Liner brush in size 18/0

This is the best brush I've ever used for doll repainting. It allows you to paint in very fine detail, and it's perfect for painting eyelashes and other thin lines! I use this brush for painting ALL areas of the doll's face. This is the only brush that I use with my paint.

Angular Shader brush in size 1/8

I don't paint with this brush, but I use it to apply chalk pastels as eyeshadow and blush. You just rub the brush bristles on the chalk pastel, and then you scrub the doll's face with the brush! After that, all you have to do is apply a coat of sealant over your chalk pastel! Keep scrolling down if you're interested in buying the best chalk pastels for dolls!

Titanium White is a stark, opaque white. I use titanium white mixed only with water to apply 3-4 coats to the doll's eyeball, and this gives a perfect "canvas" onto which you can paint the doll's iris. You REALLY need BOTH titanium white AND zinc white.

Zinc White is a soft, translucent, subtle white. When you're trying to avoid the harsh opacity of titanium white, zinc white offers a wonderful alternative. Zinc white is particularly useful when you want to paint a glaze of a lighter color over a darker color. I used zinc white on the doll above's eyeball to depict the reflection of light on her iris. You REALLY need BOTH titanium white AND zinc white.

A shimmery, pearly silver-white color. Thinned down with water or retarder, and/or mixed with paint, you can create beautiful shimmery eyeshadow shades. If you look at the picture of the doll's eye above, you can see how I used the GOLD version of this paint as a highlight below the doll's brow. The gold version is offered below, but the silver version is just as pretty, and I think it's probably more useful than the gold version. I wish I could capture the color on the swatch to the left, but it basically looks like the inside of a seashell. It's beautiful.

I guess you could call this a dark ivory. It's a creamy, warm color. It's an interesting shade to use for eyeshadow on a doll, particularly on the eyelid and as a highlight beneath the brow. You can also mix it with red or pink if you want a lighter, pinker lip color, and if you want to warm the pink up a little. Remember to mix it with medium (offered below), because it is on the opaque side.

Hansa Yellow is a translucent yellow. If, for any reason, you need an opaque yellow, just mix a little titanium white into your hansa yellow.

Yellow Ochre is a dark, brownish yellow.

A shimmery, pearlescent gold. Thinned down with water or retarder, and/or mixed with paint, you can create beautiful shimmery eyeshadow shades. If you look at the picture of the doll's eye above, you can see how I used this gold paint as a highlight below the doll's brow.

When I ordered it, I expected Raw Sienna to much more brown than it is. However, it is very similar to yellow ochre.

A classic medium brown color, burnt umber is perfect for painting eyebrows, and it lends a very natural look to the irises of dolls with brown eyes. It's also great for eyebrows.

Raw Umber is a pretty, neutral dark brown, perfect for painting the dark ring around a brown-eyed doll's iris!

Burnt Sienna is a reddish brown.

One of my favorite colors, Red Iron Oxide is a translucent, dark brown orange.The color to the left may not look like much, but once you see this paint in person, you'll understand why I love it so much. It's perfect for glazing because it does not have any opacity to it, and it lends an unbelievable sense of realism when painted in flecks onto a doll's eyes. I used it on the irises of the doll pictured above.

Violet Oxide is not as translucent as alizarin crimson (below). Violet Oxide is basically a brownish burgundy color. It's very useful for dark shading on lips. Contrary to its name, it doesn't look violet at all. If anything, the pigment may impart a VERY slight hint of plum to the brownish base, but only a very trained eye would notice the plum tint.

One of my favorite colors, Alizarin Crimson is a translucent, dark crimson red. Perfect for mixing with medium and creating a natural-colored glaze for lips, and also perfect for mixing it with other colors to create other lip shades. It's a universally natural-looking color for a doll's lips, and it's a must-have.

Napthol Red is your basic, primary red. It's a must-have simply because it's a primary color, so it's very necessary for you to have in order to mix other colors from it.

I would really call this color magenta or fuchsia. Painted in a thin glaze, it will take on a brighter and more vivid tone, but painted in thick layers, it will look darker and more subdued. Very versatile, and great for lips!

Rose Pink is not made by the same manufacturer as the majority of our paints, so you'll find that it's of a slightly thicker consistency. It's not highly-pigmented, but that's what I like about it: in the bottle, it looks like a shocking, fluorescent pink. However, once you paint it onto your doll, you'll notice that it's a subtle, translucent, rosey pink, and it's a really useful color to have!

This is the perfect purple color!

Slightly bluer than Dioxazine Purple, and also lighter and more translucent.

Prussian Blue is a dark navy blue, perfect for painting the dark ring around a blue-eyed doll's iris!

It's really difficult to capture this color in hexadecimal code, so remember that the paint that you will receive will be a lot more vibrant than the color that you see to your left. Phthalo blue is on the darker side, but not as dark as prussian blue, and it's slightly greener than prussian blue. It's also a lot more vibrant than prussian blue.

