Barbie Doll Makeover Transformation - From Retro to Trendy!

hey everyone i'm ava and today we're doing another doll makeover this is the doll i chose for today's custom doll makeover she's definitely like a retro barbie and i've had her for like as long as i can remember and i definitely feel like she could use a bit of a facelift she's basically that classic barbie doll like the blonde hair blue eyes kind of vibe going on and i actually really do like how her eyes are kind of smaller and more realistic so that was definitely a main factor on why i picked this specific doll out and i just feel like she has a lot of potential and we can really do something with her here the very first thing i want to do with this doll is remove her earrings because they're definitely just a little bit tacky and um not the vibe so i think we can just pull them right out hopefully otherwise we might need to cut them off yeah we're gonna have to cut those and i'm just gonna like literally poke the end there back into her head and we'll just collect that later when we take off her head and so naturally our next step is to remove her head and because this is a body that i don't really care about um because it does just have the basic five points of articulation i'm not gonna bother dipping your head and boiling hot water and letting everything warm up i'm just gonna go for it because worst case scenario i break something but it won't affect things later because i am going to be giving her a new body anyways oh yeah and you can see it's already been cracked and damaged anyways here so yep i just destroyed that even if i would have soaked that that actually would have still broken that was so ready to be broken already i'm just gonna use my pliers to pull this thing out if you can't tell i'm really using effort right now there we go now i'm going to tie back her hair into a ponytail oh and here are those little two pieces from the earrings that stayed in her head those just fell out so i'm just gonna go ahead and cut her hair off and then i'm just going to cut off as much of the rest of the hair that i can from here the next step is to take some long needle nose pliers and just kind of like go in there and scrape around on the scalp to get all these little hair plugs out and you can see how they just like get sucked right in and there we go the whole entire head all cleaned out and now because i do plan on giving her some brown hair i'm going to paint the scope of her head brown that probably wasn't the best method to go about this but oh well and i'm just gonna let that dry and while that's drying guys i do want to quickly talk about my nails if you've been following me for a long time now you'll know that i always like to have my nails done and i'm really excited because the nail polish brand that i have used for years now sent me some awesome stuff and the brand i'm talking about is jellin they are a gel nail polish brand and what i've been using to do my nails for a very long time now including the nails i have done right now they sent me a nail polish kit with 36 colors and also a dip powder starter kit here are all the nail polish colors that it comes with it also has a base coat top coat and matte top coat so it's like perfect for starting out because you'll have all of these awesome colors and the top coats and base coat that you'll need and because these are gel nail polishes they are needed to be cured with a uv light as well and this one here is the dip powder starter kit and this is really cool because you actually don't need uv light for these and they're basically just like powders that you dip your nails in so this is something i'm really excited to try out anyways yeah i just really like this brand it's what i've used forever and they last like super long and if you're wanting to start off with trying some gel nails i definitely recommend this brand and their prices are also super affordable compared to most gel nail polishes so i'll have all these products linked in the description box below if you want to check them out yourselves and thank you jalen for sending all this stuff to me let's get back to the doll makeover now her scope is all dry now and this is the hair i'm planning on giving her i got this hair a long while back now i don't even know how long it's been but it's from an etsy shop called nestia unfortunately i looked and it doesn't look like the shops open right now but i do really want to finally use this hair i actually did attempt to film a video with this hair around a year ago and it went pretty bad i don't know what i did wrong necessarily but all the hair got knotted and tangled up and i had to just ditch that video and it's just because this hair is really like silky and like real hair so it can easily get knotted but i'm going to try using it again it's been like a year and i really do want to try to use it because it is so pretty so let's see how this turns out i'm going to cut off the elastic here and i'm just gonna take off a little section like that you can barely even see it but i have like this bowl here of water and i think i'm just gonna like dip my fingers in and kind of like wet in the strands of hair every time just to make them a little bit easier to work with and then i'm just going to put that onto my re-rooting tool and poke it into the doll's head and by the way my rerooting tool is from the doll planet and i absolutely love it it is great quality so i guess i'm just going to continue this all the way around the hairline of the doll's head [Music] okay so i did all around her entire hairline and so far so good now i'm just going to kind of fill in the rest of the head and we're going to leave the part here for last so now that i've done all the rest of the head and i did leave lots of spaces like without hair in them just because it's already getting pretty thick and i don't really think it's necessary but we just have the hairline left so i just carefully poke it in and then i take one half of the strand and kind of pull it one way on the doll's head and take the other half of the strand and pull it the other way and i'm just gonna do that all the way down for the rest of the part okay and at this point her hair is all rerouted now finally that took hours guys like i don't even think you understand how long that took me literally forever so right now i'm just going to kind of loosely tie her hair in a ponytail just to kind of keep the hair all somewhat in place and then using my fabri-tac glue i'm just going to put a bunch of glue in her head to hold all the hair in place [Music] and now i'm just gonna let this dry overnight so everything can really just dry fully and the hair can stay in place so everything is all dry and i think i put in a good amount of glue because it feels like things are going to stay in place so before i deal with