Restoring My Entire Bratz Collection _ Episode 5

Thank you Squarespace for sponsoring this video. This is a disaster. Oh no! Yes, I am watching Bratz starring and styling at one in the morning. What are you going to do? Look at that. Are you seeing that? It's so good. That is absolutely nuts. Welcome back. We are ready to start episode five of the Bratz restoration series. I am so sorry that it's taken so long. But I know you don't want to hear apologies. So let's get on with it. I wanted to show you what we have going on. So as you can see most of my dolls are on display and pretty much almost almost finished. There's most of them are like completely done. There's some of them that still don't have their original hairstyles. Katia has fallen over. I also have some more of my dolls up here as some of you will have noticed in like some of my videos and stuff. They are on display. I didn't want to show in too much detail yet because I wanted that to kind of be in the finale. But I'll just show you can see briefly what we have going on up here. I love the setup. But I will show in more detail all those shelves later on. So today I wanted to focus on some of the dolls. So this is actually my newest doll. This is Sasha. If anybody watched my charity shop haul, I will put a little card up in the corner where you can watch. Yeah, I found Sasha for £4 in a British Heart Foundation charity shop. I was so psyched because she's kind of rare for the Genie Magic dolls. At least someone told me that. And then I looked for her online and there was like no Genie Magic Sashas for sale. So her hair is crazy. Like her hair is on another level of like done. So I am going to attempt to get through her hair with a brush and wash it. And wash her. I'm also going to head upstairs because I have a few more dolls in a box that I've just been neglecting because they didn't fit in my cabinet. So I just kind of, I didn't know what to do with them. So anyway, they're under my bed. So let's have a look. Here they are. So this is pretty much all that's left of the dolls that I just didn't get round to doing. Honestly, guys, I got a little bit burnt out with it. I think it was just such a big project and there were so many dolls. Overdid it slightly. And then I had to take like longer and longer breaks in between each episode because I just didn't feel like doing it. But I'm ready now. So big baby Katya, who I just realised this is Katya. We have Chloe. I'm going to sort her out. Try and sort her out today. And then these two, I was detangling their hair. I kind of gave up. These two are just random ones that a family friend gave me. So we'll see what we can do with those two. I have a double of Dylan. So we have him here and that's pretty much it. We have my t-shirt. Did I show this? I feel like I did. But I made this when I was like 11 at like this holiday park. The guy printing out the t-shirts did not tell me that I'd obviously supposed to put first, not first. But yeah, this was the t-shirt. I made it tiny weenie. If you look really close, there's like some keys there. I don't know why. I had a fascination with keys. I thought they were really cool. My name, go Bratz. I think that's so freaking cute and I want to keep it. So I shall keep it in here. And then I've got like some posters and stuff. I'm not sure what to do. And all of this is not even Bratz stuff. Like, oh, and I forgot little tiny Dylan. We'll have to do something with him. This is all just like arts and crafts stuff. Newer Bratz stuff in there. And there's this little guy. Yeah, that's it. Oh, I've run out of little hair bands. I've got to find as many as I can because I don't know how I'm going to get through all their hair. Now we've got these out. Let's go start figuring out what we're going to do. I made myself a cup of tea and I am about to watch a couple episodes of Bratz whilst I get through some of these dolls hair. I didn't actually know who this was. I got her in like an old like junk shop. She's absolutely stunning, but I didn't actually know who she was. So I looked her up today and yes, it's Katia. I'm just gonna... My comb. I've got my comb at the ready. I'm also going to use my hairbrush and I've got some like leave-in conditioner that I don't really use because I have so many hair products. So I thought if it gets really tangly, I'll just use a bit of this because she's absolutely like, look at her hair. She's getting a bald spot. She's like, there's bits of like random crap in there. Like look at it. It's so bad. Poor girl. Okay, so I'm almost done. She has had so many of these tiny little braids throughout her hair that I've been trying to like undo. This is her hair all brushed out. It doesn't look a whole lot different, but I have managed to get a lot of the knots out. I think I've got enough arm strength and energy to now move on to my giant Chloe. I put it in this ponytail years ago and now it's been flattened