And the best is getting paid to play with doll hair, all day long.
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When I worked at the American Girl store, my main responsibility was styling the dolls' hair. I occasionally did ear piercings — where you take the doll in the back so the kid can't see, then use a small drill to put holes in her ears — and cleaned dolls that had fingerprints or other dirt in them. But I was really hired to style hair.
The store had a special salon area, and a big chart next to the salon with all the different styles we could do. We'd ask each kid to pick a style she liked that also worked with her doll's hair — dolls with short hair didn't have as many options, which is probably why they weren't as popular. Kids tended to gravitate to dolls with long, pretty, styleable hair.
Most of the styles were pretty basic, variations on a few simple ideas. We did a lot of braids. The hard part was when the dolls were "well-loved," as we used to say — when they'd been played with really hard and had almost no hair left. Usually you could do something with creative combing, but I remember one doll that had hair all along the hairline, but in the back she was completely bald. We had to tell the customer we just couldn't do anything with her.
