My reborn process

Many people have asked me how these little ones come alive, let me take some time to tell you.
I use heat set paint on all my babies, it is a oil based paint that will never chip fade or crack. I don't cut any corners on these little ones I use top of the line material such as angora goat hair, Genesis Heat set paint, very fine glass beads to get that perfect baby weight and so on.

1. I start with a warm bubble bath to get the vinyl nice and clean

2. Next I do a very light wash depending on what color the kit is. If the kit is very pink I will do a mint green wash. If it is two orange I will do a blue wash. The wash just helps neutralize the vinyl.

Then I put the baby in the oven to heat the Paint on

3. Next I paint the veins on the forehead ,feet ,hands and knee. I will also add blue and purple between the eyes and the temples of the face.

Then I heat again

4. Next I will put on my first flesh layer to get my base this is the lightest flesh layer I will apply.

Heat again

5. Then I will get a sea sponge, if I am doing a newborn and start layering about 3 different flesh layers with the sponge to get that mottled baby look. I heat between each layer. I will do this Until I get the look I want.

Heat again

6. Now I will add some color using my sea sponge I will blot on my blush colors very lightly to get a good base blush

Heat again

7. Now I will start my details by blushing the bottom of my feet, palms, hands, knees, lips, and checks. Then I do my nails.

Heat again

8. Now I will look and see what needs to be done, if it needs more color I normally always add more color to the checks bottom of feet, knees, elbows, ears, lips. Then I do my fine detailing this is where I add any birth marks, scratches, milk spots, veins on the eyes, and so on

Heat again.

9. Then I add a texture to make the baby look real so it will have no shine to it.

Bake for the last time.

10. Now I hand root the hair one at a time to get that real baby look, I also root the eye lashes. This take me about 2 or 3 full days to do depending on how much hair I want. Then I glue it on the inside to secure it. Let it sit over night.

11. Now I will add weight to the baby using glass beads and poly-fill. Once that is done I put the baby together and dress it up . I normally spend at least a full month on each baby just to make sure I'm not rushing anything and everything is perfect.