Sealant for repair painting on an already blushed doll?

personally i’d gently clean the current faceup, make sure there’s no dust or anything, and then add on a new layer of sealant to work from, so your paints and blush actually stick. I know some people use the brush on kind to spot fix parts but… eh, i’d rather just give it a good layer to start any repairs on. just remember that you’ll need to regloss things if you do reseal the face!

 

When it's chipped or scratched, there is no sealant in that area anymore. So yes, you would need to seal it beforehand, otherwise you are working on bare resin there.

However, a good repair is hard to do well and time consuming if you want it to look good. The difference in sealant height between damaged and undamaged areas alone will cause for things not to look seamless. You'll most likely end up with rough edges and visible patches. So it might even be smarter to remove the blushing (if we talk about body here, not face), and simply start fresh.

 

No answer here as I have a similar problem. After removing eyelashes on a very old doll from 2005 the eyeliner came off even though I soaked to loosen the glue first. I was wondering the same about the sealant and how to best fix the problem.

 

Not gonna reply to OP becuase @Karra and @Ara already said it perfectly, but @midolls*melissa, your question’s a little different. If you have just chipped the eyeliner, you could theoretically just brush on a thin layer of gloss where the paint has chipped to protect (I use gloss as a protective base for nail art when I don’t want to have to seal the whole hand), and then fix the eyeliner over it. It’s really just the chipped part that needs it—the rest should still be sealed.

 

I checked your box-opening, and some of these scratches (like on the body) you might indeed be able to gently buff out, like with a piece of magic eraser. Just make sure not to go too hard with it and to properly dust off the doll afterwards
You can also try and see if the sealant already fixes it. On black surfaces scratches always show up very vividly, but the sealant might make it blend in once it's uniform again.

Your problem is a bit different due to the location and how the area has most likely been painted. In your case I would advise on filling up the "hole" as best as possible with either gloss (like @Amet said) or brush on sealant. You want to raise the hole back to the level of the surrounding, still existing sealant layer. You can then paint over it with acrylics, let it fully dry and cure, and then brush over it again to seal it. The reason you don't really use spray on sealant in such a case is usually that the hole is pretty deep and the area is hard to reach with a can. You just end up spraying everywhere else.

Why that is not really done with blushing is simply because the eyeliner tends to be one color, applied very thickly and opaque. It's also often in an area that isn't as visible, or will afterwards be covered with new lashes again.
Blushing is everything but that. It's often pastels or thin airbrush, layered on somewhat translucent. It's not as easy to fill up or blend in.

 

I had to do this with one of my dolls and what I ended up doing was diluting a little brush cleaner with water (I have since heard that brush cleaner isn't that good for resin, so perhaps an acetone/water mixture would be better) and used a q-tip to sort of take off the edge of the chipped sealant. Then I tried to cover the rest of the doll so that only the little part I was trying to fix was exposed, sprayed that and then just tried to blend it all together.

I don't know if that was very clear or not, but I'm happy to elaborate a bit more!