because she's been laying in a box for so many years. Here's her hair. I don't know what I was... Like what? She doesn't even look good with these two bits like dangling down. Oh my god. I'm gonna have to shake it out. I don't even know if I can brush this. Like it's thick, thick matted just chunks. Like it's frazzled, completely frazzled. This, this, no. This will take forever. Oh my god. It's like literally. I ended up finding my soft bristle detangling brush much easier and quicker for her hair. Okay. She's done. Look how big her hair is. Long bits and short bits because I also got her second hand like many years ago when I was like 15. So I think I'm gonna shampoo it, put it in some boiling hot water and try and like boil wash it until it's straight. So we'll see what happens with this poof. So the next two minutes is just me washing the doll's hair. I decided to leave this footage in for the people who find it satisfying to watch and so you can see exactly how I wash them. I'm gonna leave her hair to soak with the conditioner in. Okay dollies. Time to dry their hair. I'm finally getting somewhere with this hair. Check it out. Tangle free. It's really thin because she originally has a ponytail so like she's like pretty much bald at the back but I managed to sort out the front of her hair. I just redid her parting because it was literally, she looked like she was bald under here. How cute is she? Look at her cute little long straight hair. Okay I have put them all on the windowsill standing up because the hair is so long and they will dry hopefully from the daylight and sunshine. I think that's gonna be it for today because my finger, look at my fingers from like washing them. 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So if you want to play around creating your own website head to squarespace.com for a two week free trial and if you want to go ahead with your website make sure to take advantage of my 10% off code Isabella DeMarco or just click the link in the description. Thank you so much Squarespace for sponsoring this video. Good morning it's the next day and I'm gonna take a look at the dolls. I'm pretty sure, I'm pretty sure her hair is dry now. Look at it! Oh my goodness! It's so nice! It almost looks like real hair. You got a whole head of hair girl. She looks amazing. I'm so glad I finally sorted her hair out. So it looks pretty good. There is not too much conditioner residue. Let's just check the others. I tried to rinse it as thoroughly as possible. Look at this hair, it looks so much better already. I mean it's not complete. I think I may even boil wash it but I'll just have to redo her little twizzle braids. And then as for my giant Chloe, I kind of left her in the bathroom and so her hair's still kind of wet but we're going to boil it today and see what we can do. It's like literally just like fluff, it's like a sponge basically. We'll see if we can help you girl. I might try and boil wash this girl's hair because as you can see it's kind of like crimped where it's been in a style. Managed to identify her and I've now forgotten who she is again. I'm pretty sure it's princess. It's one of the princess ones. Okay I'm currently in my kitchen and I really even though I've tried to brush through this it's like impossible to get it completely tangle free. So I think I'm going to add a little bit of conditioner and then dunk it just so and then just continue to try and brush it. I'm going to wear some gloves because my fingers get real crusty. I'm going to focus it on the ends. Look at that. Are you seeing that? So here I have a pan of boiling hot water. Oh I don't know if I'm going to have enough. I might need to boil some more. Anyway we are going to dip it. The gloves also help from burning my hands. Whoa it's way easier to brush through. So here I let it soak and then I'm dunking the hair and detangling it as I go. And then I leave it to soak in the boiling water for at least a few minutes. And I thought I may as well do a few other dolls while I'm at it. So here it's the same process of soaking and detangling. Hello, hello, hello, hello. I've just got back from the gym. It is the third day of this episode and I am going to have a look at the dolls today. It kind of looks as though their hair is still wet but I think it's just... I don't know. I feel like when I shake it out... Oh my god. Look at that slinky hair. It's weird because it's like you've got to like shake it out and then it goes normal. But it looked like it was wet. Anyway look at how that boil wash just worked wonders on this gorgeous hair. For example this is Sasha's hair. I'm going to try and do this without using one hand. And hey voila give it a shake and oh my goodness. Oh my damn. Oh my goodness. We're going ham. She looks so good. I was worried about this Sasha because obviously her hair had been up for a long time. So when like doll hair has been up it like all goes backward