Esthetics Fantasy doll body blushing question

If you want the tail a different colour, you could always dye it—it’s going to be a lot faster and longer lasting than blushing it with pastels, which would be very time consuming for multiple layers on all of those parts—I have DZ’s White Snake, which I think uses the same tail and it’s loooooong

 

I have a doll in moon white, it’s a very light grey, so if you wanted a colour that was dark or vivid, you would probably not have any trouble—if you wanted pastel shades they’d come out tinged by the grey, but it’s a grey so close to white that it wouldn’t affect vivid/dark colours overmuch! The airbrush is also a good idea—it means less layering than you’d have with pastels, but still some risk of chipping at the joints like you’d have with any paint job—honestly, I’ve yet to have it happen, but if joints are tight, even dye can chip, if the resin scratches deep enough—I don’t think they string the tail that tight—they rely on wiring to improve its posing.

I’d also suggest discretely numbering the tail segments when you take them apart because I’d imagine they’d be a nightmare to put back together without some kind of guide.

 

I've dyed a doll body before, and one thing that I think really helped me in my process was my prep and my process.

I washed all the pieces I was dying in hot water and dawn dish soap. Gave them a good soak and a scrub with a sponge/super soft tooth brush (and I mean soft!!!) I wanted no chance of any mold release still being on my doll. I also made sure everything was threaded onto long loops of yarn, so nothing would get lost in the dye pot.

I had a pot of luke warm water next to the dye bath and my phone ready for setting timers. I had towels everywhere I dipped pieces in for 5 seconds at a time until I found what time got the color result I wanted. The yarn loops helped me keep pieces moving in the water so nothing rested on the bottom of the pot to take dye weird. It was an involved process.

Once I hit the color I wanted, pieces went into the bowl of water by the dye pot because my kitchen is a nightmare, then to the sink for a quick wash in more dawn soap and dried in one of my ratty old towels and checked if the color was what I wanted dried.

If not back in the soup they went. and I completed body blushing with pastels.
I also masked some areas with woodglue, this was way easier to remove fresh out of the post dyebath wash when the water was still hot. so if you wanted to do like white belly scales that's a thought or snake patterns.