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Doll Repair and Restoration
What happens when your doll breaks or gets old? Bbeauty Dolls documents our doll hospital case studies to help teach how to both customize and repair dolls that have seen better days. This includes taking apart and putting dolls back together, changing eyes, restringing, cleaning remedies, fixing limbs and cracks, and much more. Join us on our journey of fixing dolls and bringing them back to their best condition.
Changing a doll from having rooted hair to a wig
Now you are probably thinking, why in the world would anyone do this? The truth of it is, there is a very good reason to do this. It is...
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Jul 4, 20254 min read
Changing Eyes on an American Girl Doll
Changing Eyes on an American Girl Doll Changing eyes on any doll can be very intimidating, especially if you haven't done it before, but...
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Jul 4, 20255 min read
What to know about buying a doll wig
Re-wigging a doll is one of the more fun and easy things to do to customize your doll and make it your own. As well it is an essential...
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Jul 4, 20254 min read
Restringing an American Girl Doll
You know that point where you are playing with your doll and you lift up an arm or a leg and it comes right back down? Or you are holding...
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Jul 4, 20257 min read
Replacing your American Girl Zip Tie with a Neckstring
You might wonder why you would even do this, the zip tie holds the head on tight and why would you ever want to remove it? The reason is...
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Jul 4, 20252 min read
Tips on Removing Wigs from Vinyl Dolls
Tips and Tricks: Removing Old Doll Wigs from Vinyl Dolls Tip #1: Using the back end of a spoon (or our eye changing tool), you can gently...
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Jul 4, 20253 min read
Finding the right Eye Size to Upgrade or Repair your Doll
Why is it so complicated to find the right eyes to replace for your doll? If you've ever decided to do an eye swap on your doll and...
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Jul 4, 20255 min read
Changing Eyes on a 23" My Twinn Doll
Process of doing an eye change using an Eye Changing Tool Changing eyes on a My Twinn doll can be difficult if you are doing it for the...
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Jul 4, 20253 min read
Repairing a Cracked or Broken Doll
This doesn't happen for vinyl dolls, but lately I've come across some plastic dolls that have been damaged and the methods are very...
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Jul 4, 20251 min read
Changing Eyes on a Ruby Red Siblie Kelsey
I was waiting for just the right opportunity to add eye change instruction for a Ruby Red doll and a siblie created the perfect...
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Jun 29, 20253 min read
General Restringing Tips
This is just a short notation about some restringing tips that help me. If you are using paracord to restring a doll: a. Thicker is not...
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Jun 29, 20252 min read
Can you change eyes on a doll after a Face-up?
The one draw back to having a custom work of art doll, is that you really can't change it afterwards. This can be incredibly frustrating...
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Jun 29, 20252 min read
Will Dolls Break in Low Temperature Climates (Winter)
The answer is yes. Low temperature does affect resin and plastics and could cause your doll to crack while traveling in transit, or in...
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Jun 29, 20251 min read
Restringing Madame Alexander 8" Dolls
When dolls are broken, sometimes we don't know where to start and we start searching out missing pieces or components to fix a doll. ...
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Jun 29, 20255 min read
Repairing a Cracked Face on an Ashton Drake Joanie Doll
Meet Joanie a 2006 series that was originally issued by Madame Alexander but then handed off to Ashton Drake Companies to do a series of...
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Jun 29, 20255 min read
Replacing a My Twinn Foot
My Twinn dolls are all held together with an internal skeleton or armature structure. The dolls aren’t made any longer and so you can’t...
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Jun 27, 20252 min read
Are all dolls repaired the same?
In running a doll hospital, I've definitely gone through quite a lot of repairs and customizations. I thought when I initially started...
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Jun 27, 20253 min read
Restringing a Madame Alexander Cissette Doll
Most Madame Alexander dolls can be restrung using the basic method of arm to arm and head to legs with simple paracord, however Cissette...
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Jun 27, 20251 min read
When you don't want to boil, customizing American Girl Dolls
In changing wigs and eyes on American Girl dolls, the typical method everyone uses is to add boiling water to the head. In fact this...
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Jun 27, 20252 min read
Fixing and Repairing Warped Vinyl Issues
From time to time I encounter a doll with a warped head or digit. It is unclear how these things happen, but some of the likely...
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Jun 27, 20253 min read
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