part. Looking at the pictures now, I probably should have chosen a different shirt to show these off…one moment.

Ah, that’s better:

The second wig is an updo: a topknot messy bun. While again soft and stylish, I think it’s a bit too “poofy”. Of course, now that I’ve been looking at it long enough to edit it to a smaller size in photo-shop (the image on the right), maybe it’s just the right size . . .

I’m quite pleased overall with these two wigs, and I’m so glad that my girl can have her lovely, long hair back. I may order her a shorter wig, too, now that I know how awesome she’d look with a pixie cut.

Couldn’t resist one with a little faceapp magic to bring out her eyes:

Thanks for stopping by and I’ll see you next time.