utting the outh:

• Use a smiling doll that shows teeth.
• Use a 'wedge' shaped exacto blade, or a very very pointy one.
• Start at the center of the bottom lip - just where the teeth meet the lip line.
• You're not removing the teeth, only separating them from the bottom lip.
• Push with steady pressure - don't saw.
• Cut just to the corner of the mouth, and then repeat from the center again.
• Be CAREFUL - the plastic right at the center is over a 1/4" thick, the plastic at the corners is barely there - don't let your cutting get away from you.
• Once you have the slit cut, use an emery board if necessary to sand the bottom lip 'shelf' smooth.
• When you're finished it should look something like this:
  

• Again, do as I say, not as I do here - *grin*
• Outline the lips in your darker color (think lip liner). I used a brick red because I was being lazy.
• Precision MATTERS - keep a toothpick with a bit of cotton wrapped on the end and a bit of rubbing alcohol handy to make sure you have clean lines.
• Fill in the lips with your 'main' color - I used a bright red.
• Paint your teeth using a cream..... please, please, pretty please don't use white.
• Thin your paints well with an extender, or water, so you have clear smooth color - if it doesn't take you 3-4 coats to get a 'solid' cream on the teeth, your paint is too thick.

• Ohh, you've been so patient! *grin*
• Break out two FLAT toothpicks.
• SAND the bigger end of the each toothpic into a 'wedge' - the more you sand, the better the points of your fangs. This is the most important step of the entire process here!
  
• Alrighty - all beautiful? - excellent deal - now - paint the fangs (in cream) onto the very tip, and paint the area behind them a brick red.
  
• Cut the toothpics off about 1/4" from the painted end. - sand the cut end (carefully, add more paint if necessary)
• Pick up the fangs with tweezers and very lightly draw a line of glue across the top and bottom.
• Squeeze bab's face so the cut section opens and using tweezers insert the fangs. - you want the outside edge as far to the side as possible and angled toward the inside so the inside tips almost meet in the center.
  
• Taa Daa! - fangs!

Well - like I said, mine were quick and dirty - but that's how it's done! - you can see at the top where I didn't sand enough, and again at the tips, same problem - more sanding would have made them lovely, but .... I was impatient, and I only made them to be able to make this tutorial so...... forgive me?

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