Shadowlark's Cleaning/Restoration Thread (PIC HEAVY)

[shadowlark]

2013 - 2014 Restores:

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I started cleaning up my childhood ponies that I just rescued from my parents'. First time I've done this, so if anyone has any tips, please share!

Only done two so far. Started with the less dirty ones:

Bow-Tie Before:
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Bow-Tie After. She cleaned up pretty well
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Posey Before:
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Posey After. Her body has pinkish discoloring that I think is just the plastic aging, so not much I can do about that.
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More to come!

Added 2/14/13:

Applejack Before:
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Applejack After (she's always been one of my favorites - so pretty!):
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Baby Applejack Before:
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Baby Applejack After (sooo cute!!!):
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Gingerbread Before (she's there behind the hair somewhere!  ):
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Gingerbread After. Love how shiny her hair came out! She's got some dark spots on her body I still have to figure out, but it's a start!
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Added 2/15/13:

Braided Beauty Before:
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Braided Beauty After. Her hair was sooo dry & frizzy. I tried everything, but in the end, resorted to just curling her hair. Still some frizzy ends, but much better than before!
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Quackers Before:
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Quackers After. I'd originally had her mane curled in ringlets, but decided to just leave it down - her hair colour is just too nice to hide in ringlets. I can't believe how white she got! Love the Mr. Clean Magic Erasers!
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Next up is the So Softs - just waiting for their hair to dry!

Added 2/16/13:

SS Magic Star Before:
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SS Magic Star After:
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Stand hubby made for Magic Star. Made out of lucite and some screw anchors:
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SS Lofty Before:
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SS Lofty After:
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SS Fifi Before:
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SS Fifi After:
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SS Twilight Before:
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SS Twilight After:
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Added 2/22/13 - My First Deflock! I bought her on ebay specifically to try deflocking. She looks sooo much better!

SS Shady Before:
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SS Shady Deflocked:
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Added 2/26/13:

Sprinkles Before:
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Sprinkles After:
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Firefly Before:
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Firefly After - with symbols re-glittered - didn't do the best job, but it was my first time :
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Dancing Butterflies Before:
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Dancing Butterflies After:
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Friendly Before:
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Friendly After (need to touch up his crown still):
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Princess Tiffany Before:
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Princess Tiffany After (so clean! But that tinsel...still working on it!):
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Friendly & Princess Tiffany:
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Baby Moondancer Before:
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Baby Moondancer After (awwww):
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Added 2/28/13:

Rosedust Before:
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Rosedust After - all clean with new wings!
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Morning Glory Before:
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Morning Glory After - all clean with new wings!
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Morning Glory & Rosedust - they're so happy to have wings after 20+ years without!
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Added 3/8/13:

Kingsley Before - side view:
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Kingsley After:
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Kingsley Before - front view:
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Kingsley After:
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Added 3/9/13:

Baby Bowtie Before:
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Baby Bowtie After:
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Baby Bowtie reunited with her mummy:
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Baby Bowtie & Baby Applejack - Best Friends Forever!
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Added 3/11/13:

Skydancer Before:
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Skydancer After. Symbols re-glittered - still working on technique and I'm so not artistic, but they came out good enough for me :
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Added 3/16/13:

Majesty Before:
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Majesty After. Mostly cleaned with Mr. Clean Magic Eraser. She was out on the balcony for 2 weeks (1 week each side) but we haven't had much sun so I think it was mostly the Magic Eraser that whitened her up, with a tiny bit of sunfading   Symbols reglittered, and she also stands on her own now!
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Added 3/21/13:

Moondancer Before:
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Moondancer After. Not entirely happy with the symbols so I'll probably redo them one day when I've had more practice, but she sure looks a lot better than she did!
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Added 3/22/13:

Skyflier Before:
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Skyflier After - she had about a dozen white hairs left in her stripe, so I rehaired her stripe with DH Virgin Snow.:
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Added 3/26/13:

Minty Before. Her poor symbols   And tail rust...eww!
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Minty After.  BIG HUGE GINORMOUS THANK YOU to sunnydaze for restoring Minty's symbols. I tried to do it myself and failed miserably! Thank you so much for making Minty minty! Rehaired with DH Virgin Snow:
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Close ups of sunnydaze's awesome job!!
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Added 6/7/13:

Gusty Before:
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Gusty After:
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Glory Before:
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Glory After:
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Squeezer Before:
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Squeezer After:
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SS Hippity Hop:
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SS Hippity Hop Deflocked:
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SS Wind Whistler:
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SS Wind Whistler Deflocked:
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Added 1/2/14:

