Life like Reborn baby dolls
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Frequently asked questions.
There are a variety of reborns to choose from. How to choose could be a hard choice. Reborn dolls come in many sizes, premature, newborn up to toddler size. They come in 3/4 arms and legs and also full arms and legs. These reborn dolls are stuffed up with fine glass beads and have a cloth body.
They cannot bath or submerge in water.(Only full body silicone dolls can bath)
My reborn is loosing hair?
Your reborn is rooted and glued. If you do not take care or maintain the hair, once it tangles you might pull or tug to hard and damage the hair. Use a leave in detangler hair spray to style and tame your reborns hair.
Having you reborn in direct sunlight?
This can fade the art work and your glue inside the head can also soften, making it easy to fall out. A heated reborn is prone to attract colour that stains.
My reborn is turning blue?
When you have a colour stain this could be due to denim, navy blue dark clothing. This happens when in direct sunlight, the vinyl absorbs the colour. Always ensure clean hands dirty hands will also leave stains.
Full body silicone dolls can bath?
Yes full body silicone can bath and if they have a tube they can drink and wet.
Why do I have a tear in my full body silicone?
Handle with care! Pulling or pressing too hard can cause tears.
Reborn – For real? How could you not love that face…?
Have you ever been in a room with a new born baby? I’m sure you have. Can you remember the response? It usually goes something like this… Ooohhh, awww, She’s so cute, Oh how adorable, How old is she… She has your eyes… What a little blessing….
So what is it about these little beings that force a smile on our faces? Why do we almost instinctively treat them as special, protecting them and cooing over them?
Nobel-Prize-winning zoologist Konrad Lorenz proposed that it is the specific structure of the infant face, including a relatively large head and forehead, large and low lying eyes and bulging cheek region, that serves to elicit these responses. (It doesn’t sound very appealing when he puts it that way; in fact it sounds rather alien, but come-on, look at that face :-).
And that’s just the response you’d get when walking into a room with one of these reborn - baby dolls. It’s a doll (yes a doll) that’s so life-like that it’s often mistaken for the real deal, so real that it evokes the same response you would generate towards a human baby.
I’ve shown a colleague and many others these babies, obviously not telling, it’s a doll. And guess what, the responses are all the same.
At first awe and wonder, amazed at these little representations of us, yet so innocent and fragile. Then upon hearing that it’s not real (even touching to confirm) the shock and disbelief. Some even a bit annoyed that they’ve been duped. But mostly … fascination!
And there’s probably more stories just like the one above that the holders of these babies are able to share. "Policeman knocks out car window to save a doll" “They thought it was real”, “So real, it’s weird”, “no-way that’s real” “You lie” …
I’ve come to expect that the above is the normal response to these beautiful baby dolls, a feeling of captivation for something so wonderful and unusual. And with most wonderful subjects, lots of effort is put into the creation stage, and a special something extra is invested to be able to call forth such an emotional response. But really it takes time creating these dolls, from the sculpting to the painting, to the presentation... But in the end, if you look at that face, this time consuming process of reborning is absolutely worth it.