WIBU to take a doll to the barbers?

[Worriedaboutdog]

Trying to get a sense-check if this is bonkers before I do it and look like a fool. DS1 is four at the end of July, and for the last couple of months has kept asking for his birthday if he can have a ‘toy DS1’. His little friend has a doll that looks just like her which I think has given him the idea. However, I’m struggling to find a boy doll that isn’t a baby, and the couple I have found are expensive and don’t have the right hair and eye colours. I’m starting to wonder about buying a girl doll with the right colouring, and taking it for a haircut. I’d do it myself but I’m pretty sure I’d make a terrible mess of it. If I explained to a barber, do you think they’d give a doll a short back and sides?

Get him a doll, a girl doll of you want but cut its hair yourself.

Is this thread legit?

American Girl sell boy dolls.

mydollboutique.co.uk/dolls/2120-logan-boy-doll.html

Try American Girl (also come as boys) dolls.

Let him choose

I think it's a good idea. Both my girls have tended to choose dolls that look like them, why shouldn't a boy have the same option?
I think i would be finding a friend who could do the haircut though rather than taking it to the barber's.

Would you not just stop bringing your son to the barber, let his hair grow really long, then get him a doll? They’ll match!

I work in a salon and we probably wouldn't, for one the quality & placement of the hair is unlikely to allow for any sort of decent cut and the hair itself being synthetic can damage hairdressing scissors - most stylists I know are precious about their tools (understandably, they're expensive! ) and won't cut cheap wigs or extensions for the same reason.

Ok I’m getting the consensus that an actual professional hair-cutter would think I was bonkers. So I won’t do that. I didn’t want to do it myself as I’m incredibly cack-handed with things like that. I’m glad I sense-checked though as I was all set to buy one and send DH off with it next time he goes to the barbers. He did give me a bit of side-eye when I suggested it earlier, but he was on his way to work so we didn’t go into it and I thought he was just being negative .

It might not be as simple as cutting its hair. This woman does American girl dolls and transforms them into boys, she mentions a hair removal and a new wig.

I’d let him choose a doll himself.

Is this one no good? www.smythstoys.com/uk/en-gb/toys/fashion-and-dolls/our-generation/our-generation-rafael-boy-doll/p/162046

American girl dolls are over priced bits of shit. Target and Walmart do boy dolls and I think they ship to U.K. now. Or a cabbage patch doll? Don’t cut a girl dolls hair, it will just stand up on end, did you never cut your Barbie/Sindy’s hair? The long hair just covers a bald plastic head, it would look like a monk.

Boys having dolls is absolutely fine. Grown ups taking dolls to the barbers is seriously mental 😂

Odfod means ‘oh do fuck off dear’

Just answering a query and not the op.

You are clearly crackers op but you sound a good laugh

I think it's sweet. Could you ask your hairdresser to so it? Or post on a local Facebook site asking a hairdresser to do it.

Have you tried Chad Valley? I don’t think they’re cheap but you could probably get a boy doll with the right colouring etc.
I think it’s great that you’re thinking of a way to get him the doll. There is absolutely nothing wrong with a boy wanting a doll!
Btw my hairdresser would be delighted to give a doll a hair cut, and a bloody good job he’d do too!

My hair dresser would probably do it

In my city there is a doll repair shop. If there is something like that near you maybe you could ask them? They'd be used to dealing with hair surely.

Op If you have a look on youtube there is tons of films of people changing the look of a doll,colouring the hair,changing the eye colour,styling and cutting the hair.

I think it's really cute that your DS wants a mini version of himself.

Owlette yes that’s about the best I’ve found, but DS has quite dark hair. (Also I really think that doll needs a haircut regardless!) but yes I think if I can persuade him it doesn’t actually need to look exactly like him that one would be good. Do we think hair dye would work on a doll?

And elephant he’s already got a rag doll and is very clear he wants a doll that ‘looks real’.

I’ve seen the American girl dolls and actually one of them does look like him, but they’re so expensive! Plus shipping costs.

Can you crochet at all? There is a book called Amigurumi me by Allison Hoffman and it has patterns to make dolls to look like people. I’ve made one of my daughter :)
craftyiscool.blogspot.com/p/my-book.html?m=1

A quick google found this but I'm not sure what you'd find that isn't white, if you're not white. Which is a bit poo.

Our Generation Rafael doll any good?

Sorry. Just seen pp has already suggested it.

Sorry @elephant I meant to say it’s a good idea though!

Sorry I’m not replying to everyone’s ideas but thank you all for them! This is moving quite fast.

Asking my hairdresser might be a good idea, thanks to everyone who’s suggested! She’s very good and will definitely tell me in no uncertain terms what she thinks of the idea one way or the other . (In my head because it’s a boy doll it would need a barber but that’s clearly silly.)

Does it have to be a big doll? Finn from Lottie Dolls might work? Finn

But FWIW, my pal is a hairdresser, and she would totally do it (laughing with you, not at you!)