Sugarberry was a $5 ebay win. I was hoping with a little love and some sunfading, she'd turn out nicely, and she did! In order to sunfade her, I had to painstakingly cover all the berries on each side with about 3 coats of paint. What a pain that was! But worth it!  Here she is before:
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Sugarberry after:
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Added 1/6/14:

Move Firefly Before. Another ebay win. Just some surface dirt and dry hair:
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Movie Firefly After - surface dirt gone and hair came out sooo shiny!
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Pony Bride Before - poor thing was so dirty. She was one of my childhood ponies. Sadly, it looks like all her accessories have been lost
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Pony Bride After - Mr. Clean Magic Eraser to the rescue again!
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Added 1/22/14

Seashell Before - awww, the poor girl. She looked like a corpse. I had written my initials on her feet and the marker leeched through the plastic onto her side. She was also missing all her forelock plugs, making her head look even more skull like.    Her symbols and eyes were great though, and since she was one of my favorites as a child, I couldn't imagine baiting her.

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Seashell After!!!  She was out on the balcony for months, sunfading the marker off her side. Once she was a more uniform colour, she was re-dyed with RIT dye. I was going for a lighter colour, but the dye just wouldn't take. Finally, I mixed the last of the dye into a pot that I kept boiling, and that seemed to do the trick and let the dye in. So she's a bit darker than I was aiming for, but looks much better. A rehair with Dollyhair Lucky Clover and she's as good as new!

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Here are the in-between steps so you can see the progression she went through:
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Added 1/25/14

SS Lofty #2 - Picked her up on ebay in order to deflock her.
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SS Lofty #2 After - why did Hasbro cover up these beauties??
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Added 2/3/14:

Baby Quackers Before:
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Baby Quackers After - she just needed hair styling. Such a cutie:
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Peppermint Crunch Before:
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Peppermint Crunch After - good surface cleaning and hair styled:
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Tickle Before:
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Tickle After - I'd worried when she arrived that the black marks were marker, but they were just scuff marks that came right off. A good Magic Eraser cleaning and hair style later, she looks beautiful again!
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Added 2/5/14:
SS Magic Star #2 Before:
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SS Magic Star # 2 After! God, I love deflocking!!
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Added 2/7/14:

Windy Before - her name suits her! Her hair definitely looks like she's been out in the wind!  She was one I picked up at the local antique mall for my birthday.
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Windy After! Such shiny hair and glittery symbols!
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Little Giggles Before. Another one from the antique mall. Thought I'd have to change her name to Little Frizzy 
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Little Giggles After. Lots of conditioner and flat irons work miracles!
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Added 6/15/14:
Surprise Before:
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Surprise After:
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Baby Surprise Before:
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Baby Surprise After:
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Half Note Before:
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Half Note After:
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SHS Dainty Before:
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SHS Dainty After:
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Added 4/14/16:

Whizzer - wasn't too bad, just needed a cleaning and hair styling
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Banana Surprise - love how clean she came out! Completely different shade of pink with all the grime off her!
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Quarterback - another colour change once all the grime was off!
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Daffodil - was in pretty good shape, so just a wash and hair style.
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Snowdrop - pretty happy I was able to get most of the frizz out!
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Added 6/14/16:

Little Tabby - was pretty clean but hair was frizzy. Looks much better now!
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Baby Tangles - got all the grime off with Mr. Clean Magic Eraser. Shampooed and conditioned her hair. So cute!
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Baby Puddles - more Mr. Clean, shampoo and conditioner. Love shiny hair!
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Baby Sparkle Firefly - wasn't in too bad shape, just a quick wash and style!
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Sweet Blossom - also not in bad shape, mostly just needed a quick wipe over and hair style!
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Added 6/15/16:

Sunspot - was worried about the tinsel but a lot of conditioner and a quick run over with the curling iron sorted it out!
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Hula Hula - her hair came out sooo shiny!
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Baby Racer - what a cutie!
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SHS Twinkler - Mr. Clean Magic Eraser to get the grime off and lots of conditioner and the curling iron to sort her hair out!
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Added 6/16/16:

Milky Way - came to me in great condition, just needed her hair styled. And she stands up straight now!
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Sunbeam - another one that came to me in great condition, just needed a quick wipe down and hair style.
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Napper - ugh. Tinsel. Did the best I could and certainly looks a lot better than it did!
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So Soft Paradise - I am soooo happy at how she turned out! Her flocking came out so white and those nasty brown spots came right off! Tried my best to maintain the factory curl she had.
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Added 6/25/16:

Styling Rainbow Dash:
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Pinwheel:
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Sugar Sweet:
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Bouquet:
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Added 7/6/16:

Apple Delight Family:
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Added 7/16/16:

BBE Baby Cuddles - a freebie from an old friend. My first BBE! No eye rust!
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Glittering Gem - another freebie from my friend!
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Galaxy:
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Merry Treat:
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Added 8/3/16:

