100% Permanent Face-Ups and Body Blushing?

yes and yes...
Can you imagine if Soom did this for their MDs...O HEAVEN!

 

I wouldn't mind the permanent body blushing, but face ups-hmm. Not unless it was just perfect and I would never want to change it. Mostly, I like the idea of being able to do a new face up if wanted.

 

I think that I'm always just a little too unsatisfied with the current face up that I have on my doll in order to justify getting it permanently done, and if I had liked the face up that the professionals had done, I probably would have bought him that way! so no, I wouldn't consider a permanent face up.

 

I would be ok with a permanently blushed doll, but I wouldn't buy a doll with a permanent faceup because I love experimenting with new ways and styles of faceups way too much. Also, I don't understand how a faceup could be permanent in the first place.

 

I don't really know. Part of what's fun with BJDs is their customization.So, unless the face-up was too beautiful to pass up, I'd most likely not consider buying the doll if it had 100% permanent face-up or body blushing.

 

If the permanent Faceup is done well I don't see what the problem is. I would buy a doll with one.

 

No, I would not want to do this to my dolls and I would't buy a oll with permanent faceup/BB either.

Why?
Well, I like to redo them ones in a while, I've changed my mind about character/appearance before and want to be able to change my mind again. Also I don't drag my dolls around that often, so I don't have an issue with wear and tare that much.

 

It depends.. I would like to have a spray, so i can make it permanent on my own. If i really like a face-up and it fits my doll perfectly then i would say.. Yes.

 

If I payed 100 some bucks for a face up by a custom artist hell yes I would want it to be permanant. You don't spend that much money and change your mind a week later!

 

I would say it would be a good idea for body blushing to be permanent as it's not something which is likely to change / you are likely to want to change. However I think faceups are more fluid, eg you may want to change it after some time, and that is part of the beauty of dolls - that you can change their makeup if you fancy it! I can see the plus side to a permanent faceup, but personally I would worry that I would get bored of it after a while!

 

@Laces: I don't really think that's true - body blushing can change just as often as the faceup, depending on what you're doing. If I'm painting a faceup that has a lot of one color or another, I'll try to incorporate that color into the body blushing also.

I get wanting to preserve an expensive faceup. I wouldn't ever do 100% permanent aesthetics to my dolls because I enjoy painting them - not even my hoofed baby, even though it drives me up a wall when her blushing starts chipping. (It's not exactly a terrible thing either. I've been motivated to get my airbrush back out.)

 

Just as we like the options being able to change faceups provides us, I also like having as many options in the finishing as possible--So I would LIKE to have the option of making something permanent, and having a product, or process, available to make that happen if I wanted it.

I have a few dolls I PLAY with every day. I'd like to have something permanent for them.

And I have some dolls I wouldn't like to do that to.

I don't like restrictions or rules.

I just LOVE a broad sprectrum of options so I say YES bring them all to the table and never say never. It just makes the hobby that much more expansive.

As for the resale value of my dolls?

I couldn't care less.

Not because I would never sell them, but if I did and one person did not care for the permanent face up someone else would.

If I was in this hobby to make money I would be buying and reselling wholesale dolls and NOT collecting the way I do.

After a while you, if like me, have so much money invested that you simply can not get it all back.


I know some people who leave all the colors in their house neutral in case they ever have to sell. So they live in colors and styles that really don't speak or fulfill them for finanacial reasons. That is 100% oposite my thinking. I'd rather live in Monet's pink house among a jungle of the brightest flowers than live in a bland space meant not to offend anyone.

Sometime I overblush certain faceups--just because I like it and I don't care if someone else thinks it is too much -- or maybe I do it on purpose just to make them more real to me--so that they are NOT all the same and can somehow be more "human". Some of us just have cheeks that are too ruddy in real life too! And they have a RIGHT to wear to much blush! LOL

Worrying about values and resale is for dealers -- not me-- I don't want alot of responsibilities and financial concerns hanging over my head when I enter my doll room.

If something happens and I have to sell and I end up taking a loss I might not even know.

I budget my household monies and keep excrutiating books and details about where money went to what--- but the money I put in my doll budget is meant to be for relaxing and I don't want to worry over the money that goes in there a second time.

All I worry about is how much I need to buy something--- then I forget over the years what i paid anyway--and that is JUST the way I like it! Giggle.

For, or against, permanency, I say BRING IT ON. Having the option available would be NICE for those that want it ( and who know, some who are against it may even at some point in their play stumble upon a face they actually never want to be without and end up opting for it too), and it would increase the general peace of mind and contentment for as many people as it would not. And that's what life should really be - full of possibilities!

At times I do resent the fact that these doll companies THEMSELVES don't have more concern for longevity.

There are resin stablizers that can be added at the time of mixing that perevent all sorts of problems, from yellowing, to oxidization, to UV damage which can do more than discolor. It can make Resin BRITTLE.

They certainly charge alot for the dolls--yet they use the least expensive resin for their castings.- with no uv stablizers at all.

Right now we don't really even have the option to buy a "permanent" Resin doll let alone the permanent faceup/blushing option! LOL

Just my two cents.

 

Anybody OUT there???

 

Guess I killed this thread.

Giggle

 

I like the idea and I think that it could be an option. Specifically, for those who make character BJDs (sort of like a full-set) and intend it to stay that way, even as it passes down from owner to owner. I think while BJDs are great because they're so customizable, they don't have to be customizable. So if someone wants a doll to look a certain way as it's passed down from person to person, well then that's great :') Whoever buys it liked it so all is well. It's sort of like those character dollfie dreams you see once in a while on the MP. The ones that go for like 3k and you wouldn't dare change.

 

permanent body blushing, yeah sure

but permanent faceups? :/
I can't help but feel like every time you redo a faceup it's better than the last, equally I wouldn't want to have permanently sealed a faceup just to find one eyebrow is a little bushyer-looking than the other, maybe if I had a perfect faceup, but even then, I quite like change so might end up wanting to redo his faceup and find I'm stuck with the previous one, I guess that makes me opposed to permanent faceups.x

 

Personally? No. I change my mind too much, and because my dolls don't have set characters, not being able to change what they look like would be a problem!

 

I don't mind. I'm currently happy with my girl's face-up and have no wish to ever change it. I guess it's just me getting easily attached to things.

 

While I am afraid of my dolls' face-ups getting scratched or ruined, the thought of never being able to change their faces would bother me. I'm not really big into body blushing either. So for me, I don't think I would like blushing or face-ups to be permanent.

 

Personally, I would love that. As someone who doesn't do her own face ups and can't easily get the money to have one done, the permanent option would be perfect. Body blushing as well. I'm new to this hobby, so correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see much variation in blushing. So that would be a definite okay as to having it be permanent. Face ups, I'm at 70-80% okay with permanent.