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Perfume Puff Pony help!
« on: May 03, 2019, 07:16:44 AM »
Hello custom friends!

I got a mostly hairless Sweet Suds from a vintage shop and I wanna restore her, but the question of the day is: what material is their hair?

Some people in chat box said mohair or Merion wool. I wanna get her as close to her original form as possible.

Also any clue what she was meant to smell like? I think she might've been scented after a fragrance soap bar thingy? She smelled like attic when I got her.

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Re: Perfume Puff Pony help!
« Reply #1 on: May 03, 2019, 07:23:24 AM »
My Little Customs (they sell worldwide but you need to pay over £50 for free delivery) have Merion wool (cornflower looks like a match) for the head and tail (yes the tail is fluffy)

I have no clue what she meant to smell like but you could use a bubble bath with your favourite scent.
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Re: Perfume Puff Pony help!
« Reply #2 on: May 03, 2019, 07:48:03 AM »
My Little Customs (they sell worldwide but you need to pay over £50 for free delivery) have Merion wool (cornflower looks like a match) for the head and tail (yes the tail is fluffy)

I have no clue what she meant to smell like but you could use a bubble bath with your favourite scent.

Thank you friend! I'll take a look!
Edit: I would have to agree with you.
Edit edit: It appears a bit too dark for Sweet Suds, although her remaining hair may be sunfaded so I'll have to pull some out to see what her hair's true colour may be.
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Re: Perfume Puff Pony help!
« Reply #3 on: May 03, 2019, 09:43:33 AM »
Well, the original hair is synthetic, but wool roving or brushed acrylic yarn are what people generally use for poofy hair customs. :) The choice between the two ultimately depends on whether you are comfortable with organic material (wool) or if you prefer synthetic (acrylic). 
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Re: Perfume Puff Pony help!
« Reply #4 on: May 03, 2019, 10:03:41 AM »
All the puffies have perfumy soapy flowery type scents. They don't tend in my experience to be as pervasive as some of the sickly sweet scents (I really love this set xD). But I have found with scented ponies that, sometimes, when you have them for a while the scent reappears in the plastic. Maybe when musty attic has faded, you'll start to get a sense of her original scent.

It's not for sure though. Just I've found it happen a few times with scented ponies whose scents I thought were totally gone. Especially when they'd been shut away for a while.
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Re: Perfume Puff Pony help!
« Reply #5 on: May 04, 2019, 01:34:36 AM »
Well, the original hair is synthetic, but wool roving or brushed acrylic yarn are what people generally use for poofy hair customs. :) The choice between the two ultimately depends on whether you are comfortable with organic material (wool) or if you prefer synthetic (acrylic).

I'd prefer to get as close as possible so synthetic is fine, plus real wool makes me uncomfortable (I don't think I'm allergic like my mum, I just don't like or agree with the texture)

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All the puffies have perfumy soapy flowery type scents. They don't tend in my experience to be as pervasive as some of the sickly sweet scents (I really love this set xD). But I have found with scented ponies that, sometimes, when you have them for a while the scent reappears in the plastic. Maybe when musty attic has faded, you'll start to get a sense of her original scent.

It's not for sure though. Just I've found it happen a few times with scented ponies whose scents I thought were totally gone. Especially when they'd been shut away for a while.

At the current moment, she doesn't smell like anything. I washed the attic off of her but her hair might've been the scented part, so I'm thinking she might not have a smell at all or my nose just isn't smelling it. (it's only been a day so it might become more prominent as days go on)

Edit: I'm pulling out some of the fluff and the hair is the same colour outside as it is inside.
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Re: Perfume Puff Pony help!
« Reply #6 on: May 04, 2019, 03:39:21 AM »
I think the closest you would get would be to brush out synthetic wool/yarn. I have also rehaired PP ponies with straight hair in the original colour and they look lovely too. I think sometimes this looks better as we don’t actually have a hair product that’s a 100% match for the poofy hair.

