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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loginPosey 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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Applejack Before:
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loginApplejack After (she's always been one of my favorites - so pretty!):
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loginBaby Applejack After (sooo cute!!!):
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loginGingerbread Before (she's there behind the hair somewhere! :P):
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loginGingerbread 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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Braided Beauty Before:
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loginBraided 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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loginQuackers Before:
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loginQuackers 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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loginNext up is the So Softs - just waiting for their hair to dry!
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SS Magic Star Before:
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loginStand hubby made for Magic Star. Made out of lucite and some screw anchors:
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loginAdded 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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Sprinkles Before:
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loginFirefly Before:
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loginFirefly After - with symbols re-glittered - didn't do the best job, but it was my first time :):
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loginFriendly Before:
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loginFriendly After (need to touch up his crown still):
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loginPrincess Tiffany Before:
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loginPrincess Tiffany After (so clean! But that tinsel...still working on it!):
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loginFriendly & Princess Tiffany:
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loginBaby Moondancer Before:
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loginBaby Moondancer After (awwww):
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Rosedust Before:
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loginRosedust After - all clean with new wings!
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loginMorning Glory Before:
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loginMorning Glory After - all clean with new wings!
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loginMorning Glory & Rosedust - they're so happy to have wings after 20+ years without!
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Kingsley Before - side view:
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loginBaby Bowtie reunited with her mummy:
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loginBaby Bowtie & Baby Applejack - Best Friends Forever! :)
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Skydancer Before:
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loginSkydancer 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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Majesty Before:
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loginMajesty 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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Moondancer Before:
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loginMoondancer 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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Skyflier Before:
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loginSkyflier 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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Minty Before. Her poor symbols :( And tail rust...eww!
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loginMinty 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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Gusty Before:
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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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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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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 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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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! :lol: 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 :lol:
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Little Giggles After. Lots of conditioner and flat irons work miracles!
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