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I have never seen this happen before, and every Goldilocks I have ever put my hands on has been trashed beyond even my non-picky standards.QuotePS. Wow you read this far?! Heres a challenge, identify the 2 ponies hiding in my photos for a cookie
Daddy Bright Bouquet and Water Lily
Just pulled out my Goldi to check - all her hair seems fine and even in texture. Gave it a good tug and no breakage or hair loss, save for a single short tail hair. I'm baffled what's happened to yours because normally if it was caused by chemical exposure, you'd expect all her hair to be equally damaged. It's possible the orange sections of nylon were more susceptible to whatever happened, either because of something intrinsic to the hair itself or just the formula that was used to make it.
Is the yellow part of her hair also brittle?
Daddy Sweet Celebrations and Water Lily <3Thank you! a lot of goldilocks I see have quite sad looking hair
Seriously though, Poor Goldilocks. I have her, and mines hair is just split and worn. It curls and hasn't fallen out but it's truly not looking all that great.
Yours is lucky to have someone to appreciate her for what she is :)
Her orange is a match to Crumpet and Baby Lucky Leaf, the yellow does indeed look like Applejack / golden delicious. Curling was done via heat setting at the factory as far as I know. They wouldn't have time to apply hair product and wait for it to set/dry on the production line. Heat is faster and cheaper, once you pay for the initial machine.
Poor Goldi - well if worst comes to worst, at least there's always the option of a rehair. She's still pretty now though.
You've done a really good job with her considering the traumatic experience of losing some of her hair! I know we discussed product as possible cause...I also wonder whether frizz in general is a step on the route towards hair damage. My Goldilocks' hair seems fine, it's not frizzy...and my sister has never tried to brush hers with the wotsit hair...so I can't report any findings here :/ A bit distressing though to have it happen like that.Odd, either my girl is a one off from some predisposed weakness in her hair, product was only applied to her orange (Which would be strange for a person to do) or orange combined with product is not a good combo :blush: :blush: And yes! My water lily has very curly hair :P Factory curl too, i just cant get it to sit flat on her head :lol:
Also, isn't it Daddy Bright Bouquet?? ;)
And it's a UK Water Lily :D with very pretty original curl by the looks!
Imagine if crumpets across the globe started loosing hair D: I wonder if the heat affected hair quality on some level? With Human hair it damages and with nylon hair like the ponies high heat burns... I wonder if applying slight heat somehow damages them in a way that makes them prone to irreverable frizz and possible breakage. I have two ponies with a ball of frizz I cant fix at the end of their tail. And rehair is an option you are right!
Imagine if crumpets across the globe started loosing hair D: I wonder if the heat affected hair quality on some level? With Human hair it damages and with nylon hair like the ponies high heat burns... I wonder if applying slight heat somehow damages them in a way that makes them prone to irreverable frizz and possible breakage. I have two ponies with a ball of frizz I cant fix at the end of their tail. And rehair is an option you are right!
So far, thankfully, cases of G1 with hair breakage / 'rot' seem to be near non-existent. I wouldn't rule it out as a possibility completely, but so far your poor darling seems to be an outlier. The temporary heat used to set curves and curls is probably not the root cause, as so many ponies were treated thusly and don't seem any worse for it. It's more likely that curly hair turns up more damaged because it's hard to brush without making a mess, and tangles leads to even more brushing, pulling, and damage to the individual strands of hair.
Imagine if crumpets across the globe started loosing hair D: I wonder if the heat affected hair quality on some level? With Human hair it damages and with nylon hair like the ponies high heat burns... I wonder if applying slight heat somehow damages them in a way that makes them prone to irreverable frizz and possible breakage. I have two ponies with a ball of frizz I cant fix at the end of their tail. And rehair is an option you are right!
So far, thankfully, cases of G1 with hair breakage / 'rot' seem to be near non-existent. I wouldn't rule it out as a possibility completely, but so far your poor darling seems to be an outlier. The temporary heat used to set curves and curls is probably not the root cause, as so many ponies were treated thusly and don't seem any worse for it. It's more likely that curly hair turns up more damaged because it's hard to brush without making a mess, and tangles leads to even more brushing, pulling, and damage to the individual strands of hair.