After soaking her in boiling water + oxy I found the best way to remove the glue from inside is filling up a sink with warm water, put the doll head in with the neck hole up and squeeze it from underwater. The bubbles will raise all the glue chunks to surface level so that you can comfortably pick them up with tweezers. Some will even come out themselves. Just putting it out there because surgically removing glue any other way took me 5 oxy treatments over the span of 2 days.
This is so useful! I buy alot of older "fixer-upper" monster high dolls as well as ever after high dolls. That glue thing......??? Why the hell did Mattel do that??? I'm sure it had to do with money and profit. Thank you so much for this video. It's informative and fascinating and important to understanding mass produced dolls and how these dolls are made. Keep up the excellent work!
I think they were using a new rooting method that wasn’t lock and loop (what literally all dolls use) for some reason and decided they needed to pour a ridiculous amount of glue in the heads to keep the hair in? It sucks 🤦♀️
I’m keen to try this on my MH dolls but also terrified haha… it’s good to see someone else going through this journey first so I can see what to expect haha
Bahaha my brain comes up with the strangest things and I don’t even realize how strange they are until someone points them out 😳 Thank you! These restoration style videos are so addicting for me as a viewer so I love that I can make them too haha
I just tried this on 2 dolls of mine that I got used, I did one session and did not see any chunks of glue at all even before the treatment so I hope this worked! Edit: OMG I am BLOWN AWAY at the results!! Their hair is not greasy or sticky after 1 session! This is definitely my go-to method now!!!
Try using purple shampoo for Frankie’s hair, I use it for my school picture day Abbey and it worked well. You might still have a slight yellow but with it still make a difference
Thanks for doing videos demonstrating how this works, it didn't sound like something that actually would work. I had given up on MH because of the glue and discoloration.
I had the same problem with my briar and raven. My method is soaking the doll in goo gone for about two hours then rinse and clean the doll hair. It worked for my girls and was easy enough.
Did you remove their heads or just do the hair? I bought a bunch of these dolls before i realized it was a problem and now i am going crazy and hurting myself trying to clean them. I have a torn rotator cuff in my shoulder and i just want to cry 😭
@@Isa-bi9nc Hi Isa 🥰Thank you for replying to me. I am really scared to take the heads off too! This morning i tried soaking their hair with goo-gone and that natural orange bathroom spray.I made sure i got it scrubbed right in and then I left them for about an hour or so came back and washed their hair three or four times , conditioned their hair and then brushed through with a wire cat brush, rinsed , brushed again. Left them to dry and they came out really good ☺I am so happy. It is so satisfying when you restore a doll and put her on the shelf in all her Glory 🥰Thanks again and have a fun day ☺🌞❤
Thank you Brooke 💖I will try and get their heads off and try this method as i have been just goo-goneing the hair but i have a torn rotator cuff and my shoulder is screaming and the dolls are still gluey. This looks like a really good method if i can just get the heads off. Thank so much for the video 🤗🤗
I have a island themed Meowlody doll, and her hair is yellow and horrid, I might try this. It’s the high ponytail that stays like the Frankie in the video, it’s all clumpy
Aaaaaah! The evil glue is driving me mad. I can't stand it and I have so many dolls to fix. I have noticed the glue causes discolouration to the vinyl near the hairline, especially Frankie and Abbey suffer from it. Luckily, many MH dolls are glue free. I would be scared to use your method. It looks like a mad professor's lab with all the heads lol.
I’m going to do the baby powder method on my Dawn of the Dance Frankie and I Love Fashion Scarah. Should I put baby powder in their heads to stop the glue from seeping more?
It’s kinda meant to be a 60’s hairstyle. Annoying people do love this style though. They’re both Skull Shores Frankie- Gloom Beach just has her hair down
Does anyone have tips on doing this with kanekalon hair? I'm working on restoring my dot dead gorgeous ghoulia and I don't want to ruin her curls. I've only really boil washed straight kanekalon before.
