wow they look lovely it is wonderful what a good bath can do.
Thanks! I'm pretty impressed, myself. I got them at a tractor show so I'm glad all of the kicked-up dirt came out.
Wild Flower's hair looks great!!!
Thank you!! She's definitely my pride right now.
Spa times are soo relaxing.
Indeed. I could spend forever at Pony Spa.
How did you do Wildflower's hair? I just got a sweet heart sister an her hair is so gross and frizzy, I need some advice!
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1.) Hot water bath. I don't entirely immerse the pony unless I need to do a full-body scrub (like Masquerade) because I'm afraid of rust. Otherwise, I usually just use Magic Eraser. During the bath I run the pony's hair through the water and get it nice and wet. I usually finger-comb it a little while it's underwater, to make combing later easier.
2.) After the bath, I work on the hair. I've found that a shampoo/conditioner called "Perfect 10" produced the best results out of the girls I've done, but "Pantene" worked really well for Glory and Majesty, too. Later it up, rub it into their hair. (On top of that - the shampoo suds are usually gentle enough for spots on the body, too, so it's like a second bath!)
3.) Rise out the hair. I rub it between my fingers underwater, to try to get as much of it out as I can.
4.) If the hair is especially wild or dirty, I do a second shampoo/rinse.
5.) Take them out slowly so that their hair comes out of the water fairly straight. I dry off the bodies by patting with a towel and avoid the hair.
6.) Immediately I take them to my room so I can style. I have a small comb that came with a knockoff barbie. It's got fine teeth.
7.) I lay the pony on her side and start at the bottom and comb out the hair (the hair lays flat on the surface of the table while I comb). I turn the pony over onto her other side so that both parts of the hair are flat, and if tangles remain, I turn her other angles to access all of the hair. I do this for both the mane and tail.
8.) I usually curl the tail first.
For normal ponies, I wrap it around the foot, and then (because I don't have paper towels) I take a strip of Ace bandage, wrap it tightly around the curl-around-foot, and dress-pin it in place.
For Wild Flower, I wrapped her tail around a thin paintbrush, as tightly as I could, trying to work from one end of the paint brush to the other. Then I used an Ace bandage strip to hold the curl+paintbrush tightly against the pony's leg, and dress-pinned it.
9.) Then the mane.
Normal ponies - comb the mane to the side of the neck, flatten it out a bit, then wrap the Ace bandage around the neck to hold it in place, dress-pin.
Wild Flower - wrapped the mane around a paintbrush, trying to hold it as vertically as possible. Wrapped with an Ace bandage to hold against the neck.
10.) Let dry overnight - and then unpin the bandages. They should come right off, and the hair will probably be very close to the body. For the normal ponies, I ran the comb through the manes once. For Wild Flower, I didn't use the comb, but I did have to use my hands to carefully pull the paintbrush out of the curls and then "pull" the curls downward into place (ie, the tornado-curl tail wanted to go inside out at first, but I just gently arranged her hair into place.)
Hope that helps!
(In the picture, you'll notice Desert Blossom has ribbons - I ran out of dress pins. oops!)
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