Dollfie dream yellowing

Hi I'm looking to buy a doll but the seller says her face is " yellowish" how dose yellowish look on a normal skin doll and what is it

Is it a custom doll head or old? Also, white or normal skin?

 

I have an 01 head I've purchased within the past year that I practice face ups on and the constant use of Windsor and Newton brush cleaner to remove the face ups has caused the head to yellow slightly.

Is it a custom doll head or old? Also, white or normal skin?

 

I have an 01 head I've purchased within the past year that I practice face ups on and the constant use of Windsor and Newton brush cleaner to remove the face ups has caused the head to yellow slightly.

 

It's dollfie dream saber

DD's can yellow or discolour, it's more prominent with the older white skin girls. My Yashiri Kasumi, Lilly I have owned for over 8 years now and I am not the overprotective type of owner. I have these dolls to enjoy them, not to lock them away to retain their 'value'. As you can see, when she's wearing brand new white skin hands, the colour difference is quite apparent

 

Princess Lilly by aquilla429, on Flickr

 

Her head and body is a more yellowy creamy colour, where the hands are pinky white in colour. Overall, its a nice colour, I actually prefer Lilly's current colouring to brand new white skin XD. I know DD Nia is quite a prolific yellower, for some reason I have seen lots of them looking yellowey.

 

With normal skin dolls, in my experience they don't yellow as such, but they can discolour. Example below:

 

 

The first head is a really old normal skin ddh-01 which has been painted and wiped many many times, the head isn't dirty, that's its actual colour these days. In the middle, we have a brand new normal skin ddh-06 head, brought last month direct from Volks. Last, but my no means least is my DD Sakuno, as you can see, she's not as bad as the ddh-01 in colour, but she is still completely different to Volks brand new normal skin Vinyl colour.

 

Although the above dolls do differ in colour, I wouldn't call them 'yellowish'. Do you have a picture of the doll in question which you can share?

My semi white mariko has yellowed. You can see the difference on her arms, contrasting with new sws hands and her ball joint in the elbow. I'll add pics later as it's 1 am and you can see it at its worst in open daylight :p

This is the first I've heard of DDs yellowing over time Other than the occasional white skin DD like Nia.

And is there a way to clarify the skin again?? I was thinking on dream rescue cream. Not sure if it works. 

Dream Rescue will not have any noticable effect on this.

Somewhere else on the forum is a thread about some kind of bleaching technique but I never saw a real explanation of it.

Found it!!! It's about bleaching with a hydrogen peroxide cream that you can buy at a beauty shop or something like that (I think you could buy real size wigs here, not sure because have never gone to one). Time to explore unknown fields. Ty!!!

Edited November 5, 2019 by Pit

I've soaked vinyl doll heads in regular Hydrogen Peroxide (like from the grocery store, not hair developer) and it worked pretty well! You might want to give that a try as well. I haven't done it with DD heads but it's worked with multiple other vinyl dolls.

I just pour it in a coffee cup, drop the head in, make sure it's fully submerged and leave it in a dark place. Sometimes it takes a few days, others will take a few weeks. I check it every day or two. 

Ty, I'll give it a try too. Wait photos soon for both.

I was worried about this happening, thanks for posting this information.

On 11/5/2019 at 10:00 AM, Pit said:

Found it!!! It's about bleaching with a hydrogen peroxide cream that you can buy at a beauty shop or something like that (I think you could buy real size wigs here, not sure because have never gone to one). Time to explore unknown fields. Ty!!!

FWIW the hair stuff also works on stains, seems to be stronger than zit cream tbh. Just like zit cream, it does more if it's warm. I've recently been using it on a head that's both yellowed AND badly stained--though annoyingly, as the yellowing faded, it made several stains more obvious, so for a while it felt like new stains were just appearing spontaneously. It's also been a bit on the colder side here the past couple days so treatment progress has slowed down, sigh. On another head that was only stained, though, the stuff worked a treat--I think those stains weren't as old or as deep as the stains on the other head.

The hair stuff in question is called "developer", and comes comes in different strengths called "volumes". 10 volume is the weakest, and 40 is the strongest. I've been using 30, personally--I decided it'd be smarter to go lower for longer. I think a liquid version exists, but the creme version is what I found more readily. I've been applying the stuff with a cheap-as-free paintbrush every night, and keeping the head in the kitchen because that room tends to stay the warmest. It's basically not that different from using zit cream, honestly.

