Customized Lalaloopsy Dolls

Once originally Cinder Slippers and Prince Handsome, they spent multiple hours full of several paints, a little craft fur and a couple layers of spray sealant, and they are now Beauty and the Beast! But wait - take off his mane to reveal a handsome prince! And so they lived happily ever after...

I really enjoy the mini Lalaloopsy's and they're so much fun to customize into special characters. Besides these two I've also customize multiple characters from Alice in Wonderland to go with my Alice and Hatter dolls, and I plan to post those later...

I've purchased another Cinder Slippers/Prince Handsome set to paint the same way, I'm going to put them on Etsy to sell... I really love customizing dolls but I can only keep so many of them!

Can you believe they once looked like these two??

Straightening Hair

Here is a short tutorial on how to straighten your dolls' hair with a flat iron. Comment and let me know how it turns out if you try this! I'd love to hear it.

NOTE: While you can get beautiful results, heat on doll hair can go very wrong very fast. Be careful when applying heat to your dolls' locks. If you're under 18, be sure to get adult permission or help if you decide to do this to your doll. :)

What I used:

• Flat iron
• Wire hairbrush
• Doll strand
• Spray bottle

First, heat your iron to the LOWEST setting.

Ready your undressed doll. Because her crimps were caused by braids, the back of her hair is already straight, so I pulled it out of the way. If you're going to work on a whole head of hair, I would still do this so you could work on separate sections easier.

Begin by brushing out the hair, making it smooth and removing any knots.

I separated each section into three sections to work on individually. Again, brush out the section. Iron carefully and don't jerk it quickly, just go down the hair at a careful, steady pace. Don't go too slow as you don't want it to get too much heat and begin to melt. I found I only needed to iron twice, maybe three times, but this may vary from doll to doll.

Half way done! Looking good! Now repeat on the other side.

And you're done! It's actually very quick and easy, you just have to be careful because of the heat. You may want to take a spray bottle and spritz down where you applied heat. I don't know if it does anything but it made me feel better to know her hair was at a cool temperature, just in case. (:

Thanks for reading! :)

Bringing Matilda to Life

Remember that post a while ago about purchasing an American Girl and customizing her? She arrived! Well, she arrived... multiple months ago, I just haven't gotten around to posting. Sorry! Anyway, on to the photos!

Here's what she looked like right out of her shipping box... I also purchased Josefina's Christmas dress from the same person so she came wearing it, and she just ended up wearing that for a while.

I added freckles and lip paint. I had a hard time with this. I really wanted light, little freckles just over her nose - think Disney's Rapunzel - but for some reason it just wouldn't work! It just looked wrong on her... she just disagreed with my opinion I guess! So they're bold and spread out, but I like them. For the lips, I wanted the deeper color to make her appear older, as she's supposed to be 18, not 10.

Her wig is not permanent; I just couldn't decide what wig to give her, so she's wearing my childhood Felicity's wig for now. It's in horrible condition, but it's better than nothing. I think I've finally decided on a wig, so she'll be officially finished within a month hopefully! :)

Just for kicks I styled her hair with random braids. The wig being so thin and dry, it looks horrible just loose, and thought perhaps all the different layers of braids might hide that lol. SO needed to be replaced (as remember, the only reason Matilda was purchased was so my Lissie could have her wig!).

Two pretty girls. Next to Matilda with her new facepaint, Felicity looks super washed out. She really needs a repaint! Excuse the condition of her wig too, I was impatient and took this picture before gluing it down and brushing it out to lay nicely... :)

Lost in Lalaloopsyland

I've discovered another doll line - Lalaloopsy! At first I thought to myself, very cute, but not for me. Well... that was before I found the Alice in Lalaloopsyland set! It included Alice and the Mad Hatter. Super adorable. Being a huge Alice in Wonderland fan... I couldn't pass it up. It's all been downhill since. ;) So far I have kept it to the mini versions of all of them though!

I really love the fairytale ones. In addition to the Alice in Wonderland set, I also have Snowy Fairest and Scarlet Riding Hood... that is, their versions of Snow White and Little Red Riding Hood. I also have Peanut, who is a little circus girl, but I renamed her Lilka because I thought Peanut was a cuter name for her little pet elephant. I like elephants... hehe.

Alice & the Red Queen

While I continued to check out this little world of Lalaloopsy, I found customs that people had done and thought to myself, hey... that would be fun! So, I decided to continue to build on my Alice in Lalaloopsyland world, and created the Red Queen. I really like her. I enjoyed repainting her so much, I decided to do more! I currently have a White Queen in the works, and plans for the Queen of Hearts as well. 

The Red Queen in Lalaloopsyland

Something that really excites me about the White Queen, is that I found the same doll for a base as I did the Red Queen, so their hair and outfits will be identical except for color! :) 

They're also fairly inexpensive, which is nice. The single packs are about $6.99 at most places, and the double packs about $12.99. I'd really like to get into customizing them and selling them on Etsy, but first we need to get settled down in our new place (we just moved a couple weeks ago and still getting used to the swing of things).

I don't have a photo right now, but they also make perfect dolls for larger dolls. My AG and DAC dolls can even hold Lalas in their hands by themselves!