and like gets crimps in it. But now look how pretty. I got her second hand. I think someone obviously cut her hair but she's absolutely gorgeous. I love this Sasha. There's still a little bit of waviness but it's fine. I can deal with it. Oh my god her hair is so so soft and so pretty. And here's genie magic Sasha. Super soft. Super gorgeous. What an improvement from how she was when I got her. Lovely. And this is how giant Chloe's hair has turned out. It's not bad. It's still like quite tangled because obviously the bottom is like literally feels like straw. But what an improvement from how she looked before. I'm not sure if I should trim off these kind of really frazzled bits because her hair is quite short as it is. I prefer Chloe with longer hair. I don't know. I'll have to think about it. Feels awful still but it does look a lot better. So I suppose that's all that matters. Oh my goodness. She's like a new woman. Fianna a friend of mine gave her to me. She cut off some of her hair but it's fine. She's still really cool. I'm most impressed with this hair. I think it's princess Chloe. The princess dolls all had really nice hair. I've got princess Jade and she has like the best hair that I've seen on a Bratz doll. Like one of the best hair. Okay. My brother just sent me a ton of voice messages. I'm sure he won't mind me sharing this one with you. But for all my Bratz fans out there, I'm sure you will recognize this. Um, Gucci used fabric and scissors. Yes, thank you Jade. Yes, I am watching Bratz starring and styling at one in the morning. What are you gonna do? Steadiest. With a smell so strong any girl is sure to hurl. What is he doing? Chloe. Sasha. Yasmin. Jade. Who's that? Mr. Melvin's corner. The principal with principles. Can't believe how much I remember. About time. This paper has been crying out for a gossip cop. Oh god. I don't know if anyone's finding this as funny as I am. But like I used to always have the Bratz starring and styling movie on as a kid. And like my brother just remembers it just as well as I do. I know it's just eyeball salad. This day was fine until we had a car accident. Look I've liked you since you walked into the juice bar that summer and corrected my spelling of pomegranate. I'm sorry I had some wine. The antagonist in the in the Bratz CGI series. The voice actress voices Beatrice Horseman in BoJack Horseman. Okay so listen to this voice acting with Berdine Maxwell in mind. You think you want this but you don't. Okay fast forward. This is me editing this right now. So I ended up putting the BoJack Horseman scene that my brother just sent me under some footage from the Bratz Rock Angels movie and it fit so perfectly. It was actually crazy. But first if you haven't seen the movie before I want to play you the original scene. Then watch the scene with the BoJack audio and you will see what I mean. What are you trying to do? Kill me? Make me fat? I don't eat greens. Spare me your excuses. You are fired. Hear me? FIRED! Only will you never ever work at this magazine again. You will never ever work at any magazine. Am I making myself quite clear? I sent a video to my brother of my reaction when I just made it. Louis something crazy has just happened. I put some Berdine Maxwell footage over the voice note that you sent me and it matches perfectly. Just watch. Hold on. Right. You think you want this but you don't. Not like this. Don't throw away your dreams for this child. Don't let that man waste your life the way he did mine. You are going to finish your schooling and become a nurse. You'll meet a man, a good man and you'll have a family. But please believe me. You don't want this. Please Henrietta. You have to believe me. Please don't do what I did. That is nuts. That is absolutely nuts. I made one small edit where I just like timed it so that she would react to her fist going on the table. But look this is the whole scene. None of it is cut and it fits perfectly. I did actually end up making a meme video. I will put it up here if you want to watch it. It's just stupid but it's funny. Okay so me and Katia have been sat on the floor trying to find her some clothes and it is so hard. I haven't been able to find any Bratz Big Baby clothes. There's literally, I've looked on Facebook marketplace, on Spock, on Gumtree, like all the apps that I use. I've looked on eBay. The only one I could find was Jade's outfit and I already have Jade in that outfit. I kind of wouldn't really want her to be wearing the same one. So I don't know what to do with my gorgeous Katia. If anybody is selling some Big Baby's clothes or finds a link just let me know in the description because I'll probably still be searching by the time you see this video. I mean the comments. For now she's gonna have to put her big orange bloomers back on but it's okay. They're kind of cute. So this is her in her bloomers which is what I bought her in. Obviously they're not