Reborn Doll Paints

When painting a reborn doll, there are many different paints and inks to can be used to achieve lifelike skintones. It is important before choosing your colors to make sure your paints will not wash off, wear out or bleed into other colors over time.

The best paints for reborns are the genesis heat set paints, which are regarded as the finest for reborns by many artists. Genesis paints will not wear off the doll, and they also will not bleed through vinyl dolls - a common problem with acrylic paints is that they often do this.

Genesis paints come in a variety of colors, so you almost certainly won’t need to mix the paints before using them. Many artists sell premixed genesis paints on ebay as well. You can usually pick up ethnic paint sets as well, which is ideal if you are looking at making at ethnic reborn baby.

Genesis paints shoud be thinned before applying to the doll. You can do this with oderless paint thinner. Make sure you do not apply too much paint - more is less! You can always redo parts that need touching up.