Yep, that’s what I’m thinking too.
I have stripped a reborn once and never do it again !
My experience is that if you wanted to paint him again on some
places the piant wil not hold on the vinyl
That happend by me by the Ginger kit that i stripped
The hands would not take the paint whatever i tried
The feet also on the sole of the voot
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For first layers I would do some very pale flesh washes, that will get you back down to the original vinyl color, thin washes you don’t want a powdery baby. then build up your colors like you normally would. Go thin on reds and blues, adjust as you go.
Add some matte varnish to the paint, and/or do a primer on the whole baby. This will help give that paint some tooth again. The vinyl gets a little shiny and sometimes oily after a good strip.
Thank you Gabriel the next time i do that .
But what primer can i use ,or better matt varnish with tinner first ?
I have already another one stripped that turnde out to yellow 
Also i see that the German kits are mucth better to paint there vinyl feels mucth stronger /softer .
If you have a test limb you can use, try doing a thin layer of Folk art primer, the one with the yellow label, green font, some air dry artists use if for air dry. I have used it when we were doing the lockdown business and we all were struggling to find supplies. It worked fine baked but use a test limb just in case, you don’t want to do all that hard work and get a crackly skin baby.
If I paint over a stripped baby I sometimes get some patchy smooth areas that just won’t take paint. I have tried the primer (Glass and Tile??? can’t remember the name of it, someone here will chime in).