Any silly mistakes you're embarassed by/frustrated about?

I guess it's not so much a mistake as a pay what you get thing, but I ordered some shoes off amazon for about $16 for a doll i have coming, and they just arrived and the pleather is already cracking
Although i guess I don't have good luck ordering shoes in general, because one of the pairs I bought for a different doll is too long because i also went "well he's an SD and this says SD sized" XD They'll work, especially since they're boots and they fit pretty snug on his calf, but that was a bit of a frustration for me lol.

 

Sadly pleather is so popular and some really don't last long.

My biggest mistake is that, when a friend of friend decided to part with her Iplehouse Reese, probably the only one with fantasy parts (the are discontinued), though she offered a price close to what she had paid two years ago and it's not at all a popular size or skin colour or doll, under the pressure that my friend (yes the person between me and her) was also interested, I bought her and had her paint by that very friend. It turns out that this friend, she loves her more than me lol

 

I'm both embarrassed and frustrated by the fact I didn't adequately protect my first doll, a tan Soom Uyoo from the sun. I actually had her sitting facing a window for a while. My poor girl now has a faded, green tinted face. I can probably hide it with a face-up but my skills are still quite novice.

 

I was doing a faceup and used acetone and a colored plastic bag to line the table. The colors ended up staining the doll's face - I was about to move the doll on to another home so wasn't that upset but had to discount for the mild staining. Never use colored bags!

 

The doll civil war produced some of the strangest pictures and ideas I ever came up with, and I wonder why I ever thought it was a good idea.
It brought some laughs at least.

 

Let me list the ways in which I've screwed up over the years...

• Convinced myself (on more than one occasion mind you) I could style a dolls wig using scissors with absolutely no hair cutting experience OR even making myself watch a YouTube video.
• Tried to force a dress over my doll's bum and watched the zipper self destruct. Dolls can't suck it in...
• My first doll (who I still have)... literally first day I had him I dropped him. He was fine, but I was so ashamed of myself. Couldn't make it 24 hrs. without nearly destroying the first doll I owned.

There's lots more, but I think that's enough for now...

 

I accidentally slammed a part I’d just dyed and modded in a door—I did not shatter the mod, but I did shatter the resin on the back. That was a fun repair mod to do, and I didn’t find one small piece. Oh well—he’s modded, so I’d never sell him anyways, what’s a little damage? The fix is hidden underneath another mod, so only I know it’s there, but it annoys me.

A bigger mistake that I made was shelling moth of my exes’ characters that were linked to mine—that made for a ton of dolls I had to repurpose or sell, both times, and there are sculpts I irrationally dislike because they were my exes’ main characters. Fortunately, I have managed to sell all the involved dolls—unfortunately, a lot of those sales were at a loss of some kind.

There have been other big mistakes I’ve made with trusting people in this hobby, and commissioning friends who were not real friends, that have caused me to redo a ton of faceups, and learn to make my dolls into what I want them to be, so I wouldn’t even call that a mistake, because the outcome was a win—I had to learn a fun new skill.

 

I damaged my tan Foveo debussy and gella trying to remove a patch of msc from their faces.
The tan disappeared from gella then somehow came back. They both have "splash" marks on their faces now. They weren't cheap so I felt bad about ruining them. Im glad I still like the dolls and their characters but the damage is embarrassing.

 

When I got my first Realpuki (really tiny, like 4 inches), I got carried away putting clothes on them and accidentally left them on my bed. Completely didn’t see them getting into bed that same night and ended up cracking one of the feet when I sat on them first and last time leaving a bjd out

 

When I was first in the hobby I made my first attempt at body blushing, I had the grand idea to rest the parts on a cutting board whilst I worked. Something on the cutting board must have reacted with the sealant because unfortunately the doll in ended up with a stained green butt Not my proudest hobby moment!

 

I keep forgetting to put black clothes on my dolls. And then I get really angry when I find out they've gotten paint on them again.

 

Update: latest and greatest mistake: I tried to take the head off my impldoll hybrid with just my finger, because my head puller was on the other side of the room. What I failed to consider in doing that was how tight impl strings. Got my finger stuck inside the head, for probably a couple minutes, couldn’t pull it out, couldn’t pull the head up to free it. Cut off blood flow, so the tip of my finger got all bulgy. Ended up shambling across the room with my finger in my girl’s head, using the head puller to yank the hook up, and then extricating my crushed finger.

it’s been like 3 weeks, maybe more, and I’m just getting feeling back in parts of that finger. Took it to a walk-in and they basically said I damaged the nerve and it’s slowly regrowing, but I should regain full feeling.

I’m never taking heads off without the proper equipment (or at least a ribbon instead of my finger) again.

 

Paying way more for a secondhand doll than I should have. Didn’t do market research/know how back then. If I had, I would’ve seen that I could’ve gotten the doll brand new for less