It did not work for me after a week of trying every goo gone method unfortunately :( I’m glad it works for others but unfortunately it didn’t make a difference for my dolls
i hope i dont get any hate by this comment cuz SOME people tend to get offended when someone disagree on their behalf..but the yellow on her hair "IS NOT ABOUT THE GLUE " that some frankie dolls have, the hair turns yellow because of the type of saran hair they use for her as is the same as sashabella paws from the magic night out collection and believe me that witch has no glue seepage!!! she an MGA GIRLY ,she has the same hair that frankie has and is yellow no matter if she is in or out of box...cant say the same about first edition sashabella paws who has polypropylene who now in 2022 she still has white hair .
The glue definitely is not the only way it can happen but it definitely is one of the ways it happens. I think with Bratzillaz and their PP, it’s sun damage that causes the yellowing? But I’m no expert
@@xCanadensis oh no the magic night out line has Saran hair, this is why iam telling you about cuz is the only line that has saran hair and Sasha bellas has the exact hair of all the early frankie dolls have , for some reason that hair turns yellow ,cant say the same about reboot frankie dolls cuz they have a different saran hair type most probably from another company but the that hair definetly feels cheaper than the previous hair on her OG dolls and with burn ends in the reboot dolls .
My question was also about getting oxyclean on their face paint- another video that I watched said not to, and they didn’t take her head off and kept her face out of the oxyclean. I tried that with a dead tired lagoona I just got and it really didn’t help much of at all. So I’m wondering if really the only good way to do this is to take the head off like you did. The glue really is disgusting!!
Should i do this if i plan on playing with the doll? My birthday Draculoura has a ton of glue in her hair and it's a mess. As well as my Frankie and clawdeen.
Okayyy maybe I’ll start slowly doing these on the really bad MH girlies. I just hate doing it bc it takes so much work and I’m impatient. Might go buy actual oxy clean tho bc the Walmart brand ruined a pair of Bratz shoes for me lmao.
Yeah it’s the glue. You can get the majority out and leave some and not have the leaking issue. Most dolls actually don’t use glue at all as the hair will naturally stay in place (usually it’s done sort of like a sewing machine where it does a “lock and loop”). For some reason mattel decided not to use that method and instead just dump a ridiculous amount of nasty, non-permanent glue into the heads… for years. From the HEAVY combing I’ve done, I have lost some plugs but I was able to do Briar’s tight hairstyle with no issue and can pull pretty hard on the others and not have any loss Though if you want to remove all of the glue AND make sure it never leaks again, people who reroot dolls use “Fabri-Tac” glue and that doesn’t leak :)
I am back. I had to make a second comment about this, I just had to remove my hunter huntsman hair because it was so glue damaged it was unfixable... omg the BIGGEST glue chunk I ever saw was removed! It was circular and the diameter of a nickel, and the thickness was 3 nickles thick (EWWW) it has earned the title of glue island to me lol, anyone else have seen a chunk that big?
i have a question. Is it ok to dump the faces in oxi clean? i mean there is no risk at destroying their faces? Also about getting the glue out of their heads. It wont make the hair fall out right? I'm actually really scared to try any of these XD
Hair shouldn’t fall out unless you’re extremely aggressive- the majority of dolls don’t have any glue at all and the hair stays in just fine. The faces should be fine but some do actually come off. I’ve heard first edition MH up to around DOTD and Campus Stroll have more delicate paint than others. If you’re nervous then avoid getting it on the faces. Don’t ever scrub faces on dolls with abrasives like oxy clean because it will scrape the paint. I had no issues but others may have issues
@@xCanadensis Hi, really love your doll videos. Just recently found you !Thank you for this glue removal advice. I will say my first edition Frankie lost an eyebrow and some eye paint, whilst attempting it , so I have been doing the treatment in a dish, where the water doesn't cover the face, which works great. ( I'm ok with restoring and repainting dolls, so once I stopped freaking out, I was able to fix her face.) I also sprayed her face with Mr Super Clear sealant spray, probably a good solution for the older MH dolls before any sort of cleaning.. Loving seeing the glue coming out the head ! Lol
@@xCanadensis thank you! I have three monster high girls with tinsel in their hair and I'm tackling their glue-y hair too. I'll try regular hot tap water and just let them soak longer
@@xCanadensis update: after about two days of soaking the heads in hot (not boiling) water with oxiclean, it seems to have worked! and the tinsel wasn't damaged either
So one there was a time that this haPpent to my dance dance dance b gurl and i wased her like 2 times and my little dumb barin thinked that if i put conditioner for real hair on plastic it would work👍🏻
Besides winx I love monster high but Frankie’s hair is a big problem I swear to god I have a skull shores or whatever the hell she’s called and her hair feels so gluey I hate it I tried boil washing it but it was making her plastic very squishy and it almost ruined her
I wonder if you put oxy clean in bleach and soak Frankie and Abby’s hair in it would the yellow stain goes away? Maybe even baking soda and bleach? I swear someone has to find a cure one day😩
I’d be worried about bleach ruining the hair :( especially bleaching abbey’s colored streaks and frankie’s black streaks. I would reroot them to bring back the white but these are my original childhood dolls so I don’t want to take their hair away :(
I really want to pick her out in person. For me it’s a big part of bonding with the doll- if that makes sense? For Rainbow High I like to pick them out in person because of the face paint issues also
After soaking her in boiling water + oxy I found the best way to remove the glue from inside is filling up a sink with warm water, put the doll head in with the neck hole up and squeeze it from underwater. The bubbles will raise all the glue chunks to surface level so that you can comfortably pick them up with tweezers. Some will even come out themselves.
