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Published: 2012-03-23 13:30:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 105929; Favourites: 1650; Downloads: 3173
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BEHOLD! MEIN LATEST CREATION! ZE BEAST; IT LIVES!Anyway, this monster of a tutorial ended up being about 25% longer than Fluttershy's , and I'll cry if I calculate how much longer it is than my Rarity and Pinkie Pie tutorials. The added length makes a little bit of sense since this is the first tutorial that involves quite a bit of trimming.
Also, I decided I would call the hair on her forehead "bangs", so feel free to laugh endlessly if you've never heard that term before. Somewhat ironically, although I use "bangs" to describe Twilight's forelock-thingy, the term is derived from the word "bangtail", a name for the tail of a horse cut straight across, or the name for the horse itself. So, if you happen to be a time travelling American from the 1860's, struggling to understand the terrifying technology the future has presented to you, this tutorial will probably break whatever is left of your battered mind.
I would also like to thank everyone again for your questions and comments regarding my tutorials, and the support you give me when I'm trampling though my self-assigned due dates like an elephant barging through an unfinished world record domino toppling attempt. I also love seeing the results of other people's styling both here, on deviantART, and in the ponychan thread .
And, of course, My Little Pony, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Twilight Sparkle, Owloysius and the Hasbro toys are all owned by Hasbro.
Anyway, I'm off to go replenish my stock of mana crystals. I've used up so many of them that I cannot even cook myself breakfast in the morning. I've been living off of 'Lucky Charms' and other slightly less magical meals for the past few days.
EDIT: Here are the Rainbow Dash and Applejack tutorials as well!
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If her bangs are still sticking up after following my tutorial, you will have to get them hotter. This may require using a different heat setting method. I talk about this a bit in the tutorial beside the last picture of Twilight under the lamp.
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Okay. Have a look through my tutorial. It may give you some ideas. I wove her hair and squished it against her face while wet to keep her bangs together. With her hair secured against her face with an elastic, I then dried it under a hot lamp. The heat from the lamp helped set her hair in place, just like a curling iron does for people hair.
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Holy shit, This is the scariest thing I've ever done! And I bet my Twilight is scared too!
Awesome tutorial by the way, Thanks!
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Unbeliveable!
Never did I imagine that there was a person who would put so much effort, not only to make these toys look more show-accurate, but even made a tutorial of how to do so!
I tip my hat to you, sir.
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Oh! And I don't have a desk lamp, can I use a hair dryer or would that melt the hair? Or can I just leave her out to dry?
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A hair dryer should work, although be careful not to blow the hair into a mess.
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It turned out really well! But her bangs keeps springing up, is there any way to fix that?
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You may have to heat set her again. The last lamp picture in the tutorial shows my Twilight going under again to get her bangs tamed. Try getting her hair a little hotter than before with your blow dryer.
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Okie dokie, thank you ^-^ at the moment she's just sitting on my desk with two tiny rubber bands holding her bangs down. She looks like a hippy. It's kinda cute XD but I don't want her to have to stay that way. Thank you for the help! I really like all your tutorials!
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This is awesome! My sister just gave her Twilight to me (because I killed a dragon for her in Skyrim) and Her hair is NOT pretty right now (little sisters :/ sheesh) so I wanted to fix it and I found this! Yaaaaay!!!! *hug*
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I have a Twilight crystal motion and she is so curly 
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It should, although you may have trouble with the tinsel in her hair. You may want to remove it from her hair before or after styling if it looks really bad.
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Aaaaaaaaaaaa, this is so amazing! I got so annoyed that she looks nothing like the show! >
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Yes, although the tinsel in her hair may get a bit messy. You may have to remove it after you style, or during if it creates problems while styling.
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How does one 'mush' something? Mush is baby food, or what you tell a sled dog. Is there any better word for that?
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Squish would probably work in this context as well. I use 'mush' as defined by the fifth definition here . When writing the tutorial, I was originally going for 'smush', which has the exact meaning I wanted , but when my spell-check complained, I just deleted the 's'. Apparently, 'smush' is informal. Pfft. Whatever. Give 'smush' another 50 years, and it will weasel its way into all of the most sophisticated vernaculars.
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I figured it out, but now I have a new problem. Her hair is lifting up, it looks like some pink and purple bird is sitting on her head.
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It sounds like you will have to follow the instructions to the right of the last under-the-lamp photo. If that still doesn't work, you will need to get her hair hotter during heat setting, which may require a different heat setting method.
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oh my glob so before I got the doll I was like this looks sooo easy. I got the princess twili and it was HARD! BUT I did it and then cut the tail short. 
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I used this on the 11 inch plush and it worked just as well
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Just got a Twilight Sparkle from the "Pony Wedding" set and I assumed this would work. I look forward to making my Twilight NOT have a 40 ft long mane and tail.
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Thanks for the great tutorial! Here's what I've done with it: [link]
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I was wondering if there was anyway you could post this as a PDF also? All I have is an ipad, and it is really tiny. I wouldn't ask but, your tutorials are the best.... And I am sad I can't see it
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I think this should work: [link]
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Try using a Rainbow Dash or Fluttershy for reference. (Or you could just leave her wingless. . . )
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I usually don't like very much MLP toys but i have to say that your tutorial makes them looking amazing !
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wow i just recently found this and this is awesome!!!
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The Twilight toy I bought only has one row of hair plugs. What do I do?
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If they are running vertically from her forehead to her neck, you don't have to worry about weaving the two rows together. Just split the hair in each plug into a right and left half and pull it over her face.
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Hey do you have one for Cadence? Or do you just use some if the techniques from the Rarity tutorial?
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I don't have a tutorial for Cadance, but it looks like you would want to combine the techniques of Fluttershy's and Rarity's tutorials to style her mane. If you could curl the ends of her mane and tail around hairpins without straws, and then just follow the Fluttershy tutorial, I think you would end up with something looking Cadance-y.
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Hasbro's fault.
I was ;ucky enough to get a banged-Twilight Sparkle before they all dissappeared.
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freakin awesome! just got 2nd twi and rarity and 1st r-dash. time to try this out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I wanna try this so bad...but I'm only almost 13 and I would completely mess it up
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Well, I suppose you would never know for sure until you tried it. And, the quickest way to get better at something is to practice it. You could gain confidence in your styling skills by styling Pinkie Pie or Rarity over and over again. They don't require trimming, so you can reset their hair style by running it under hot water and brushing it out. Once you can confidently style either of those two ponies, you won't have any difficulty styling Twilight.
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I was wondering how to fix her hair... I never thought of doing it this way xD This is super helpful; I'm totally going to try this out. Thank you so much for making this!
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