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American Girls with Previous Restoration Attempts

 

1.  Brunette American Girl
This first doll arrived with cut bangs and damage to her vinyl from multiple previous restoration attempts. I did the best I could to restore her face paint (and re-root her cut bangs). 
Using Removezit on the vinyl of the 1961+ dolls can make the new face paint 'juicy.'
As you can see in the first photo, that is how the doll arrived!  Removezit had been used on the lips, possibly the brow area, too, and it also removed the color from the doll's eyeliner.

After:

 

2.  Blonde American Girl
This doll had been previously re-rooted and painted. While the re-root was nicely done, the hair had not been styled and it had been cut uneven (and too short in some places at the bangs). I cut, shaped and styled her hair, wiped away her previously done  face paint, and re-did her brows, liner and lips (and added just a slight touch of soft blush):

Before:

After: Here is how she looked after I styled her previously done re-root and correctly restored her face paint:

 

3.  Brunette 1965 American Girl 
She arrived with the make-up seen in the photo on the left. You can see that after I removed the previous paint restoration attempt, a stain remains on the vinyl.

After: I did my best to remove the stain and here is how she looks now with re-styled hair, one brow touched up (matched to the original brow), slight blush and coral lip paint:



 

 

 

 

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