Do you have any damage on your dolls?

My Doll Leaves Ida has damage from her own s-hook in her wrist. It's a tiny chip, hardly able to see unless you know where it is. But it made me so sad/scared to make it worse when it happened! I was posing her when I first got her and pushed her hand too far I guess. the very edge of the s-hook knicked the wrist. I have never sanded or touched it since because I'm scared to make it worse! Thankfully, no other damage (so far! )

 

I actually think having a little bit of damage gives a doll personality.
My Dust of Dolls Zouh Spun is my grail doll, but she came with a pretty bad breakage of the top of the ear. Previous owner resculpted it with epoxy. That being said, I’m very protective of how I handle her. Not necessarily for resale value, but because if I damage her I wouldn’t know how to fix her. BJD have never been kids toys to me, more like art pieces so I treat them as such.

 

My yosd Dollzone Luna had a finger eaten by a stray kitten I brought into my home. (This was many years ago and that naughty kitten and the doll are still here, by the way.) Fortunately, he never did anything like that ever again. But I creatively bandaged her hand for awhile (she was in a limited resin color so a replacement was not an option.) But I eventually found a pair of white hands on the second-hand market and was able to blush them to match. And I recently had a doll take a tumble off the kitchen counter onto the stainless steel dog food bowls while I was in the process of sewing for her. Even her faceup escaped unscathed fortunately. But these dolls are quite sturdy I’ve found, and as my special characters they get used and enjoyed on a regular basis with no ill effects. I’ve found that any problems that might arise can be easily remedied with a bit of care, creativity, and common sense, and it just adds to the enjoyment. I’ve been collecting BJDs for many, many years and have 50-ish dolls, and all are in wonderful condition to this day.

 

My DoDollsDream Teacup Maggie had a small accident 2 days after I received her and it was a horrific experience. She has a faceup by PauliAnne, so it was quite devastating. I'm super embarrassed about it, but I've grown to embrace her flaws and hopefully one day get it fixed. It isn't huge damage, but I feel like I destroyed a piece of art.

 

Yes.
My one dolls fingers snapped after falling. Was nerve wracking and annoying.

I take great care and am overly protective of my dolls but mistakes happen and over time things can wear.

That however was my one moment of the middle finger. I'm still debating which hands to buy.

 

I've been really lucky to have not broken any of them, I am not the most careful person when it comes to handling my dolls. With as many times that I have accidentally dropped them or had them fly out of my hands while attempting to put a head back on or string them I am surprised that none of them have gotten damage. It's a good thing that they are more resilient then they look.

 

I can't say is a big damage as such but something broken is broken. I kept wondering if I would order another Ringdoll with a 68cm body, body 04, and I began to try various poses with the body of my precious Xie Lian. When I started to see the limits of the torso divided into three parts, I heard a click, and a little piece of resin rolled on the floor I was scared that I could have broken some device of the body that keeps the torso in a certain position, but it wasn't that but a small tumult where the elastic of the...cucumber is held... so now is totally..loose, is not such a big deal because I can just untie the elastic and adjust it so it sits tight again without the need for that little device, It is ironic because of one thing that is mentioned in the book where this character comes from but I will not go into details
I think it's something positive because it took away my fear of touching my first BJD, and if I get to have another Ringdoll with this body, I'll be prepared.

 

I'm new to the hobby and working on a budget, so the only dolls I've had delivered so far are secondhand ones I've bought, even though I have some preordered. My Honey Delf Madeleine came with staining that I was able to patch up and has some minor scuffing, but is otherwise fine.

The second one, a 1/6 MYOU Delia, is in a sorry but manageable state. She arrived to me with uneven yellowing, a lot of scuff marks and scratches, a smudged face-up, damaged eyelashes and so on. I knew before getting her that she was a bit rough, so I've turned her into a project doll that I intend to fix up over time and try to make my own! I'm also not that fussy about damage so long as it's not on the face. It gives a little character, and I'm hoping that once Delia's all patched up, she'll be that much more special to me because I put in the work.

 

Most of my dolls are second-hand, so I have my fair share of worn faceups, yellowing, staining and peeling MSC coating on their bodies.
I just need the time and tools to unstring most of them for a proper clean, plus I've ordered a practice head so I can learn to do faceups.
I often wonder about the history of my dolls, especially the ones from Japan where I haven't directly spoken to the sellers...their wear and tear are marks of their history for me.

 

Augh, yes. My rarest doll, tan Cecile the Scarface, is the only doll I've ever had fall directly onto his face from several feet up. His Volks stand wasn't properly gripped and he fell out of the display stand right onto his face. The damage was minimal, the tag on the back of his head popped off, but was easily glued back on, the real issue was right on the bottom of his scar was a huge black scuff. In order to remove the scuff, I had to remove part of his faceup, which broke my heart a little. His default faceup was part of the reason I fell in love with the doll, so having it damaged was so disappointing.

My Migidoll Ryu has some stains on his faceup from black glasses frames and some staining on his body from black clothes and gloves. His wrists are a bit chipped from using various utensils to hold the S hooks when he was restrung.

