MAC: Megan's Hair

Megan has a lot of hair and some of it needs some serious work.

Her bangs have the stair-step effect going on. This happens when you cut all of the bangs to one length, and then curled. Because the inside of a circle is smaller than the outside of a circle*, the inside/bottom of the bangs ends up longer than front bit. Because dolls have either wefts of hair or rows of rooted hair, their hair gets stair-steppier than ours would, but this happens to humans too.

You can see it sticking out right here. Handily, it's pretty easy to fix.
The first step is to make a terrifying gag shield for the doll's faceup.
You can see in this picture how it looks like she has another set of bangs under her bangs?

You tie back some of the bangs. Straight lines are easy when your hair's on tracks.

Then you tie back another layer until you're down to the bottom layer. In this picture, I'd already started cutting.

And then you just keep cutting! Doll heads are smaller than people heads, so it's hard to get the ends feathered out as quickly, so just keep going. Her bangs are pretty freakin' short here. Remember, if they're not shorter than you want them to be, they're too long.
Take off your faceup shield every once in a while to figure out where her bangs are realitve to her eyebrows

Put the next layer down. Square it off so it's notably longer than your first layer. Get to feathering that fucker like there's no tomorrow.

This is a bad picture. You'll see better ones later. Whatever. It's late and I'm full of anger and dont' care anymore.

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*the same distance traced along the circumference of a circle with a large diameter and a circle with a small diameter will cover a smaller percentage of the large circle than it does the small circle, however you want to say it. I had a teacher come in to work to buy fabric and she laughed at how I draw the number 8 and now I'm self conscious about not knowing what I knew in 4th grade