Same here!!! I tell myself I ain’t gonna do it girl, I’m just thinking about it…
Then before you know it
I did it
It looks dolly and doesn’t match the limbs if you don’t. But I think it is the pattern thing. If you see a bunch of circles in thier face looking like bubble wrap
Air dry or ghsp?
Just yes, to everything you said! It’s crazy in every tutorial I’ve purchased or seen they always say only mottle the limbs, but it looks so weird! I’ve definitely learned after having way too dark mottling on the face or too large of a pattern. Now I use super small pattern mottling sponges, and dilute the color a lot. But skipping it altogether definitely results in a dolly looking head with realistic looking limbs. I don’t know who decided not mottling the head was a norm or when, but it’s definitely something I wish I hadn’t read so much early on. Now it’s forever stuck in my head even though I really feel like that advice is wrong.
Not all advice is good and is mostly based on someone’s opinion at one point which is subject to change 
Air dry Waterborne
Yeah can’t help you there! unless the same holds true
Thin thin thin translucent layers and bake in between so they don’t muddy together… which for air dry could be letting them fully cure before adding more? 
Babies with too much blushing. It’s easy to go to town on that, for me. I like a newborn look and use more reds but have been trying to cut back a bit on blushing.
I first learned to reborn from a master artist’s tutorial. She taught mottling of the head and instructed the best way to do it, so as not to overdo it. Reborns just don’t look right without at least some mottling, even if light but there. A look of multiple translucent layers is a big part of the reach for realism.
Lol I think it needs to be balanced with the forehead and chin somewhat but they do t tell you that and so we are thinking like make up blush
Omg can you imagine contouring a reborn? It would be fascinating but so much work cause I don’t even know what they mean by contouring with makeup 
Not with painting but weighing! When I first started, I was told to stuff around the glass beads in the body so you can’t feel it when you pick the baby up but since going to dolls shows. A lot of people don’t stuff near the butt so you can feel the beads and it was a shock to me 
I still stuff around them 
I thought stuffing all around and on the bottom was the standard 
I always putt polyfill in the butt not to feel the glass beads.
I obsess over veins…to do or not to do. When I do them, they are usually so light you can hardly see them.
I don’t either. I stopped wearing make up almost a decade ago when I realized it wasn’t helping me much and I could never figure out how to get the effects of eye liner and such like a lot of women do. Makeup always melted on me and would run. And it causes me eyelid infections. So now when I buy make up brushes and sponges, they are just for the hobby. LOL
I stress over being perfect.
Ooooh you and me both!
Oh my goodness it is always about the creases for me. I can’t take it if they are thick and caked up looking. I am always worried about how they look and if it is to dark or thick and dirty. I always zoom up on creases to see how everybodies look. 
I know people have different opinions on how they should look but for me more is definitely not best. It drives me nuts. 
Me too! I used to put makeup on every morning for work and by lunchtime looked like The Joker with melted makeup running all over my face. I gave it up years ago. My patients couldn’t care less and I wasn’t working toward my MRS. MD so
Yeah, it’s not worth it, and makeup is too expensive, anyway. Save money for paint. 