Rerooting Blythe Doll Hair - CRAFT Video Podcast

Becky Stern of CRAFT shows you how to change the hair on a Blythe doll.

I started getting interested in Blythe when I wanted to make a three-dimensional self portrait, and was dumbfounded by the enormous community of customizers working with the Blythe Doll. One of the main online sources for customization is Puchi Collective, which houses oodles of tops for changing her eyechips, face makeup, and clothes. I was mainly interested in rerooting her hair, as the doll I acquired from co-blogger Jenny Ryan had blonde hair, and I wanted to use my own wavy red hair from a recent haircut. I made this video to illustrate the process, based on text-and-image tutorials I found on Puchi and Flickr. You can see some photos of my self portrait as Blythe in my Flickr set

. Rerooting Blythe Doll Hair - CRAFT Video Podcast

[#1 posted by jmullan , January 9, 2009 4:33 PM]

This part scared me the most:

"Finally, rub the tears of infants into its eyes and bury it in a fresh grave under a full moon. With any luck -- and a little chicken blood wouldn't hurt -- by morning you'll have your own unholy homunculus, ready to murder on your behalf!"

[#2 posted by sonipitts , January 9, 2009 5:42 PM]

Jmullan - To be fair, that's probably an untested beta hack. There are probably a few bugs in the process that still have to be worked out.

[#3 posted by hassan-i-sabbah , January 9, 2009 6:44 PM]

And if you follow parts 1-6 you homonculus will have hair and style for every occasion! ENJOY!

[#4 posted by Michael Leung , January 10, 2009 12:13 AM]

Is it just me, or does the doll that shows up before you hit play looks like Kim Possible?

[#5 posted by arkizzle , January 10, 2009 1:10 AM]

Sonnipitts, correct. You certainly wouldn't want to deploy it in an industrial capacity, relying on that particular feature to be end-user ready.

Fact is, until someone mans-up and regulates the infant tears sector, we are only going to be seeing more of these kind of half-baked releases.

[#6 posted by jmullan , January 10, 2009 2:37 AM]

That's why I still homebrew infant tears - although there was a great co-op in Minnesota that would have local, organic tears. I just haven't found the same kind of quality out here in California. Then again, if that's the worst of my problems... :)

[#7 posted by sad dolls , January 10, 2009 4:03 PM]

This is a v. important hack. The lives of many sad dolls could be drastically altered if they could get new hair.

[#8 posted by arkizzle , January 10, 2009 5:49 PM]

Right on, Sad Dolls. Problem is, without sad dolls to make infants cry, we'll have to resort to substandard, synthetic infant tears. Or farming infants.. and we all know where that ends up!

Free range kids just give a better overall alkalinity, and the lysozyme substrates are incomparable.