Wow its ages since ive posted here!
Since my last post i have finished memorial baby Angel, custom baby Alice, Zoey, almost finished a custom baby boy (just waiting on his glass eyes) and am ready to root portrait baby Hannah.
Hannah reminds me of Harry in that she has tons of lovely dark hair too.
Unlike Harry though, Hannah's hair has been my worst nightmare!!!
With Harry, the lady who dye'd the hair for me got his hair colour pretty much spot on.
Sadly not with Hannah though.
Hair lot number 1: Ordered from A in USA, came, too light.
Hair lot number 2: I got some excellent quality moahir so decided to dye my own. It took two days solid! Ended up being not dark enough either!
Hair lot number 3: I decided to dye more even though it was a right faff doing it, ended up being jet black so too dark
Hair lot number 4: Ordered from a different lady in the USA, she dyes to the colour you want, but oh my gosh its about the most expensive mohair there is! (sometimes up to £50 per 1/2 ounce, yes 14 grams worth)
Sadly this lot of mohair has been severely delayed being sent as the poor lady lost her relative and had to fly out of state to the funeral. My thoughts are with her family at this sad time xx
So its turning into a nightmare. I needed to be about half rooted at this point and as it is i havent a clue when the mohair will arrive.
I seriously could cry! I thought reborning was supposed to be fun hobby.
So i now have yet another 3 lots of different very dark brown hair dye from superdrug and tescos to try. It takes me forever to do though, as you have to wash all the mud and yuk out of the Angora goat hair.
Then shampoo it. Its very light and easily washes down the plug hole, and you can only wash a tiny bundle at a time.
Then comb it which is hard work to get all the tangles out.
Dry it naturally
Dye it
Rise it
condition it for 30 minutes
Rise it, rinse it, oh yeah and rinse it again
Dry it naturally again,
Comb it,
Wet it to return it to its fine locks rather than beinf fluffed up looking, then let it dry again!
So im hoping the other mohair arrives on Monday if not i guess its going to be days and days sat on a stool by the bathroom sink again, processing more mohair!
.Betime ive done that i might get to do another post here sometime in Ausust 2013 lol.
I have got twin portrait babies to start soon as well, eek.
