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How to Create Milk Bumps on Reborn Dolls

The art of reborning, or recreating unique lifelike baby dolls with an identity, allows reborners to display their skills as artists through creating an accurate representation of a baby, including newborn skin blemishes. Milks bumps, also known as milia, occur in crops on a newborn's face and can stay until the baby is 3 months old. You can add milk bumps to your reborn doll with the correct tools and a moderate degree of reborning experience. If you are considering applying milia to your reborn and wish to maintain complete authenticity, do not use the technique on dolls older than 3 months.

Things You'll Need

2 cocktail sticks
Genesis thick medium
Genesis 08 flesh paint
Palette
Genesis heatset gun
White cotton swab

Instructions

- 1
  Blunt one of the cocktail sticks and leave the other with a sharp point. This gives you two sizes to apply the milk bumps, and creates a natural look.
- 2
  Mix the thick medium with a little genesis 08 flesh paint on your palette until you have the desired consistency and color. Do not stir excessively because the medium becomes thinner if you manipulate it too much. Keep the mixing to a bare minimum to maintain a realistic 3-D texture to the milk bumps.
- 3
  Dip one of the cocktail sticks into the paint until a tiny droplet gathers on the tip. Transfer the paint drop to your reborn and repeat as many times as you wish to create the desired crop of milk bumps, alternating between the two cocktail stick sizes to create a variety of blemishes.
- 4
  Seal the milk bumps with a genesis heatset gun. Use the gun in short sessions and move the gun from side to side so the vinyl does not overheat or melt.
- 5
  Test the milk bumps and surrounding skin tone for color fastness once the vinyl is cool. Gently touch the area with a white cotton swab. If any color comes off on the cloth, cure the area again with the heatset gun until the color is stable.

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