Bambicrony Recomendation for Colored Elf Care -LSG fades too

Thanks, AreeElf!

Seems odd that more people haven't mentioned this, since I'm pretty sure most of the faceups running aound out there have MSC UV-cut sprayed on them!

I got a reply from Bambicrony on the Q&A board. I said I was concerned about the color-changes reported and would be happy to wait for my LSG Pepe to be delivered if the problem could be fixed. They said:

We understand what you're worrying about.
I'm sorry to say this, but the yellowing of resin dolls, especially MBS is inevitable.
The best way to remain color is that you should spray UV coating on the body regularly and keep the doll out of the sunlight.
We developed MBS in 2006 and have kept the dolls out of sunlight without UV coating. As a result, there's no yellowing.

Thanks.

 

MBS meaning...?

 

Not sure... That's the difficulty with non-native speakers--or with typos?

I was guessing the MB might be Misty Blue? Not sure about the "S."

 

Maybe they mean Misty Blue plural ... MistyBlueS = MBS.

That's my guess, anyway.

 

AreeElf--informative, as always! Thanks!

The MSC-uv experiment would be interesting. I heard that Volks was going to start carrying a replacement for MSC-uv... maybe I'll wait to get ahold of that and try spraying it on my Kumi... at least it'll make me feel a bit easier about taking her out of her blanket!

And maybe the problem IS a batch problem. Do we know if the two (I think) examples of fading that have been reported so far are from the same batch? And which batch it is?

I'm not exactly sure what batch mine is from... She's a full-set without dollflower eyes, but I had her sent from the member who bought the full-set and kept the outfit, and was shipped out around March 14.

So far, no fading that I can see (although I haven't examined her in all lights... She was pretty even in color when she came. Maybe the tip of one finger is a little lighter in color, that's all. She had some sort of shiny stuff on parts of her... maybe mold-release? I still need to get that off parts of her, but it doesn't really bother me.

 

My Mistyblue that has the yellowing around the elbows was not sprayed with MSC on the body, just the face, and the face is fine

 

yeah, I'm kinda stumped here. There are a lot of colored elves out there and not all of them are yellowing.

Also MBS, the way they say it, it sounds like it's in all their dolls not just the colored elves? sooo... have previous BC owners had yellowing issues like this?

seems like it's not nessesarily a MSC problem since Wee_Little_Faerie's wasn't coated and still yellowed.

 

I do have to say though, the yellowing, in normal lighting conditions, doesn't show up at all (of course, that could be because I always overexpose him *coughcough*) ... but I'd truly doubt that in any photograph you'd notice the yellowing right off.

 

so then it's not really a huge deal in your case then, it's notn like "OMG YELLOW!"?

 

Well, if you have the doll in your hands and are looking at his inner elbows, you might be inclined to think OMG yellow... but from what I've seen in photographs, it just ends up looking lighter or greenish... which for me isn't a big deal... but I would definately say he's yellowed to a degree that would bother someone who wanted them to stay blue. (if that makes any sense... lol!)

His face, which I coated in MSC when I gave him a faceup, hasn't yellowed at all though.

 

Yes, but I didn't spray her on the headcap, which was also yellow on the surface even through her wig, frighteningly enough. Since her hands don't match anymore, I'm tempted to take one pair outside, coat one in MSC UV, and one with nothing. My theory is that the MSC UV Cut did absolutely nothing to stop the yellowing. Or... if it did, it helped VERY minimally. Even in very indirect sunlight she seems to have yellowed even more.

I guess she's going to be my little vampire baby, and only come out in the dark. I've got her stored in a drawer for now. Complete darkness seems to be the *only* way to stop it.

 

again, I wonder if after a while the color will stop yellowing. Poor little vampire baby.

 

it's happening through the wig? I seriously doubt that's a sunlight effect. And their recommebdation to spray with a product that no longer exists seems, well... a bit like no help at all.

 

I was assuming MBS stood for Misty Blue Skin, actually.

 

Hmmm... I wonder how many Misty Blues aren't changing so fast? It sounds as if it may be a batch Problem? Or maybe people just aren't reporting fading so far?