Just putting it out there because surgically removing glue any other way took me 5 oxy treatments over the span of 2 days.
This is so useful!
I buy alot of older "fixer-upper" monster high dolls as well as ever after high dolls.
That glue thing......??? Why the hell did Mattel do that???
I'm sure it had to do with money and profit.
Thank you so much for this video. It's informative and fascinating and important to understanding mass produced dolls and how these dolls are made.
Keep up the excellent work!
I think they were using a new rooting method that wasn’t lock and loop (what literally all dolls use) for some reason and decided they needed to pour a ridiculous amount of glue in the heads to keep the hair in? It sucks 🤦♀️
I’m keen to try this on my MH dolls but also terrified haha… it’s good to see someone else going through this journey first so I can see what to expect haha
Glue islands, and glue buggers. 😂 It might be awhile before I get those thoughts out of my head! Thanks for the great videos on this issue though!
Bahaha my brain comes up with the strangest things and I don’t even realize how strange they are until someone points them out 😳
Thank you! These restoration style videos are so addicting for me as a viewer so I love that I can make them too haha
Frankie and briar's actor is the same actor kate Higgins and Barbie Life in the dream house
I just tried this on 2 dolls of mine that I got used, I did one session and did not see any chunks of glue at all even before the treatment so I hope this worked!
Edit: OMG I am BLOWN AWAY at the results!! Their hair is not greasy or sticky after 1 session! This is definitely my go-to method now!!!
Try using purple shampoo for Frankie’s hair, I use it for my school picture day Abbey and it worked well. You might still have a slight yellow but with it still make a difference
Thanks for doing videos demonstrating how this works, it didn't sound like something that actually would work. I had given up on MH because of the glue and discoloration.
thank you for this!! i recently just started collecting again and all my monster high dolls need this treatment tbh 😭
I feel your pain ! Same ! 😭
Gosh I’m so scared to touch my Monster High and Ever After High dolls but I know they need it so bad 😫
They look really good. I so need to do this to several of mine. I did not think about putting it on the inside.
I’m stunned that I only lost one or two plugs per doll after doing that… I’m so glad people suggested I try it because it REALLY helped
I had the same problem with my briar and raven. My method is soaking the doll in goo gone for about two hours then rinse and clean the doll hair. It worked for my girls and was easy enough.
Did you remove their heads or just do the hair? I bought a bunch of these dolls before i realized it was a problem and now i am going crazy and hurting myself trying to clean them. I have a torn rotator cuff in my shoulder and i just want to cry 😭
@@SunshineDawn7 No, removing the heads scares me so I just did the hair. Good luck with your girl!
