Repaint Skin Color On Vinyl Dolls

Sharpie markers are permanent and stain terribly by soaking into the vinyl and sadly there is no helping that.

Repaint skin color on vinyl dolls.

Check my diy craft tutorial and blush your monster high ever after high and other bjd dolls like a pr. I discovered using vinyl spray as an option for repainting doll bodies through a tutorial written up by mymonstercrush. The oil allows dirt and debris to stick to the doll s vinyl skin. Baby wipe your doll.

However sharpie should never be used on vinyl dolls because it bleeds like what happened to your doll. Some doll artists like to dip all the white doll pieces in. Oil paint advantages oil paints have been used on reborn dolls for a relatively short time so there is a lot to be learned yet about the long term affect of oil paints on vinyl dolls. The acrylics are not suitable for blushing the reborn dolls or creating skin tones but they are useful for eyebrows fingernails and lip color.

If the doll has just a light smattering of grime and looks a tad grungy you can wipe down its skin with baby wipes. All of us humans leave behind traces of our own sweat and oil when we play with a doll for any length of time. Rather than do an all over skin color. If the oxy ten cream does not help then there is not much more you can do.

Before painting the doll you must remove all paint and surface sealers that are on the doll first. Use some kind of remover or stripper that won t harm vinyl. I liked the results and i especially liked the fact that vinyl spray allows you to recolor the soft vinyl head too.