Doll Repaint
This was Barbie before I started.

The First thing I did was remove her "makeup".  I tried non-acetone nail polish remover but couldn't get all the paint off of her, especially her lips so I went and got pure acetone.  Kudos to Stroudsburg Beauty Supply next to AC Moore for the acetone.  Anyway, the acetone worked like a champ, then I bathed her face in a baking soda wash so the vinyl wouldn't get ruined from the acetone and rinsed her hair a bit to be sure there was nothing in that.

Now to start with her hair.  I decided not to reroot on the first doll so I had to color.  I was going for a goth look so I wanted dark, black hair on my blond Barbie.  After looking at the options I settled on acrylic paint.  I started with Liquitex Basic Ivory Black since they were out of Mars Black at the local AC Moore.  I covered her body with a plastic bag and covered her face with plastic wrap to protect her from getting painted while doing her hair.  I put on plastic gloves myself.  I added water to the paint so it was almost an ink-like consistency then used a foam paint brush to coat her hair.  I used a fine tooth comb to work it through her hair from the scalp to the ends. This is her after her first coat of paint.

After letting her sit a bit, her hair looked a bit grayish so I did another coat using Apple Barrel black acrylic undiluted as it's a thinner craft paint.  I don't know that the paint color was bad she probably just needed a second coat since trying to cover that blond with black was likely to need more than 1 coat.  I also gave up on the gloves during the process as I had to keep combing her hair periodically as it dried all afternoon.  The paint washed right off my hands with soap and water easily anyway.  

Ok, Once the paint dried, I really didn't like the stiff, dull looking painted hair.   Not sure I would do hair "painting" again.  I'd like to get some yard sale dolls and try dying the hair with kool-aid or rit dye.  I'm starting the face painting now.  This should be fun...