Sunday, February 26, 2012

Makeover

(Reposted from February 22nd, 2012!)


Poor Pangea. When she tumbled off the trailer onto Texas soil, she had no idea she'd fallen into the snares of a grooming maniac. (No seriously. Gogo used to walk out of her stall completely ungroomed looking this sparkly. Notice the shavings in her tail? Completely untouched by grooming tools. I just kept her THAT clean!) She looked like a bit of a hot mess - so much hair! so much dirt! - and there was no way I was going to live with that!


"Ummmm... what are you going to do to me?"





Ohhhhh dear. Well this will never do. This is also a lesson on how to make your horse look as unflattering as possible. Notice the excess hair, long scraggly mane, beard, raggedy tail, and most awkward pose ever. I promise she's not built so horribly in real life. You'll see what I mean in a minute.


Ohhhhhh dear....



Well that's gotta go.



MUCH better.



Uh ohhhhh....



Phew, all better!





I also did her scraggly, thin, gnarly mane.... I had to cut it with scissors instead of pull it because it was too thin and long!

My clippers were uncharged, so I couldn't get rid of all her crazy whiskers, but I managed to give a scissor cut to the worst of her mare-beard. She looks less like a circus side show bearded lady now, and more like a real lady instead.

Voila:



Now THAT'S a pretty mare! Can you imagine how nice she'll look with some topline on her?

Tomorrow she'll get a bath (it will be 80 degrees!) and then she will finally look like a REAL respectable horse!

3 comments:

  1. Hey Andrea, this is like the stupidest question ever, but what'd you do to her tail? Just shorten up the pipecleaner bit with scissors?

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  2. I'm curious about the same thing. I have no luck with pulling my guy's tail. What's your technique for "pulling" the tail by cutting with scissors? Can you post a tutorial?
    Thanks!

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  3. I'll see if I can write something up... not really sure how best to explain it, I just sort of eyeball it out!

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