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THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF HAIR SOLD AT DOLLYHAIR.COM
NYLON: Nylon is my personal favorite. It
looks beautiful, it feels beautiful, and it's the easiest
to style out of all the different kinds of hair. It's less
heavily weighted than saran hair and it doesn't have the
waxy feel that saran has. It is extremely strong and it's
less prone to breaking than the other kinds of hair. It
takes a curl very easily, and can just as easily be straightened
again, if need be. It can be boil permed, but it doesn't
have to be! Wet it with room temperature water, set it in
curlers, let it air dry, take the curlers out, and you've
got beautiful curls or waves! If you want really tight curls,
a boil perm will never hurt. It can also be baked without
having its integrity affected! To read more about baking
it, please refer to the page.
Nylon hair is used primarily by Hasbro (My little Ponies,
Corn Silk Cabbage Patch Kids, etc.) and by the Ashton-Drake
company (Gene, Madra, etc.)
Dollyhair.com is the FIRST and ONLY website
to offer nylon doll hair to the public on a retail level.
It has only been available on this website since October
2005.
SARAN: Until nylon came along, saran was
the best stuff you could buy. It's gorgeous hair, don't
get me wrong. It has a waxy feel and it's weighted more
heavily. It's somewhat resistant to curling, so if you're
going to curl it, I would suggest overcompensating by about
50% by using smaller curlers and smaller sections of hair
than you want the final result to be. It can be boil permed.
Saran hair is used primarily by Mattel (Barbie) and Tonner
(Tyler, Sydney, etc.)
ACETATE: The newest type of synthetic hair
to be ofered on Dollyhair. This synthetic more closely resembles
human hair than the other synthetic hair types sold on this
site. I don't know of any toys that were ever factory-rooted
with it, but it's very pretty. It can be boil permed if
you wish.
REGULAR DOLL HAIR: Stiffer and coarser than
the nylon and the saran. It can be boil permed (takes a
curl very easily) It's a bit dry to the touch. The dollyhair.com
"spokesdoll", Ria (the pink haired doll on the
front page of the website- "reroot, restyle, reinvent"),
was rooted with the regular doll hair.
MOHAIR: One customer kindly informed me
that it's not really mohair, it's wool! It's called "Cotswold
Locks". The two seem like interchangeable terms to
me, but what do I know about sheep? It looks and acts like
mohair. It's great for more ethereal creations (fairies,
mermaids, etc.) and, until dollyhair.com started offering
nylon hair to the public, it was pretty much the only option
for polymer clay artists who had to bake their hair. It's
really beautiful stuff, flyaway with a nice natural curl,
and the sheep are never harmed! It's shipped from the farm
of a friend of mine, one of the nicest ladies you'd ever
meet. She takes really good care of the sheep and loves
them dearly!
I am always happy to send out free samples
of the saran and nylon hair. Unfortunately, I cannot offer
samples of the regular hair and the mohair. If you would
like some free samples (very small swatches, just so you
can see the colors in person), please and let me know which
colors you'd like to see. If you request more than three
samples, please know that it could take a while to get them
to you, as I am sometimes very busy with orders and when
that's the case, sample requests have to go on the backburner.
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