(Optional) Factory Hair Paint Removal

Blonde hair, brown, black, carrot, or brunette? And which shade?

If you pick a dark hair color for your reborn baby doll, you can probably get away with leaving the factory hair paint on. But if you pick a light hair color, you will probably want to remove the factory hair paint.

But how do you remove it?

We've tried a lot of products over the years, including Goof Off, Once Removed Nail Polish Remover, Acetone Based Fingernail Polish Remover, and straight industrial acetone.  The problem with these products is that they are all flammable. Consequently, we currently have no plans to stock anything like them.

Consequently, as you might have noticed, some kind of "remover" product is one product that is conspicuously absent from our website.

But which product do we use at Bountiful Baby?

We use industrial acetone, which you can get at any hardware store (we've even purchased it at Woolworth's Drugstore before). 

You can also use fingernail polish remover whose active ingredient is acetone, and it works rather well.  But, nothing removes factory painted-on hair better than straight acetone (we do, however, use fingernail polish remover for creating"barely there" eyebrows and veins).

However, before anybody here at Bountiful Baby uses acetone, they "suit up", with safety glasses and latex rubber gloves (both of which we sell, look in the "Tools" category on our site).  We also always only use the acetone in a well-ventilated area, with the airstream flowing away from the person using the acetone, and exhausted straight to the outside.

Also, don't leave it on the vinyl for long. Keep a stainless-steel bowl of warm water nearby, and immediately wash the vinyl after each you are finished, but if you takes you more than a few minutes to take the paint off, you will want to wash the head before you are finished and again when the job is completed.

Anything that is strong enough to get the factory paint off of the Berenguers is some serious stuff. Don't mess with it unless you take the appropriate precautions.  Take proper precautions with any chemicals you are using, including fingernail polish remover. And if anything, be over cautious.