Incooming from Italy - and question on changing skin tone

sonofadoll · Post by **sonofadoll** » Tue Mar 30, 2021 4:35 pm

Hi I am waiting my first doll, a WM166c with full optionals including breathing and sounds that they should have shipped yesterday.
This happens thanks to the posters on this forum because I might not have made this decision without the lot of useful information and enticing photos that I found here. So thank you!
Now a question for the veterans: is there some safe and tested way to slightly change a TPE doll skin color (particularly to make it slightly darker, even temporarily). I have read some posts about a mix of coffee, tea, and red wine but some replied saying that they failed with it. So, anything else?

Grimmiekins · Post by **Grimmiekins** » Tue Mar 30, 2021 6:25 pm

best thing you could do is dye your doll but even then you do not want to submerge your doll in water, the water will work its way into the doll and do damage to her.
best thing i saw was a guy hung his tpe doll up and used spray tan , then he heated the whole doll with a heat gun to lock in the dye.

you will most likely notice your doll is darker than you think when you get her. the factory lights make the dolls look much lighter

sonofadoll · Post by **sonofadoll** » Tue Mar 30, 2021 7:33 pm

Thanks for the good info Grimmiekins!

sonofadoll · Post by **sonofadoll** » Mon Apr 19, 2021 10:36 am

aaand it's arrived today, from Lovedolls. I just finished to wash her and powder her. Here's the first pics (in inverse order, last to first):

dxc · Post by **dxc** » Mon Apr 19, 2021 1:06 pm

Hey,

I have darkened one of my dolls with red mineral powder/clay powder. I ordered it at a shop selling stuff for making soap and cosmetic products. It works pretty well and should not be harmful to the TPE since it is basically like powdering the doll. The powder I got was rather fine and and it sticks pretty good. But it takes a bit til she did not color the clothes anymore. And it is quite some work if you wanna get everything off again.

sonofadoll · Post by **sonofadoll** » Tue Apr 20, 2021 4:20 pm

dxc wrote:Hey,

I have darkened one of my dolls with red mineral powder/clay powder. I ordered it at a shop selling stuff for making soap and cosmetic products. It works pretty well and should not be harmful to the TPE since it is basically like powdering the doll. The powder I got was rather fine and and it sticks pretty good. But it takes a bit til she did not color the clothes anymore. And it is quite some work if you wanna get everything off again.

Thanks mate, but I found that my doll is much more tanned than it looked like in the pics from WM, so it is fine as it is, but good to know anyway.