Genesis Basics: External Purple Wash Reborn artists used to do this step on the interior of the doll, but Genesis makes it easy! Painting inside a doll can cause bruising, and, as anyone who's done it can tell you, it's a royal pain. Try this instead! We'll start by mixing roughly equal parts of pthalo blue and dioxazine purple until we get a periwinkle color. The consistency of this paint should be thinner than milk.  It's very important to do this step carefully and lightly. Otherwise, your baby will look bruised ... not the look we're trying to achieve! Apply straight thinner to a clean cosmetic sponge. Load the same sponge with the periwinkle color by dipping your brush in the paint and applying to the sponge. (This helps you control how much paint you're picking up.) Blot off the excess paint on a paper towel. With a light pouncing motion, cover one section of arm with purple wash. Blend well with the flat side of the sponge. The color change should be subtle, not streaky or bruised looking. Unlike the first flesh coat, the purple wash should be very uniform in color. Use your dry brush to blend the purple out of the creases and rolls.  Continue this process until you've purple washed all the limbs and the head. Check for any streaks or spots and blend out with thinner.  Then bake again! The photo above shows how the purple wash adds depth to the skin tone, giving us a nice foundation to work over. The purple tone adds a rosy glow to the skin and cuts some of the vinyl's yellow hue.