“Everything looks very real: (The doll’s ... who are trusted to paint new doll models. These prototypes may eventually serve as references for other reborn-doll artists.

Artists purchase the blank dolls and paint them to make them look realistic – that's where the detail, design and depth come into play. Don't buy from just anyone purporting to sell "reborn ...

Denise Hall, a 37-year-old doll ... she paints. Hall — an avid collector herself with more than 40 limited edition Disney princess dolls to her name — first stumbled across the realistic ...

"Looking back at myself as a little girl in Colombia, I dreamed of having a realistic doll and remember how impossible it seemed to ever have one made for me." She learned how to sculpt and paint ...

adding that she strove “to make Barbie real through this unreal world.” In an email to CNN, Lauren Proud, vice president of marketing and digital experience for paint company Rosco ...