Venturing into the unknown with MH dolls

[Wardah]

I dunno if I would go by the eye bulge or the eye indent which I can see around the eyehole you cut. Of course if you are going to sand it you would want to cut the hole smaller than you want your finished eye anyways.

[Kayota]

I'm using rubbing alcohol to get the faceup off my second Draculaura mod and I'm having a bit of a hard time getting it off... Any suggestions?

[Wardah]

Did you try acetone?

[Kayota]

I don't really like the idea of messing with that, it sounds really dangerous both to me and to the doll... I'm going to try it with a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser first.

[kittyasauras]

You can't take the paint off a playline doll with that stuff. You have to use acetone. These aren't resin dolls, they are completely different.

It's not going to kill you. Just do it outside.

Just out of curiosity, when you cut out the eye, how are you going to keep the back of the head on with out glueing it? That is, if you plan to have removable eyes. The vinyl is so flimsy, I imagine that it would be hard to glue back even.

[Kayota]

I am planning on gluing it, actually. Probably they'll only have one set of eyes each because it would be a pain.

[Kd_Bunchanumbers]

You can't take the paint off a playline doll with that stuff. You have to use acetone. These aren't resin dolls, they are completely different.

It's not going to kill you. Just do it outside.

THANK GOD SOMEONE ELSE BELIEVES THIS. Vinyl gets more damage from rubbing alcohol than acetone since it's not a hard plastic like the resin used in BJDs.

I use Acetone on my dolls and I currently have 135 1/6th dolls and countless dolls I've customized. As long as you don't soak vinyl in acetone, use it sparingly and take the right precautions, use common sense and all that, acetone is good for wiping off factory face ups.

Acetone damages hard plastics much more quickly though. You just got to know the difference.

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[Kayota]

I've already taken some of the paint off with alcohol so it's not impossible... :\

[Evelien]

I always remove the paint on vinyl dolls with nail polish remover WITHOUT acetone. I've tried both and the one without acetone actually seems to work better..! Also, the acetone seems to have damaged the dolls I used it on a bit. But that's just my experience.

[Kayota]

I used nail polish remover without acetone on the first one and it made her very yellow.

These dolls' heads are made of flexible PVC, not vinyl. If they're the same thing then ignore me.