Restoring help.

[Crowning_Glory13]

So I got a BBE Lofty. Hair great, eyes great...but head mismatches the body. Body perfect...head is kind of a pinkish tint...any hope for her? Can I restore her at all?

[noxluc]

you could try to sunbleach maybe? cover her eyes and hair and set her in a sunny window for a few weeks, remembering to turn her so she gets the same effect on both sides. it should lighten the vinyl

[lostpony]

It's true you can try sunfading but restoring the two materials to a matching color is unlikely...if I was going to try it, I'd do as noxluc suggests and mask the eyes and hair but I'd also fade just the head as it's the one with the color you are trying to fade away, and see if it lightens over a couple of days and if so go a little longer until it gets closer to matching...

head/body mismatch is one of those difficult issues to resolve.  Take lots of pics and make sure to brag about it if it works!

[NixieLynx]

I had the same problem on a Lickety Split. I did a hydrogen peroxide soak on her for a couple days and blushed the pony with chalk pastels to even out the color between the body and the head. Don't forget to seal the blush with matte varnish. I have to say, it turned out really well!

[Crowning_Glory13]

The peroxide won't ruin the eyes will it? Or ruin the hair? I have to wait on surfading, going on a trip. Thanks for the advice.

[lostpony]

I played with peroxide-immersed sunfading to successfully re-whiten Fire Chief that I had yellowed by extended boiling (to blanche age spots with some success) and confirmed that if the symbol and eye paints and hair are not masked very well, they will definitely be affected.

I did not get any visible effect from soaking in peroxide without placing in the sun, although I only experimented on Fire Chief.  However, only the hair and paint that was not masked was affected in the sun.  I masked with aluminum foil because I didn't know what else to use that doesn't react with the H2O2.

Other people use non-sunfade peroxide soaks so I don't know about that.

[Shaiyeh]

I wouldn't soak anything with those kinds of eyes, would be a bummer if they started to rust or reacted in some other way with the peroxide :S I would try just sunfading!

[mlp4me]

I done quite a number on many ponies over the years (torture, it's fun!). I've never had the courage to soak a BBE head in peroxide. I do use rubbing alcohol to remove eye rust... As the rest have suggested, try simple sunfading.