Frequently Asked Questions:
Q. How Long Have You Been A Reborn Artist?
A. After several years of watching tutorials and practicing, I completed painting my first reborn doll in 2016.
Q. What Made You Interested in Becoming A Reborn Doll Artist?
A. What made me interested in becoming a reborn doll artist is how unique and lifelike reborns are. I enjoy buying nice realistic sculpted doll kits and paint them to make my own creations. I always wanted to own reborn dolls but when I discovered that I could learned how to make them myself, my whole life changed. When I realized the finished reborn dolls are more expensive than the unpainted reborn kits, I was thought if I cannot afford to pay hundreds to thousands of dollars for a finished reborn doll, then why not just save up to buy the paints, dolls kits, and other supplies to make reborn dolls myself, and so I did! That is when I discovered the Bountiful Baby website, where many reborning supplies like paints, needles, dolls kits, etc. are typically sold. As I kept practicing and making reborn baby dolls and taking them out and showing them off, the more compliments and reactions I received from people telling me how nice, realistic, and professional my dolls look and that I did an amazing job on them.
Q. What Helped You Approved Your Painting Skills On Your Reborn Dolls?
A. What helped me approved my painting skills on my reborn dolls is, I like watch tutorials videos and I study pictures of real babies online and practice my painting skills and techniques and different kinds of African American darker and lighter skin tones on reborn practice test limbs so I know to do when it comes to painting the real actual doll kit.
Q. What Type Of Paints Do You Use To Paint Your Reborn Dolls?
A. The type of paints I use to paint my reborn doll are Genesis Heat Set Paints.
Q. What Type Of Varnishes Do You To Seal Your Reborn Paints?
A. The varnish I use to seal ALL my reborn doll is Genesis Thinning Medium. I do not use the Genesis Matte Varnish anymore due to the fact that the Matte Varnish can make the doll come out chalky-like and can also leave scratch marks if you rub your fingernail against the doll parts and it can leave rough textures on the doll that most people do not like especially me, Lol! With the Genesis Heat Set Thinning Medium, you get more of a smoother texture and feel; it does not feel rough or leave scratches when you rub your nail or something against the doll as the Matte Varnish would.
Q. What Kind of Oven Do You Use To Bake Your Reborn Doll In For Curing Your Paints?
A. The type of oven that I use to bake my reborn doll parts in for curing paints is a Turbo Convection Oven. I never use microwave ovens because I heard a lot of other reborn artists say that you should NEVER use a microwave oven when baking reborn limbs due to the possibility of extreme over heating and extreme excessive melting of the vinyl reborn doll. To prevent this from happening, I use a round-shaped Turbo Convection Oven that I only use for baking my reborn dolls and not for cooking food.
Q. What Materials Do You Use To Stuff And Weight Your Reborn dolls?
A. I stuff and weight my reborn dolls with soft, safe materials like polyfil, glass beads, and silicone poly pellets. I never use sand in my reborn babies due to fact it can cause them to grow mold inside the doll and make the dolls smelly! So by that being said, all my reborn dolls are safe to travel home around the world to their new mommy and daddies!
Q. Do You Have Any Pets and Do Your Reborn Dolls Come From A Safe Home?
A. My dolls do come from a safe home and nobody in my home smokes anything at all so you do not have worry about your new baby coming into your home smelling like cigarettes. We do have a guinea pig, but it does not cause any harm to your dolls. I do not paint or work on my dolls anywhere near the guinea pig for safety reasons. Your new baby will come in a safe and good condition. Your new baby arrive to his/her new family packaged with love and care and with some goodies!