How long does sun fading take?

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I'm trying to sun fade some marks on a couple ponies, but I was wondering how long it typically takes to sun fade a pony. I've been sun fading one of the ponies for about a week, but I don't see much difference yet. Does sun fading typically take about a month? Or a couple months? Maybe I'm not patient enough. ;)

Since it's just about summer I figured I might try sun fading some ponies--I'm thinking the better weather, brighter sunlight, and longer daylight hours might help. ;)
 
I think it really depends on how bad the marks are. BUt whenever I think about it I think months over weeks. Which reminds me... I have some girls that could use a little daylight too lol
 
As Bittie mentioned, a big factor is the marks BUT an even bigger factor is where you are at and the strength of your sun!

I have kept ponies in the sun for months in Seattle without a single result. I have keep ponies in the window all winter in Maryland without hardly a difference. However, I have seen pink highlighter fade in a day on a hot sunny day in Maryland but even better...I have seen the worst pen marks and ink marks fade in an hour or two...yes I said HOUR...in the middle of the summer in South Carolina. They literally disappeared so fully that I second guessed myself is the marks were there and I put out the wrong pony LOL (they were definitely there and obvious but not a mark to be seen now). The more south you are, the hotter the sunny day, the better the success.

There are some marks that can't be sunfaded but I think those are mostly the age spots/cancer variety. Most other marks can be faded (at least in my experience).
 
Yes. I agree with Lil Alley Cat - here (in Cape Town) over December and January I can sunfade a pony in a day or two. But this time of the year (winter) the sun not effective. It's as if someone turned the dimmer switch on. :p More south = more (summer) sun = faster fading. I've also seen that here ideal temperatures for sundafing are at about 30-33 degrees C (about 86 degrees F), but 100o km's north, in Joburg you can't let a pony sunfade in that heat - she's melt! There you'd do it at about 26-28.
 
It depends on so much - your sun obviously and then how old the marks are if thery are really deep in the plastic and what type of marks they are.

In summer we have great sun and I normally give a quick go with acne cream first (over night or so then wash off thoroughly before fading) and I have removed light pen literally in a day or 2. On the other hand it's taken me quite a few weeks to remove pink highlighter. I've got a Sunburst who I was working on a black marker dot under his foot and it's nearly gone after a week or so but now the sun's been gone for ages so he's still got a faded mark there - hopefully we might be lucky and get another nice day or 2 so I can finish him and not have to wait until spring!

I find normal pen the easiest and bright highlighter the hardest.
 
try mr clean magic eraser :D its an amazin g amazing tool....might have to scrub but ive had it ALWAYS take off anything!

EDIT: and NO it does NOT ruin the pony color, cutie marks, eyes, etc..!!!
 
Thanks for the responses, guys. I have several ponies sun fading in an east window now, and the window gets pretty bright sun in the mornings. (I live in an apartment, and my unit only has east and north windows--and the east windows definitely get more sunlight than the north windows. Besides, the north windows are pretty close to the neighboring building, so they really don't get much light... so I won't use them for sun fading.) I guess I'll just leave them in the window a little longer and see what happens.

One of the ponies has faded reddish marks that appear to be from marker; I just want to fade those marks more. The two other ponies have reddish stains which might have been from some pony wear, perhaps.
 
Me too. If you'd like you can cover all the hair with a cloth, don't use black or dark colours or something made of lycra, the heat helps fading (I learnt this by doing it myself. :/ )
 
I use tin foil to cover the pony's hair and symbols. I do cover most of the pony actually, apart from the part that needs the fading, as I'm pretty cautious :dumbo:
 
Wow, if it happens quicker down South, I'm guessing Australia would be pretty good! Yippee! (singing) Off I go to wrap some ponies!!
 
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