Reborn

What are reborn dolls?

Reborn baby dolls started to show up around the world in the 1990's, with doll artists wanting a more realistic looking baby doll. A Reborn Doll is a vinyl baby doll kit that has been enhanced using paints and real hair fibers to resemble a human baby. The process of creating a reborn doll is referred to as Reborning, and the doll artists are referred to as Reborners. Now there are an estimated 20,000 so-called Reborners worldwide and dozens of artists who create and sell a wide variety of original, custom-made rubber babies. It is the act of taking an old doll, or new kit, and transforming into a real, life-like baby doll. The technique is to repaint, re-wig, and add real human baby clothes to the doll.
They are painted with exceptional details, weighted to feel like your holding a newborn baby and even have real Mohair, Alpaca or Remy Human hair. Reborn Baby Dolls are fast becoming the next sort after Baby Dolls for Collectors worldwide. These baby dolls are so realistic that, at a glance, they truly look like a real.

During the Reborning process:

All the kit parts are carefully washed to remove all residue and left to thoroughly dry. Skin tones are achieved by applying many thin layers upon layer paints and dried between every layer. Finer details like veining and milk pimples, beating hearts, can be added to bring realism to the Reborn Baby Doll.
Hand rooted hair: The hair can be soft kid Mohair, Alpaca or Remy human hair, hand-rooted into the scalp using felting needles which takes only a few hairs at a time. So the finished look is that of a real babies head, it's growing out from the inside. It is styled and cut to suit each Reborn Baby Doll, to make each one special in their own way. No 2 are ever the exactly the same.
Eyebrows - Reborners paint on their eyebrows with paints using a very fine brush, a specialy designed eyebrow pencil can also be used.
Lips - Are painted to a realistic colour with different shading, then sealed to prevent chipping and to add a slight wet look. Eyelashes - Reborners hand-root them for the sleeping babies and glue them on, for open-eyed babies. Some open eyed babies, have had them hand rooted using hair.
Eyes - They come in a wide range of realistic life like colours.
Nails - Every baby should have a full manicure and pedicure with Reborners adding in tiny moons. They are sealed with gloss varnish to add shine and protection.
Limbs - They are filled with tiny glass beads for extra weight or plastic pellets. This achieves a realistic baby weight. Each limb is sealed to prevent leakage.
Cloth Body - Reborners use bodies made of Doe Suede fabric or calico. Which are then filled with glass beads, plastic poly pellets and soft fillings.
Body Plate / Torso - Some kits have the option of a body plate or half / full torso, with some being anatomically correct.