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Nunni · Member

Emergency help!!!

honeyloves · Guru

The color won't be more noticeable after you bake him/her if anything it will be more faded but don't quote me as I haven't used these colors have fun,,,,,, and don't forget to show us your baby in the artist showcase

Nunni · Member

should i take the sking color off and redo the veins or just redo over the skin color really lightly??

honeyloves · Guru

I haven't used vein paint or skin tone :( but you should probably leave it on and paint the veins over top of the old ones and tap it lightly with the skin tone or maybe just a cosmetic wedge

-- Edited by honeyloves on Tuesday 18th of January 2011 10:51:34 PM

Georgiaga · Senior Member

According to the Secrist Course #3 DVD I just watched 3 times, you do the veins lightly and then blot them and then feather them into the skin so they are barely there and they will appear as under the skin...the skin texture - go in a circular pattern with a mushroom sponge or costetic wedge and pounce until you move the paint around evenly. If you see an area that's too heavy, pounce it out around it un til all lookss even. If you think there's too much on the doll, take a clean wedge or mushroom sponge and dab it off in a pouncing motion...don't drag or rub, pounce until all is a thin byt textured layer and you are pleased. HTH...Georgai

Susan · Senior Member

As far as I know the veins supossed to be barely there... u don´t want a very blue lines on the skin and yes, the veins have to show after u applied the skin color layers.

You have to always remember that in reborn world LESS IS MORE! I preffer to look always a very watery consistency when appliied the skin tone.

Don´t bake it more than 8 minutes.

-- Edited by Susan on Wednesday 19th of January 2011 12:57:02 AM

Georgiaga · Senior Member

Ok, tonight Rosie got her veins...fine, and skin texture...horrible! looks like white dandruff or a popcorn ceiling. Not quite that bad...LOL! It looks like I stipled paint on her, not like texture on skin. I used too much, right? I keep thinking I didn't see it enough and kept going back and back with very little paint on the mushroom sponge, but I went back over it like 3 times...that was the mistake, right? Now she looks chalky and like she had super dry flaky skin or complete face and limbs of milia

So she's the first one I've done with skin texture, (only 2nd kit) so I am learning on her...I went ahead and just moved on to the blushing and blushing in the creases, lips, nails, yada...baked again...next -tomorrow will be creases and wrinkles and other steps. just bummed out as I was doing so well on the other baby, and now this...even under my new Ott light with magnifier...so tell me if I used too much paint on the texture?
I felt I needed to basically color the skin and that was wrong, right? I just needed to provide some pores not coloring, right? I made her overly caucasian...almost albino...LOL!

Georgiaga · Senior Member

Georgiaga wrote:

According to the Secrist Course #3 DVD I just watched 3 times, you do the veins lightly and then blot them and then feather them into the skin so they are barely there and they will appear as under the skin...the skin texture - go in a circular pattern with a mushroom sponge or costetic wedge and pounce until you move the paint around evenly. If you see an area that's too heavy, pounce it out around it un til all lookss even. If you think there's too much on the doll, take a clean wedge or mushroom sponge and dab it off in a pouncing motion...don't drag or rub, pounce until all is a thin byt textured layer and you are pleased. HTH...Georgai

My gosh, did I write this??? Didn't take my own advice and went back and back and back 3 times! Where was my brain? LMFAO!

Susan · Senior Member

OMG... sorry Georgy for your Rosie... it looks like Rosie´s doesnt have luck this days... remember that mine got a chalkie face too... I repair that using some thinner on the chalkie spots but I don´t know if that can works for your baby.

I think, because that happens with me, that when we notice that our baby is not looking good, we try to fix him/her using more layers of paint and we despaired... maybe u need to let your baby for a while and then think on how to fix it with fresh eyes... that´s my opinion.

Georgiaga · Senior Member

Good advice, thanks, Susan!

I am using Authentic Reborn Gentle Touch paints from Secrist that don't require thinner...do any of you all use this?
Do you use a mushroom (large) sponge and pounce the skin texture on like Secrist or do you all use Genesis and paint it on thin and then go back and pounce off the excess with a cosmetic sponge?

Georgiaga · Senior Member

Can yoou go back over it with thinner after it's been baked?

Susan · Senior Member

I use Genesis... and I did it... I had to take off all the paint of the lips with thinner.

Nunni · Member

Can someone plz tell me what color you are supposed to do the creases in? I have denise pratts dvd and she tells all the other colors but that one OH NO ... I used the blushing color and now dakota looks like she needs a bath LOL.....

Buffington · Guru

You may want to search the forum for chalkies, chalky skin, anything about chalky. It will bring up loads of stuff!!! Lots of people have that problem. Yes, it's too much paint. You just want to see little tiny pores or dots of paint.
All the heat set paints are Genesis, just made with specifics for each company. Secrist has several including AR paints with thinner added. But they're still Genesis. FYI :D

Either take a terry towel and rub the parts or use thinner. That should do it. for other suggestions do the search.

I use a cosmetic sponge. Haven't tried the round sponge yet as I'm happy with the wedges. I do use a natural sea sponge for the mottling though. And then I pounce lightly over that with the wedge again.

Georgiaga · Senior Member

Thanks all! I shouldn't have baked her when I saw that. I tried to go back over after the fact with acetone and thinner...no luck, It took the edge of it off, so it's just looking as if she has very weird, dry skin, but she's my first with all the many steps, so ...all the other parts came out great so far...If you minus the skin texture debacle all is well...all I need to do left is the putple wash and blue on the lids and the moist glaze and the baby tears gloss and she's ready to rot. I will take pics for the artist showcase upon completeion, but just remember she is too twxtured when you see her...I just placed an order for AR Flesh o7 & 08 and the titanium white ...I need to use that on her nails. So I guess I was wron, she'll be done after the nail tips. Do you all put a last flesh tone over them after the blushing and stipling? Do you just brush it on with a Mop#3 very transparently or not?