hey guys today i figured i'd do another doll makeover in the past i've done my little pony
dolls and lol dolls turning them into uh questionable creatures but today i wanted
to do a monster high doll makeover i think monster high dolls are supposed to be based off monsters
hence the name but this one's actually pretty cute and doesn't look like much of a monster to me
i have no idea what she's supposed to be so i figured it would be cool to turn her into medusa
i am aware that there's already a medusa monster high doll but this is my take on it
to start off i well i tried making the doll crawl across the screen kind of like a stop-motion thing
clearly i don't have a career in that i wanted it to look like she was pulling herself across
the screen this is a bit embarrassing it definitely looks cooler in my head
the good thing about monster high dolls is that they're pretty flexible and they're very posable
they have a lot of joints
in case it's not already obvious this is a used doll i bought it second hand off of mercari i've
been trying to get stuff that's used and just recycle that whenever possible which especially
worked out with this because monster high dolls can tend to be a bit expensive so since she is
used she's obviously not in perfect condition i'm not sure if she's supposed to be able to stand on
her own her feet are permanently affixed in this tippy-toe position that's the only way
i can think to describe it maybe some shoes would have helped i'm sure she originally came
with shoes but there are some parts missing that also includes a missing hand but i can fix that
i tried pulling out her ponytail which was kind of a success but not really
because i also managed to pull out a good chunk of hair nothing she'll miss too much
though she clearly has a lot of it plus i'll be shaving her head later anyways i then prepared
this cute little doll for torture one of my favorite pastimes i attempted to decapitate
her i think i was supposed to dunk her head in hot water to soften her head so i could pull it
off easier but i just kind of went for it it was no match for my muscles yeah can you get can you
get me some ice please i took out some scissors and chopped off some of her hair it wasn't the
most precise haircut i just tried getting as much off as possible i think that's a good look
for her for now but i'll come back to it you're not done balding yet if you're new here and you
don't want me to give you a haircut it wasn't the most precise haircut you should consider selling
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me on the internet i post new videos every friday anyways i then cleaned her face off with acetone
using a paper towel i don't have 100 acetone so sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't
it took a little convincing her face didn't really want to come off but i made sure it did
i cleaned the more stubborn bits off with a q-tip there's still some markings left on her face it's
not a tattoo it looks more like a burn or a scar i don't know i don't really know the backstory for
this monster high doll or any doll for that matter but it looks like she's been through some stuff
even more stuff than my creations have been through after that i boiled some water and
put it in a measuring cup this will be for the doll's bath she likes it warm and toasty
i kind of pushed her head down with a bamboo skewer it kept wanting to float to the top
and i wasn't gonna let that happen the torture is a rite of passage there's no real purpose
for the measuring cup i wasn't really measuring anything i just didn't have anything else so i
ended up grabbing this and i wanted it to be clear so you could see through it what's the
fun if you can't walk once she was done in her bath i pulled her out since her head was a bit
softer now i was able to go in with some pliers and rip the rest of her hair out from her skull
it took an impossibly long time to get all the hair out i had to keep dunking her head back in
the water and ripping more out and then dunking it back in it was a whole process i was so invested
in shaving her head off after a while i was able to get it all off it was pretty hard getting out
the last little bits because you had to aim the pliers just right to grab the little hair
follicles this was pretty painful for all parties involved mainly for myself because my hands were
cramping quite a bit after scalping her i then went in with some more acetone to wipe off the
red color left on her scalp it was like painted on there i couldn't get into all the little crevices
so it's not perfect but i think i got pretty close for a noob and it's good enough for me since i'm
about to build on top of it anyways in order to sculpt her out i mixed some epoxy together
i'm using epoxy because it'll just harden on its own i won't have to stick the monster high doll
in the oven which is convenient because melted plastic smells horrible 10 out of 10 would not
recommend so i started the sculpting process by taking some epoxy and smoothing it over her
head i cover the little hair holes on her head i'm sure there's a better word i just can't think of
it right now but yeah i covered those up because i don't plan on rerouting my own hair into it i
