Reborn Dolls: Human Like Features
A recent trend among collectors and hobbyists alike is the creation of the more realistic looking, more lifelike, and closer to a human child looking doll. Indeed, the trend known as creating reborn dolls has been something that is creating a new market and craft for hobbymakers and other individuals across the collectable community. The ability to create lifelike dolls now more than ever is spreading among those craftspeople who have long tired of the typical dolls sold at retail.
In recent years the reborn dolls market has really taken off because of the expanding use of techniques that make the dolls more life-like. The popularity of the berenguer and preemie dolls that have been around for a long time seems to be driving the reborn doll craze. The berenguer and preemie dolls are very realistic in size and appearance.
Often, reborn dolls are created using a specific process that works to strip the doll of its artificial appearance and trappings to create a more realistic looking and feeling model. The process usually starts with the disassembly of the doll and the removal of the paint that was applied at the production facility. This stripping of the paint off leaves a plastic shell that can then be altered as needed.
When you are working to create a reborn doll, you will need to add a purple color to the inside of the head, arms, and legs, so that you can start to achieve a realistic baby skin color. You will then paint the outside of these pieces with several different skin tone paints and colors, adding real skin color, and then to bring the doll a lifelike look, you will use other tones and techniques, creating skin lines, blemishes, and other effects.
Hair and eyelashes made out of real human hair or soft humanlike hair is used to give the reborn dolls lifelike features. Usually this process is done by hand and one strand at a time, this method can take many hours. After that the doll is then put back together with a softer under belly and filling. Sometimes they may add other extras to give the doll more aspects of a human being such as a hearbeat sound box to mimic a heart or breathing.
Reborn doll kits, which are ideal for those who wish to make their own reborn doll without a vast amount of work, are now available. However, the people who really want one have no problem spending upwards of a few hundred dollars to obtain one. The dolls are also popular gifts for mothers of new babies, as these dolls are reminiscent of their child's condition after birth.
In this age of modernization, it has become a challenge and desire to create dolls that more accurately resemble human children, items which are called Reborn Dolls. Berenguer and Preemie Dolls are good examples of dolls that started this life-like quality. There are a few touches that can turn an ordinary doll into a reborn doll and the directions and equipment to do so can be found in Reborn Doll Kits. Some examples include adding a purple color to the skin, and using softer hair. For those who want a reborn doll but are unable to do it themselves, there are companies that will make custom dolls for their customers.
Published June 19th, 2008
Filed in Ecommerce