An absolutely gorgeous translucent blue color! On a blue-eyed doll, this color would be awesome. I have yet to use it on my own dolls, but I'm very excited to use it!

More on the opaque side, and great for painting the light-colored part of a doll's iris before you go over it with darker glazes, this color is such a pretty seafoam blue-green color!

It's just an incredible color to see in person. It reminds me of a translucent version of viridian green, for those of you who are familiar with paint pigments. You have to see it to realize how beautiful it is.

I would describe this as a classic kelly green color. It would be awe-inspiring for a green-eyed doll, to really make her eyes pop with bright color.

Chromium Oxide Green is a subtle, grayed-down medium green. Along with sap green (below), it's perfect for painting green-eyed dolls.

Sap Green is a gorgeous, translucent dark green, perfect for painting the dark ring around a green-eyed doll's iris!

Shimmering iron oxide is a translucent charcoal-colored paint with tiny flecks of hematite ore embedded in it. These tiny flecks of metal cause the paint to shimmer and sparkle! This color would really add some drama to a doll's eyeliner!

Your basic black- indispensable and quite necessary!

Clear gloss sealant is a must-have. Not only might you want to use it to give the doll's lips a glossy finish, but you'll need to use it to seal the eyeballs as well. I use it not only for sealing my paints after my painting is finished, but I also use it to give an ultra-smooth surface onto which to apply my glazes. For instance, after painting the doll's eyeball with titanium white paint, I will seal this layer of titanium white paint with the gloss sealant, and after that, I have a completely brushstroke-free and unporous surface onto which I can begin painting the iris. This gloss finish is very forgiving if you make a mistake with your glaze, as you can wipe the glaze off of it before it dries. Also, an unsealed coat of paint is very porous, and porosity is not a good thing when you're applying glazes. Remember to seal your titanium white eyeballs with this gloss sealant before you start painting the irises, and you'll be good to go! Normally, I use it straight out of the bottle, without mixing it with any water. Sealants will give your paint a protective finish.

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Clear matte sealant is also a must-have. Certain areas of the face, particularly the eyelids, will need to be given a matte finish... as you know, skin is not glossy! This matte sealant is normally too thick straight out of the bottle, so I like to mix it with 50% water before applying it to the doll. This high quality matte sealant will not cause any cloudiness to occur with your paints, unlike some of the cheaper matte sealants! Sealants will give your paint a protective finish.

Clear satin sealant is basically really only useable on the lip area, but it's a wonderful sealant to use when you don't want the lips to be too glossy or too matte. It imparts a subtle sheen to the surface of the paint, and it's very pretty. Sealants will give your paint a protective finish.

Retarder is also a must-have. This retarder has the consistency of water, and what it will do for you is it will retard (slow down) the drying time of your paints, which is a necessity when you're painting certain features, like eyelashes. Have you ever had your paintbrush dry out mid-eyelashstroke? So frustrating! That will not happen anymore with this retarder. Remember , it's only going to retard drying time by about a minute or so, so you'll still need to work quickly with it, but I truly don't know what I would do without it.

When painting eyelashes, press down slightly with the brush, and then, as you paint your brushstroke, lift away from the doll with your brush as you move it along. This will allow you to create tapered eyelash hairs.

Medium is also a must-have, because it allows you to create glazes and blend colors, which is absolutely necessary for realistic-looking dolls. This medium has a paint-like consistency, so it's definitely not as watery as the retarder. After I've painted the white iris with titanium white paint, and after I've sealed the titanium white paint with gloss sealant, I will mix this medium with one of the darker-colored paints, and I will begin painting the iris. If you look at your own eyes, you'll see that your iris does not have a sharp delineation into the white of your eye- the color blends a little bit. So, by painting this iris in 3-4 glazes of thin color, you not only attain a more natural-looking repaint, but it's also more forgiving in case you aren't able to paint a perfect circle on your first try. With a really thin glaze of paint, you can refine your circle by applying more layers of glaze, eventually attaining a dark-colored iris, which will be the foundation for the rest of the eye's paint. After you've painted the dark iris, you'll apply light-colored paint to the iris in layers of glaze as well. After that, you'll paint glazes of the darker flecks of color on top of the light-colored paint, and that will give the eyes depth and realism. Glazes allow the colors underneath them to still show through, and you can see this if you look at the doll's eye above. You can also do wet-into-wet techniques with this medium, which will allow you to blend one color into another and create gradient effects. In addition, if you look at the photo above, you'll notice that I mixed a very small amount of black paint into my medium, and I used this mixture as a glaze to create a shadow on the eyeball underneath the upper eyelashes. You really do need medium in order to paint a doll successfully!

Pure Acetone is the best thing to use if you want to remove your doll's factory paint. Just soak a q-tip in the acetone, and then "scoop" (don't rub) the paint off. A toothpick dipped into pure acetone is also a wonderful tool for cleaning up any part of your repaint and refining any lines. After using pure acetone, remember to swab your doll's face with a mixture of baking soda and water, which will neutralize any remaining acetone.