After months and months, my custom Rapunzel is finally here!

She's been a long time coming!  I knew as soon as I had completed Merida that this was an eventuality.  So I started planning, and lurking, and getting things in position.  

As it always is, it was well worth all the waiting now that I have her all together and here! 

I'm so happy that I was able to find the official dress for her, I thought the SDGr was just precious, but knew she'd be out of my price range unless a re-release happened.  Unwilling to wait and hope for that, I charged ahead with my own custom.  I think she turned out just amazing (I'm biased, I know) and I'm so excited to have my two favorite princesses together!  
My two favorite princesses, with the most maintenance heavy hair possible... I have a new appreciation for how hard it must have been for her to care for all that hair...  so much brushing....

Worth it though!

 

Tell Me About It!!! My Now-Defunct AZONE Iris Collect Milene "Mellow Chirp" Came to Me Second-Hand,

with her own Long Flaxen Locks so Horribly Tangled that it took Hours of Cumulative Brushing

to Restore any of it's Proper Golden Sheen...

 

 

Edited May 8 by Tasuke

Yeah, the fact that Punzie's hair is so long it has to rest on the floor makes it even harder (and more worrisome for dust!).  I have an alternative wig that she's going to live out of most of the time while this one is kept in storage, but I wanted to introduce her complete as intended first! 

Edited May 8 by DesertPhantom51

She's very well done. I have that super long wig for Arcueid, and it doesn't have dust problems. It's wavy so it's hard to keep neat.  

The dust is a location problem more than anything, it's something I already battle with all my girls.  There's just something about San Diego, we get dust like nobody's business.  It doesn't help that I don't have central air in my place, so I have to have fans on.  The four feet of hair on Rapunzel though is also a static magnet.  I'm going to have to do some trial and error with handling it. Thank god for cosplayers YouTube with all kinds of wig care tips and tricks! 

 

Congrats! She's really cute. - Love the freckles.

26 minutes ago, DesertPhantom51 said:

The four feet of hair on Rapunzel though is also a static magnet.

I found that wig oil is usually the best way to deal with static hair. Typically, I use the one from Azone, but whatever equivalent you can get your hands on locally should probably do the trick as well. - Be that Volks brand or indeed some cosplay wig product.

And 4ft is insane! I hope, we'll eventually see photos of her having it hang out of a tower window.   😆 

I have the 'treatment spray' from Volks, and I used it on the wig which helped a bit.  I don't know if the previous owner did the same though, so I may have to do a wig wash and start from base.  

As for it hanging out of a tower?  I can't even begin to imagine the crafting nonsense that I would have to do to pull that off! 😄 

You can try smoothing a dryer sheet over the hair if you have any. It sometimes helps with static and shouldn't leave residue

I've seen that idea floating around, the problem is I don't use them normally so I'd have to buy them just to try it.  Maybe the next time I'm at a laundromat I can get a small trial pack or something.