How to Customize a Monster High Doll

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Sketch out what you want the Monster High OC doll to look like before making a custom doll.

   Make your sketch neat and clean and colour it nicely.
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   Step 2: Decide about the hair.

   Are you going to dye the hair, use a homemade doll wig made out of yarn or a live doll wig? If you are going to dye the hair, do the following:
   Get the dye.
   
   You can get the dye from just about any drugstores.
   
   Put a plastic bag around your doll's face to protect the head from dye.
   
   Put a washcloth around the doll's body.
   
   Follow the instructions on the back of the dye.
   
   Dye the doll's hair! If you are going to use a wig, do this:
   Buy a wig that fits the type of doll that you have.
   
   Most stores have them.
   
   Pick a wig that looks like the sketch you made.
   
   Cut off all the doll's hair.
   
   Use tiny scissors to trim the head completely bald! ,,, Let it dry. ,,,
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   Step 3: Paint your doll.

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   Step 4: Protect the hair from paint.

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   Step 5: Use a big paintbrush to apply paint to the doll's body; not the face!

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   Step 6: Paint around the eyes

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   Step 7: eyebrows and lips or just paint everything using a thin brush.

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   Step 8: Paint the doll's eyebrows

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   Step 9: and lips.

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    Step 10: Hot glue the LIV wig on the doll.

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