If your thrift store sells really damaged Barbies, you can buy two and use the parts from one to fix the other.

If you find small pin holes in parts of the bodies, these can be gently sanded with an emery board. Use the soft toothbrush to get into small crevices and grooves. If she has been colored on, use the Goo Gone and the scrubber, it should remove crayon and ink and marker.

First, clean her body with warm water and all purpose cleaner. Most thrift stores just trash the really damaged Barbies so this should not be to hard to find. Time to Complete: 30 minutes to 2 hours, depending on condition of Barbie InstructionsYou will need to find a Barbie with arms and legs in good condition. *You will need the thick straws like you get with a fountain drink from the 7-11, small drinking straws you can buy at the grocery or perm rods (the smallest that they make). small rubber bands (the kind used for braiding, clear pony tail holders or orthodontic bands from braces).some straws cut into pieces for curlers*.The tools you will need are things you probably have around your house. You can cut uneven hair and style it anyway you want. There are many people out there that take old Barbie's and remake them into beautiful dolls that Mattel has yet to think of. Believe it or not it is not as hard as you would think. In this article, I will try and give you instructions with pictures for giving an old Barbie that you have bought at a thrift store a new makeover. She was very gracious and gave me all the directions on how to do a Barbie Extreme Makeover and I thought I would share her instructions with you. I just had to figure out how she had done it. So this is why she had so diligently collected Barbies all summer. Barbies can be very expensive, as anyone with a little girl well knows. She was going to throw a Barbie birthday party for her granddaughter and wanted each girl to have a special Barbie to remember the party with and to also use as decorations.

There they were all sitting on her table and you would not believe how beautiful they were.

About two weeks ago, she called me up and asked me to come by so I could see what she had done with her poor neglected and abused Barbies. Well, the summer passed and she had collected about 25 Barbies.

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