@@Isa-bi9nc Hi Isa 🥰Thank you for replying to me. I am really scared to take the heads off too! This morning i tried soaking their hair with goo-gone and that natural orange bathroom spray.I made sure i got it scrubbed right in and then I left them for about an hour or so came back and washed their hair three or four times , conditioned their hair and then brushed through with a wire cat brush, rinsed , brushed again. Left them to dry and they came out really good ☺I am so happy. It is so satisfying when you restore a doll and put her on the shelf in all her Glory 🥰Thanks again and have a fun day ☺🌞❤
@@SunshineDawn7 YAYYY!!! I’m so glad it worked for you! Have a great day as well and happy collecting :)
@@Isa-bi9nc Thank you so much! 🥰🥰❤❤🤗🤗
I can't wait for your next doll vlog! would love to see updates on your display
Soon! I just want to make sure there’s good progress in any videos I upload :) I’ve been filming one for the past couple of days!
awww im happy to see a kotori mug, so cute!! i'm going to try something like this on my mh dolls in a sec and hope it works 🫶
Thank you Brooke 💖I will try and get their heads off and try this method as i have been just goo-goneing the hair but i have a torn rotator cuff and my shoulder is screaming and the dolls are still gluey. This looks like a really good method if i can just get the heads off. Thank so much for the video 🤗🤗
I have a island themed Meowlody doll, and her hair is yellow and horrid, I might try this. It’s the high ponytail that stays like the Frankie in the video, it’s all clumpy
Aaaaaah! The evil glue is driving me mad. I can't stand it and I have so many dolls to fix. I have noticed the glue causes discolouration to the vinyl near the hairline, especially Frankie and Abbey suffer from it. Luckily, many MH dolls are glue free.
I would be scared to use your method. It looks like a mad professor's lab with all the heads lol.
Very nice! Love your doll collection
Thank you so much!
@@xCanadensis of course!
I’m going to do the baby powder method on my Dawn of the Dance Frankie and I Love Fashion Scarah. Should I put baby powder in their heads to stop the glue from seeping more?
Super helpful! Doing this… thanks Love!
Yayyyyyyy Satisfying Saturday.
I love how gloom beach Frankie's karen hairstyle turned out to be!
It’s kinda meant to be a 60’s hairstyle. Annoying people do love this style though.
They’re both Skull Shores Frankie- Gloom Beach just has her hair down
Does anyone have tips on doing this with kanekalon hair? I'm working on restoring my dot dead gorgeous ghoulia and I don't want to ruin her curls. I've only really boil washed straight kanekalon before.
DO NOT!!! Baby powder only
@@xCanadensis Dang! Her head is getting so discolored from the glue 🙃
Boiling water can melt Kanekalon :( it’s definitely something you can try with the oxy clean but not nearly as hot.
Googone works wonders as well
It did not work for me after a week of trying every goo gone method unfortunately :( I’m glad it works for others but unfortunately it didn’t make a difference for my dolls
I tried this yesterday and it worked... but I broke a small piece of my C.A Cupid doll neck 😭😭 I'm so scared of taking my other dolls heads ...
Me again lol- have you ever tried goo gone? I’m watching a video now where they used goo gone spray, careful to not get it in their faces.
Agh monster high glue seepage is so much work to sort out! Lol my Jinafire had it the worst!
My Frankie dolls were down bad! I just checked a couple of them that I had previously removed the glue from.. and they were sticky all over again.
After painting my room this will be my next big project 😭
ive been too scared to do this my MH dolls 😭 my picture day abbie has it really bad but im really afraid of her tinsel all coming out
I am going to try baby powder for my Skull Shores Abbey as I don’t want to risk her tinsel :(
I always thought because Frankie’s hair was white that the sun would make it turn yellow/copper
I’ve done this with Geek Shriek Frankie and Elissabat, and I’ve got the big clumps out but there’s still glue seepage 😞
i hope i dont get any hate by this comment cuz SOME people tend to get offended when someone disagree on their behalf..but the yellow on her hair "IS NOT ABOUT THE GLUE " that some frankie dolls have, the hair turns yellow because of the type of saran hair they use for her as is the same as sashabella paws from the magic night out collection and believe me that witch has no glue seepage!!! she an MGA GIRLY ,she has the same hair that frankie has and is yellow no matter if she is in or out of box...cant say the same about first edition sashabella paws who has polypropylene who now in 2022 she still has white hair .
