I had synthetic velvet put on my buck from last year. The color did not come back quite what it was on the buck but I also do not have to worry about the velvet cracking or peeling in the future.
If, I mean when I get my next buck this year I am not sure what I will do. This years buck had very round tips as it was pretty early. The buck that my wife got a little over a week later had very well formed tips and was actually just starting to peel his velvet so we had the taxidermist strip the velvet and mounted hers hard horned.