#bjd dyeing

[meanae]

A few commissions! The Pride head is mine, I am still not sure if I#ll keep him... The cat octopus dolls were mia white before and are dyed completely.

[kaxenart]

Starting a dye job dingaling first lol

Czes needs to be a smidge darker than B69 (the leg piece)

30ml dyemore sand stone, 2ml chocolate brown 1 ml peacock green 2 liters water for 3 minutes

I feel like this is my go to light tan recipe.

Some of the coating for fortis's joints don't seem to affect dye reaction too much beyond the inherent weirdness of texture like a golfball

The evaporation got a few pieces a little blotchy so I added 1 liter of water and an additional 2 minute dip. Didn't 100% smooth out some spots but it helped the chest look more even (it was barely submerged for the first dip. Lol learned my lesson. Use more water or do big pieces earlier)

Ended up kind of close to Resione TH-BJD bronze (the toony hand) which is pretty good for the head that needs to be 3D printed. A few spots absorbed more green/yellow for some reason and the anti-slip coating on the torso pieces resisted dye more than the shoulder pieces and I think some of it touched the outside of the belly piece a tiny bit.

But overall no problems a little blushing can't solve

[roanrosser]

Trying my hand at dyeing a doll for the first time. Dyeing subjects are a Dream Valley Uncia in white that I'm turning into a red panda and a Pipos Mouse in yellow.

I set up a station in the back yard since I heard the dye could smell. It was a good call. Yuck.

End of day 1 the red ended up too light. It got dark and I couldn't tell that they needed longer.

Day 2 I added a little more brown and yellow to the pot and dyed the parts longer. Lost all the magnets in the pot but it was worth it.

[kosomolski-dolls]

Bjd dyeing tutorial

Text version under the cut 💕

Disclaimer: dyeing can damage your doll, either through the color or the heat. Please continue with caution.

What you need:

Dye for synthetic fabrics. I use Rit Dyemore because it's liquid and you won't have a problem with non dissolved powder. It also smells a lot less than for example iDye poly

Rubbing alcohol and magic eraser sponges to clean up excess dye

A pot to dye in. I use an enamel pot because that's what Mismantis on Instagram advises and I know everything from her tutorials. I assume the dye might react with metal. Either way, do not use that pot for food ever again!!

Thread or wire and wooden sticks to hang your doll parts

Your doll.

Make sure your doll is clean!

If it's a new doll, clean with water and soap to get rid of residue like mold release.

If the doll had been painted and sealed before, make extra sure to thoroughly remove it!

I cannot stress this enough, if there is sealant residue, the resin will not take the dye!

Bring your water to a boil, mix your colours and a teaspoon of dish detergent and you're ready to start.

Keep your water simmering but not boiling. The bubbles will get dye all over the place.

Now take a small, straight piece, like an arm, and dip it. The piece should float under water, and not touch any sides of the pot. It will leave marks.

A piece like that would be easy to clean if the dyeing isn't successful. Some resins don't take dye well, they get blotchy and uneven. So if that's the case, get some nail polish remover and dip the piece in it for some seconds and scrub it off, tadaa, dyeing undone.

Keep your phone or anything to stop time close and dip your piece in 10 second sections until you reach the colour intensity you want.

Don't dip too long, the heat can deform the resin, making joints not fit into each other again, or the wire/thread can leave actual dents.

I usually do dips of 30 - 60 seconds max. If I need darker colours I'll add more dye or do another dip after the resin has cooled down.

After you're happy with the tone, throw the pieces into the bowl with water (it should be kinda warm, so the temperature difference isn't too big.)

Now repeat that with all parts.

Rule of thumb, bigger/ thicker parts may take longer than the smaller parts, so check after the time is up, and if necessary do 5 sec dips until it's the same color as the rest.

Take a magic eraser and rubbing alcohol and clean the parts. This will take off the excess dye that will be on the resin.

It will smoothen a lot of uneven spots and streaks. If too much dye comes off, you might have to dip again. But don't skip this step. Otherwise excess dye might stain clothes.

After that, you're pretty much done. Let your doll dry thoroughly so you won't get a moldy elastic later.

Things that can go wrong:

If the resin is uneven, there's literally nothing you can do. It might show in uneven coloring, streaks, spots, that don't go away with the rubbing alcohol.

This is my Unoa that I dyed. The legs got these uneven streaks, and the head has spots that didn't take the dye. The hand was unevenly sanded from company.

Even if it might get out of the pot and look normal, as soon as you clean excess dye with the alcohol, it will reveal the areas that didn't take the dye.

You can kinda see on the left picture already that it's a bit uneven, but after cleaning, some parts were just the original colour again.

You cannot prevent this, sadly.

So if you want to dye a doll, keep in mind that it might happen.

Dolls I've dyed that took the colour perfectly:

Fairyland

Fairy Castle

Souldoll

Charmdoll

Dollzone

Iplehouse

Luts

And lastly: the finished dolls from today

[neonkewpie]

Ok!! Today I'm dying Elodies new body to better match her head:

The head has some sun damage though so I'm gonna dye it too.

For the body I'm following this formula minus the orange since it's already got those tones

[beedaleebjd]

more glamour shots of my beloved bubblegum b!tch adfsdfsf

[queenofsquids]

I am ridiculously pleased with the results of dyeing this head. Since the dye takes slightly differently on various thicknesses of resin (why?), it's like natural contouring already in place. And that Supia sculpting. Wow. 😍

[koala-mama91]

Hey my BJD people

I have a Hujoo Io that I want to try to dye. But she's not made of resin. Do I need to use a specific dye, or are there different techniques that I should use? I've never attempted to do anything other than a basic faceup on my little dolls so this is new to me.