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Could you post a picture in the Artist Showcase so we could see? I'm not exactly sure what bruising is, but I know that I've seen lots of babies (including my own) with very prominent bluish spots between their eyes, right at the bridge of the nose.

What type of paints are you using? If it's the GHS, you can try a bit of thinner inside where the bruising is to try and remove some of the paint.

Hi,
  I did use Genisis Heat Set paints, love them!!!!  And the doll is almost done.  It isn't internal wash, I used the external method.  I have tried to layer some other paints on, but of course not knowing which would work, I haven't succeeded.  Maybe I am using the wrong colors.

Tami

Tina is right, color correcting is the step you need. there are many posts on color correcting if you use search. There is much more detailed information that we can list here.

Also, for those who don't know:
Bruising is actually where the old acrylic paints and dyes were used and it actually penetrated the vinyl and became like a real bruise, spreading and infiltrating the vinyl. That was not usually possible to remove or correct.

What Tami is referring to is that she put too much or too intense a blue coloring in certain places on her doll when painting and it looks like the doll has a bruise. not the same thing at all. It should be easily taken care of with one of the forum posts you will find using "search".

Hope this helps

You're welcome LInda.
One thing I did forget to mention with my years of experimenting with dyes and the Secrist/AV vinly is that:

1. i never could get the inside of the vinyl to take the dye, so mine was always on the outside of the parts.

2. If you dipped it too many times in the dye, you got strange undertones of color.

3. The only time I got bruising (I finally figured out) was when the parts even remotely touched the bowl I was dying them in. For example: 1 head I was doing was too tall for the bowl. In order to get the head dyed evenly, I pushed the head down so the crown was on the bottom of the glass bowl. About 2 days later, I had a bruised ring on the crown of the head. *lightbulb goes on here*!!! Hmmm... ya

The thing about bruising like that is that no matter how you cover it up with paints, it will always, eventually come back. May even take a few years!

I do still have quite a few kits that are "pre-washed" so to speak and if I don't sell them, I'll reborn them. But I have had them for about 2-3 years or more. I still check them and no bruising (thank goodness). If they were bruised, I'd just use them for test parts.

Hope this helps more. :)

In my experience/opinion... yes, any time you use a dye or acrylics you can experience bruising. It doesn't matter what color you would use, it can happen with any color. And sometimes you won't see it for months or maybe a year or more down the road.