Hi all!
I have a story to tell.. Some of you know i recently bought my first Goldilocks off ebay. I live in the UK So was thrilled to see her for sale over here, and i was even more thrilled to get her for £2.99 (Excl. Postage). I was aware when buying she was missing two chunks of her mane (The orange parts) but im not a fussy collector and knew because of the nature of her hair it may not be obvious that she was missing these bits. She arrives and i am beyond thrilled with her, Overall she had frizzy hair and was clean. I took photos the day she arrived
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loginI planned to recurl her hair, using my normal de frizzing methods. Boil wash with fabric softener, de tangle, straighten any frizz with low heat flat iron and then curl. This is where the issues begun... I had been having a spa day for my ponies (re styling hair and cleaning my new ponies) and left Goldilocks by my laptop. While having a break I was mindlessly watching Netflix while messing with her hair. I ran my finger up one of her cut sections and hair fibres flew everywhere, confused I did it again, with the same result. at first I thought it may have been left on her from when her hair was cut but then I remembered about the phenomena of 'Hair rot' In which ponies loose their hair from age, generally this is documented with Cheap G3 ponies. I reached out for help on the Arenas shoutbox where I was told that this can happen to G1 ponies from use of product in their hair. I imagined someones mum, or perhaps a collector many years ago used hair spray to preserve her ringlets (It didn't work lol).
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loginHere are the broken parts, the other section at the bottom was like this but is now stubble
So i had a dilemma, was i too leave her with the hair frizz or attempt to re curl... I chose to recurl...
I boil washed her tail tentatively, then very carefully combed with through her curls. it was at this point i lost a lot of the orange parts of her tail.
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loginI decided against the flat iron treatment incase i caused more damage to the delicate hair, so i went right in and re curled her hair
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loginYes this looks weird (I didnt have bobby pins lol)
I then did the same with her mane.
And here is the final result...
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loginI didnt loose her tail thank goodness, if im honest the hair loss that did occur was benificial as its not as frizzy as the yellow sections. Im not happy if im honest as the frizz really bothers me
So what can we learn from this? and why bother sharing? Well i find it curious that the orange sections broke off in her mane and not the yellow, is it weaker by nature? Perhaps check your Goldilocks ponies incase this breakage was caused by age and not product
PS. Wow you read this far?! Heres a challenge, identify the 2 ponies hiding in my photos for a cookie