How much sunlight do you allow your doll to get?

I've just had to rearrange my bedroom, which means the area I keep my dolls has had to have been moved. Which I'm not happy about at all, the sun gets on them there, where it didn't before. It makes me really mad when I see it. I think I'll hvae to put something up at some point to stop it.

 

Only when they go out for photos shot.
Usually, they are all the time on shadow place.

My mother use her dolls all the time because she sews/creates outfits, she leaves them on her table but just in front of a big window.
I really got angry when I saw her dolls, they are rather all really yellow, some had sun burn marks, o___0
Fortunately, I cleaned them with a magic sponge and sun burn marks desapear. But some are still really yellow.
Now she is more careful about the sun, ^__________^

 

Sits in a closet when I'm at work or not home. Out and about as soon when I am home but sitting in a shady place for sure.

 

My dolls will be put away when I'm at work. Not only to keep them in the dark, but because I have two curious felines that think the wigs are kitty toys...I also have a dog with a giant tail that can clear a table in one swipe. So the dolls are altogether safer put away until I can supervise :P

 

As little as possible, everyone goes back into their box or bag when not played with.

 

Very, very little sunlight!
The window in my room has a set of blinds and a set of shades. Originally, it was for the purpose of keeping the sun out and heat down since my room faces the sun into sunset so it gets quite hot. It turned out to be quite a nice addition because they help to keep my boys out of the sunlight.

 

Sorry but I don't really want to read through 7 pages so I don't know if someone had already said something to this:

I saw Dolls wich had an overall bodyblushing like some were black others blue and some had just an other normal skincolor. Would they yellow noticeable too? I mean over their whole body is painting. The sun couldn't really get on the resin directly?

Thanks for any advice.^^

And for me. I keep my little boys in a dollbed with black curtains and my big boy stays unter my table wich is direct under my window, so no direct sunlight could come from this window.^^

 

I'm perhaps a little less careful than some people. I don't like boxing my dolls up, because I bought them to look at, so mine are always on display - they sit on my main dresser, between my two windows. However, I typically keep my shades closed in the summer due to heat, and generally open only one shade at a time if I have to. Even then, there's a large tree outside of my window that filters most light. The most I've ever done is draped a light cloth on them if I wanted to open both windows.

In short, they don't get a lot of sun, but they're not in total darkness 24/7 either. Have they yellowed? A little all around my older ones, but it's only noticeable on my oldest (and he'd been out in the sun many times for photos). Besides, yellowing doesn't bother me, I tend to like that nice creamy tone that NS becomes. I'm waiting for 2 of mine to mellow out a bit more, so they look a little less pale actually haha.

 

I pretty much never go outside so neither does my doll(s). I close the curtain from my room because I hate being woke up very early by sun light xD
so for photoshoot (which doesn't last very long), Car rides and .... doll meetings that are outside.
that's pretty much it. those things happens maximum once a week so my doll(s) don't get much direct sunlight ^^

 

Well I moved so I'm not stuck in a tiny apartment anymore. Using the second floor bedroom as the "toy room" and it gets a ton of sun! XD My Sol's horns are a nice ivory color now. I don't give a crap about yellowing though, I think it gives them character.

 

Unless the sun is shining directly onto your dolls, it isn't direct sunlight. But as long as they're getting any sun, they'll yellow over time. Which unless that's an absolute problem for you, isn't really a big deal. Some people even like the way yellowed dolls look, including myself. My first doll (bought secondhand) was already very yellowed why I got her, but I find the skintone charming. C:

I bring my dolls into the living room and set them on my computer desk for most of the day when I'm home. At night, they go downstairs to my room with me and I sleep in the finished basement, so there's no sunlight down there.

And if you don't like the look of the yellowed dolls, there are threads on how to lighten the resin, like that one for instance. C:

 

My doll stay on the top of the Closet now ! In the Japanese closet you have a small space on the top and that is only for my doll to protect from UV ! I can see easy !

 

However much light manages to seep through a double layered thick blacket.^^

 

Mine all live in my room. I keep my curtains closed all the time (did that before bjds too) a little light does get in, but because of where most of the bjds live on my bookshelf they are completly blocked from it.
Knox and Tardis get the most since they don't sit on the bookshelf with the others but on my dresser directly across from the window. Tardis hasn't yellowed at all, Knox has yellowed quiet a bit, but I think a lot of that has to do with the msc she's coated with, I'm fairly sure if I took that off she'd lighten up a lot.
I didn't really set any of that up intentionally, while I'm not about to leave them sitting on a windowsill all day, I'm not really bothered by yellowing, especially on my zaolls, they go such a lovely color when they yellow.

 

Before I kept my dolls in their own boxes and kept in the cabinet. but now I take them out, dress them and put them in the glass cabinet and in the shade.

 

Close to none They all stay in their closet when I'm not home and the only one I occasionally take out when I don't plan to take pictures, just for a little dolly company, is my Mono who seems to have some sort of miracle resin. He's not that old yet, mind you, but he's still gotten the most sunlight out of all my dolls and instead of yellowing, he just gets a little whiter (he's normal skin).
Really pretty actually.

 

I keep my dolls away from sunlight. Once in a blue moon, I take them out for photoshoots. Most of the time though, they're kept in a safe spot. But if they ever start to yellow, I wouldn't worry about it because they do that overtime anyways and apparently, age just like we do! If it's a limited edition doll and you're worried about resale value, chances are people will still buy them anyways even if they're slightly yellowed or whatever. I know I would. Hounds... Bermanns... Soom MDs...!

I have a very yellowed doll that's on the way home to me now. A Limho Mono which I purchased off the MP some time back. He's super special to me because he was the very first doll I ever bought off the MP and I sent him off to get restringed, sueded, wired, and sent him off for a face up. He's yellowed badly on his head and his hands, but this just means I get to leave him out all day as opposed to putting him back in his box and away from sunlight all the time. xD

 

I'll take them out for pictures but not in direct sunlight and I keep them covered in my room. I don't like it but I've got a big LCD TV that does emit UV light so covered they stay.

 

I know this is something I should consider because A) I'll be getting a doll that has an issue with yellowing B) the resin will already be a yellower tone and C) my usual spot for displaying my other dolls is on top of a cabinet in the space from a bay window in a south-west facing room that gets sun all of the day (albeit filtered a little with net curtains).

I don't want to keep putting her in her box, as I'll be creating fashions for her and want to show her off albeit privately.

I do have a couple of options, I could pop her inside the cabinet in the daytime unless I am using her body for creating or I could do some major re-arranging in the back room (north facing) and relocate her to the back but if it's a room I wouldn't ordinarily use, it seems a shame to hide her away just because of a problem with yellowing that a lot of people don't really have a problem with or see as their dolls "maturing". Simplistically, I could just sew a loose cover for her in thick fabric that i could use on a daily basis so long as it doesn't muss her hair too much but I guess it's something I need to consider.

Consider but perhaps not obsess about!

 

I leave my dolls outside their box.....Also never worry about sunlight either ^^' <--mainly i like them to sit and look pretty or just pose for some drawings.