So some time back I got a set of the Concerned Pony (http://concernedpony.tumblr.com) fakies and ran into an issue when trying to do something to keep her mane from becoming a snarled mess. I like to keep a couple ponies with me when I travel so if I see something cool I can take a picture of with a pony, I never remember to actually do it but that is my excuse for having them and I don't want to use just the molded mane ones. Anyway I was trying to do something with this pony:

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As you can see he original mane is rather lackluster they only used a single line of holes and it wasn't glued in at all. I drilled a second row in alongside the first ones (I had to be really careful as she doesn't have a  single tail hole but like ten holes in a circle and it is really hard to get the glue tip around to her rear) but even after carefully enlarging all the holes I snapped pins about six times for maybe 24 roots. In the end it looked better as you can see, but the hardest part was constantly cutting new needles as they are as hard as my sidecutters (I think I groved the jaws on my cutters).

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Is there a trick I should know? What size needles are the best?

I have a bunch of ponies and a growing collection of monster high dolls I want to reroot and face up but I would prefer to not have to cut a couple dozen needles with every doll.