L'image salon practice heads. Nice. Mannequin or cloth doll?

[rubherkitty]

I spent some time tonight looking to see what rubber or vinyl mannequin heads are available now days and found a line called L'Image. Kind of pricey at around $180.00 for their top of the line, but those do have long virgin human hair of Euro origin/ blonde. Several face styles and hair color options.
These are fairly realistic looking for trainer heads and I imagine adding realistic eyes and make up, etc could really make them shine.

There's even some social media sites set up by some of the ladies that use these to showcase their hair work for hire.

These heads seem to be mostly out of stock or hard to get. Not sold in the US either. They would work pretty good if you wanted a softer or replacement head for a mannequin body. I'm interested in these for a stuffed doll body.

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[CF]

Those are pretty. Obvious starting place, but have you tried eBay for some inexpensive ones?

[rubherkitty]

I own many other quality vinyl mannequin heads such a Clic, Hairart, etc, but I find them all lacking in detail. These just seemed to look a little better. Nice full lips too!