would like to re-root a doll's hair at some point on my adventures but i don't have doll hair right
now and medusa doesn't have normal hair she has snakes for hair so i'll be sculpting that on later
i also covered her cheekbones with epoxy to hide that indentation thing she had going on personally
i kind of liked the indentations but they don't vibe well with medusa so i had to cover him up
i tried cleaning up the edges a little bit and gave her a better hairline at this point she looks
very sci-fi-esque almost like an android the robot android but i'll fix that or at least i'll try to
because she was missing an arm when i got her i decided to be generous and give her a new one out
of epoxy it's not as flexible as the other arm but that's the best i can do i really just keep these
as sculptures and as cool characters to look at i don't really play with them or move around their
arms or anything so i'm not too concerned about the flexibility for her hair i rolled out a long
piece of epoxy and then started cutting out little snakes and then positioning them on her head
i wanted them to look like they were kind of standing up ready to bite you nice voluminous hair
then i moved on to sculpting her little top i'm going for a very classic kinda greco-roman looking
medusa i took a clay tool and tried to make it look like there was cloth wrapped around her i
also added some jewelry to her little neck rings i then took a flat piece of epoxy and started
molding it around her body for her skirt she has like a long flowy skirt it's supposed to be kind
of like a toga mixed with a skirt some people make the doll clothes out of actual cloth i just don't
know how to sew so i decided to sculpt them on instead the dolls really just serve as a base for
a sculpture in most of my doll makeovers i have a little box of doll accessories just sitting around
there's not too many in my collection right now but it's been slowly growing i found a little comb
i think it originally belonged to princess luna may she rest in peace i'm pretty sure it belonged
to her i thought it would be cool if medusa was holding it like she's going to comb the snakes
in her hair so i'm making a little hand holding the comb i took some little snakes of epoxy for
the fingers and shaped it around the comb to make it look like she's holding it i also decided to
give her some shoes i wanted them to look like little wooden sandals spoiler alert she still
won't be able to stand up straight after these it was pretty tough to get her feet to stay flat and
she was just too heavy so she just wasn't going to be able to do it but that's fine i'm going to
drill her feet into a base anyway so she's able to stand up i attached her hand to her arm using
some hot glue and i just put a little more epoxy around it and let it harden in place just to give
it some extra stability it almost looks like she fell down and broke her wrist it's looking
a little wonky but that's alright she almost looks more like she's admiring it well i guess it's her
prized possession now then i started painting her body this yellowish green color i've seen a
lot of people use watercolor pencils even chalk pastels a lot of different mediums actually i
just happen to use regular acrylic paint this time around maybe i'll experiment with other mediums on
the doll characters next time i'm not completely satisfied with the skin color she looks a bit sick
and kind of like doo doo it wasn't really the desired look but i think it looked slightly
better after i built up a couple coats of it my girlfriend says it looks like a turmeric mask that
never completely washed off i had no idea people were even putting turmeric on their faces that's
interesting i'll admit i do have some regrets anyways moving on i then took a lime green color
and started painting her snakes i was inspired by some designs and color schemes that i saw online
a lot of them go for a very green kind of look with gold jewelry so that's what i tried to
recreate i also painted her shirt a dark green and her skirt white and then i went over her sandals
with a couple layers of brown and i did the same thing for her comb to give it a wooden look
trying to really bring out those ancient greek vibes i added some spots and freckles here and
there just to give her some more detail i wanted to give her some snake looking eyes so i made them
yellow and painted black slits on her eyes for pupils then i added some little highlights to her
eyes to give it a bit more of a glossy look not sure if i achieved that though you really have to
look closely to see it if i were to do another one of these i would want to figure out how to
make it look a bit more expressive somehow i like making characters that look quirky and expressive
i painted the base a simple black color and then i kind of went back through and
added some eyes to the snakes and stuff i made them look kinda cartoony they look a bit derpy
they're not the most intimidating snakes ever but her freaky looking face makes up for that clearly
medusa's eyes are looking a bit scary after some touch-ups she was finally done medusa's
head fell off oops i dropped it if this makes you uncomfortable click on the top right or bottom
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