Quick Curl Casey (1973)
Recently purchased this doll with the intent to reroot her, but I have fallen in love with her hair! She has the same type of hair as the normal Quick Curl Barbie doll line (saran hair mixed with colored wire), but Casey is 19" tall and uses the same body and head sculpt as the 1971 Best Friend Cynthia doll (who I also have and love lol) Surprisingly this is my first Quick Curl doll, but I have heard almost nothing but negative stories about it through my years of Barbie research so I didn't expect to love it...boy was I wrong lol This is just a handful of the styles I've done for her over the last two days that I remembered to photograph:
(She is wearing an Ideal Velvet fashion btw) The last style is the one I've settled on for now, I think it compliments the outfit well!
"Dollsorwhatever would slay quick curl hair" feels like a joke I would make about my tendency to love "difficult" hair types but here we are lol That's not to say it's perfect- it's very finicky to work with. You can't do a lot of shaping because it is so posable that the curl will come undone if you brush it even a little bit, and unless you do a really tight curl there are always going to be random hairs and wires sticking out in some places, and we all know from looking at used dolls that it has potential to get very tangled and damaged, but it's still very fun to play with! I really loved my dolls with memory hair as a child (especially Forever Hair Ariel) but this blows them out of the water. Saran memory hair is too weak to hold a shape for more than a few seconds, while this type of Quick Curl hair can hold its shape indefinitely. Definitely makes me less scared to buy some Quick Curl Barbie dolls! I've always had my eye on Kelley, maybe it's time to finally get her.
