What You Basically Need For Reborning Dolls
Posted in Uncategorized on September 3rd, 2010

Making your own reborn doll can be daunting, time-consuming, and sometimes frustrating especially if the results are not what you are expecting. Although there are reborn dolls for sale in stores, there is nothing more rewarding and exciting making your own. Actually, there is no definite and correct process of reborning a vinyl doll to make it more realistic or lifelike. Many reborners (persons or artists who reborn dolls) do the process differently. This makes reborning fun. Following other reborners’ steps in reborning can help. Practice these steps until you get to memorize them. Eventually from there, you can create your own process.
This article can be a great help for you to get started. Especially for beginners, the initial steps that will be highlighted in this article can be very helpful. Many reborners have started with these simple steps. Ultimately, there are able to make adjustments to the process using their own techniques or methods.
To start with, you must get hold of a 20-inch LaBaby doll. This is the most appropriate doll to practice reborning. So, it is best to get acquainted with this type of doll. Although, you can find some alternative dolls aside from the LaBaby doll. For practice purposes among newbies, you can opt to buy a cheaper doll.
Now that you have your doll, you can go ahead and collect the other supplies that need. Here are the essentials:
•Replaceable-blade knife
•Small funnel
•Pack of toothpicks
•2 small paint brushes (1 fine-tipped and 1 square)
•Bag of cotton balls or swabs
•Bag of Q-tip
•Air mask
•Makeup sponges
•Old stockings or pantyhose
•Acetone (pure variety)
•Clear crafting glue
•Timer
•Blow dryer
•Needle files
•Flathead screwdriver
•Small scissors
•Tweezers
•Latex gloves
Additionally, here are other supplies you must need. These are actually the stuff that will become a part of your reborn doll. You will need 1 set of eyelashes, replacement eyes for awake faces, a cloth body (with jointed limbs), 1 bottle of white glass paint, 1 bottle of gloss for glass painting, 1 bottle of sealer or glass paint, 1 bottle of Rit mauve dye, Caulk, oil paints, linseed oil, eyebrow pencil, polyfill, 1 pound of craft sand, and medium brown felt.
These just the basic essentials you need to create your own realistic baby dolls. When you have all of these, you can start doing the process of reborning.