her hair i do want to give her a new body and i have elizabeth here i don't use her and i could use her body on this new doll so that's exactly what i'm gonna do and so yeah right now her hair is kind of really crazy and poofy so i'm gonna go run it under some boiling hot water just make everything lay flat so this is what we're working with and i did just give her this dress temporarily the thing i'm noticing though is that this hair doesn't really like to lay flat as much as some of the other hair that i've worked with but hopefully when it dries we can just kind of work around that as for her hair length i do think i want to keep it pretty long but there are some like little scraggly pieces at the end here so i'm just going to kind of cut it off so it's somewhat even here we're going to start with removing some of the makeup so i have some 100 acetone and a couple like q-tips and a cotton swab and for small details i basically have a toothpick i wrapped like a cotton swabber on the end and then dipped that in acetone and i'm gonna use that to remove some of her eye shadow because i really don't like that glitter stuff going on so we're gonna remove that so as you can see i got rid of all of her eye shadow and that was literally very very difficult to get all those little spaces but i definitely like it a lot better with all of it gone next i'm going to remove the pink from her lips i'm going to keep her white teeth so i don't have to repaint them but i am going to remove her lips now that all her makeup is removed i'm going to start on the actual repaint and as you can probably tell i did dampen her hair again just because it was getting kind of crazy and this hair just has such a problem lying flat nicely so i'm a little bit worried about that but we'll figure out what hairstyle to give her when that time comes so if you don't already know what i do for my repaints is i mix together matte mod podge and acrylic paint and i'm starting with a brown color and i'm just going to kind of add some hairs to her eyebrows i always like to do this it just makes eyebrows look more realistic i'm going to use that same brown to kind of darken her nostrils as well this is something i always also do and i also want this doll to have some freckles and little like imperfections and stuff so i'm gonna kind of just put that on with that same brown color as for eye color i want to make it a nice green so i start with a lighter green and i'm going to put that right over the blue on her eyes and then take a bit of a darker green to go on the outer edge of that and then i'm going to take some black and kind of fill back in her pupils and now i'm going to do her lips with this kind of pink natural color here's how she's looking i'm really happy with how her face looks but now we're going to deal with this hair like i've mentioned it's a little bit crazy but i think the hairstyle that will be perfect for this are like two double braids so i'm gonna attempt that and we're gonna see how that looks all right so not gonna lie that actually took a while to get them even looking and even just somewhat decent but i am not mad at how they look right now the back is definitely horrendous but we won't be looking back there and the hair still looks a little bit crazy but i think what's gonna go perfectly to tame these braids a little bit is a toque are you ready to see how amazing this is gonna look like come on that is cute okay so yeah her hair might be a little crazy it might be a little whack but it's kind of a vibe honestly maybe this wasn't necessarily what i had in mind but i feel like the kind of messy frizzy hair in braids suits her okay so now that we figured out her hair situation it's time for probably my favorite part which is the outfit i'm really excited to find her something super cute that will go with her braids and the toque um what the heck i'm in love with this okay wait so honestly i was like doubting this entire doll up until right now this is the coolest outfit ever and especially with her toque and the braids i also gave her these awesome like black boots as well which go perfectly with her vibe please tell me i'm not the only one that's in love with this okay but let's get back to what we're focusing on now which is some accessories so for earrings since she does have those huge like holes left in her ears from the old earrings she has lots of the earrings i have don't really work for her so what i think i might just do is just like put the earrings in and just like balance it in there and leave it in there i ended up actually going with the hoops and they actually went in her ears perfectly because i think when i took out the earrings the plastic just started instantly shrinking down so i just had to use a little bit of force and they went in perfectly and they're gonna stay in place which is awesome as for jewelry i have this black little choker with like some silver detailing on the middle i actually forgot to do this earlier but i want to paint her nails i'm going to make them pink and i'm still just using that same mod podge and acrylic paint mixture and i gave her this pink purse that she's just holding in her hand and i think that really helps complete the look i'm personally really happy with how she turned out yes we did have quite a lot of struggles with her hair along the way but in the end i think it all turned out great let me know what you guys think of this doll makeover and let me know in the comments below what her name should be now before we end today's video the shout outs for today go to vivi lavalle be productive and falling for dolls thank you so so much for supporting the channel and remember if you and a chance of getting a shout out all you have to do is subscribe to the channel click the notification bell and comment down below with the hashtag dbsquad and you'll have a chance of getting a shout out in the next video don't forget to check out jelen and click the link in the description because like i mentioned that's the brand i use to do my nails and personally i think they look pretty great thank you so much for watching this doll makeover i really hope you enjoyed don't forget to subscribe because it really does help with the channel and i'll see all of you in the next one bye [Music]

Channel: DelightfulDolls

Views: 215,011

Keywords: Barbie, dolls, doll makeover, doll repaint, barbie doll makeover, Barbie Doll repaint, barbie repaint, custom barbie doll, custom doll, Barbie Doll transformation, doll transformation, barbie videos, doll videos, delightfuldolls, change barbie hair color, Barbie Doll headswap, doll custom, doll custom tutorial, changing a barbie doll, repaint, painting barbie nails, retro barbie, trendy barbie, barbie doll hairstyles

Id: Ng3A4J8d1ak

Length: 14min 44sec (884 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 04 2022