Realistic Hair: Hand Rooting Techniques: Reborn Dolls & Kits (Excellence in Reborn Artistry)

I am a new reborner and have been eagerly gathering all the information and instruction material that I can. Rooting the doll's hair has been difficult for me. My first doll was lucky to get hair in her head; never mind trying to do the perfect swirl or get that perfect baby look. I decided for my next doll, I wanted a detailed manual that I could refer to over and over. I have purchased DVDs and belong to forums that provide me with good rooting ideas and techniques but feel that with Jeannine's book, I have the information right at my finger tips and I can take it where ever I am working on the doll. She does not get into much detail about the perfect swirl, which is fine by me because she provides other options that look just as wonderful and for the beginner, are easily achieved. The pictures are great help, too. I definitely believe that this is a must for the beginner.

I've got to say I'm a little disappointed in this book. There are many pictures of dolls already rooted, but not much practical help for the beginner rooter - such as what length to cut the hair to and how do you hold onto that darn slippery stuff while rooting. Still, I've gotten enough information to make the book worthwhile to me. There's no getting around it - rooting is a slow process, but worth the effort in the end.

not as great as expected for the price ! very over priced,the digital download is 10.00 and that shoud be the price for this hard copy

It was very helpful book when just starting out makeing these dolls for your hobby need more book like this

Okay from now on I am staying away from Hopler's books. If her attention to detail in the dolls is as bad as her spell checking abilities... I guess that is why her books are self pubs. In 50 pages you get one example of step by step rooting that she has already started. Yes that is what I said. In the step by step she already has a third of the head rooted. Why? That is not step by step. I found this book to be worse than her other books. You want to save $35.? Here's the jist of the book: the angle you put the needle in the head is the way the hair will lay. Don't be misled, she does not show how to put the swirl in the back of the babies hair! I am returning this book like I did her last one. What a waste of time. Most of the book is made up of finished dolls that she has done the hair on. No instructions on how to do them, just a "LOOk WHAt I DID" type thing.

Dear Jeannine, this book on hair rooting is filled with excellent examples, tips, and a great step-by-step approach for people learning to reborn! I now have 6 of your books and they are so easy to follow. I have all the 3 of your Movies on CD and they are very nice, but I like to have the books too so I can follow along with them while I do the reborning. The Movies are a nice reference so you can watch the technique, but the books will be easier to find exactly which step you are looking for. Your books really give me the confidence to think I can do this. Thanks again!

In the last few months but mostly this month I have purchased your Excellence In Reborn Artistry (Creating the Umbilical Cord) and your book (Learn The Art)and just tonight I did your buy it now on your book about (Skin Tones) This other book of yours (Realistic Hand Rooting Hair). Most of all I want to say that I love the books I have bought. I have learned so much from them and it is so wonderful that your books can help so many people laern the art of reborning. I have been telling everyone I know about your books and how much you can learn from them. I like them so much that in the future I will be buying more from you. Thanks so much.Kathleen

This book on reborn doll hair rooting is an old version and needs update! Did not really learn much from this! Waste of my money!

I have some of the other books in this series, and whilst they are terribly American and very pro-brand-name in their approach, they do give a useful insight into how reborning is done. This book, however, lets the side down terribly.Yes, it is slightly informative, but the pictures are awful, they look as though they have been fast-draft printed onto cheap paper, and the resolution is so low as to make it hard to discern exactly what is going on in them at times. If it was a picture of something relevant but not necessary, then I would understand it and leae it, but the pictures form integral parts of the instructions and need to be viewed to understand the techniques and the result.At only 46 pages long (with four more pages of adverts for other books in the series) it is not worth the money, and looks like someone copied it on a basic copier and threw it together in half an hour. There is little in the way of technique and more in the way of 'look at the fuzzy pictures' which is not helpful at all. The layout is confusing, and the typeface is clearly done in large format so as to pad out the book. Had it been done properly it would have been an excellent booklet perhaps, but certainly not in thie format.My advice - get a different book or tutorial, it will be better and will certainly be worth the high price of these books!

Ich bin Reborn Einsteigerin und hatte mir von dem Buch schöne Fotos und neue Ideen für ein perfektes Rooting vorgestellt. Weit gefehlt! Die Fotos haben eine wirklich sehr schlechte Qualität und ich denke auch, dass dieses Buch völlig überholt ist. Mit diesem Buch kann ich nichts dazu lernen. Eher gruselt es mich, angesichts der armen Reborns, die mit grob gestochenen Haaren von minderer Qualität hier abgebildet sind! Der Buchpreis ist eine Frechheit!!!!

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