#dyeing bjd

[voodoosocks]

The anatomy of a loongsoul dragon doggy. I took ace apart to dye him. This picture is to help get him back together. I’m so glad I have a stringing tool for little guys. Wish me luck :)

Edit: Ace will be green hopefully

[mismantisbjd]

Don’t have any new photos this weekend, so have some concept I am working on. I modded my DIM Larina and Laia, and got two DC bodies for them. I’m going to try dyeing them! These two will mostly be fun experimental stuff, and guilty pleasures. Like high color contrast between head and body. Atm their project name is OttO! 

[meanae]

So! To-do of the day was dyeing Nareths body :) Used iDye Poly Lilac and Silver grey (1pack silver grey, 1/4 of Lilac). Didn’t come out super even, but at least I got all the shades right on all parts. Dipped them into the dye/water in pairs; resin of different thickness takes dye differently, means the small knees turned quicker dark than the upper legs.

Some tips for people who want to try dyeing:

 Clean the doll thoroughly. Make sure that there are NO small specks of “whatever” on the resin; the dye does NOT go through bits of hot glue or epoxy, means if you take them of after the dye job, there will be undyed spots.

Be aware hat you might need to mix colors; i.e. only a pack of brown might not turn your doll into a nice shade of tan, but could result in a vomit-like brown/green - get colors that might help beforehand (so in case of tan, red and yellow and maybe grey). I really thought I had a pack of blue somewhere :| Then is color would be a bit more bluish, as planned. But I can life with purple.

Don’t put the dye bag into the water and let it dissolve (as advised on the package), but cut it open, put a bit of it onto a small cup and mix it with hot water. If available, filter it with a coffee filter or something - to make sure that really ALL particles are gone. Reason for this is that in the final mix in the pot the un-dissolved particles will swim on the water surface and will stick to everything that you put in there - but (of course not) evenly, but in streaks.

Rather mix not enough dye, than too much. I’ve started with a fourth of the Lilac pack; if I’d have used the whole pack, he’d look like a very fresh blue eye. It might sound great “more color = quicker results” but trust me, its better to take your time.

The hotter the water, the quicker the results. I’ve reserched a lot before starting in that project, read especially a lot in the keyboard forums, because a lot of people are dyeing their keycaps with iDye. There are some very nice tests how the amount of dye, the temperature an the amount of water have an impact on the resulting color.

Don’t let the water boil and create bubbles (bubbles are bad, they collect the evil particles from #1), but keep it a bit under boiling point. Also, move the parts around, otherwise the evil particles will set on the resin.

Last but not least - light dyeing jobs can be removed with nail polish remover (acetone free)/ Windsor & Newton brush cleaner, but the more its dyed, the less are the chances that you’ll get everything off.