My Soom Mylo has chipping on her rabbit feet blushing, but that's to be expected, with the way the joints rub together. Over the years she has also mellowed to a lovely yellow color, which actually fits with her character, as it makes her seem a bit more antique. I think the yellowing on her is the most noticeable on her because she's WS, instead of the NS and tan my other dolls are.

 

I’m not terribly precious with my crew but I don’t throw them around either. I have a mix of new and secondhand dolls. Excluding minor things like faceup dings, I have 3 damages that I would not consider minor.

I chipped one of my Elfdoll Soah’s shin just at the ankle when I was trying to unstring her. It bothered me for a minute but she wears socks, problem solved.

I purchased my Narae from the DoA Marketplace with disclosed yellowing. It doesn’t bother me or her. She’s mostly covered up and the yellowing isn’t visible.

My Volks F34, another Marketplace purchase, came to me with a disclosed chip in her forehead when the poor dear fell off a shelf during a hurricane. I haven’t tried to repair it. She wears a wig with bangs and you can’t see the damage.

 

My first ever doll has same staining on his headcap from his wig, some damage on his ears from when I attempted to mod them (very shoddily) that has since been removed with a Dremel by my girlfriend, and some wear around his ankle joints from age and time, but these things are barely damages to me. You can't see the top of his head cap and his wig does cover his ears mostly (and they do look very good considering what they did look like) and he has never been good poser or stander so at the moment his ankles are fine.
My 1/3 girl has a TINY little chip on her wrist from when i was replacing her hands and the elastic sprang back... it's pretty much invisible.
I think all of these damages are because of time and love, and don't bother me. Nothing major. I've never broken anything.

 

I'm probably not as careful as I should be with my crew...I'm bad about touching their faces, lol - most of mine have shiny chins and noses from me adjusting their heads.

As far as damage, I've got two with broken fingers (one broke in shipping and the other when something fell off a higher shelf and landed on her), one with a broken ankle (stringing was too tight when he was shipped to me), and one with a chipped wrist (not sure how that one happened).

 

Dealing with elastic for the first time was interesting..

 

My Resinsoul Lan is missing two whole fingers. They broke pretty early on in having her, but I just really don’t feel like getting a whole new hand.
It wasn’t even anything scary like a drop or anything they just kinda broke off while posing her. Her hands have been wonky from the get-go unfortunately.

My Dolkot Abel has a chip in his hip from the previous owner, so no idea how that happened. I assume wear and tear as he’s pretty old.

 

Thought I would add a few more things I've learned:
Dollmore bodies, especially around the joints, are very fragile, and the resin appears to be particularly soft. There are chips around the bottoms of the ankle joints of my Model F body from the raised ledges on the heel feet. When restringing, I saw the S hook buried itself deep into the neck opening, so I threw in a 5 mm grommet ring to protect the neck.
So at least with Dollmore bodies, I keep the stringing a little on the looser side.
The back of the knee joint on my Dollmore Trinity Alicia has a decent size chunk of resin missing, too. Dollmore Abby said that if I send pictures of the body (and the damaged knee), Dollmore will make a new leg for me. I would have to pay for this, of course, but it is an option. I'm going to try filling in the missing section with some Apoxie Sculpt and painting with acrylics to match.
My Dream Valley Rita Mantitaur (first edition) is strung so tightly that if I don't first pull the leg out of the joint before moving it, tiny flakes of resin will flake off like little resin snowflakes. I know how to restring her; I just haven't done it yet.
Hands with tiny fingers give me nightmares, man. I have my optional hands organized in little plastic craft organizers with bubble wrap or tissue underneath to prevent shifting/damage.

 

My Feeple60 Cygne has a chip in her faceup after a small faceplant on my desk, thankful it didn't damage the resin itself! But now she has a chunk missing from one eyebrow lol

 

Out of 40ish dolls my Dollzone Floy is the only one with damage (that I can remember having anyway) I had been so good for so many years with no one taking a significant catastrophic drop, but he decided to be the special one and took a tumble onto my floor when I left him to go to the bathroom and broke one of his ears and a random middle toe. Thankfully they were clean breaks so I was able to glue them back on but since he's kind of a tanish skin tone you can see the break lines. I need to invest in more doll stands lol

 

My DD Miku has stains on the back of her shoulders. I should probably remove them, I keep saying I'll wait until it gets too bad to ignore and I guess I'm pretty good at ignoring it since she's had them for years now I also stained her face by touching her to my shirt but it worked out for the best because I love her new face up.

I dropped one of my resin doll's heads right after getting it and a tiny bit of sealant chipped from the tip of her nose It stressed me out a lot at first but now it doesn't bother me.

In the past I bought body direct from the maker and it was damaged on arrival, the S hook for the neck was small enough to get pulled into the neck hole from the tension and took a good chunk of resin out of there I notice a lot of studios send bodies with a rest for the hook these days so maybe it wasn't an uncommon occurrence.

And I accidentally dyed the spare face plate of one of my first bjds ever sunburnt pink when I used colored nail polish remover to wipe it. I was told if I washed it off right away it was safe to use the colored one. but I proved that hypothesis totally wrong, and nothing would take the pink out

 

Yes, only because I bought from a doll company and it came broken. I didn't open it on time to get a refund. Other than that no. I might have slightly messed up two of my dolls face up or it could have come that way.