Bratz. They're probably from like another doll but they are kind of cute. Like I feel like they kind of suit her so I think I'll keep her in those for now because I honestly don't have anything else I can put on her unless I make something. At least she's looking so much prettier and happier now. I just got done doing Chloe and I broke her the small dolls. Oh my god did I just fix it? Did I just make it worse? Her head has always been kind of wobbly and it always tilts back like it's never been straight. It's always been slightly back and I tried to just push it forward a bit and like now it's like fully like look her head is like not right. Her neck is just gone. I know how to remove normal Bratz dolls heads but I don't know if it's the same mechanism inside so honestly right now I don't know what to do. I'm so upset. You can see this little bit of plastic. It looks like it's broken. What I was going to say was that she is complete pretty much. This is her outfit. She came with gold sparkly leggings but I thought they looked really ugly so I think she looks better just like this and the only thing that I'm worried about is that her dress is starting to crack. It's kind of this very cheap sort of faux leather material and over the years it just starts to crack so there's not really much you can do about that I don't think so I'm just going to have to be really gentle with her and hope that she ages fairly well but this dress in like 10-15 years will be just crumbling apart basically but that's what happens when you make dolls with cheap materials. Anyways I think I'm going to leave her for now because I'm not really sure how to fix her head. Yeah if anyone knows please let me know. But the show must go on so with only a week to go I decided to start working on the most dreaded part of the project which was the display case. Okay so I've just got done measuring up my cabinet. This is the perfect perfect cabinet. My mum got this from like a junk shop many years ago for me and it's perfect with the glass. It means that my dolls don't get dusty. Dust is a huge problem with dolls. Don't even get me started. So I love it but yeah it's just so dark like you can barely see them like you can't really see them very well and it's just kind of dark and I kind of prefer like very light furniture and like white and stuff. It's vintage so I'm not sure whether I should paint it. Also it will be really tricky because I actually can't get this glass out of here. I was considering painting it but I honestly just don't think it's going to be very easy. Also to get in here and sand like every little crevice and then paint over it with a primer and a colour I just don't want the act. So I thought I would get some like really thick card. Oh hello darkness my old friend. I thought I would get some card and then just kind of blue tack it to the back or stick it to the back inside. So I'm literally just going to go to my art supplies shop in town that I can walk to and I'm just going to buy some big bits of card and see what I can do with them. I also don't have any like cutters so I'm just going to have to use scissors so I'm just going to have to hope this goes all right. These are like the remaining dolls that need their hair done so we're really getting close to the end. I'm going to leave now. I thought I'd show you my outfit. We're wearing my wonderful Bratz top and this Bratz thing underneath and these little tracky bottoms which I actually got from a charity shop like two days ago. We're having a very pink day. I got these little tiny glasses in a charity shop yesterday. Put on my white coat, my off-white hat and I've got my little angel bag. This is not even Bratz but how similar is this angel writing to like the actual Bratz angel like it's crazy. I love it. So this really reminded me of Chloe so I had to buy it. It was like 20 quid from Depop but it's the cutest. So I'm going to put on my white converse and then we're good to go. There were so many different types of card and they were all pretty expensive. I also had to consider whether I could cut it easily and how well it would hold up. So I had a pretty hard time finding something suitable. I don't know Rachel. So I just picked the cheapest I could find and hoped for the best. I'm back. I got some card. I managed to find this type of card. It's called environmental card. It was only 2.95. It was the cheapest one they had. The other ones were like five pounds. So I've bought six pieces of this but I'm just going to measure it out. Okay, we got our first bits cut. Okay, so that took ages but this is basically what I had in mind. I'm going to have to find some way to stick this down because it is staying up. Maybe the doll sitting on it will keep it down. And then I've just got to cut out like one inch to go in this little bit here. Yeah, they're going to be so much better. So I'm going to get on with this and I will see you when it's