Thanks for the info about cloudy eyes on vintage hard plastic and vinyl dolls.
Replacing eyes in vintage vinyl doll.
First remove the old sleep eyes.
Pull the towel away from the doll s face.
Try not to do too much cutting no more than necessary.
These are for modern dolls mid 1950s present.
Replacing half eyes in berenguer dolls.
Here is one pair of sleep eyes for dolls.
Take out the eyeball or push from the front to push it into the head.
There is an easier way that works with some dolls but not all of them.
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The eyes wont work for the composition early cissy or other weighted eyes dolls.
The 13 and 14mm sizes usually fit.
This is for dolls with vinyl eye pockets.
While the vinyl is still warm pop the new eye in.
Take off the doll s head and slice the back of the eye socket using a small scissors or exacto blade.
Set the doll s head back down on the towel and move the weight down so the eyes remain closed.
Choose brown blue or green in sizes 6mm 27mm.
Make offer vintage german blue eye doll eyes 1 2 mint in box old stock.
I don t believe the hairdryer trick or the oil trick which could make things worse works for this problem.
There is an eye issue with older composition dolls that people call blown eyes crystallized eyes or flat eyes.
Then pop the eye out of the socket by pushing from inside the head.
Many 1930s shirley temple dolls have them.
The berenguers have soft vinyl so you can heat the vinyl around the eye using warm hot water or even a hair dryer.