Hair Mascara Experiment

The weather for the past week has been terrible. The heat wave makes me sweat buckets and clouds my mind so much. I can tolerate the heat more than the cold, but come on now, anything extreme is just harmful.

This first item is not doll-related but I managed to find my favourite cooling powder at Watsons.

A couple of years ago, Snake Brand powder came in a tin can, not in a plastic container like this. Plus, they had a bigger size and that's what I usually buy. I thought it was really timely that I found this brand again.

Anyway, when I found the powder, I also found this on sale:

It's a pink Chromastix hair mascara on sale for P23.

The colour of the mascara looks off on the first pic, so I placed my powder next to it to correct the colour.

Well, I tried.

By the way, here's a vintage miniature Barbie doll I thrifted for P10 (LOL). Her hair was in bad shape. She lost so much when I brushed it, and I have no plans of rerooting, so crunchy hair she'll continue to have. Her face has bite marks too.

She's way tinier than a Dawn doll!! I wrapped her body in ribbon so that she could have clothing. The ribbon looks like a modern dress, doesn't it? No sew, no glue, yes!

I painted her built in shoes with gold nail polish.

I tried to take a closeup of her face but she's so tiny and my iPhone camera can't take in all the small details. Ms. 2D told me this is a Dazzle doll (Thank you!). I found out this was made in the early eighties, and it's not Barbie. Ooh..

Back to the Chromastix hair mascara, I used it on my spare head. This is the Betty Teen clone I have from this post. I painted her hair pink.

She reminds me of a Takara doll here.

I temporarily put her head on the Disney dress form I have.

I combed her hair so she could still have her curls.

I swear her hair looks much better way after I took this photo because I restyled her curls even more. Her hair became a bit stiff because of the mascara, but I do not mind because I want her curls intact anyway.

The mascara is indeed washable, just like how washable it is when used on human hair. I was kinda hoping the pink colour would stain my doll's hair so that her blond hair would have a hint of pink, but no. Everything just comes right off. I found out when I washed a few strands of her hair to test the mascara's staying power.

Now it gave me more ideas. There were other colours of hair mascara on the shelf as well. I found purple, burgundy, neon green and neon pink, but I know there used to be royal blue on there too, when the price for a mascara was still P55 or something like that.

Budget Betty Teen doll

I found a cheap vintage doll at the thrift store. She was priced much higher when she just arrived at the store but remained for so long on the shelf because her body is hollow.

I took a particular interest on this doll because of her face and how generously rooted her hair is for a hollow plastic doll. The dress she came with is the one Sindy is now wearing and I really thought she's endearing. I know old dolls like this were made with hollow plastic so I was not expecting much with the quality and durability.

I remember I got her for P25. Cheap, isn't it? When I tried to identify her online, I was thinking she's a budget Betty Teen doll. I'm still a bit doubtful though. Here's a photo of her when I took her head off.

What made the price really go down was her broken arm. When I found her before, her arm wasn't broken at all, but I guess because some customers' children play at the thrift store, her arm got mishandled. It's fine though because I wouldn't be able to get her cheap if her arm wasn't broken. 

Here's a photo of her face on the left, and a clone Betty Teen doll I have been keeping the whole time since I started collecting dolls this year. This clone doll has poor hair rooting (she has a big bald spot in the middle of her head), and her whole body is made of hard plastic because she's a doll on a bicycle. I didn't take a photo, but if you saw her body, it's just awful. Her thigh gap is so big because she has to ride her bicycle. I don't have her bike now or even know what it looks like. Her arms are forever in the biking position, and her knees are articulated loosely because she needs to pedal.

So I put budget Betty and clone Betty side by side. Wow. Clone Betty's features are more prominent. Even her nostrils are more defined. I still like budget Betty because of her glassy stare and her curls are just fun. I still haven't washed her hair because the curls are intact even though everything else is frizzy. I'll get to her soon.