tankgirlfuzzy wrote:
You're welcome, hope it comes in handy. You're right, I didn't check to see if those would be good for natural wool/hair, but they're great on synthetic, which obviously is what gets mass produced.
One thing I do with almost all my doll hair is restyle it, sometimes with a complete cut. I usually can't stand the huge curls and blunt chopped off look that they come out of the box with, but cutting it well is very laborious. I basically apply 1:1 hairstyling/cutting techniques to thin out the hair.
I did it with my Eowyn and Brunnhilde. Once you wash and cut it, you need to use this type of product to restyle it or it will look like a disaster!
Oh, I bet that looked great!
But yeah...this is a huge pet peeve of mine as well. I greatly dislike most 1/6 scale synthetic factory rooted hair. Some companies are getting much better at doing it these days, but they only seem to get it right when the hair is styled in a braid, or cut shorter and thinned out in the manner you describe. When it's just that giant wavy/curly look I can't freaking stand it. It's like nails on chalkboard to my eyes. Not solely because it looks ugly, but also because it totally ruins the scale. It seems like such a ridiculous waste to put out 'realistic' headsculpts on realistic bodies, but with poofy, fake-looking synthetic hair that never lies flat but sticks up on end and looks like the hair on a doll a little kid's been dragging around for while.
I absolutely looooove beautiful high-end doll hair (whether synthetic or natural fibers), so it just really annoys me how cheap and tacky, and well, just plain
unrealistic certain common 1/6 hairstyles can be.
Oh, and the reason I brought up the tibetan lamb hair is that it's what GubernatorFan was using for this Fat
Thor figure, and didn't want anyone to just assume it would definitely work for that kind of fiber. I'm thinking it might be best to test the Dolfie stuff on natural fibers prior to trying it out. But definitely seems great for helping to tame that overly voluminous synthetic rooted hair.