With all the talk about resin issues, I thought it was time to share another issue that comes up from time to time. My SID Asa has spots on her body, but they are different than Peach's. Asa's spots are rough areas in the resin surface which were not visible either on the blank doll, but when blushing the doll, they grabbed the blush, and it highlighted them. There's one spot on her chest, and another on her back.
I bought that body last year because I didn't like having a "floating head" and decided the second of my two EID girls needed to have a body of her own. Iplehouse doesn't sell individual bodies or heads, so I did a "split" with another collector, buying an Eva so she could buy the head, and I keep the body. The spots on Asa's new body showed up during the blushing process, and knowing that IH has a disclaimer on their site about rough areas and small spots in the darker resins being considered "normal", I made no attempt to contact them about it. Quite frankly, being a perfectionist, I was embarrassed about the spots, so never even mentioned them. But with all the talk lately about possible issues with resin dolls, I though it was high time to talk about the rough spots too.
I bought that body last year because I didn't like having a "floating head" and decided the second of my two EID girls needed to have a body of her own. Iplehouse doesn't sell individual bodies or heads, so I did a "split" with another collector, buying an Eva so she could buy the head, and I keep the body. The spots on Asa's new body showed up during the blushing process, and knowing that IH has a disclaimer on their site about rough areas and small spots in the darker resins being considered "normal", I made no attempt to contact them about it. Quite frankly, being a perfectionist, I was embarrassed about the spots, so never even mentioned them. But with all the talk lately about possible issues with resin dolls, I though it was high time to talk about the rough spots too.
Talking to experts who poured their own dolls, I learned that rough patches occur when a mold gets too old, or has been over-used, or there's a build-up of mold release. On normal skin dolls rough patches can be removed by sanding, but it's not wise to sand darker resins, as the sanded areas usually end up lighter than the surrounding resin.
The spot on Asa's back never sees the light of day, but the one on her chest is above her neckline. Fortunately it's almost in the middle of her chest and I can hide it with the pendant of her necklace. I don't know if anything can be done about it to remove it, but since it's in a place where I can hide it, I just live with it.
The spot on Asa's back never sees the light of day, but the one on her chest is above her neckline. Fortunately it's almost in the middle of her chest and I can hide it with the pendant of her necklace. I don't know if anything can be done about it to remove it, but since it's in a place where I can hide it, I just live with it.
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