Robyn from Barbie Life in the City

Robyn from Barbie Life in the City before lip repainting

I decided to give Robyn a closed smile. I also changed the pink stud earrings I gave her previously to yellow. 

Initially, I painted over the existing paint and entire mouth area to remove the teeth using a mixture of dark red acrylic paints.

The red look was just okay but it still seemed a bit off to me.

I thought if I lightened the color that would help, but it did not as illustrated here.

So, I darkened the lip color with a mixture of brown and red acrylics and sealed it with varnish.

After a few days passed, I looked at Robyn and was still not satisfied. I realized it was not the color I had chosen. It was the shape and width of her lips that was throwing everything off. 

So, I removed the paint with 100% acetone to start with a fresh palette.

In addition to removing the teeth, my goal, after starting over, was to achieve a more realistic lip size. To do this, I would not paint the full sculpted width of the lips. 

Even though pink lips on dolls with deep complexions is one of my pet peeves , I used what I had on hand to re-paint Robyn's lips.

I was about to choose a color from a box of oil pastels when I instead used a mauve-pink metallic marker. I had purchased the marker earlier in the week to use for its intended purpose, to write. 

The mauve-pink marker worked well until I filled in the center of the mouth with a gold marker. I didn't like the gold highlight. (I didn't capture that effect in a photograph.)

I used an almost dried-out brown Sharpie to cover the gold area and that is where I stopped. 

These are the markers I used to achieve Robyn's new lip color.

Robyn is shown in a before and after photograph.

I like Robyn's toothless smile and the decreased mouth width.

Ollie's_Dollies on Instagram felt the same way about her Robyn's toothy grin. Right arrow through to the third picture to see the color Ollie's_Dollies achieved.

  

By the way, because I am not a doll paraphernalia collector, I sold Robyn's kiosk. I am happy to have one less thing to clutter the doll room that is not a doll. 

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