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My Peach is Fixed!!!

6/10/2013

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Charie spent all day yesterday working on my Peach. She first tried adding freckles to hide the light areas, but she said she hated how that looked. So she took a chance and stripped the head down. Then going by some of the tips, suggestions, and questions posed by members of Zone of Zen doll forum, she held a light inside the head, and sure enough the marks in the resin were clearly visible, and they spread evenly across the bridge of Peach's nose. Then taking someone else's advice, she took a new, sharp razor knife, and scraped the surface of the areas which showed up with the light. She then sanded the face with her diamond sanders to even out the colour over the rest of the head to match the scraped areas. When she finally applied the sealer to start the new faceup, the light areas were gone!  She gave Peach a new faceup, and then decided to strip her body and redo it so it matched . Here's one of the photos she sent me....
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Peach looks beautiful now. It's almost like those flaws were never even there. Charie certainly did an amazing job!  If I didn't know where the light areas had been before I certainly would not notice them now. Especially since our photos really made the spots stand out more than they did in real life before, so now with them being gone in the photos, Peach will look perfect in real life.

This whole experience has taught us both a lot. First of all it shows that the BJD community is a friendly and supportive group ready to help when one encounters a problem - even when the doll company is not.   It's also a very important discovery that flaws in the resin will show up when a light is inserted into the doll. If everyone ordering a blank doll takes a few minutes to check their dolls upon arrival - and take photos to document any problems - it will save a lot of heartache when they try talk to the doll company and they try turn it around and blame the customer. Several people told me they had light spots develop on their darker dolls during the faceup process, but they thought it was just their inexperience, or a problem with the sealer. A simple "candling" before starting would have shown any flaws if there were any, and if there were none, then yes, light spots appearing during the faceup, would most likely be from the sealer. 

Another thing I learned in my research into what could be wrong with Peach, was that the most commonly used mold release for pouring resin, contains teflon. I have no way of knowing what's in the mold release the various companies use, but they definitely have strong "anti-stick" properties. So it's always very important to throughly clean a blank doll with Magic Eraser, soap and water, to remove any mold release residue.  My IH Asa JID was the only doll I purchased with a factory faceup, and part of her lip paint just flaked off within the first year. My EID Carina was the first IH doll I ordered blank, and at the time we weren't aware of how paint could flake off a doll which was not thoroughly cleaned. So Carina's fingernails and some of her body blush started flaking off within days.  After being stripped and thoroughly cleaned with Magic Eraser, her new faceup and body blush had no issues at all. Working with BJDs is an on-going learning process, but I wish sometimes it would be a little easier. Hopefully my next doll will be perfect!
9 Comments
marianne
6/10/2013 02:03:57 am

Charie is a star!

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Laura J. Underwood link
6/10/2013 05:58:47 am

Hooray for Charie!!

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Lorraine
6/10/2013 09:44:36 am

I think we've all learned something from your experience. Thanks so much for sharing and best of luck with Peach. She looks perfect.

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Jenny
6/10/2013 10:36:22 am

So glad you stuck with it and Peach came out all right. I was holding my breath for you

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Laurie link
6/10/2013 11:00:24 am

Martha,

How wonderful!! I am so happy for you that Charie was able to make her perfect. She is Beautiful!!! And thank you so much for sharing your experience, it has been a learning experience for us all. ☺

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Margo
6/10/2013 04:28:21 pm

Oh, I am so glad it has worked out!!! Thank goodness for Charie and all the other skilled and helpful people out there.

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Martha
6/11/2013 01:51:22 am

I'm so happy Charie was able to fix my Peach! Iplehouse has been no help at all, but like a stone wall, continued to politely insult my faceup artist as an "amateur", as though the only people in this world skilled enough to know when a doll has flaws and then do something about it, are the "professionals" who work for them. Uh huh. When they finally responded to my questions from last week, and they said I'd have to pay to send my doll head back to them for them to look over, all the while continuing to insult my faceup artist, that was enough for me - so I told them exactly what I thought of their lousy "Customer Service" .

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barbie
6/10/2013 11:25:37 pm

I'm so glad she was able to fix the issue. Peach looks amazing!

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Inma
6/11/2013 03:09:23 am

In my opinion Charie must be a fairy disguised as human. She did an amazing job on Peach ! I'm really glad for you, your Peach is a true beauty ! Thanks also for explaning all you did to find a solution for this problem.

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