The glue definitely is not the only way it can happen but it definitely is one of the ways it happens. I think with Bratzillaz and their PP, it’s sun damage that causes the yellowing? But I’m no expert
@@xCanadensis oh no the magic night out line has Saran hair, this is why iam telling you about cuz is the only line that has saran hair and Sasha bellas has the exact hair of all the early frankie dolls have , for some reason that hair turns yellow ,cant say the same about reboot frankie dolls cuz they have a different saran hair type most probably from another company but the that hair definetly feels cheaper than the previous hair on her OG dolls and with burn ends in the reboot dolls .
I’m so happy for you!! 💚💖
My question was also about getting oxyclean on their face paint- another video that I watched said not to, and they didn’t take her head off and kept her face out of the oxyclean. I tried that with a dead tired lagoona I just got and it really didn’t help much of at all. So I’m wondering if really the only good way to do this is to take the head off like you did. The glue really is disgusting!!
I've never had oxy clean affect any sort of paint on any dolls/toys and I've used it to deep clean a lot of sensitive, vintage stuff
Have you tried purple shampoo? That might help get rid of that yellow brassy hair.
Should i do this if i plan on playing with the doll? My birthday Draculoura has a ton of glue in her hair and it's a mess. As well as my Frankie and clawdeen.
Okayyy maybe I’ll start slowly doing these on the really bad MH girlies. I just hate doing it bc it takes so much work and I’m impatient. Might go buy actual oxy clean tho bc the Walmart brand ruined a pair of Bratz shoes for me lmao.
i’m australian does anyone know a good alternative to oxiclean? we don’t have it here :((
is the issue with the glue seepage the glue they used? I am worried that overtime my girls will go bald lol
Yeah it’s the glue. You can get the majority out and leave some and not have the leaking issue. Most dolls actually don’t use glue at all as the hair will naturally stay in place (usually it’s done sort of like a sewing machine where it does a “lock and loop”).
For some reason mattel decided not to use that method and instead just dump a ridiculous amount of nasty, non-permanent glue into the heads… for years.
From the HEAVY combing I’ve done, I have lost some plugs but I was able to do Briar’s tight hairstyle with no issue and can pull pretty hard on the others and not have any loss
Though if you want to remove all of the glue AND make sure it never leaks again, people who reroot dolls use “Fabri-Tac” glue and that doesn’t leak :)
@@xCanadensis oh wow! Thank you so much! I will definitely need to try that.
I am back. I had to make a second comment about this, I just had to remove my hunter huntsman hair because it was so glue damaged it was unfixable... omg the BIGGEST glue chunk I ever saw was removed! It was circular and the diameter of a nickel, and the thickness was 3 nickles thick (EWWW) it has earned the title of glue island to me lol, anyone else have seen a chunk that big?
I have this problem with my 13 Wishes Twyla ...:/ I think her hair is a violet - yellow blob x.x
My 13 Wishes Twyla is GROSS. Poor baby
If ever we get new MH dolls would they eventually have this issue as well or not anymore?
Mattel stopped doing this thankfully. Not all MH and EAH dolls actually have this issue! It’s just ones from certain factories between certain years
you could try to use some purple shampoo to get the yellow out
I’ll have to see- I know that’s a thing with human hair but idk about plastic hair? It’s worth trying out!
Quick question, what are the benefits of taking the glue out of the dolls (I have a lot of mh and eah dolls I'm very scared to touch haha)
It keeps it from coming out and making their hair sticky! The glue also stains the hair (that’s why my Frankie dolls have yellowed hair)
Is it okay to shampoo and condition after this treatment?
Hello! Do you know if you can get rid of the yellow color on doll hair without removing the head?
I just want to get rid of the color lol
You can’t get the glue out without removing the head so you’d be putting a bandaid on a bullet wound
Are you still gonna make more doll rearrangement videos?
Oh yes. I just want to spread out the uploads. I’ve been working on the next one for days
It is okay if i used this method in her face that is yellow due to glue?
Unfortunately I don’t think it works :(
I understand your suffering from the glue 😢
lol does your pitcher say "for stupid ranches?"
“Renches”- it’s referring to the rats
I’ve been working on poor Maddie for hours!!! And she’s just getting worse 🤣 Jeez Mattel.
If you need to boil them with lots of face paint, try putting them in a plastic bag before you do it, like a Ziploc one
Weeelll you have to boil the hair and scalp directly
Does anyone know if it matters what type of oxiclean powder is used? The green one isnt available where i live 😿
They're all pretty much the same. Generic ones are fine. It's just about getting the baking soda/peroxide reaction
@@aniliname thank you!!
