Fixing Toy's Hair

I always am just eh about wanting to get my daughter toys with hair because of the hair getting all tangled and a mess. Yeah you can just fight and fight with it to get it combed through, but then it usually just ends up some puffy mess. Recently had got my daughter some toy horses that the hairs weren't the best, picture above was probably the worst of them though.

I had seen before how to fix doll hair and i wanted to really try it, finally got around to getting some fabric softener to try it out. After getting started, realized that a brush is easier but would be better if i maybe had a wig brush, looks like it would have sturdier bristles. I also had to use my brush, so i think i might need a new brush for myself lol.

Starting with the horse in the above picture, my daughter calls her "Twilight" after Twilight Sparkle from My Little Pony, she's named all her toy horses after the ponies...Need like 2 more of them let her have all 6 of them lol. I asked my daughter what she wanted me to do with the hair and she told me she wanted her hair to be straight like Twilight's hair. Which wasn't too hard to get it straighter(after a few days seems to be getting slightly wavier), just from using the spray and brushing it will take away at least some of the curls.

Here's how she looked afterwards. I get amazed at the difference! I didn't really care for the horse before because of the hair, but now i actually like this one. I did also clean up markings on the bodies of the horses since i bought them used so they weren't in the best condition. I didn't really like how long the tail was so i gave it a little trim. here's how it looked when i was done.

Here's another horse i did the hair for.

This horse is "applejack". This was the first of her horses i actually had done. The hair wasn't horrible, but did need some work. Here's my after.

Gave her some braids because the braids make me think "applejack".

This one is "Rainbow Dash" which i find hilarious as it's the horse with the least amount of color. The hair on this one was the easiest.

Didn't do anything special with this one's hair. i did put a small chunk over her face, but my daughter doesn't seem to like it that much because of my mom always telling her that she doesn't like when hair is in people's faces.

And then there's "Pinkie Pie"

This one was the one with the most work put into it. Pinkie Pie on My Little Pony has curly hair, so my daughter wanted her hair curly. Took me awhile to figure out the best way to make it curly. I didn't want it too wild, though wild would be fine because it's Pinkie Pie. I wish i just had little doll hair curlers. I did figure out something to do.

After brushing and rinsing the hair, i just twirled the hair with my finger and put it in these and used little rubber bands to hold them. Then let them sit over night or longer. They need to be completely dry before taking out to help it better hold the curls. Here's how it looked after i first took them out.

So it's curly, but just didn't look really right to me. My daughter did say she wanted "bouncy hair" but i wasn't about to leave it like this, so i took a comb and loosened the curls.

So there's Pinkie Pie. Because of making the hair curly, it is going to make it easier to knot and tangle again, but just keep up on the combing and it should be fine and not have to use the spray again and recurl it.

So those were her horses i did with the spray, i also tried it on her Rainbow Dash from build a bear. That one was actually my first one i tried the mixture on. I hadn't realized before how tangled the hair had gotten before, it was like little dread locks.

There's how it looked before i started. Here's the close up of the tail and mane.

The tail was just getting to be a mix of colors and not as pretty.

 Took awhile to get it all brushed through, but this is how it turned out when i was done. The ends were so poofy from the damage to them. I gave her a little trim and she turned out like this.

She looked cute, but i didn't cut off all the poofy parts after a few days, it had gotten pretty bad again. Just from simple playing too. My mom doesn't like that i gave her another hair cut, she's worried that i'll end up cutting off too much or something. The hair was all different lengths too, that bothered me. The top was so much shorter than the rest. After the second cut, she looks like this

 Looks a little more like Rainbow Dash should look. But now with getting the ends cut and if we keep up on combing(and washing, she's a little dirty) then i shouldn't have to cut off anymore. Over all this looks better than the dread lock look she had going.

I still have a Twilight and Pinkie Pie from build a bear to do the hair of, i'm excited but also dreading Pinkie Pie, it's hair is worse than what this one was. But other than those, i will have to go through my daughter's toys to see if there's anymore toys to fix their hair. I'm wanting to go thrift stores and yard sales to look for dolls/toys with bad hair for me to fix up lol.

One of the many good things about being able to do this is that if you do plan on selling a toy with hair that is a tangled mess, give it a brush over and you can probably sell it for a little more than what you'd get if it was messy hair.

I'll write again after i do the other pony's hair and any other ones i find. I get amazed with seeing the difference so i want to share them :)

Bacon Flavored Ritz

Now I've been sick for a few days and had a stuffy nose when i tried these, but i had my mom try them to verify what i was thinking it tasted like.

I've tried a good bit of different bacon flavored things, i'll admit that i got a bit sucked into the fad of it. Been rather disappointing in a lot of the things, but i still want to try something when it says "bacon flavored". Some of the worse has been bacon soda and bacon jelly beans. Well my brother had sent me a picture to show me that these were a thing, said they were at target, and i had even saw in the target ad after that that they were there, i was pretty sure it said "exclusive" next to it though, so i was rather surprised to find these at walmart.

I was a bit worried to try them, but i went ahead and tried it because my daughter started saying she wanted "the round crackers" when i was giving her some square cheez-its. I went ahead and opened them and tried it since it was open. I wasn't sure if i was tasting completely well but it seemed to taste like when you have crackers and a slice of beef stick on it, so basically it tasted like meat and cracker. My mom said that it did taste like that and that these would be good with canned cheese, i don't like canned cheese so i'll just take her word on that lol.

If you like meat and cheese with crackers, then you might like these.

Colorful Carrots

Ignore the background lol.
I already knew that there was at least yellow carrots, my mom didn't know at all that there were other colored carrots. When we saw these, we decided to get them to try. I was excited over the purple one, though was interesting when i cut the end off.

I wanted to be really careful when peeling the carrots to not peel away all the purple.

Was still excited to try the different carrots. i tried each on their own, they did seem to vary in flavors but still had a carrot taste to it. I think it made for a nice colorful side dish, just wish we had gotten a few bundles instead.