Reroot Doll Hair: Make a Reroot Tool

Make your own Cheapo Reroot Tool...

Doll hair cannot regrow, but it can be rerooted! One of my recent tutorials covered the knot method, a painfully slow way of rerooting doll hair. Using a reroot tool is more efficient, and takes less than half the time the knot method takes. However, to use it you need a reroot tool! Many sites sell excellent metal tools, notably Dolly Hair. These are worth the money... but what if you’re broke?

Simple— make a Cheapo Reroot Tool! This sturdy metal tool can swap out broken needles and doubles as a hair-hole puncher!

You Will Need:
• Exacto knife (one without a rotating blade)
• embroidery sewing needle (size 7, 8 or 10)
• Wire Cutter
• Pliers (optional)

1. Unscrew your exacto knife, removing the blade from the handle.








2. Place the needle inside the handle, with the eye facing up (the pointy end should be inside the tool.) Use pliers to tighten the needle into the exacto blade handle.

3. Clip the eye of your needle with the wire cutter, leaving a pitch-fork shape behind. Try to clip at an angle, so one prong is longer than the other (this helps the needle sink into the scalp more efficiently)

4. Now you have your very own a reroot tool. To use it as a whole puncher, simply unscrew the exacto blade handle and turn the needle around, so its pointy side faces up. If the needle is too long to comfortably slide it into the head, clip the pointy side off using the wire cutter. Now check out my reroot tool tutorial!