done. You can kind of obviously see close up that I had to like cut out an extra piece. But like far away you can't really tell and plus the dolls will be covering it anyways. Okay, I've just cut out this little piece and it really satisfyingly slots in nicely. The glass closes perfect. Everything was going great. Until this happened. I'm going to cry. This is not good. It's like full on snapped off. This little bit has come out. I barely, oh my god, I barely touched her head. She's been sat in there. It won't fix. That is two Chloe heads that are broken today. What is going on? This is not okay. This is my first edition Chloe and her head's just snapped off. Like snapped off. That is not what you want to see when you take off a doll head. We've been through this in other episodes like how to remove a doll head and they have a little hook and it's now stuck in there. Where's that little piece gone? I've lost it. I don't know what I'm going to do. I'm never going to get that out of there. That is in there forever. You can just hear it. I literally went to put her in a sitting position like this. I barely even touched her head and it just snapped off. I don't know what to do. This is first edition Chloe and she's dead. She died. I'm so upset. I can see the hook in there. I'm holding the camera right up to the bottom. Can you see it? I can see it. There's hope guys. There's hope. I just don't know how to get it out. How am I going to get it out of there? This is a disaster. This is an absolute disaster. I can see it. I can't get it. Whatever it was, this little piece fell out. This is the worst thing to ever happen. What do I do? How do I get it out of there? What do I do with this? Okay, listen. We're going to have to put Chloe to bed for a little while. She's going to have to go to hospital. We're going to have to somehow... You can literally hear it in there. Reattach. My freaking first edition Chloe. Why? Why does that have to happen to my gorgeous first edition Chloe? Why? So sad, but I still had hairstyles to do. So I ventured out to find some hair elastics. I wanted the black and clear ones, but these looked a little bit too big. So I ended up going for some smaller clear ones. But in hindsight, they were a bit stiff and not the best to work with, but they did the job. So I start on the last remaining hairstyles and I learned that wetting the hair first and also adding a little bit of hair gel really helped to get the best results. Here I'm doing formal funk Jade, who I've been meaning to do for so many years. I used photos online as a reference and I tried to get as close to the original as possible. I combed out the hair, slicked it back, I made a ponytail, got a small section of hair from the back and made a twist, wrapped it around her ponytail, secured it with the band and tried to tuck it in as good as possible. For her fringe, I attempted her original style, but the hair seemed a little too short. It just felt it looked odd and the band really needed to be black. So I decided to just try flattening it instead. Then it was pretty much the same process on all the other dolls. Here's formal funk Dana. I gave her a ponytail, then created a parting with the remaining hair and tied it at the back. I fixed campfire Phoebe's twists. For sweet dreams Chloe, I did two bunches, took a section of hair and twisted it, then wrapped it three times around the band and secured it with another band. It doesn't look exactly the same as the original, but I actually think this looks really cute. Genie magic Sasha has a similar style to formal funk Sasha. So I separated her hair and redid her twists with some water and gel. These can be tricky at first, but essentially you need to twist the hair in the opposite direction that you wrap it. So I'm twisting each strand to the right and then wrapping it over to the left and so on. If you twist it in the same direction that you wrap it, you won't get the same rope effect. Then I tied them at the back to complete her original hairstyle. Okay, I managed to take her head off. It took quite a bit of pulling because it was really stuck in there, but I think if I try and like fiddle around with it, I might be able to put it back on so that it looks normal. There's nothing in there. It's like broken off. That's why her head's just falling straight through down rather than resting on here. So unless I can like try and makeshift something, but then again, I've still got to get it back in her head. So this might take me a little while to figure out how to fix. Okay, so I know I said this would probably be the very last episode, but seeing as it's getting pretty long and my doll's heads are popping off left, right and center, I'm going to split this episode into two parts. So if you want to see the finale, please do stay tuned for part two, which will be up very soon. Until then, thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next one. Bye.