I’m having quite the issue painting with ghsp lately. I’m a somewhat new artist and my only customers have all ordered babies with aa skin tone. I love painting darker tones but it’s so frustrating because the paint keeps completely coming off even after being baked multiple times. I’m baking properly each time and the paint is completely set. It will just come off somehow down to the original vinyl as I’m painting another layer. I use Mona Lisa paint thinner. Please help!
I have never had that issue…
Ummm… do you have a thermometer INSIDE with your kit for actual temperature?
about 265° for 8 minutes?
Maybe the paint is too thick?
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Have you checked your oven temperature with a oven thermometer to make sure it is reaching 265 degrees? Also do you wash your kits well before baking? Both things can cause paint to wipe off.
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I have had this issue. Are you varnishing your kits before painting? What type of oven are you using? Others swear by normal kitchen ovens, but the only babies whose paint came up for me were baked in a normal oven. I had better success with a heat gun than I ever did in a normal oven. I do really suggest a NuWave or similar. A thermometer that sits in the oven is also ideal because the convection oven I use, the temp it says is not accurate.
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Actually…cook the baby at 250 for 16 minutes…then flip and cook for another 6. Sounds insane, but it works. It like melts the plastics in the paint and soaks into the vinyl. I’m working on 2 AA babies right now.
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I use a nuwave oven on power 5 for my baking. No paint coming off these babies :). It could be the kit you are working on the vinyl.
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I bake for 10 minutes flipping 5 minutes in at 265.
I use a NuWave oven and never flip the parts during a baking session but I do place the parts in different positions for each bake.
Hmmm, that’s an interesting way to do it.
I learned it in a tutorial 
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Do you do that with every bake? I’m thinking that might be especially helpful with the final sealer.
I thought GHSP only sets at 265?
Well the last couple of bakes, I increase to 5 on the nuwave which on mine is 265 and I bake for 28 minutes flipping once. I cool and rebake three more times like that.
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Here my WIP. I had to start over because I had my thinning to paint ratio all wrong. It really helps to blend the layers when you cook for longer. I’ve never melted anything on this baby, but you can see how her coloring is. I’m almost back to this point again. I am also working on Levi, and his vinyl is super soft so I have to watch the baking to make sure his fingers and ankles dont cave in. And you are right about the final sealer, When I am working on lips and use other mediums…this baking helps it to set right. But I use the purple decoart matte varnish which adds softness.
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Beautiful!!! 
What do you mean by that?
Do you use it full strength? Is it applied like you do Genesis sealer…paint on and pounce?
My magic chef is not reliable enough to try that. Even with no change in my settings sometimes it goes up and tries to melt it, other times it barely reaches 250°… 
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well i use a tad of satin mixed with the deco and maybe a drop or two of water. I do not pounce it full strength. I apply it to a wedge (with the edges plucked off), the sturdy kind of wedges and then and pounce witha clean wedge. So I use two wedges.
When you are doing AA, you often are using multiple shading colors and they can show a line of separation if you do not pounce the living heck a doo out of it and bake for lengthy periods. Its almost like the paint melts just a tad.
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LOLOL!!! 
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