About two and a half years ago, we scored an American Girl doll for Penny at a stoop sale for $10. The girl was selling 4 or 5 of them, and Alex and I literally had $10 in cash between the two of us, or we would have bought all of them. Luckily for Penny, her big cousin is slowly outgrowing her American Girl doll, and passing along anything she isn't using anymore, and my mom is the world's best thrift shopper, so Molly is living the life over at Chez Z. What was undeniable about Molly, though, is that something needed to be done about her hair. I had tried to handle it, Penny tried to manage it - no go. Originally her hair came in braids, and somewhere along the line before we got her, the braids were taken out and it was all over by the time we got her.
Cut to Sunday. I had been doing some online research about how to handle this hair situation, and was almost convinced I was going to pack Molly up and send her to the doll hospital, when I found out about the Hair Salon at the American Girl Place. I was intrigued. Alex was going to be spending the day at Comic Con, so I told Penny to pack up Molly, we put Milo in the stroller, and off we went to midtown. There is an extensive line-waiting appointment-making receipt-showing process that took about an hour and a half altogether, during which we bought Molly a new pair of glasses (I told Penny we would be getting her hair done and a new pair of glasses, and THAT'S IT. I could easily have spent several years' salary in there), and as Molly was discontinued a few years ago, everyone on the staff was genuinely excited to see her. Only kind of creepy.
When our appointment time arrived, Molly was strapped into a salon chair
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| I forgot to take a "before" photo, but you can get an idea of what's going on here, This is already a few minutes in. |
I also opted for the "spa treatment" package, where Molly got a thorough cleaning, and some nail stickers to take home, so the first step was rubbing her down with some special powder, and the grime that came off this doll was worth our trip into the city on its own. Molly's hair is such that it sort of needs to be braided, so none of the fancy half updos that Penny liked would do. However, the result was incredible:
Truly, I never thought I would be this excited about getting a doll's hair done. Certainly not THIS excited:
Check that off my mother-of-a-five-year-old-girl list. Luckily Milo is a super chill baby, and he only got upset at the very end of our excursion.
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