This was originally Toffee, the yellow kitty with yellow hair. I painted her all white and then painted the siamese cat markings. The body isn't quite finished yet, so here is just the head, which I finished today. It's my first reroot, so I used yarn to make things a bit easier. As there was not enough yarn of the same color, I used three different shades of white.
The top of the head got a bit torn when I removed the original hair as the holes were so close to each other. I fixed that problem by applying several coats of paint on the holes and applying a generous amount of sealer on top of it. The sealer helps to keep the paint from cracking too badly during rerooting, although there was one small crack. It would probably be even better to put sealer first in the holes, then paint and then more sealer.
Customizing Petite Catwalk Kitties is fun. Here is what I did with a Chase doll. First, I opened her hair and there sure was a lot of it.
Then she got some temporary tattoos, which I covered with satin sealer to prevent damage to them. I painted her top, because it would have been hard to make a fabric top that would not have covered the tattoo on her back. She also got an eyebrow ring, which is piece of gold plated metal wire bent to shape and pushed through the vinyl (first I made a hole with a needle). At this point, I had cut the hair a little shorter to make it easier to handle her, but final haircut was not decided yet.
She originally had green shoes, but as I had an Anika doll I was going to customize too, I swapped their feet and Chase got boots. They were originally white, but I painted them black, added some glitter to the flower patterns on the boots and covered everything with sealer.
And here she is finished. The skirt is made of black leather and the jewelry from thin copper sheet. I decided to cut her hair fairly short and I think it turned out very nice.
