First of the month, time for another Doll Owner’s Corner. When I, the doll owner, talk about anything at all.
This month’s topic:
Resin Colors
As mentioned several times before on this blog (see Doll Owner's Corner: What is a Bjd?), ball jointed dolls are made from resin, a beautiful porcelain-like plastic.
Resin can be made into wide variety of colors by adding pigments to it. This means that companies can and do produce dolls in several different skin tones.
The more common ones you see are white (like our deer friend, Shiro), “normal” and tan. The “normal” is frequently split into “normal yellow” and “normal pink”, where the yellow is a sort of beige color and the pink is a pinkish color.
There are also the more fantasy colors like grey, blue, red, etc. sadly produced only by some companies. And the companies that make dolls in those colors typically charge you more for them. The same goes for tan dolls. It’s because of the extra pigments needed to produce resin in those colors as well as extra time and effort. You get what you pay for. :/
What I think is the beautiful thing about resin colors is the variety you get, and I don’t just mean the choice between pink or tan skin, etc.
Colors tend to vary from company to company due to differences in their resin, so a “normal skin” doll from one will usually look different from a “normal skin” doll from another company. And differences can occur in dolls from the same company due to the age of the doll (since resin turns yellow as it ages) or variation in the batch of resin produced.
I have several examples of these in my own dolly household.
All my ball jointed dolls (except for Shiro) are “normal pink” or pink skin or whatever wording you prefer. It’s my favorite resin color because it is so cute and it’s fun to see how different it looks in each company.
Or within the same company as with Sakura and Hikaru here, both are from Mystic Kids and bought about a year apart.
You can see here that Sakura looks pinker than Hikaru does. In fact, Hikaru is so light in color that there have been days where I wondered if they sent me a white skin doll by mistake.
Here is Yuki and Usagi, both made by Doll Family A and purchased from the same event. Yuki is lighter than Usagi, who seems slightly more beige to me for a pink skin doll.
Yuki’s body came separately from Doll Family H, which from what I’ve read is the sister company for Doll Family A. I had assumed that the resin would match fairly well because of this, but you can see by Yuki’s arm on the left that it is definitely pinker and slightly darker.
Now here’s a fun little twist. On the left is Yuna made by Doll Love, and on the right is Momoko made by Kids Sky. Two different doll companies and the resin looks almost identical.
I mean if you look really closely, you might see a slight difference. It is so slight though that if you were looking to match bodies to make a hybrid doll I would recommend these two companies.
And that’s just what you see in my collection.
How about your dolls? How do they compare to each other? Let me know in the comments, and look forward to more fun with dolls in the future.
