When I was on my trip in March I stopped into a beauty supply place and I found exactly what I wanted a softer type of bulk hair in a rainbow of reds. While it's not quite as soft as the best doll hair the colors in this mix are perfect and the texture is lovely. To me it looks a lot like a particular kind of flaming copper red hair, the slightly messy, kinky (or curly) kind that a lot of people with real red hair have and usually detest because they can't do anything with it. They probably have it locally too but the only beauty supply place here in town that's not strictly for pros is clear cross town and not in the best neighborhood these days and I don't like to go there too often.
I've looked it up and I can get it online anyway for about the same thing, shrug. At some point I want to order some more of this and make a couple of size 5-6 doll wigs so I can use this with other dolls I usually wig. I am also using it with the Edward repaint I have planned to make a Highlander guy. But other than that I'll probably stick to making wigs with it as this stuff is very hard to work with in a small doll's head. It would be near impossible I would think with a larger doll, harder head scenario.
I need more light to do this Drew's hair justice and I want to take some pics of my old Drew and the new Basics Drew together tomorrow. It's funny having them together. Same sculpt, same coloring, but one is so bohemian and innocent, the other is so sophisticated. It's like one is the older sister of the other. As far as I am concerned the Basics Drew is Lara and the FF Drew is Drew. It just seems to work for me and since the sculpt actually has two names, why not?
I have a blond, the 2nd Basics brunette, the two Rebelde RH Roberta dolls, FF Drew (now back to being a RH) and the Basics RH. I'd still like to add the other long red haired FF Drew someday to my little Lara/Drew sculpt collection but that's more than a respectable number of dolls for any one Barbie sculpt so I will probably stop there. When it comes to L/D sculpt I'm pretty much only a fan of the RH's anyhow. The blond was just in a bag of heads someone gave me. I didn't actually buy her. I usually only buy the RH L/D sculpt dolls I come across. The Brunette I actually mean to re-root at some point to dark auburn hair with bangs, mod-style. I wanted the first Basics one for that but I never did run across her so #2 will have to do. Eventually I'll probably do the blond too. She's got a pretty face and would look nice as a light blond-red haired Drew. I want to end up with all the Lara/Drew dolls as RH but with different colors of red, like all my Steffies.
