http://www.puchicollective.com A place for Dolls Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:52:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 en http://www.puchicollective.com/tutorials/blythetutorials/factory-fringe-repair-better-bangs/ http://www.puchicollective.com/tutorials/blythetutorials/factory-fringe-repair-better-bangs/#comments Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:26:36 +0000 Melissa News http://www.puchicollective.com/tutorials/blythetutorials/factory-fringe-repair-better-bangs/ If you’re like me, you get frustrated when Blythe’s stock Bangs are cut too short for your taste, or when you brush your Blythe’s Bangs and little chunks of longer hairs mysteriously appear in the middle of her forehead. Here’s my technique that not only corrects uneven cuts, but also allows you to add length to choppy short bangs. The end result is bangs that behave themselves! This is an intermediate tutorial that is best for people that are already confident at cutting bangs and have nice sharp haircutting shears.

1. Pull your Blythe’s longer hair into a ponytail so you can focus on her bangs. Begin by teasing the hair around her temples (that tends to be much longer) toward the center of her face. You may lose a few bits of her thatching in the front, but don’t pick apart the thatching on purpose. Let it happen naturally as needed. Spend a good amount of time working the hair from the outside in to the middle until you have a nice solid line of hair covering up all her shorter hairs.
2. Use an invisible line just at her eyelashes as a guide (pink). You want her bangs to look as solid as possible over this line. When you are satisfied, cover her head in a wet towel and press with an iron at a cotton setting to lock the hair in place. If you could not pull enough hair from the sides of her bangs to cover up her shorter bangs, you may need to undo the ponytail and pull small sections of longer hair that is directly next to the bangs (shown in green - about another 1/2″ back at the partline) to cover any gaps. Press again with the iron if you added more hair
3. You are ready to cut! Use sharp barber shears. I almost always cut directly above the eyelashes (close her eyes so you don’t nip off any lashes) because when it dries, it results in bangs that hit exactly above the eye.
4. Remember that you can always remove more later, but after this point, it is hard to “grow” them back, so err on the side of “too-long”.
5. while they are still damp, push the bottom edge up with your finger. they will dry with a nice little curl to them. You will probably find a few stray long hairs as it dries that need to be evened out. Take your time and you will be rewarded!
6. This is the length you will get if you put the bangs in curlers or use a low-temp curling iron. Perfect!

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