HELP! I need answers! - G4 Rainbow Dash Hair Frizz. AFTER PICS IN FIRST MSG

[Rainlove The Pegasus]

Ok so I tried fixing a Rainbow Dash 6 inch figure that has dry ends. Somehow I am not able to fix them at all. I tried shampoo and conditioner and then WEN leave-in conditioner. I would love help from this amazing community on what to do to fix this and future advice if this happens again. Thank you!

Link to gallery:
https://postimg.cc/gallery/2V2wTLy

*Side note: The shampoo, conditioner, and leave in conditioner seemed like it fixed barely any frizz... to my eyes*

Edit: I am curling her mane and tail with paper straws and bobby pins. I leave it in for about two days for the curl effect to come out extremely well. 

*AFTER RESULTS FOUND HERE* Edit 2: Here is the after result! I left the paper straw cut up and bobby pins in for a few days or more and just removed them!

Link to gallery VIA Postimage:
https://postimg.cc/gallery/JMBhGpn

[SunPony]

I have seen great results from flat iron with conditioner, but I haven't personally tried it so I can't tell you how to do it...someone else maybe will come along and give you the deets 

[Rainlove The Pegasus]

I have seen great results from flat iron with conditioner, but I haven't personally tried it so I can't tell you how to do it...someone else maybe will come along and give you the deets 

Ok that might work!  thank you!

[BlackCurtains]

You can also try dryer sheets. Just smooth them along the hair and it might help the frizz.

Using a flat iron on a low setting with the hair covered in thick conditioner works very well. You want the hair wet and absolutely soaked with the conditioner. Run the iron through the hair. The conditioner will sizzle and some steam will come off it but you won't be electrocuted or anything. Run the iron on the hair all at once. Don't pause. You can do the hair in sections too. Before doing it again, re wet and reapply the conditioner. But usually one pass is enough to do away with frizz.

[Artemesia's Garden]

I would comb out with hot water and conditioner, then set with perm curlers. Leave to dry. Repeat. I have tried a flat iron i.e. hair straighteners but I find the above method easier.

[tailrustedtealeaf]

Reboot G4 hair truly sucks and can only be fixed with heat. I use a straightener turned up until gently sizzles water and run it through wet, lotioned pony hair.

[DracoKat]

would the conditioner/flat iron tip work on g1 ponies too? I have some with frizzy hair ends as well

[NanoRuby]

Conditioner + a flat iron works on pretty much any pony! There are a few types of hair you have to be careful with though. G1's perfume puff hair and the colour-changing hair on the Sunshine ponies and TAF Sundance will melt, so don't use heat on those.

[Rainlove The Pegasus]

You can also try dryer sheets. Just smooth them along the hair and it might help the frizz.

Using a flat iron on a low setting with the hair covered in thick conditioner works very well. You want the hair wet and absolutely soaked with the conditioner. Run the iron through the hair. The conditioner will sizzle and some steam will come off it but you won't be electrocuted or anything. Run the iron on the hair all at once. Don't pause. You can do the hair in sections too. Before doing it again, re wet and reapply the conditioner. But usually one pass is enough to do away with frizz.

Wow! this is quite a process! Thank you! I will maybe look into this tomorrow if I have time. 

Post Merge: June 29, 2022, 10:40:10 AM

I would comb out with hot water and conditioner, then set with perm curlers. Leave to dry. Repeat. I have tried a flat iron i.e. hair straighteners but I find the above method easier.

I did cut some paper straws and use bobby pins to curl the hair.

Post Merge: June 29, 2022, 10:40:53 AM

Reboot G4 hair truly sucks and can only be fixed with heat. I use a straightener turned up until gently sizzles water and run it through wet, lotioned pony hair.

Oh yeah... i hate how this happened! I got rd from my pony friend in SC last year.

[applejackbunny]

In my experience it just requires a ton of conditioner and a ton of using a flat iron. And a ton of patience... Good luck! 

[SweetNightmare]

A lot of people already commented on it, but I'll just write what I always do.

I use my flat iron, mine has heat settings and I always set mine to the lowest temperature (120°C). After I brush outy the hair to the best of my ability with conditioner I wet the hair and spray it with mix of conditioner and water (I just put a bit of conditioner to the spray bottle and add lot of water).
After that I just iron it (I usually let the iron sit on the "problem spots" for a bit longer, but make sure not too damage the hair and keep it wet) and brush it.
I repeat it till I'm satisfied with the look of the hair).

In my experience this works the best to get rid of frizz.

I'll say that by looking at the pictures (and basing it on my experience with g4 reboot toys) some of them have very poor quality hair (good quality hair may also get damaged too) and after they get really frizzy they may always stay a bit frizzy even after you treat it.

[Queen Sophie]

Like people are saying, use conditioner or what use is some lotion I got from the dollar store, straighten iron a good cheap one with heat settings! (I learned the hard way by using an expensive one!) Or you could always trim the drys ends off, that’s what I did after straightening my ponies hair but still wasn’t good, g4 hair is a pain

[Rainlove The Pegasus]

In my experience it just requires a ton of conditioner and a ton of using a flat iron. And a ton of patience... Good luck! 

Thats what everypony has said! 

Post Merge: July 03, 2022, 04:26:08 PM

A lot of people already commented on it, but I'll just write what I always do.

I use my flat iron, mine has heat settings and I always set mine to the lowest temperature (120°C). After I brush outy the hair to the best of my ability with conditioner I wet the hair and spray it with mix of conditioner and water (I just put a bit of conditioner to the spray bottle and add lot of water).
After that I just iron it (I usually let the iron sit on the "problem spots" for a bit longer, but make sure not too damage the hair and keep it wet) and brush it.
I repeat it till I'm satisfied with the look of the hair).

In my experience this works the best to get rid of frizz.

I'll say that by looking at the pictures (and basing it on my experience with g4 reboot toys) some of them have very poor quality hair (good quality hair may also get damaged too) and after they get really frizzy they may always stay a bit frizzy even after you treat it.

Thank you for explaining! This helps!

Post Merge: July 03, 2022, 04:27:13 PM

Like people are saying, use conditioner or what use is some lotion I got from the dollar store, straighten iron a good cheap one with heat settings! (I learned the hard way by using an expensive one!) Or you could always trim the drys ends off, that’s what I did after straightening my ponies hair but still wasn’t good, g4 hair is a pain

I actually have trimmed a G3 Cheerelee... can't spell it correctly... and it looks ugly and I need to replace it.   

Post Merge: July 03, 2022, 04:31:32 PM

[Artemesia's Garden]

Hey, your results look great! If you repeat you should get rid of those final bits of frizz at the end too. Did you use hot water?

On trimming, I think it's almost always possible to save the hair unless it has 'cable rot' which is a different thing. If the frizz is really stubborn you could try boiling water or a flat iron. Personally I never cut a pony's hair unless I'm tidying up already cut hair (think Edward Scissor Hands). There are a couple of mohawks in my collection for this reason.

[BlackCurtains]

I think she looks good in the after pics There's a little frizz but the curls are still very nice.