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.