My first Nirvana

[telelle_wings]

Mexican Starflower! I'm considering her my gateway drug into the world of Nirvanas.  There's no stopping me now! I'm hooked!

She cleaned up well, I had to boil-straighten her hair as it was rather fried and she got a deep clean that took most of the aged-on dirt off. And considering she's a variant of one of my all time favorites I'm super happy with her.

She gets to hang out with Gypsy and my lil' Litters for now. I'm hoping for Mexican Pinwheel next.

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[Juliepants]

Wow she's beautiful!!! Congrats!

Jules x

[Lady Starflower]

She looks great, congrats! You know there are still 2 more Mexi Starflowers you can hunt

[buttonso]

She's very beautiful!

[Leopard_Print_Unicorn]

How pretty! Her hair is amazing.

[nhal039]

Love her she is so pretty. You can boil hair straight? I never knew that

[Vintageg2]

She is lovely, congrats!

[maycrestmom]

amazing clean up job!  Congrats and welcome :-) hunting all over the world for MLP is so much

how did you get her hair that way?  What is boil-straighten? I'm curious as all get out if you could explain more about that as her hair came out beautifully if before it was "fried" I'm imagining really frizzy.  I'd love to know how to restore some of my own MLP with fried hair (peru comes to mind) and only know deep conditioning, wig treatments and flat-ironing

thanks in advance for sharing pics and looking forward to how you got that amazing after - look

[pinkkittywinks]

She is fabulous congratulations!

Love pkw xxx

[telelle_wings]

Oh man. Straightening hair.... Let me tell you all a sad story about Buzzer and an unfortunate incident with an iron. A clothing iron. I had read that you can straighten pony hair by using an iron on it on the lowest setting. But apparently I don't use my iron very often and I did it wrong.

Instead of being turned on the lowest setting it was turned on the highest. This resulted in the worst hair I've seen short of what happened to a baby sea pony that I happened to love very much when I went through a "chew on all the things" phase.

The worst, a bunch of hair melted onto the iron and into the microfiber rag I used to iron her hair on. I could hear the hair sizzle. It was fried as fried could be. I figured she was a lost cause and maybe someone would want to rehair her, but I did some research into how to straighten pony hair and figured out you can dip it into boiling water on the stove to soften it and then use a comb or something flat to pull the hair strait, and when the hair cools it will take on a straighter form. It helped Buzzer's hair go from a disaster to just not so great.

Starflower's hair wasn't the worst but it definitely needed some help. I boiled, pulled the hair straight with the flat side of a comb (on the counter top with a towel under, don't burn your finger tips the hair will be very hot), let cool, and repeat easily a dozen times. It worked wonders. The ends are still a little messy looking and I might do the boil thing again eventually. I've posted some photos of her hair currently. Distance gives a wonderful illusion of perfect hair, but it's not quite as perfect as it looks, it's WAY nicer than it was though.

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Imagine those little tiny crazy curls everywhere.

Post Merge: November 05, 2015, 02:00:07 PM

It's talked about on the Preservation Project website here: http://www.mlppreservationproject.com/hair.html

Post Merge: November 05, 2015, 05:48:14 PM

She looks great, congrats! You know there are still 2 more Mexi Starflowers you can hunt

I'd be down for the other unicorn variant. 

[LadyPinwheel]

Congratulations! She is lovely! And her symbol looks great. I love this pony. And the one with yellow hair is so sweet!

[TickleMePink]

She´s gorgeous! And I´m impressed with how you delt with the frizzy hair, and how sleek it turned out. I once had an accident involving Baby Brightbow and a hair flattening iron, so maybe the boiling method is more for me

I only own a couple of nirvanas myself, but I would love to own more. They are easy to get smitten by.

[pinkkittywinks]

Oh telelle I've done the same thing with the clothes iron I've had it set too high and had a melty hair incident and had to clean the melted nylon off the iron!

I have used very hot tap water the straighten hair in the past, but not boiling water.

Love pkw xxx

[telelle_wings]

I have read to never use the boiling method on color-changing hair. Which is sad because that would be prime hair for straightening.

[ladygodiva]

very very good condition!
Congratulations!