I was unable to find very much information about customizing La Dee Da Dolls, so I thought I would go ahead and post some of my findings here. The first thing every customizer usually wants to know is how to remove the head and I am happy to report that removing the head of a La Dee Da is fairly easy. All you have to do is apply some blow dryer heat to the neck joint area until it becomes a little softer and more pliable, then you’ll want to gently pull out the head plug. The head plug is somewhat similar to Monster High head plugs in that it has a prong attached to the top of the plug. You can see this in the picture. Now here’s the bad news, the neck hole is really really small as you can tell from the picture. Because the neck hole is so small I don’t think it’s a very good candidate for rerooting. You might be able to do it using the reroot tool, but I have no idea how you could fit tweezers in the hole to pull out the old roots.
Looking on the bright side though, she can always wear wigs. Here I have her wearing a size 6-7 Kemper wig with all of her original hair tucked inside the wig cap. If you want to cutt off the original hair, I’m thinking a 5-6 wig ought to be a better fit. However I would like to point out that because of her cranium shape which is kind of like Blythe’s in that it’s not as rounded in the back as a normal skull, when you tuck all of the original hair inside the wig cap it can round out her cranium so it will not look weird. You can see the side view below.
So, this is as far as I have gotten with my customizing experiments on her, but I will be sure to post more info when I have it. Hopefully this will be helpful to anyone else who wishes to customize these dolls.
Eee. Huge noggin’ to reroot with lots of plugs and a tiny, tiny hole to get the tools through. Not happening at THIS house, that’s for sure XD If they do pop up rerooted, it will probably be with the punch method.
I have the same feelings on that as well. XP I think you could do the punch method….but blergh I could foresee so many problems…so I think I’ll just go with wigs. 😉
Do you think Monster High heads (such as the ones from Create A Monster packs) would fit over those pegs and onto LDL necks without overlapping/eating the neck? MH necks are insanely slender as well so it seems doable…?
Unfortunately it does not work. I just tried it with my Clawdeen’s head and because the monster high neck hole is larger, the head basically as you said, eats the neck and sits on the shoulders of the doll. I imagine though if you really wanted to do it you could try modifying the neck peg to make it larger. After all if people can mod neck pegs to put Pullips on obitsus, I’d say nothing is impossible. 😉
Drats! A little modifying is very true and doable though! I may have to get a bit bold and try it out sometime… Thank you for the reply! 🙂
I am sure she will look amazing when you are done. Custom dolls are always best.
Thanks…she turned out OK, but I was hasty with the painting and her eye paint has a bit of…thickness about it. ^^;;