How does light affect on DD?

Hi, I'm not sure if someone asked this already, but does sunlight have affect on DD vinyl. I am more familiar with resin dolls and they yellow in sunlight, so I have been extra careful with my DD girl.

Now my mum would like to borrow her to her shops window as an ornament(she has really cute little beauty shop and I think its a cute idea!) but now we started to worry about the sunlight in the window affecting my girls skin.

 

If someone could lighten me up on this subject, I'd be super grateful

just like anything else in direct sunlight - there will be fading.

In this case - that lovely lil face-up might fade if she sits in the window long enuff

 

Also white skin DD's have been known to yellow over time much more than normal skin DD. But it is all vinyl in the end, which yellows just like resin does... just slower

Also, if it gets super super hot in the window, like a car window, I'd be worried about texture change to the vinyl. They can take quite a lot if heat without outright melting, but I'd be worried of losing that nice matte texture.

 

Plus, is the window display locked/inaccessible? Otherwise I'd worry someone could steal her.

Through glass there will be no UV so only concern is whether it gets hot in there!

Through glass there will be no UV so only concern is whether it gets hot in there!

 

yes you can't get sunburn thru a window.... BUT colors will fade like woah!

Look at nail-salons or shops having ads in their windows. After a while, the posters appear to be drawn in only shades of blue, as the reds and greens reaaaaaaaally start to fade off in the sunlight

That's true, although I'm sure the effect would be minimal presuming the doll isn't in there for months on end. The OP also lives in Northern Europe, we don't get particularly strong sunlight here ^^

Um, you can absolutely get UV light & sunburn through a window, I don't know what you guys are talking about (･･')

Um, you can absolutely get UV light & sunburn through a window, I don't know what you guys are talking about (･･')

 

man... I am starting to feel like that guy arguing on the internet now...

Thru a glass window in say your office you won't get sunburned as badly as if you sat outside in the sunlight. The glass lets thru that radiation, but not as much of it... so you kinda get a slower tan goin

 

PS: there are diff wavelengths of UV light. this makes hella difference too

Ok, you won't get sunburned, but you will definitely get enough UV light to harm objects. I can say this because my apartment has a lot of windows and EVERYTHING FADES. EVERYTHING. Some PVC things that have been in more direct light have tanned, yellowed, & faded over the years (they're like ~10 years old), but books, even those reasonably far away from the windows and one of my old plushies that was near a window, have faded (and only on the side near the window). I have to be very careful where I keep my DDs.

Foo, I know that feel so well!!!

My room has massive window, and it used to be shaded by a really old tree outside... until they decided to cut it down. Now I have blinding bright light in my room half the day and hadda rearrange stuff so all my posters & toys on display don't fade away

 

back to orig post - Taru, unless your mother's shop has special UV-block treated window or display case... don't place your DD there for long periods of time