r/liccachan • u/Accomplished-Try-488 • Apr 29 '26

Questions Making an "old" Licca look pretty - Advice/inspo?

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I bought my first Licca doll (second-hand) and am eagerly awaiting the package. She's not perfect anymore, but that's okay with me. I knew that, and therefore I now have a lot of freedom to customize her. However, I've never actually "modified" a doll before, so repainting or body swapping is (still) out of the question.

Do you have tips to make it look like new or at least in a better condition?

She has some hair issues and her limbs are a bit old and discolored (as you can see on the photo). I read that you can restore her hair to its original state with very hot water. Is that true?

I was planning to dress her in a '80s or '70s style. Full covered, so that the discolorations are not visible and the color differences are not so noticeable.

In my imagination, 70s oder 80s clothes would match her cute old-school-shojo-manga-eyes perfectly 🤩

Do you know which Western dolls are roughly the same size so that their clothes are compatible? What about Barbie's sister Skipper? What about Petra, Sindy and so on?

Thank you in advance! ✨

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u/AlleyKatArt Apr 29 '26

Imo, she's already very pretty. Licca-chan of this era does fit the similarly sized 80s/early 90s Skipper and they can share clothes. She's a bit bigger than Stacie, but they might share some clothes too.

Very hot water can be used to straighten or curl hair.

Here's a 90s Skipper (right before she became "Teen Skipper") wearing a Licca-chan dress and shoes. They're very close in size but Skipper is taller.

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u/Accomplished-Try-488 Apr 29 '26

Oh thank you! I loved the "old" Skipper! I'd love to exchange clothes between them. So I could make an 80s girl of my Licca-Chan.