Italian Blossom 1:
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Italian Blossom 2:
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Italian Blossom 3:
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Added 8/8/16:

Melody: Frizzy hair fixed with the good old flat iron!
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Boysenberry Pie: Just a wash and style
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Brazilian No Symbol Parasol: Flat iron to the rescue!
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Brazilian No Symbol Bubbles: Again, flat iron to the rescue!
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Brazilian No Symbol Bow Tie: You guessed it! Flat ironed her hair!
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Added 10/05/16:

Baby Drummer - covered in dirt with frizzy hair. Mr. Clean Magic Eraser and a good shampoo/conditioner and hot iron treatment to the rescue!
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BBE Baby Ribbon - minor surface dirt but hair in good condition. Magic Eraser and a wash and style were all that was needed!
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Pina Colada - was in great shape, just needed a quick wipe-down and hairstyle!
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Flowerburst - looked like she hadn't been cleaned in 20 years! Magic Eraser and a good shampoo worked wonders!
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[kaoskat]

They look great!!!

[Colorscapesart]

Looking very nice!  Sometimes those pink marks can be sunfaded off.

[shadowlark]

Looking very nice!  Sometimes those pink marks can be sunfaded off.

Hmm, hadn't thought of sunfading them. Will have to research that a bit more. Thanks!

[TexasGal]

Good job so far!  They both look lovely.  =]

[StarDapple]

Love seeing restorations.  Great work!

[SnowsLove]

What'd you use to clean them so well?  Rubbing alcohol?  And what do you do about badly damaged mane and tail?

[shadowlark]

Thanks guys! I've started with the easy ones as it's my first restoration project.

SnowsLove - so far I've just used Mr Clean Magic Eraser to remove the dirt. For the hair just regular shampoo and conditioner. Posey had ancient elastic crud in her tail that I spot cleaned with Arm & Hammer Pet Stain & Odour Remover - it has OxyClean in it so I thought, why not?

Was lucky with these two and the Applejacks - their mane and tails were in pretty good shape. Have given up on trying to get the frizz out of Braided Beauty and have resorted to trying to curl her hair. We'll see how it goes

Applejack, Baby Applejack & Gingerbread now added!

[Alatariel-Silimaure]

awesome job! I'm going to have to try mr clean magic erasers on mine now

also the dark spots on gingerbread are cancer, there's no fix for them unless that has changed very recently. Gingerbread is one very prone to cancer though, I've got one that has it too. basically it's the plastic breaking down

[shadowlark]

awesome job! I'm going to have to try mr clean magic erasers on mine now

also the dark spots on gingerbread are cancer, there's no fix for them unless that has changed very recently. Gingerbread is one very prone to cancer though, I've got one that has it too. basically it's the plastic breaking down

Yeah, I thought it might be cancer  

The Magic Erasers are awesome! I can't believe how much dirt came off the Applejacks and Bow-Tie! 25 years of dirt gone in less that 5 minutes!

[Alatariel-Silimaure]

that's so great! :3 I have several dirty ones. I used acetone to get the dirt off, but the problem is that they're still super dirty around the symbols, and acetone would take the symbols right off

[SnowsLove]

Shadowlark; That's awesome!  I'll have to try the Mr. Clean stuff on my own ponies.  The only problem is the mane and tail. Most have badly frizzed hair and so I'm not sure that will come out.  I'm clueless on re-hairing ponies though, soo.... I don't know on that one.  ^^

[shadowlark]

Yeah, the frizzy hair on my Braided Beauty is driving me bonkers. I tried everything! Conditioner, fabric softener, boiling water. Spent 3 hours last night with a curling iron trying to straighten it. I finally gave up on the idea of her having luscious straight hair and currently have her hair in straw curlers. She should be dry by tomorrow and I'm hoping the curls will help hide the frizz. Stay tuned for pics of her!

Post Merge: February 15, 2013, 06:05:15 PM

Braided Beauty & Quackers added. Frizzy hair is the bane of my existence! 

[LadySatine]

Great job!

[shadowlark]

Bump! SS Magic Star, SS Lofty, SS Fifi, and SS Twilight added!

It was more work cleaning the So Softs, but I had fun! I sprayed them with Arm & Hammer Pet Stain & Odour Remover (it has OxyClean in it) and gently massaged it in to the flocking with an old toothbrush. Then let sit for about 10 minutes before rinsing. Did this twice for each. Then shampooed their bodies, manes and tails. Rinsed. Then slathered on conditioner on their bodies, manes and tails. Waited a few minutes before combing the conditioner through their manes and tails, then left it on their bodies and hair for about 10 more minutes. Then rinsed and styled their hair.