this is another post about color consistency and skin tone matching.
It is relevant for all brands and OEM manufacturers that are made at Jinshan factory: WM Doll, WM Dolls, YL Doll, and OR Doll. Potentiall it also applies to related brands like Hitdoll or Jellynew as well.
The claim made was:
Maybe we are all getting color blind over here, but I asked two persons, and including me, three people with normal vision clearly stated:The old Jinshan skin tones (usually three, called something like "white", "natural" and "brown") and the new Jinshan skin tones (seven, including "Nava" black) have precise equivalents.
Light skin tones:Neither the old "brown" nor "natural" skin tones have unequivocal equvalents in the new Jinshan skin tones!
The big chunk on the bottom is a sample of Jinshan's old "Natural" skin tone as it was shipped in 2015 and early 2016.
Visually, the old "Natural" is something in-between the new "white" and new "cream". The old and the new "natural" skin tone are totally different. Visually, the color density of the new "cream" comes closest to the old "natural" skin tone - but the color components are different (the old "natural" has more pink in it).
Dark skin tones:
Again, the old "brown" or "tanned" skin tone does not match with anything of the new skin tones, neither the new "dark tan" nor "tan" nor "light tan". Visually, the color density of the new "light tan" comes closest to the old "tanned/brown" skin tones - but the color components are different (the old "tanned/brown" has more red in it).
How accurate are those skin tone samples? I have no idea. The samples of the new skin tones are pretty recent; the samples of the old skin tones are 1-1.5 years old and were stored in a UV sealed box.
Wanna match the skin tone of an old promotion photo with the current skin tones? Good luck guessing…
Sandro