Custom Doll Baby
Kimberly Hayden Yerino, often called Kim, is a professional doll artist from North Carolina, in the United States. She is the owner and founder of Custom Doll Baby, an online page where she sells her products, takes custom orders and provides free detailed tutorials about how to reborn. Kimberly creates lovely ready-to-adopt babies as well as customized reborn dolls that match customers’ wishes and specifications. All of her reborn babies are carefully hand-crafted, meticulously painted, rooted and assembled with lots of care. Her creations are little pieces of art, high an impressive realistic look.
Kimberly Hayden Yerino gives great importance to details. To create a lifelike doll, she usually spends from 60 to 100 hours of precise handiwork. In order to get soft and natural hair, she uses micro rooting technique. She is amazing when it comes to working on the baby’s skin, creating an extremely lifelike look, with mottling, tiny veins, and blushing, to bring the doll to its most realistic look. Kimberly always uses high quality weighting materials, which she distributes within the doll to make it resemble the weight of a real baby and give it that dreamed squeezable touch.
Besides the custom reborn dolls that she herself designs for her customers, by following their specifications from hair and eye colour to mood, Kim also creates lifelike portrait dolls, which are dolls made to look like a picture of a child. To achieve the highest possible resemblance to the real baby, she selects the “best match” among over five hundreds high-quality doll sculpts created by well-known sculpting artists from around the world. In order to bring that baby picture to life, she will carefully hand-paint the doll to match the baby’s expression, give unique skin features like birthmarks, and she hand-roots the doll’s hair to match the baby’s color, texture and growth pattern.
The artist also gives some free courses online to transfer her knowledge to new artists where she teaches how to reborn step-by-step and also showcase some of her works. You can also find her article on her continuously growing reborn doll artist tips and her tutorial library on her website of customdollbaby.com
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