#rainbow curl

[imreadydollparts]

Rainbow Curl ponies are always satisfying to fix, and Stripes was no exception.

[friendshipgardens]

80’s Inspired My Little Pony 3” Stickers

Inspired by 80’s My Little Pony toy packaging 3” stickers printed on matte weather resistant sticker paper

[yodawgiheardyoulikeponies]

I had a request to see the Rainbow Curl Ponies!!! They are special to me too, some of the first G1s I ever had and one of my first sets I ever completed!!!!🌈

[dawtears]

Rain Curl as my model for MLP fanart <3

[imreadydollparts]

Rainbow Curl Stripes was the type of pony that instantly catches my eye when I’m looking around on eBay. This is exactly my favorite kind of pony to work on. Dirty, horrible hair that might be intact, good paint, and inexpensive.

She didn’t even have rust or mildew!

I was afraid her tail was cut, but it wasn’t. Just all tangled up into a ball.

[imreadydollparts]

Now......

I used to work in trade pretty often, but that does cause the problem of running out of funds to buy supplies with, so I haven’t done that in some time.

However, this client offered me something I couldn’t refuse.

Yes, friends, that’s RINGLET.

And she’s GREAT!!!

Which MEANS I have all four Rainbow Curl Ponies!!!

Granted, Streaky is a rehair (and those curls fell right out after like.... two days....) but I’m SO HAPPY.

GRAIL PONY GRAIL PONY

And! I paid the return shipping because they also gave me a couple baity newborn twins and a seapony which aren’t done, yet, so no photos for now.

[imreadydollparts]

Always happy to work on a Rainbow Curl pony.

Ringlet is so pretty.

[imreadydollparts]

That’s three out of four!!!

RIGHT after I said I was hoping to pick up Streaky and Ringlet eventually, a Streaky popped up on eBay for $15 shipped!

Double lucky, she needed her hair fixed.

Not that getting a minty Streaky for $15 wouldn’t have been some sort of weird mega-luck.

TRIPLE lucky, I’ve gotten an offer for a Ringlet in trade for some pony work!!

Her hair felt horrible, though.

It was dry and pretty scruffy all along the length.

Admittedly, I got lazy and didn’t fully smooth it out, and it shows in the end results. Her curls are textured instead of hyper-glossy.

Separating out the manes for making individual-color curls isn’t too difficult, though Streaky did have a couple plugs that had two colors in them. I didn’t fret over it too much.

For some reason her mane curls fell. I must not have had them wrapped tightly enough. The pink one could use a re-do it sticks out from her neck weird.

Separating out the tails can be a pain, though. The hairs get all brushed together and the hairs are separated into the two sides of the tail.

I wondered if it would be easier to separate out the hair colors in her tail if I removed it, and it was! I also discovered she had a rusty washer, and replaced it.

But then how to get it reinstalled without mixing the colors again?

I decided to try loosely twisting the individual colors’ halves to themselves and it worked! It was only a little bit more difficult to pull through her tail hole due to the added bulk of the twists.

It also made her tail easier to curl because the colors were already combined as they came out of the tail hole instead of being in two spread out chunks.