I know someone on the forums also tried it on a yellowed Etheldreda a while back, but couldn't find the thread. Thankfully I remembered where they got the idea, and that helped me find the solution again: people in the retro computing community use it to whiten old 80's computer cases. They call it Retrobright, and there's also some DIY recipes if you either have a hard time finding hair developer or specifically want to put together a liquid edition for a more even soak.

On 11/29/2019 at 12:52 PM, Poofiemus said:

FWIW the hair stuff also works on stains, seems to be stronger than zit cream tbh. Just like zit cream, it does more if it's warm. I've recently been using it on a head that's both yellowed AND badly stained--though annoyingly, as the yellowing faded, it made several stains more obvious, so for a while it felt like new stains were just appearing spontaneously. It's also been a bit on the colder side here the past couple days so treatment progress has slowed down, sigh. On another head that was only stained, though, the stuff worked a treat--I think those stains weren't as old or as deep as the stains on the other head.

The hair stuff in question is called "developer", and comes comes in different strengths called "volumes". 10 volume is the weakest, and 40 is the strongest. I've been using 30, personally--I decided it'd be smarter to go lower for longer. I think a liquid version exists, but the creme version is what I found more readily. I've been applying the stuff with a cheap-as-free paintbrush every night, and keeping the head in the kitchen because that room tends to stay the warmest. It's basically not that different from using zit cream, honestly.

I know someone on the forums also tried it on a yellowed Etheldreda a while back, but couldn't find the thread. Thankfully I remembered where they got the idea, and that helped me find the solution again: people in the retro computing community use it to whiten old 80's computer cases. They call it Retrobright, and there's also some DIY recipes if you either have a hard time finding hair developer or specifically want to put together a liquid edition for a more even soak.

Since i posted, bought the 40 volume hair stuff. Unfortunately, it has not worked. Idk why, maybe the season's weather or another factor I ignored. I followed the instructions as the video says on a DD III body with a lot of black stains. Maybe it worked just a little bit and need to do it again, because there was no result I could notice. 

Just now, Pit said:

Since i posted, bought the 40 volume hair stuff. Unfortunately, it has not worked. Idk why, maybe the season's weather or another factor I ignored. I followed the instructions as the video says on a DD III body with a lot of black stains. Maybe it worked just a little bit and need to do it again, because there was no result I could notice. 

Yeah, it definitely takes a fair bit of heat to really kick into gear. On the normal skin head I'm working on, I've taken to blasting it with a hairdryer on low a couple times each evening, that seems to get at least some progress. I'm frankly hoping we'll have a warm-ish day soon, since those are possible here even in December, because when I put the head outside in the sun last time it was around 70F, covered in developer but inside a baggie, that's when I got the most progress. The baggie basically created a mini greenhouse, it was great. But it's been more like 60 lately, and that 10 degrees definitely has had an impact.

Again though, I do see a definite difference in the newer semi-white head with newer/fresher stains, as opposed to the one that's still pickling. I think the age of the stain really does make a difference in how long treatment takes too. I don't even know how old the stains are on the normal skin head; they could be years old for all I know.

For your experience and mine as well, I'm pretty sure I'll love the next summer for the very first time in my life if these stains don't dissapear yet. Still I'll keep trying, but now taking some photos "before" and "after" the treatment. Also I will try with the hairdryer and the regular peroxide method.  Hope to get some results because this is becoming an annoyance. (Yeah, I know, I need more patience. This will help me to forge it, haha).

Edited December 2, 2019 by Pit

4 minutes ago, Pit said:

For your experience and mine as well, I'm pretty sure I'll love the next summer for the very first time in my life if these stains don't dissapear yet. Still I'll keep trying, but now taking some photos "before" and "after" the treatment. Also I will try with the hairdryer and the regular peroxide method.  Hope to get some results because this is becoming an annoyance. (Yeah, I know, I need more patience. This will help me to forge it, haha).

Yeah, I usually do stain treatment in early summer as part of a belated spring cleaning kind of thing, but I got these rescue heads and wanted to work on them right away. Frankly, the only reason why I have patience right now is because I kind of have to--the next couple weeks at work are crazy busy and we're all asked to work 6 day weeks and 12 hour days, bleh. So I may as well roll with the waiting in stain treatment, because I don't have time to work on them with any seriousness right now anyway.

Tonight though, I'm going to double check my home to see if any of my lamps put off any heat; if they do I may put the heads near them during the day or something.