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Re: Perfume Puff Pony help!
« Reply #7 on: May 04, 2019, 04:06:06 AM »
I use acrylic super bulky yarn but it is softer than perfume puff hair. I tend not to try and style it exactly like a Pefume Puff because it doesn't really work. Personally I wouldn't use natural wool on a pony, I worry about moths enough as it is.
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Re: Perfume Puff Pony help!
« Reply #8 on: May 04, 2019, 04:43:28 AM »
Hmm, does anyone know what colour her forelock would be? 

I compared it to my TAF Buttons and I'd say it's almost an exact match, Sweet Suds a little lighter but I'd say it's been sunfaded, naturally lost pigment or the manufacturer changed their formula between Buttons and Sweet Suds.
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Re: Perfume Puff Pony help!
« Reply #9 on: May 04, 2019, 05:07:59 AM »
I don't have my ponies near at hand so can't check colours for you, but while the puffy hair can fade/discolour, the forelocks don't generally so it's probably a slightly different shade...or a slightly different batch as they come I think from different years? (We didn't have Buttons in the UK and we had puffies a bit later but I think I'm right about that in general...)

I think you're right that the scent is in the hair - or at least it holds in the hair the most. So yeah, you might lose it from rehairing her. But I think she definitely needs some help :)
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Re: Perfume Puff Pony help!
« Reply #10 on: May 04, 2019, 05:39:39 AM »
I don't have my ponies near at hand so can't check colours for you, but while the puffy hair can fade/discolour, the forelocks don't generally so it's probably a slightly different shade...or a slightly different batch as they come I think from different years? (We didn't have Buttons in the UK and we had puffies a bit later but I think I'm right about that in general...)

I think you're right that the scent is in the hair - or at least it holds in the hair the most. So yeah, you might lose it from rehairing her. But I think she definitely needs some help :)

According to MLPMerch and My Little Wiki, TAF Buttons is from yr 6 (1987) while Sweet Suds is from yr 7 (1988). It was only a year difference, it's improbable but none the less a possibility of batch difference.
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« Reply #11 on: May 04, 2019, 05:46:52 AM »
The reason I checked was more that I know the Sweetberry ponies came out of sequence here a year later than they would have normally been (so US 1988ish, UK 1990). But the batch thing does matter - not just within the same year but also slightly staggered releases. So it's more than possible that a slightly different shade of hair was used...it's just as possible that they have different shades of hair to start with xD. It's pretty hard to tell.
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« Reply #12 on: May 04, 2019, 06:08:05 AM »
The reason I checked was more that I know the Sweetberry ponies came out of sequence here a year later than they would have normally been (so US 1988ish, UK 1990). But the batch thing does matter - not just within the same year but also slightly staggered releases. So it's more than possible that a slightly different shade of hair was used...it's just as possible that they have different shades of hair to start with xD. It's pretty hard to tell.

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« Reply #13 on: May 04, 2019, 06:19:30 AM »
The reason I checked was more that I know the Sweetberry ponies came out of sequence here a year later than they would have normally been (so US 1988ish, UK 1990). But the batch thing does matter - not just within the same year but also slightly staggered releases. So it's more than possible that a slightly different shade of hair was used...it's just as possible that they have different shades of hair to start with xD. It's pretty hard to tell.

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Nope! It gives you the chance to decide for yourself! Maybe whatever best matches the fluff you get?
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« Reply #14 on: May 04, 2019, 07:47:13 AM »
The reason I checked was more that I know the Sweetberry ponies came out of sequence here a year later than they would have normally been (so US 1988ish, UK 1990). But the batch thing does matter - not just within the same year but also slightly staggered releases. So it's more than possible that a slightly different shade of hair was used...it's just as possible that they have different shades of hair to start with xD. It's pretty hard to tell.

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Nope! It gives you the chance to decide for yourself! Maybe whatever best matches the fluff you get?

Yeah, that's what I'm probably gonna have to do. When I go out shopping at a sewing supply store I'll bring her along to see if I can find anything.
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