1. Choose your hapless victim:
2. Remove the screw from the back of her head:
3. Use a sharp knife to separate the scalp from the back of the head:
4. You should now be able to pull the back of the head off:
5. The eye mechanism is just lightly sitting in the front face plate. Lift or tip it out:
6. Do the same to another petite Blythe and swap them over.
7. Reassemble dolls.
8. Admire your handiwork. Here’s mine:
9 Comments
Add your own1. Annabel | October 6th, 2008 at 8:34 am
Wow! great tip and some truly ghoulish images- you’ll have to enter them in the WPWD Halloween photo comp!
2. Alana | October 6th, 2008 at 8:35 am
The tiny eyemech is so cute!
3. Jade | October 7th, 2008 at 7:42 am
Wow cool I’ve never seen inside a petite head before
4. sandrab | October 8th, 2008 at 2:34 am
A brown-eyed bride! They suit her!
5. forsythia | October 9th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
It’s fantastic entries like this that will give me the confidence to this one day
Thanks so much! I think this sets a great precedent for teaching others how to modify their dolls. Nothing like a visual resource to help a girl along 
6. Virginia | October 12th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
The eyelids are super easy to paint as well, when you’ve got them out. And they look so cute when she’s sleeping!
7. Sue | October 13th, 2008 at 11:40 am
Thanks Forsythia! I’ll be doing some more customising v soon, so I’ll blog as I go
I’m definitely going to give the eyelid painting a go Gin, yours looks adorable!
8. dana birthistle | July 3rd, 2009 at 5:24 am
What do you paint the eyelids with?
9. Sue | July 20th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
regular acrylic paint. you’d need to mix it with some extender though to get the right consistency.
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