My customer wants milk bumps on her babies. Any tips on how to make them look realistic?
Just try to make them really small, almost barely noticeable. I used to use the tip of a broken/bent rooting needle dipped slightly in paint to get a tiny dot but I haven’t done them in years. I’d practice on a test part if you had one, just to get the hang of it.
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Thank you!
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I mix a teeny tiny bit of my color with thinning medium and put them in one by one with the tip of a needle
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I think there’s a video on YouTube. I don’t usually do them, but I think you do a tiny dot of a blush/red color, and then a tiny dot of white/yellow on top. You can use the tip of a needle to get them very small.
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This is how I do it.
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I mix nail tip with thick medium and use a snapped off rooting needles (one of the broken ones )
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I use a safety pin or rooting needle tip. For the color, I use nail tip, and a decent amount of yellow ochre so that they don’t end up super white. I like to do them early on in my layers so that they mellow out a bit as I continue painting the rest of the doll
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May I ask at what point milk bumps should be done? After all coloring, I guess.
I want to try them on Elisha.
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It looks better if it is under a few layers
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I do some about halfway through the layers. Then after another layer or two of paint I add some more dots. Then more layers of paint. I usually have 2-3 rounds of milk dots so that some look more subtle than others.
Little Miss Maven is often my inspiration
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Those look perfect, and that baby is just beautiful 
Very different on each baby. Achilles mainly just had them on his nose, like Teddy. But Maven and Eliza had them all over.
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Her eyebrows though. Perfect example pic. 
Wow his are big!!! Teddy had them everywhere, but they were so itty bitty the camera missed them sometimes
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Ooohh. This pic shows them great
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Wow! What pretty skin. She’s so beautiful!
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