These videos remind me so much of dollightful
I thought she did customs?
I did this but it made my Maddie hatter and duchess swan hair turn brown and yellow idk what to do now
I did this with three other dolls and they’re fine I wanna do it again but I’m scared it might turn worse
If you used oxy clean that is physically impossible
@@xCanadensis I used oxyclean maybe I didn’t get all the glue out and it leaked
i have a question. Is it ok to dump the faces in oxi clean? i mean there is no risk at destroying their faces? Also about getting the glue out of their heads. It wont make the hair fall out right? I'm actually really scared to try any of these XD
Hair shouldn’t fall out unless you’re extremely aggressive- the majority of dolls don’t have any glue at all and the hair stays in just fine.
The faces should be fine but some do actually come off. I’ve heard first edition MH up to around DOTD and Campus Stroll have more delicate paint than others. If you’re nervous then avoid getting it on the faces. Don’t ever scrub faces on dolls with abrasives like oxy clean because it will scrape the paint.
I had no issues but others may have issues
@@xCanadensis Thank you so so much for your fast reply means a lot! I will take your advise into consideration and thanks again! 😁
@@xCanadensis Hi, really love your doll videos. Just recently found you !Thank you for this glue removal advice. I will say my first edition Frankie lost an eyebrow and some eye paint, whilst attempting it , so I have been doing the treatment in a dish, where the water doesn't cover the face, which works great. ( I'm ok with restoring and repainting dolls, so once I stopped freaking out, I was able to fix her face.) I also sprayed her face with Mr Super Clear sealant spray, probably a good solution for the older MH dolls before any sort of cleaning.. Loving seeing the glue coming out the head ! Lol
I have a new method that is MUCH easier and safer!! I’ll be posting about it hopefully in the next few weeks. Someone reached out to me via email
@@xCanadensis Cool thank you !
wouldn’t purple shampoo get the yellowing out?
I know that’s a thing for human hair but honestly I’m not sure? If it’s not too expensive then I’ll definitely try it out!
Nice 💗
Also the hair will look wet even though it is dry
Yeah it’s really nasty :( I’m glad I finally found a fix that actually works
Have you ever applied boiling water to dolls with tinsel in their hair? I'm afraid to try it on those dolls
DO NOT!!! I ruined the tinsel on some MLP :(
@@xCanadensis thank you! I have three monster high girls with tinsel in their hair and I'm tackling their glue-y hair too. I'll try regular hot tap water and just let them soak longer
@@xCanadensis update: after about two days of soaking the heads in hot (not boiling) water with oxiclean, it seems to have worked! and the tinsel wasn't damaged either
So one there was a time that this haPpent to my dance dance dance b gurl and i wased her like 2 times and my little dumb barin thinked that if i put conditioner for real hair on plastic it would work👍🏻
Conditioner actually works amazing on doll hair! LOL OMG dolls don’t get glue seepage, maybe your doll had gel in her hair?
Besides winx I love monster high but Frankie’s hair is a big problem
I swear to god I have a skull shores or whatever the hell she’s called and her hair feels so gluey
I hate it I tried boil washing it but it was making her plastic very squishy and it almost ruined her
I meant to say after her hair lol
I wonder if you put oxy clean in bleach and soak Frankie and Abby’s hair in it would the yellow stain goes away? Maybe even baking soda and bleach? I swear someone has to find a cure one day😩
I’d be worried about bleach ruining the hair :( especially bleaching abbey’s colored streaks and frankie’s black streaks. I would reroot them to bring back the white but these are my original childhood dolls so I don’t want to take their hair away :(
Have you found marisa yet?
Nope :(
@@xCanadensis I'm sending good vibes so you you find her soon 🥺
@@xCanadensis When she is back in stock would you buy her online if you couldn't find her?
I really want to pick her out in person. For me it’s a big part of bonding with the doll- if that makes sense? For Rainbow High I like to pick them out in person because of the face paint issues also
@@xCanadensis I get it. Only 3 of my rainbow high dolls I have bought online which is marisa, cheryal and daphne because I wanted them right away,
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