Dyeing De-greening a dark tan doll with RIT

Hey all! I thought I would pop in and share some photos and info from a dolly project I completed a few months back.

I purchased this Summerbird Viola secondhand and she had some very uneven sun damage that had caused her to turn green in areas that were exposed to light, as well as general fading of her resin. Her original resin color was "Milk Chocolate", which I believe is analogous to Harucasting's Cacao Tan shade. After getting her cleaned up, this is what she looked like:

Spoiler: Before photos (dolly nudity)

I spent some time thinking about how to address this, and I remembered a previous dye project I completed in which I found out that RIT Dyemore Chocolate Brown tends to come out very red when used on resin. Since red and green are opposites on the color wheel, they become brown when mixed. I thought that a dye bath in this color might be a good place to start.

I believe I used about 4 tablespoons of dye in my pot of water, but I don't think the amount matters too much since I only used that one color. I threaded yarn through the parts and suspended them in the pot of dye as per usual (in this case I think I dipped each piece for about 1 minute and 30 seconds). I tried to kind of repeatedly dunk the areas that were greenest in the dye so that they got the most exposure, but in the end I'm not sure how much this affected the outcome.

The resulting color came out a lot more even than I anticipated! The greening is pretty much gone and she is restored to a much more alive-looking shade of dark brown.

Here's a comparison between the dyed (left) and undyed (right) thigh pieces:



And here are the final results:

Spoiler: Final results

She came out so much better than I anticipated, and I wanted to share these results with you all because I know that greening is a much-dreaded part of having tan dolls.

I hope that this post is helpful to folks! Feel free to ask any questions and also to share your own de-greening tips if you have them!