I’ve been meaning to put this list together for a long time. It may take me a while to finish, but I didn’t want to make everyone wait for it to be done. If there are any additional categories you’d like me to cover, let me know!
Once it is complete, it will contain everything I personally use to help make my dolls my own, all listed in one place. I will try to keep this post as up-to-date as possible and will provide links to the products on Amazon whenever possible, to make it easier to find. If any links appear to be out of date, please let me know and I will fix or replace them.
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FACEUP SUPPLIES
Respirator:
3M NIOSH-approved OV/P95 respirator
Brushes:
Reaper detail brushes
Loew-Cornell script liner
Princeton watercolor liner
Winstonia Berry Wine nail art brushes
Princeton chisel blender
Off-brand makeup brushes
Artetje Camlon Pro Plata 100/0 brush
Pastels:
Rembrandt pastels
Schmincke pastels (Not recommended for dark colors)
Mungyo pastels
Arteza pastels
Watercolor pencils:
Arteza watercolor pencils
Derwent watercolor pencils
Faber-Castell watercolor pencils
Prismacolor watercolor pencils
Crayola watercolor pencils
Paints:
Arteza gouache
Holbein gouache
Vallejo acrylics
Liquitex acrylics
Golden high-flow acrylics
Gloss:
DecoArt Triple Thick gloss glaze
Liquitex gloss varnish
Tamiya X-22 acrylic gloss
Sealant:
Liquitex matte medium
Liquitex matte varnish
Mr. Super Clear UV Cut Flat
Mr. Color GX113 Flat Super Clear III UV (MSC airbrush version)
Vallejo matt varnish (Use with Vallejo airbrush thinner)
Airbrush supplies:
Master spray booth
Master G233 airbrush
Iwata Eclipse HP-CS airbrush
Vallejo airbrush thinner
Airbrush cleaning kit
Faceup removal chemicals:
Pure acetone
91% rubbing alcohol
Winsor & Newton brush cleaner
MODIFICATION SUPPLIES
Clays and putties:
Milliput superfine white
Aves Apoxie Sculpt
Bondo glazing and spot putty
Tamiya putty, white
Original Sculpey
LaDoll Premier air dry clay
Tools:
Dental tools for sculpting
Wooden sculpting tools for clay
X-Acto needle files
3M Wetordry sandpaper
Sanding twigs
Pin vise
Cordless Dremel starter kit
Dremel-compatible drill bits
Dremel-compatible carving burrs
X-Acto knife
Retractable razor knife
Razor ryoba saw
Mold making:
Alumilite Amazing Mold Rubber (Tin cure, best for 3D prints)
Unicone Art premium silicone (Platinum cure, harder to use)
Plastilina clay
Resin:
Alumilite Amazing Casting Resin
Alumilite Clear Casting Resin
Lisa Pavelka Magic Glos
Solarez UV cure clear resin
GENERAL CRAFTING SUPPLIES
Tools:
Crop-A-Dile eyelet tool
Leather punch
Leather awl
French curves for pattern drafting
Scissors and cutting tools:
Olfa rotary cutter (28mm)
Self-healing cutting mat
Gingher dressmaker’s shears
Gingher pinking shears
Embroidery thread nippers
Adhesives:
E-6000
Aleene’s Fabric Fusion
Aleene’s Tacky Glue
SEWING SUPPLIES
Notions:
Scrapbooking eyelets
6mm buttons
STUDIO MACHINERY
Silhouette Cameo 3
Brother LB5000 sewing and embroidery machine
Singer 140Q sewing machine
Kenmore 385 sewing machine
New Home Model J sewing machine
RECORDING EQUIPMENT
Canon T3i DSLR camera (Discontinued, current model is the Canon T7i)
iPhone 8 (sometimes, for vlog content)
Blue Yeti microphone
Lightweight tripod
SmallRig camera mount
Studio umbrella lighting kit
MacBook Air (2015 model, i5, 8gb RAM, 128gb SSD – does all my video editing)
SOFTWARE
HitFilm Express (Video editing software)
Audacity (Audio editing software)
Adobe Photoshop CS5
Adobe Illustrator CS5